Thanks for your explanation of excess deaths. I initially thought the first charts looked actually darn good. Then I read your explanation and what you said made perfect sense. Maybe some of the excess deaths are a result of postponed diagnoses and treatments of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, you name it. My husband was diagnosed with …
Thanks for your explanation of excess deaths. I initially thought the first charts looked actually darn good. Then I read your explanation and what you said made perfect sense. Maybe some of the excess deaths are a result of postponed diagnoses and treatments of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, you name it. My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in late 2019, but he was able to go through the entire radiation therapy in the summer/fall of 2020. The outcome might have been very different had he not been diagnosed when he was and had not been able to do the treatments.
On another note, did you ever look into the Shingles vaccine? I asked about it a while back and you said you hadn't had the time to look into it. My husband (poor guy) came down with Shingles the other day and is in a lot of pain. His female doc asked why he always turned down the vaccine, and he just said, "I'm a guy." I've not had the vaccine, but now wondering if I should get it. Even if you could point me in the right direction so I can do some research, it would help. Thanks again for everything you do.
I can't give specific medical advice over the internet. I've looked up the Shingrix vaccine, which appears to be the only one now available in the US. You can read about the clinical trial at this link: https://www.fda.gov/media/108597/download Take a look at the adverse events listed and make your call. I was interested to find that in the trial Shingrix was compared to an actual placebo (saline injection) instead of another vaccine. Which, in my view, makes the adverse-event data more accurate. You can also read about the side effects here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/drugs-shingrix-side-effects This last link is probably more reliable since the vaccine has been introduced to a wider group than just those in the study.
I got the original shingles vaccine but have not gotten Shingrix. It has a "black box" warning that people can get Guillain-Barre Syndrome which is why they mention it in their commercials. You can get GBS after any vaccination but they don't usually put a black box warning on them.
My late mom had shingles and it hurt like heck. I don't want to get shingles, but I am skeptical about how well the vaccine works (at this point, I'm skeptical about everything) and also don't want to get GBS.
GBS was one of the reasons why they took the flu vaccine off the market in 1976. I refused that vaccine and refused the Covid one.
A friend of mine got shingles in her eye at the age of 54. For reasons that I don't remember, her doctor told her to not get the first vaccine. He did recommend Shingrix so she got it. She said the stuff made her ill.
My husband got both shots of it and it didn't bother him.
Thanks for your explanation of excess deaths. I initially thought the first charts looked actually darn good. Then I read your explanation and what you said made perfect sense. Maybe some of the excess deaths are a result of postponed diagnoses and treatments of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, you name it. My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in late 2019, but he was able to go through the entire radiation therapy in the summer/fall of 2020. The outcome might have been very different had he not been diagnosed when he was and had not been able to do the treatments.
On another note, did you ever look into the Shingles vaccine? I asked about it a while back and you said you hadn't had the time to look into it. My husband (poor guy) came down with Shingles the other day and is in a lot of pain. His female doc asked why he always turned down the vaccine, and he just said, "I'm a guy." I've not had the vaccine, but now wondering if I should get it. Even if you could point me in the right direction so I can do some research, it would help. Thanks again for everything you do.
I can't give specific medical advice over the internet. I've looked up the Shingrix vaccine, which appears to be the only one now available in the US. You can read about the clinical trial at this link: https://www.fda.gov/media/108597/download Take a look at the adverse events listed and make your call. I was interested to find that in the trial Shingrix was compared to an actual placebo (saline injection) instead of another vaccine. Which, in my view, makes the adverse-event data more accurate. You can also read about the side effects here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/drugs-shingrix-side-effects This last link is probably more reliable since the vaccine has been introduced to a wider group than just those in the study.
I got the original shingles vaccine but have not gotten Shingrix. It has a "black box" warning that people can get Guillain-Barre Syndrome which is why they mention it in their commercials. You can get GBS after any vaccination but they don't usually put a black box warning on them.
My late mom had shingles and it hurt like heck. I don't want to get shingles, but I am skeptical about how well the vaccine works (at this point, I'm skeptical about everything) and also don't want to get GBS.
GBS was one of the reasons why they took the flu vaccine off the market in 1976. I refused that vaccine and refused the Covid one.
A friend of mine got shingles in her eye at the age of 54. For reasons that I don't remember, her doctor told her to not get the first vaccine. He did recommend Shingrix so she got it. She said the stuff made her ill.
My husband got both shots of it and it didn't bother him.