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october 2021 there are still battles to be fought about me background to the blog there are still battles to be fought a periodic blog on matters health union social justice and the occasional random rant search monthly archives october 2021 we need to give up on herd immunity 16 saturday oct 2021 posted by tara nipe in uncategorized leave a comment tags breaking research covid 19 health care nursing pandemic population health science vaccination a pre published iranian study https www medrxiv org content 10 1101 2021 10 04 21264540v1 confirms what experts have been saying from early in the pandemic striving for herd immunity is hopeless contracting covid 19 doesn t confer immunity but vaccines do at least for a while the colour coding in the map below indicates the average number of times residents in each province have been infected the darker green the more instances in three provinces kurdistan north khorasan qazvin the average rate over 5 surges across iran is 1 5 times for every person 1 55 1 57 and 1 63 respectively over 21 months this rate was higher in baluchistan and sistan the average infection rate was 120 by january of this year i e in the first year of the pandemic but despite this exposure the fourth and fifth surges were the deadliest and every person living in these provinces contracted covid 19 2 5 times on average the odds are still good that sars cov 2 will eventually mutate into a flu like illness that s predominantly benign for the majority of people but the question is how long that will take while we still can t say with certainty how long acquired immunity is effective with over a billion people world wide double vaccinated we do know that all the available vaccines substantial reduce every risk contracting the virus passing it on being symptomatic becoming significantly ill requiring hospitalisation needing icu level care intubation ecmo dying and developing long covid how do we avoid following iran get vaccinated continue to wear masks and social distance and support our exhausted frontline workers extracorporeal membranous oxygenation ecmo is like dialysis for lungs that are too damaged to exchange gases if you need it then you already have a tube down your throat so you can breathe drugs to sedate and paralyse you other drugs to keep your blood pressure stable a catheter into your bladder to drain urine intravenous fluids and nutrition either through a tube into your stomach or directly into your blood stream at a minimum adding ecmo is a big deal it can only be done in major hospital icus is needed 24 hours a day until you die or your lungs recover enough to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide again and requires even more drugs to reduce complications like blood thinners to stop your blood clotting in the tubing or machine search recent posts it s not only icu under pressure the problem with let it rip we need to give up on herd immunity how many aged care deaths before the government acts is a fifo workforce the answer for covid quarantine archives january 2022 october 2021 february 2021 november 2019 september 2019 november 2018 october 2018 march 2018 november 2017 october 2017 september 2017 august 2017 july 2017 june 2017 september 2016 august 2016 july 2016 march 2016 january 2016 april 2015 february 2015 november 2014 september 2014 august 2014 may 2014 march 2014 february 2014 december 2013 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 april 2013 march 2013 february 2013 january 2013 december 2012 november 2012 october 2012 september 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 december 2011 categories aged care australian politics clinical nursing education social justice uncategorized voluntary assisted dying meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed there are still battles to be fought join 63 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy there are still battles to be fought subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started