You might benefit from investigating regimens for eradication of resistant staph colonization, in your case colonization of the nose / nasopharynx and skin. See for example https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666524724000405#:~:text=Nasal%20decolonisation%20is%20commonly%20accomplished,skin%20decolonisation%20(figure%203) or https://www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Decolonisation-treatment-for-MRSA . Note that some of these measures require a prescription, and for such I would suggest you consider a consultation with an infectious disease specialist. Note also that measures to remove staph (MRSA) colonization may fail if someone in the household or similar close contact is a carrier and passes it back to you after treatment. Perhaps you could discuss that with the infectious disease doc as well.
See also: https://iep.utm.edu/pasc-wag/
Actually, the Easter 2021 date is in May for some Eastern communities: see
The rapid availability of third world originated studies to internet searches by those living elsewhere, which has happened because of internet publishing and especially in the last three years because of openly searchable preprint sites such as medrxiv, is a new enough thing in science that I doubt there has been enough time to get a valid such likely future failure rate, especially if you are including preprints.
To get an approximate base rate you would need to check the years prior to open internet medical paper publishing. At minimum you would need to read the older years of paper versions of those nation's journals, likely in their medical schools, and count the studies fitting your criteria over the past ten years or more, ideally even including the studies rejected by such journals if you are including preprints in your questions about the Covid-19 studies. Not an easy project, so best to take the studies you mention as proposing a hypothesis, perhaps to be tested in the future via reproducibility. Just like most other clinical studies published by anyone else anywhere.
From a completely subjective view, there can be no single answer as to what day of the week it is. It is whatever weekday I decide it is. Who could gainsay it?
As soon as we allow an objective view of what day of the week it is, we implicitly allow an over-ride of the subjective viewpoint by the objective one, and the 1/3 probability becomes the better choice.
One advantage to a thought experiment is that it can be scaled without cost. Instead of your sorites series, let us posit a huge number of conscious humans. We alter each human to correspond to a single step in your gradual change over time, so that we wind up performing in parallel what you posit as a series of steps. Line our subjects in "stage of alteration" order.
Now the conclusion of your series of steps corresponds to the state of the last subject in our lineup. Is this subject's consciousness the same as at start? If we assume yes, then we have assumed our conclusion, and the argument assumes its conclusions.
If we assume for sake of argument the subject's consciousness at the end of our lineup differs from the start of the lineup, then we can walk along the line and locate where we first begin to notice a change. This might vary with groups of subjects, but we can certainly then find a mean for where the change may start. This is possible even if in series we cannot perceive a difference between the subject from one step to another.
Almost all gradual-brain-to-device replacement arguments are indeed sorites arguments. You assume:
Plucking one or three hairs from a beard that has 10000 hairs beard is too small an action to change a beard visibly
Plucking 2 hairs from a beard with 9998 hairs is too small a change to see (true)
Plucking 2 hairs from a beard with 9996 hairs is too small a change to see (true)
...
plucking 2 hairs 4000 times from a beard is too small a change to see (false)
Read this online classic paper about geometric measure theory, because it's really entertaining:
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~tl/docs/Schanuel_Length_of_potato.pdf
I think that OP is confusing expected value with probability.
The expected value formula is the probability of an event multiplied by the amount of times the event happens: (P(x) * n).
This explains the P(B) = 1.5 the OP put above-- he means the expectation is 1.5, because P(waking with any one coin flip result) = 1/2 and the times it occurs is 3.
So the halfers believe the expectation is 1/2 for waking with heads and 1/2 for waking with tails.
The thirders have the expected values right: 1 for waking with heads, 2 for waking with tails.
You could try to motivate them to treat MRSA carrier status even if you are not overtly infected by referring to data like this: https://www.jabfm.org/content/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-colonization-and-mortality-risk-among-community . One thing they may want to do first is a swab or two to verify your MRSA carrier status before treatment, so I'd consider stopping the mupirocin and other antibiotics at least a few days before the appointment to best culture things. Best wishes with the pending appointment(s).