The use of the word rare is fine for both cases.
If one wants to know more details then need to look at the numbers, incidence rate.
It very much varies by factors such as geographic location, population density, and individual behavior.
After a quick search, where the numbers are similar last time I looked into it:
As of May 8th, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there have been 21 confirmed cases of death in individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. This equates to an incidence rate of approximately 0.0007% or 7 deaths per 1 million people vaccinated.
On the other hand, the incidence rate of dying from a COVID-19 infection is higher for a 40-year-old. According to the CDC, the COVID-19 death rate for 35-44-year-olds in the United States as of May 8th, 2023, was approximately 0.17%, or 1 in 588 individuals
What a bunch of weasels those guys are. The phrasing in that statement is designed to minimize the harms of vaccination, maximize the risk of covid, and imply that vaccination reduces the latter to zero or something close to it. These risks are qualitatively different and not comparable - and in any case the vaccines have no known benefit for the average 40-year-old.
Donāt we have any journalists in Taiwan with science qualifications and a pair of balls?
About half the planet has been vaccinated, so if we take the 7ppm figure as valid, 25,000 people have definitely died from covid vaccines. How many deaths were unremarked, uninvestigated, obfuscated, or just unclear? I think itād be fair to add another zero to that figure.
Premier Chen tested positive for COVID, reportedly after experiencing coughing and discomfort. Anecdotally Iām hearing more about more people testing positive lately.
And looking ahead, it seems variations of XBB are becoming dominant in Taiwan and will likely drive infections through the summer.
The emergency is over, but living with COVID is not.
Living with the interminable whining from the politicians who did well for themselves from āthe emergencyā is certainly not over.
At least Chen was boosted. Otherwise Iām sure he would have died.
Taiwan also took delivery of mpox vaccine doses on Monday, packaged in 20,000 multi-dose vials that can be used to vaccinate 60,000 people, the CDC said, adding that booking for inoculation appointments will start next week.
LOL. Pharma companies offloading their useless crap on Taiwan like the US offloading outdated military kit.
Nobody ever said covid was going to go away forever, it was just going to keep coming back over and over again anyways. Weāve already endured enough damage trying to shut down the economy over it.
Got a couple of friends going for round two. At least here so far is not as bad as the old country, where people just stopped counting after the third time.
Oh and they had hundreds of cases of monkeypox until they also gave up counting. No vaccine available there yet though. But tourism is picking up!
Premier tested positive and now āunfortunatelyā canāt work on the Sunday
āThe premier was originally planning to attend a Motherās Day event honoring local indigenous languages on Sunday in Taipei. However, he was unable to attend due to his diagnosis.ā
Methinks these at-home RATs may indeed serve a useful purpose.
A āfourth waveā of COVID infections is hitting Taiwan. Thereās been a sharp rise in COVID cases, with outpatient and inpatient numbers spiking by two to three times. One doctor says that infections are rising because hospitals are no longer treating COVID patients in isolated wards.
Vincent Su
Taipei City Hospital physician
In reality, the pandemic is not over. In fact the case numbers have gone up recently. However, specialized COVID wards have been discontinued, and COVID patients are no longer separated from other patients. This has become a major problem. COVID inpatients are no longer being assigned to specialized wards, theyāre staying in general wards, and thatās giving rise to cross-infections. In outpatient waiting areas, you might not have COVID, but you might be sitting next to a COVID patient who is coughing. COVID patients who go to hospitals are often the ones with more severe symptoms. So now the policy of not separating COVID patients has put more vulnerable individuals at risk of being infected.
In related news, public health scholar Chen Hsiu-hsi says thereās a fresh wave of reinfections driven by the BA.2.75 variant. Taiwanās reinfection rate has hit a new high of 12.5%. The severity of reinfections has also doubled. For patients who had moderate to severe symptoms the first time, the risk of hospitalization due to reinfection is now higher than ever ā six times the rate of mild initial cases.
Well, the authorities have continued to track the number of moderate and severe cases, and itās those numbers that have jumped up lately. Apparently itās BA.2.75 which is driving this increase, even as another subvariant XBB continues to displace it in Taiwan.
The recommendations from the authorities in Taiwan are clear: if you have not received a Moderna bivalent booster in 2023, you are encouraged to get one (1). Novavax is also available for those who prefer non-mRNA shots. These shots are still available for free, although now the hospitals can and do charge a minor registration fee for this service.
