How so? Of course their underlying conditions played a part in their demise. But a highly contagious airborne illness that infects tens of thousands of people a day in the US often is the thing that pushed them finally into the grave.
Without covid, a lot of those people don’t die today. Sure, of course, they will die eventually. They might even die from the flu, a cold, or some other common illness, but the addition of covid - much more contagious - to the mix is the reason so many of them die earlier than they would have otherwise.
No kidding? A hundred years of medical science not invalidated. No previous vaccine was ever recommended to be given to people who had already survived the targeted disease/infection etc
One should not throw out the old definition of vaccine. Shingles vax has the same vague promise of the covid vaccine, won’t keep you from getting it but may lessen severity.
In any case my original point was, our medical community pretended all through covid that natural immunity didn’t count and that was paid for by Pfizer.
Yes and no. Most vaccines since vaccines were first developed, did not really prevent a person from being infected by the target virus. They have always been effective by reducing the severity of the infection, often to the degree that the person is unaware that they have been exposed. The timing of the definition change is highly suspicious, but in fact, it is more accurate for all vaccines than the old definition.