Als we gelijktijdig accepteren dat een deel van de geinfecteerden significant dommer gaat worden, dan wel ja:XWB schreef op vrijdag 30 juli 2021 @ 23:37:
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CDC waarschuwt officieel: ‘Wie gevaccineerd is, geeft deltavariant net zo goed door als niet-gevaccineerden’
Vaccineren is uiteraard nog steeds verstandig om de kans op ziekenhuisopname te verkleinen, maar met dit soort berichten omtrent besmettelijkheid vraag ik mij wel af hoe we ooit alle maatregelen kunnen loslaten?
https://www.thelancet.com...-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext
Deel van conclusie:
Het artikel bevat enige caveats aangaande de resultaten, bijv. dat langdurig verblijf op de IC een bijdrage kan leveren aan dit soort gevolgen, maar ook mensen die thuis uitziekten blijken neurologische gevolgen te vertonen.Our analyses provide converging evidence to support the hypothesis that COVID-19 infection is associated with cognitive deficits that persist into the recovery phase. The observed deficits varied in scale with respiratory symptom severity, related to positive biological verification of having had the virus even amongst milder cases, could not be explained by differences in age, education or other demographic and socioeconomic variables, remained in those who had no other residual symptoms and was of greater scale than common pre-existing conditions that are associated with virus susceptibility and cognitive problems.
The scale of the observed deficit was not insubstantial; the 0.47 SD global composite score reduction for the hospitalized with ventilator sub-group was greater than the average 10-year decline in global performance between the ages of 20 to 70 within this dataset. It was larger than the mean deficit of 480 people who indicated they had previously suffered a stroke (−0.24SDs) and the 998 who reported learning disabilities (−0.38SDs). For comparison, in a classic intelligence test, 0.47 SDs equates to a 7-point difference in IQ.
In terms of cognitive profile, the assessment battery applied comprised tests that were designed to enable variance in different aspects of cognition to be examined at very large scale within the general population. The deficits affected multiple tests but to different degrees. When examining the entire population, the deficits were most pronounced for paradigms that tapped cognitive functions such as reasoning, problem solving, spatial planning and target detection whilst sparing tests of simpler functions such as working-memory span as well as emotional processing. These results accord with reports of long-COVID, where ‘brain fog’, trouble concentrating and difficulty finding the correct words are common. Notably, this profile cannot be explained by differences in the general sensitivity of our tests; e.g., Spatial Span and Digit Span scores show robust age-related differences. Instead, recovery from COVID-19 infection may be associated with particularly pronounced problems in aspects of higher cognitive or ‘executive’ function, an observation that accords with preliminary reports of executive dysfunction in some patients at hospital discharge [[17]], as well as previous studies of ventilated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome pre-pandemic [[19]]. It should be noted though, that when the analysis of individual test scores was constrained to people who had positive biological tests, the profile in milder non-hospitalized cases extended to spatial span.
De vraag is of mensen moedwillig neurologische of hersenschade te laten oplopen als ze geinfecteerd raken nadat de maatregelen los zijn gelaten ethisch verantwoord is.
Persoonlijk denk ik van niet. Een equivalent zou zijn geweest polio niet weg te vaccineren, maar gewoon een relatief groot deel van de bevolking te vertellen dat ze er maar mee moeten leven.