May be an image of text that says 'ADVERSE EVENTS: COVID-19 VS. VACCINES Acute Kidney Injury Arrhythmia THE UNIBIASIEID SICIENICIE PODCAST 5 125 6 Deep Vein Thrombosis 43 166 Intracranial Hemorrhage 8 Myocardial Infarction 25 Myocarditis 11 Pericarditis Risk difference per 100,000 persons who had COVID-19 Risk difference per 100,000 persons who were vaccinated @alnmon Lymphadenopathy temporary response vaccination indicating your immune system responding. 11 Pulmonary Embolism 62 Lymphadenopathy 78 50 100 150 The risk of adverse events is substantially higher if you get COVID-19 than if you get vaccinated. The choice is clear. Please get vaccinated.'

The data continue to support the benefits of vaccination. Getting vaccinated, along with other simple mitigation strategies, is the best way to protect yourself and those you love from COVID-19.

However, many people forget that COVID-19, aside from illness itself, can also put you at greater risk for other complications and medical issues.

A recent study in New England Journal of Medicine was able to quantify the absolute risk of a variety of adverse events in people who had COVID-19 as well as people who were vaccinated against COVID-19. The contrast is quite stark. These data assessed 2.4 million vaccinated persons to evaluate the safety profile of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine and more than 240,000 people with SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Even when comparing adverse events that have occurred after vaccination, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, the absolute risk of those conditions is still far greater after COVID-19 than after vaccination. The main event that was more prevalent amongst vaccinated persons was lymphadenopathy, which is swelling of the lymph nodes. This is a mild condition that occurred in the clinical trials as well, and is an indication that the immune system is responding to something – in this case, the vaccination, to develop protection against future illness.

Aside from these adverse events presented here, we know the risk of death is astronomically greater – there have been over 4.5 MILLION deaths due to COVID-19 so far globally. This is obviously not the case with vaccination. Getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 also puts your family, friends, and community members at risk – something the vaccine does the exact opposite of.

The choice has always been clear, but these data strengthen the case: please get vaccinated.

Sources:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475...
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data

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