Hacker News Reader

Comment by TimorousBestie | Hacker News Reader

My cardiovascular health has never recovered from COVID, it’s been very depressing to go from low blood pressure and decent VO2 max to. . the opposite. Interval training has helped a little, but I dunno, I think it’s just gone.

Wish everyone had taken it more seriously.

View on HN

I had slightly below average respiratory health due to childhood asthma, but after having COVID, it has been much worse. It sucks to think I missed the vaccine by only a few weeks - I might have still gotten COVID but the symptoms would have been milder. Now, I am likely to lose several high-quality years off the back end of my life.

We still can take it more seriously!

Here's a PDF handout from 2023 for handing to hospital admins, https://www.nerode.org/clean-air/medical%20clean%20air%20rel... . The same statistics can probably be looked up for children acquiring covid at school, because like where else do they get it. $100 HEPAs in every classroom, $40 reusable p100 masks for every teacher, ask parents to voluntarily mask their kids.

Just share stories. You see [1], go to your social media and share it, “she got COVID like 3 or 4 times and it seems to have caused chronic kidney disease, even with vaccines reducing the rate of straight up death, we need get this thing under control otherwise our generation's not going to live to see 80. Each time you get it there is another small chance of long covid, another rolling the dice hoping for no snake eyes. Masking is just saying you want to roll the dice fewer times.”

Organize or join a covid slack channel at work, there are other groups like https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/ , if BTS Army can connect over K-pop we can connect over wanting to protect others.

1. https://x.com/HollyMars2/status/1936235382816784443?t=A4RaLq...

Did you skip the vaccine?

No shortage of people who got vaccinated got long COVID anyway.

I caught it early, before vaccines were available in my area.

I got vaccinated when I could and got yearly updates, though I understand the US is clamping down on boosters now? Not sure what I’m going to do this year.

There's no "clamping down", it's just not a recommendation for some groups anymore.

“Not recommended” means probably no insurance coverage, which means probably too expensive for me to get.

Thanks for the nitpick.

Lots of "probably" in there.

Instead of spreading misinformation and being rude to strangers, you could check.

> There's no "clamping down". .

This statement is patently false, as you yourself admit in the next clause.

Thank you, I wasn't aware of that definition.

The facts: - FDA policy now limits readily approved boosters only to people over 65 or those with high-risk conditions. - The CDC officially removed routine COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women in May 2025. - The FDA adopted a stricter “vaccination regulatory framework” requiring randomized controlled trials for new boosters aimed at low-risk populations. - Across HHS and CDC, there have been substantial layoffs—around 20% in FDA and CDC—alongside overhauls that have disrupted pandemic preparedness programs and health agency capacity. Your friendly check on the shitty times we live in. Good luck with Covid, MAGA doesn't believe in vaccines.

> The FDA adopted a stricter “vaccination regulatory framework” requiring randomized controlled trials for new boosters aimed at low-risk populations.

Do the previous randomized controlled trials meet the new criteria?

Good question. Answer is probably yes. They were proven safe at the time. But of course this requires quite a lot of additional evidence, datasets, etc. And likely it would require Phase IV trials against large populations. Very expensive. These vaccine-denying Repubs will find a way.

The vaccines were all made for early varients. Once the omicron varient came along, it had so many changes from the original strain that the effect of the vaccines were essentially unproven.

The vaccines were definately useful, and had a big impact, but unfortunately corona viruses change too quickly.

Aren't the vaccines updated regularly? Isn't that the point of the boosters?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com