Guillain-Barré Syndrome is not a 'death sentence', by any means. I know two people who have contracted it - a number of years ago, well before even MERS was identified, let alone SARS and SARS-COVID2. Both recovered completely within a year's time and have suffered no relapses.
From VCU Health.com, July 14, 2021:
How high is your risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome?
Your risk is very low. The number of cases (100 total) reported in connection with the J&J vaccine represents
a tiny fraction of the nearly 13 million Americans who have received the one-dose shot. Most cases were reported in men — many 50 years old and up — and usually about two weeks after vaccination.
A number of infections can trigger Guillain-Barré, including the flu and the Zika virus.
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BTW, should you be one of the 100 GBS cases out of 13 million J&J vaccinated, your odds are still very good. For GBS the mortality rate is 4% to 7%. Between 60-80% of people are able to walk at six months.
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Finally, this is from our local paper. UCSF is one of the premier private hospitals on the West Coast. However, the article is representative of what is currently happening in EVERY state. Delta is now the most common COVID variant in the USA.
Delta is 7 times more infectious than the original COVID coronavirus, and 3 times more fatal, based on global statistics.
Delta is also hitting younger people (who make up a large percentage of unvaccinated and are more likely to gather indoors in large groups), especially hard. It is the reason why the average age of hospitalized COVID patients fell so dramatically in such a short time, over a period of months.
When the pandemic and lockdown began in the US, the average age was around 79. It is now age 53.
UCSF docs on the risks the delta variant poses to vaccinated people
SFGATE July 16, 2021
https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/...k-fully-vaccinated-illness-COVID-16320284.php
(excerpt)
"The majority of the data shows that vaccinated folks are super protected from bad stuff happening to them, including hospitalization, serious disease and death," UCSF infectious expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong said.
"A vaccinated person who gets infected is going to look very different from those not vaccinated," he added.
Citing new data out of England, Chin-Hong said the delta strain will give most vaccinated people light cold symptoms, if any. The story is different for unvaccinated people, who make up the vast majority of those currently hospitalized for COVID-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area and California at-large. They are at a much greater risk for serious illness, hospitalization and death.
The vaccines, he said, protect you from hospitalization by 96%, once again citing the English research.
Breakthrough cases -- meaning contracting COVID-19 after vaccination -- do occur. Through June 23, California reported that about one COVID case occurred per 2,583 vaccinated people, according to CalMatters.org.
That means just 0.039% of vaccinated Californians have contracted COVID.
(All other COVID patients are those that were unvaccinated. This ratio remains steady for those infected in the recent rising wave of Delta variant infections.)
.. we need to read and explore every side of the coin, before we can make the right decision for us as individuals
