{"id":88632,"date":"2022-12-14T01:16:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88632"},"modified":"2022-12-14T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:02:38","slug":"88632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88632","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash.<\/p>\n

People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study<\/span>\u00a9\u00a0Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

Or at least those are the findings of\u00a0a new study published this month<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0The American Journal of Medicine.<\/em>\u00a0During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults, 16% of whom hadn\u2019t received the COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n

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They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash\u2014in which at least one person was transported to the hospital\u2014than those who were vaccinated. That\u2019s similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half that of people who abuse alcohol, researchers found.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The excess risk of car crash posed by unvaccinated drivers \u201cexceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n

Of course, skipping a COVID vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash. Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also \u201cneglect basic road safety guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why would they ignore the rules of the road? Distrust of the government, a belief in freedom, misconceptions of daily risks, \u201cfaith in natural protection,\u201d \u201cantipathy toward regulation,\u201d poverty, misinformation, a lack of resources, and personal beliefs are potential reasons proposed by the authors.<\/p>\n

The findings are significant enough that primary care doctors should consider counseling unvaccinated patients on traffic safety\u2014and insurance companies might base changes to insurance policies on vaccination data, the authors suggest.<\/p>\n

First responders may also consider taking precautions to protect themselves from COVID when responding to traffic crashes, the authors added, as it\u2019s more likely that a driver is unvaccinated than vaccinated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe findings suggest that unvaccinated adults need to be careful indoors with other people and outside with surrounding traffic,\u201d the authors concluded.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that researchers have examined the link between behavior and vaccination status. Among young adults, a\u00a02021 study<\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0Journal of Bioeconomics\u00a0<\/em>found a correlation between self-reported risky driving and having skipped their flu vaccine. It examined the survey responses of more than 100,000 Canadians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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