I used my nursing education (first in my graduating class, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) and my 44 years of professional nursing experience to vet those points. They are broadly accepted in public health about the impact that mental illness can have complicating the recovery from many illnesses and injuries, not only COVID.
Thanks. It’s worth mentioning that when quoting AI.
And it’s nearly as easy to go to the link AI is supposedly getting its info from, and use that actual link, instead of quoting AI in the first place.
Thank you @BippityBoppityBoo for posting that. I’ve been trying to explain to people, not very successfully how mental stress, anxiety and anguish affect people with disease. Infectious or autoimmune.
This is why I get all my Vax and still mask up. I was a germaphobe well before COVID, now I’m kinda insane about it(so they say)
I’ve avoided COVID and the flu for a few years. I intend on keeping it that way. Knock on wood.
My biggest fear is just this thing. So get your shots folks.
I can’t afford much more brain fog.
That’s partially true, and people with the conditions listed earlier may have obstacles to proper diet, good exercise and sleep habits, etc. which can definitely compromise one’s immune system.
It’s not. There was a time when the summaries were actually taken nearly verbatim from real citations, and it was easy to do that. Then Google was sued over copyright infringement, and decided to move to AI summaries. Those can be difficult or impossible to source – if you follow the links, you’ll get random stuff about the topic that doesn’t say what the AI summary says. It’s been driving me nuts. Add in a dollop of “we know that AI hallucinates”, and even when the summary looks plausible, i don’t trust it and the underlying search results are much less robust then they used to be. I think we’ve reached the end of the magical era when (nearly) all the world’s knowledge was available on any Internet-connected device. 
Called my doctor’s office and they do not receive Covid shots for distribution. They just said to keep checking with the pharmacy.
The manufacturers weren’t able (or weren’t willing) to start shipping this season’s vaccine until Aug 27, when the CDC kinda approved them. But the regulatory situation is such a mess that they may not have rushed to get supplies out there. This is a very detailed article about the difficulties in getting vaccinated this year. It varies a lot by state, too.
Anyway, if you are over 65, and can’t find a vaccine, waiting a week or two will probably work. You might need to go to a clinic and not just pop into a pharmacy, though, depending on your state.
That’s when I have found that the AI isn’t accurate. I’ve had it tell me the opposite of what the links claim, in cases when I can verify that it’s wrong.
Yesterday while writing a post I needed the US population in 1880. So I entered [US population in 1880] into the search engine. Wanting a search, not AI results.
Instead the AI wrote me a confident paragraph claiming the answer was/is 330 million. Of course the AI summary contained no cites.
I happen to already know the answer now in 2025 is 340 million. So 1880 is going to be a small fraction of that.
Farther down was a search result to a site page titled “US population by decade”. Where I found my answer the old fashioned way: 60 million.
Artificial stupidity blithely consuming and regurgitating the output of artificial stupidity will be the final nail in the coffin of any idea that objective accurate information exists anywhere about anything.
It’ll be this, all the way down:
It reminds me of a kid who answers questions with the first thing that pops into their head, just to be done with it.
I would recommend checking with the county health department. That’s where I usually get my flu shot.
Weird. Just tried the same thing with Google, and it gave 50,189,209 as its AI answer, and a link to the Wiki page for the 1880 US census, which contained the same number.
That said, I do find that Google’s inline AI answer is among the worst of the available models. Probably because it’s too costly to use a more accurate model on every web search.
That’s almost exactly what it is when not using “thinking” mode. The tokens arrive whether or not they correspond to something accurate, and there is no opportunity to self-correct before “speaking”. Hence why the better models all support “thinking”, where they have a sort of internal monologue before presenting the answer.
One word: Bing
I guess there is an AI search that’s worse than Google’s.
Indeed there is. What can I say: Mistakes were made. 
Me two days ago.
Today:
Colorado officials on Wednesday issued public health orders aimed at making it easier for Coloradans to receive a COVID vaccine booster this fall.
The orders essentially create a standing prescription allowing for any Coloradan ages 6 months or older to receive a COVID shot if they or their parents choose. That is significant because pharmacy heavyweights CVS and Walgreens, amid confusion over federal vaccine policy, have thus far refused to administer COVID shots this year to anyone in Colorado without a doctor’s prescription.
Still the same qualifiers if you’re under 65, but at least the additional steps got cut out. I’m also hoping that given a week or two to settle out, the carrier will now consider coverage for it. 
Aside, while Colorado isn’t a perfect state, at times like this I’m glad it can actually move forward to try to do right by it’s citizens. Though I’m sure that here in Colorado Springs there will be plenty of openings to get a shot. 
ChatGPT once told me the USA and Japan were allies during World War II. That came as news to me.
Anyhow, I don’t know what availability is like in other states, but here in Texas, the Covid shots seem to be readily available in CVS pharmacy by online appointment. I’ve got mine booked a couple weeks from now.
IOW the meds are relatively plentiful when the public’s prevailing local political sentiment doesn’t want them.
Sometimes living in a proudly ignorant red area pays off.
Still no Covid vaccines in Pennsylvania but our state has also done some work eliminating some of the intervening complications regarding approval.