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Title is question, but to clarify my assumptions:

  • Vaccination is a numbers game, and the odds are in your favor that the vaccination will protect you over you get a side effect or an allergic reaction/shock
  • An infection like covid/flue can damage your body long term, not even speaking of long covid etc.
  • To the best of my knowledge it has been shown that flue shoots lower the risk of dementia later in life, wouldn't it be a good enough guess that a covid shoot decreases risks for this too
  • Even if we only assume a covid vaccination is highly to reduce your sick days for only this year, isn't it a rationale tradeoff to get vaccinated, just to avoid 1-2 weeks sick?
  • Given the security of covid vaccinations, I feel like they have been scrutinized and tested extremely well and to the best of my knowledge it was checked that nothing of the vaccination remains in the body after a few weeks (for the argument that nobody knows the long term effects of RNA vaccination)

Again my question: Why doesn't the WHO or don't most countries recommend covid vaccinations for everyone? Are there any health/medical reasons? Are there financial reasons? Are there any countries/governments which recommend the covid vaccination for everyone and not only the 'vulnerable groups'?

Edit: Just to add, I am living in Germany and right now we have a big wave of children flue, where children even die in the hospitals and the children hospitals are near their limits. It seems common sense to just put flue/covid vaccination into every child/adult, to avoid situations like this.

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[โ€“] wolf@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarification, my question was indeed missing the point, that 2 vaccinations are recommended.

I am asking, because we have a wave right now and I see people, which most likely are vaccinated (or I know got their two shoots in the past), get sick for one or two weeks.

Please allow my follow up questions:

  • Flue shoots are kind of free for all in my country (Germany), even if people are vaccinated and they also get refreshed every so often by the real thing (right now we have a flue wave in children) - is there a reason why there is a difference between flue shoots and covid shoots?
  • From the individual point of view, is there any reason not to get a covid shoot, especially when the person already got vaccinated in the past?
  • Is the benefits of further vaccinations vs. the risks a monetary/effort evaluation or a medical one?
[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Flue shoots are kind of free for all in my country (Germany), even if people are vaccinated and they also get refreshed every so often by the real thing (right now we have a flue wave in children) - is there a reason why there is a difference between flue shoots and covid shoots?

Technically, there isn't. The flu vaccine is also only recommended for older people and people with chronic illnesses. It's true though that it's easier to get the flu shot than the Covid shot outside of the official recommendation. I'm not sure why that's the case.

From the individual point of view, is there any reason not to get a covid shoot, especially when the person already got vaccinated in the past?

If you've had your 3 shots and had Covid semi-recently, there probably just isn't much of a benefit to getting it. I personally decided to get a fourth shot, due to never having had Covid and I was planning to go on a longer trip where I didn't want to get sick. But I never bothered getting a 5th or 6th.

Is the benefits of further vaccinations vs. the risks a monetary/effort evaluation or a medical one?

I'd say medical, as the state is actually losing money right now, with many doses expiring due to low demand.