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Vaccination progress in the United Arab Emirates

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Myrtonos

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The U.A.E has a population of over 9 million and is first sovereign nation in the world apart from microstates where more than 95% of the population eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine have had at least their first dose.
The number of new cases a day in that country has just fallen below 100, with 84 new cases there today, 88 yesterday and 94 the day before.
 
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And from this the discussion is........ ?
 
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I has hoping I wouldn't get a reply like 'And from this the discussion is........ ?' but maybe someone who knows more about it explaining it.
 
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Why would 95% of them get a vaccine for a treatable diesease that only the elderly and overweight are at risk of dying from?
 
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Myrtonos said:
The vaccines apparently do block transmission, so why not?
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I think the official stance of the EU is that it does not block transmission. Thats why they say vaccinated people should still where masks.

The whole thing seems to be a mess. Maybe a better approach would have been to only vax the people who were at risk from it and let the rest of the population build up a natural immunity.
 
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Myrtonos said:
I has hoping I wouldn't get a reply like 'And from this the discussion is........ ?' but maybe someone who knows more about it explaining it.
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Well, err, it's far from clear in your OP what, if any, the point is - which is why I asked.
 
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Led Zeppelin said:
I think the official stance of the EU is that it does not block transmission. Thats why they say vaccinated people should still where masks.

The whole thing seems to be a mess. Maybe a better approach would have been to only vax the people who were at risk from it and let the rest of the population build up a natural immunity.
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There is data showing that vaccinated people are a lot less likely to test positive and even less likely to infect others, and the statistics mentioned for the U.A.E do show that. No vaccine is 100% effective but many are effective enough to bring herd immunity where the vaccine uptake is high enough. Here is the key, vaccines against smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and the like are all available to pre-teen people. Most of us born since such vaccines were found had them before we went to daycare.
Vaccines against COVID-19 still aren't widely available to those under 12.
 
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Myrtonos said:
There is data showing that vaccinated people are a lot less likely to test positive and even less likely to infect others, and the statistics mentioned for the U.A.E do show that. No vaccine is 100% effective but many are effective enough to bring herd immunity where the vaccine uptake is high enough. Here is the key, vaccines against smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and the like are all available to pre-teen people. Most of us born since such vaccines were found had them before we went to daycare.
Vaccines against COVID-19 still aren't widely available to those under 12
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Seems to me like vaxxed people are more likely to get covid than an unvaxxed person who has already had covid.
 
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Myrtonos said:
The U.A.E has a population of over 9 million and is first sovereign nation in the world apart from microstates where more than 95% of the population eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine have had at least their first dose.
The number of new cases a day in that country has just fallen below 100, with 84 new cases there today, 88 yesterday and 94 the day before.
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Maybe we are being to asshole like. At first I thought this post was kinda pointless. But it at least seems to be accurate information as far as probably anyone else can tell.

In spite of my above post, I am not an anti vaxxer. I think the whole situation could be alot worse than most people think. I am not vaxxed because I have no idea what the right thing to do is.
 
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The right thing to do is get the vaccine given that we have an emergency situation. The United Arab Emirates is the only major sovereign nation where over 90% of the currently eligible population have had at least their first dose. Over 86% of its eligible population have had both doses and it is one of the few countries, of those with a population of over a million, to have under 100 new cases a day.
 
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I would think everyone has already had covid and most of the people never even delevoped any symptoms. Its been 2 years already.
 
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Led Zeppelin said:
That's a good point.
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Not really. Those born during the pandemic are by necessity a maximum of roughly two years old so are unlikely to have 'had' much of anything when it comes to viruses, so it just trivially follows that they're unlikely to have had C19, or even if they did, they probably wouldn't show any symptoms distinguishable from other common conditions.
 
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Data in the United Arab Emirates, that is their population, vaccine uptake and the number of new cases per day, appears to show that the vaccines they use do block transmission.
 
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Anecdotal:

I know more people who have had symptoms of C19 and were tested positive after taking some variant of the vaccine. My coworkers at an FFL are federally required to because they are from different branches of the military. Some of them had to go through steroidal therapy in order to bring back full lung function.

I don't know one person that has abstained from taking vaccination and also had C19/showed symptoms. My 96 year old grandmother isn't vaccinated and doesn't wear masks. I'm not vaccinated either and I've never had symptoms/tested positive.
 
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No vaccine is 100% effective, those vaccinated against measles may still get infected in areas that still haven't reaped the full benefits of the M.M.R vaccine.
 
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