Why Getting COVID on Purpose Is a Dangerous Idea

Thinking of getting COVID on purpose just to 'get it over with'? Don't. Here's why:

So, if it's highly likely everyone will be infected, why not listen to the chatter out there, just get infected on purpose, and get it over with?"No, it is not inevitable that everybody will get Omicron infection," said Greg Poland, MD, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN, and editor-in-chief of the journal"There may well be higher rates of infection and high rates of exposure, but vaccinated,...

And the unvaccinated, Garner reminds people, include"an entire population under age 5" for whom no COVID vaccine has yet been authorized.The idea to deliberately catch COVID is also faulty reasoning, Poland says.

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