The choice is not just between the vaccinated covid patient or the unvaccinated covid patient. Lately, the choice has been between the unvaccinated covid patient and the cancer patient, or the person living with pain who needs a hernia repair, or some urgent but perhaps not immediately life-threatening surgery. It doesn't seem fair to defer cancer treatment to provide treatment for a condition that could easily have been avoided.
Jan 21, 2022·edited Jan 21, 2022Liked by John Skylar, PhD
Somewhat related to Carl's question, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the implications of Delta-Omicron cross-immunity for vaccination. Increasingly, it seems clear that Omicron infection by itself doesn't really yield Delta immunity, just as Delta infection doesn't yield Omicron immunity. But it *does* looks like Omicron infection in *vaccinated* individuals enhances immunity to both Delta and Omicron (see, e.g., https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/1mx.c5c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MEDRXIV-2021-268439v2-Sigal.pdf).
My question is: does this imply that an Omicron-specific vaccine might elicit cross-immunity in previously vaccinated people, but not in immunologically naive people? What about unvaccinated people who were infected with an earlier strain, then reinfected with Omicron?
You provide good information. However your statment "healthcare is a human right" is a common error. To have a right to something implies there is an obligation for someone available to provide it. Short question: who has that obligation and where did it come from? The right to healcate is certainly not in the Bill of Rights. Here is a great answer to that question. There is no such right. https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/government-and-business/individual-rights/health-care-is-not-a-right/ . There is no ratoional logical refutation that I have ever heard of and of course the common response is the altruistic, socialist response. How is that working out so far? It'a going to get worse https://www.healthgrades.com/pro/7-reasons-doctors-are-leaving-medicine
The choice is not just between the vaccinated covid patient or the unvaccinated covid patient. Lately, the choice has been between the unvaccinated covid patient and the cancer patient, or the person living with pain who needs a hernia repair, or some urgent but perhaps not immediately life-threatening surgery. It doesn't seem fair to defer cancer treatment to provide treatment for a condition that could easily have been avoided.
Somewhat related to Carl's question, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the implications of Delta-Omicron cross-immunity for vaccination. Increasingly, it seems clear that Omicron infection by itself doesn't really yield Delta immunity, just as Delta infection doesn't yield Omicron immunity. But it *does* looks like Omicron infection in *vaccinated* individuals enhances immunity to both Delta and Omicron (see, e.g., https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/1mx.c5c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MEDRXIV-2021-268439v2-Sigal.pdf).
My question is: does this imply that an Omicron-specific vaccine might elicit cross-immunity in previously vaccinated people, but not in immunologically naive people? What about unvaccinated people who were infected with an earlier strain, then reinfected with Omicron?
You provide good information. However your statment "healthcare is a human right" is a common error. To have a right to something implies there is an obligation for someone available to provide it. Short question: who has that obligation and where did it come from? The right to healcate is certainly not in the Bill of Rights. Here is a great answer to that question. There is no such right. https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/government-and-business/individual-rights/health-care-is-not-a-right/ . There is no ratoional logical refutation that I have ever heard of and of course the common response is the altruistic, socialist response. How is that working out so far? It'a going to get worse https://www.healthgrades.com/pro/7-reasons-doctors-are-leaving-medicine