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STUDY: Anti-vaccers Have Much Higher Risk of Serious Traffic Crash
People who refused to get the COVID vaccine are far more likely to get into a traffic crash requiring hospitalization, a recently published study found, adding evidence to the theory that anti-vaxxers often demonstrate other kinds of dangerous antisocial behavior.
The study, published in the American Journal of Medicine, looked at data from more than 11.2 million people: 84 percent had received a COVID vaccine and 16 percent had not.
Of that same group, 6,682 people needed emergency care for a serious vehicle crash during the one-month period researchers looked at; or 200 per day. Of those traffic crash victims, there was an increased risk of 72 percent for the unvaccinated relative to the jabbed.
"We theorized that individual adults who tend to resist public health recommendations might also neglect basic road safety guidelines," the authors stated. And the study seems to support this.
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STUDY: Long-COVID Can Be Cause of Death
A study released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics found that more than 3,500 Americans died of long-COVID related illness in the first 2½ years of the pandemic.
While those deaths represent a small fraction of the 1 million deaths from the coronavirus, they reinforce the danger of ignoring the lingering symptoms that many patients say their physicians have dismissed.
"A lot of people think of long-COVID as associated with long-term illness," said Farida Ahmad, a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and lead author of the study. "This shows it can be a cause of death."