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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here still following the thread thank you for the input. I had a baby because I’m older. I knew I wanted a second and we were prepared to have a baby in 2020 but I waited a whole year for vaccines to come out. And we were in absolute lockdown my whole pregnancy like actual just home and yard deliveries only. I went in town to my appointments with a kn and n95 and face shields. Again I’m in a rural small town area so I can do this stuff but I know the preschool has had covid cases and the kids don’t wear masks anymore (or the teachers). It just sucks seeing my sister and mom deal with this weeks after infection. We’re European and A- blood type and I worry we may react worse (I don’t know just my anxiety trying to explain why things could be bad and not just a cold). And these articles about how much covid messes with you and cognition and nervous system and circulatory system don’t help. Do people just try not to think of these studies and hope for the best? [/quote]

My spouse is a post-transplant (immunosuppressed) health care provider. For that reason, it shouldn't be surprising that we've stayed on top of COVID research.  And admittedly, some of it didn't look good, particularly COVID infection outcomes for transplant patients, and early studies on vaccine efficacy in immunosuppressed individuals.

A common theme, though, is that the articles in the media, and even the abstracts in the academic papers themselves, always sound much worse than what the actual data shows. For example, measured antibody levels in transplant patients post-vaccination didn't look good, but the vaccine (particularly after a third dose) was still very effective at reducing the severity of illness.  There's still more of a risk level than we'd like, but we've obviously already lived through more than our share of health conditions.  This was a new risk, but didn't look much different than other risks we've accepted.  We made some changes-- we limited indoor social interactions until the vaccines came out, and greatly limited travel-- but we kept working in-person and our young kids kept going to daycare.

Now the data doesn't even look particularly troubling.  When factoring in the vaccines and treatments, outcomes for otherwise-healthy transplant patients are pretty good.  Outcomes for kids aren't much different than other viruses.  And despite all the media coverage about "Long COVID," the actual severity and frequency of it appears to be similar to post-viral syndrome following flu infections.  The studies involving long COVID often ignore (or the articles/papers bury) the distinction between mild symptoms and severe symptoms.  Many lack control groups, have major problems with selection bias, and rely on self-reporting on both infections and subjective symptoms.  The higher quality studies don't look that bad.

So no, it's not that I'm trying not to think about it.  I've thought about it, and it doesn't make sense to worry about it.  Not for my spouse, and certainly not for my low-risk kids.[/quote]

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