As of March 20, of the 494 adverse events reported, 124 were deaths, 305 were serious events that required hospitalisation and 65 were severe events.
Covishield Blood Clot Risk Minuscule but Govt Not Transparent, Need Urgent Inquiry—Gagandeep Kang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5BD_DJvK8 in India we simply don't have any official information whether there have been worrying blood clots with a low platelet count after taking the Covishield vaccine. reports of rare forms of blood clots showing up in a small number of this vaccine's recipients in Europe had sent alarm bells ringing among national regulators in various countries. Dr Kang said that these conditions are marked by blood clots in veins in the brain and abdomen accompanied by low platelet counts.
This is an extract from a whats app post by Eric DS
What is the Peltzman Effect?
The Peltzman Effect is a theory which states that people are more likely to engage in risky behavior when security measures have been mandated. The Peltzman Effect is named for Sam Peltzman's postulation about mandating the use of seatbelts in automobiles - it would led to more accidents. Safety perception increases risk appetite.
Peltzman effect means behaviour compensating for the perceived risk. In other terms, people become more careful when they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected.
This means that vaccines are giving a sense of security which leads to a increased risky behaviour.
But the problem is that while vaccines neither give immediate protection or full protection (against infection as against death), the sense of security unfortunately starts much earlier, even before the actual injection. And Peltzman effect comes into play: people wear masks with less caution, do not maintain distance as soon as they reach vaccination centres.
The Peltzman effect in fact started for most people even before they took the vaccine. Many people felt protected just looking at the vaccination numbers. The mask usage, social distancing and hand sanitisation have become progressively less. While this is attributed mainly to pandemic fatigue, the Peltzman effect cannot be ignored.
While this behaviour is dangerous for general public, this can be disastrous for health care workers who directly deal with Covid 19 patients. A lot of them can get infected in the present second wave impairing the health care services.
The Peltzman effect is also evident in the drastic decline in the usage of PPE kits by the healthcare workers.
It is important to vaccinate the majority of the people at risk. But it is also important to be aware of Peltzman effect and be more careful until the effect of vaccination takes us close to herd immunity.
Post to My Nephew: Vaccine Hesitancy
I appreciate your vaccine hesitancy..
The Human body has been designed to fight and more and more vaccines are probably making our body less of a fighting machine. My problem is that almost most of our activities today are making our body less of a fighting machine. Our food for example is so contaminated that most of the body's resistance is being taken up for fighting it. The air we breathe.. same issue.
So I do suspect that our normal lives have compromised our immunity system, and it would be good if we do take some immunity boosting activity.. like pranayam, exercise, Kadha etc. I remember that whenever we had any cold.. mummy used to make a khashayam.. I had grown fond of it.. as I like the kalameeree taste.. Also the cold pressed coconut oil and the jaggery we used to have and the "boiled" rice.. and the fresh fish.. all helped .. otherwise my unhealthy habbits would have consumed me a long ago.
Coming back to vaccine hesitancy. I too was very skeptical because political leaders like Trump were making bombastic statements about the virus and how soon they will bring in the vaccine. They even did short cuts by certifying the use of vaccine on an "emergency use" basis.
But now that so many million people have taken it, we can at least be clear that it is safe.
How effective will it be.. the evidence shows that it is at least for the time-being.. very very few cases of post vaccine infections have been reported.. and if they are infections, the severity is much less.. Making any future infection.. feel like a common cough and cold.. provided that we take proper care at the slightest signs of any symptoms.. like hydrating ourselves, doing things like kapal bharati on the stomach, improving our hygiene improving our food, taking Khada, etc. etc.
Now if we dont take the vaccine:
My problem will be how long you will keep yourself "safe"? As more and more people get vaccinated, and people start getting complacent, we are probably increasing the 'unsafeness" and we will have to be more and more careful.. and take more and more precautions. Not just the physical discomfort, and also other immunity increasing processes.
The other problem is: you may suddenly have to travel in an emergency.. and at that time, they will ask for all kinds of tests, and vaccination certificates. For example you will not be able to go to a football match, as you wont get the "virus visa". Work wise also, you maybe compromised.. as when the rest of the people have moved on.. and have definite anti-bodies and there maynot be an epidemic.. but the virus will still be there.. waiting for that vulnerable guy, who slowly starts getting lax on his precautions..
Thinking of all this I decided to take the vaccine.. and today about 21 days after my shot, as people in my building are getting infected, and I stay safe.. I definitely feel safer that what I would have had I not taken the jab. Now you have to decide, if everytime you hear someone sneeze in the background, you have to quickly look around, and see which way the wind is blowing.. Just imagine going to the beach a few months now, and there is a strong wind, and many people around.. what are you going to do?
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