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DrWynnewin t1_itpkwis wrote

I'm glad science has caught up to the rest of the world that had been screaming this for years, while getting shouted down by people living in ivory towers of unearned moral superiority.

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brainburger t1_itqrtm2 wrote

Has the world been screaming that exercise enhances the vaccination? I think I missed that. Or perhaps I couldn't hear over all the people yelling that healthy people don't die of Covid.

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lupuscapabilis t1_itrd90m wrote

>Has the world been screaming that exercise enhances the vaccination? I think I missed that. Or perhaps I couldn't hear over all the people yelling that healthy people don't die of Covid.

It's been a fact from the start that countries whose populations were in better shape were doing better against covid. The data has been shown many times. A common response to why the US had worse results than other places was "that other place has much less obesity."

Obese people do not have a lot of physical activity.

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brainburger t1_itrqja9 wrote

Yes fitness affects covid prognoses. So does the vaccine. What this study looks at is do these effects interract with each other?

I'll just invent some numbers for illustration. Let's say that the vaccine makes you 10% safer, and exercise also makes you 10% safer. You might expect both to make you 20% safer. But what is that number? It might be 15%. This study indicates that the whole is greater than the sum, so call it 25% in my example.

This is useful to know as we could give advice to patients to either take exercise or rest up after having the vaccine. We don't know the true effect until we look carefully at the numbers.

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DrWynnewin t1_itqvqlh wrote

Blah Blah blah.... political disagreement.... blah, blah, blah. It's too nice of a day to fall for the trap.

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brainburger t1_itqy0mp wrote

Sorry was just making the point that the paper acknowledges that fitness affects covid prognosis, and so does the vaccine.

The question is does exercise affect the vaccine? It's not inconceivable that it could reduce its value.

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DrWynnewin t1_itr0bt6 wrote

For sure. My original point was just venting frustrations caused by pretentious people shouting others out of the conversation early on, just for suggesting any course of action other than sitting in your houses in fear... away from sunlight.

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elpajaroquemamais t1_itsf1wo wrote

That’s by far the best way to deal with COVID if you have it. No one is suggesting to exercise COVID away. Just those who exercise fight it off better even when sitting in the house away from sunlight.

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