COVID-19: Chapter 7 - Brags, Beats, and Variants

There is really no support for the contention that the delay renders those vaccines useless.

Gym TR is depressing as fuck. Masks only loosely “required” when walking in and out of the building. Not required on the gym floor. Of the roughly 75-100 people on the floor, I counted 5 masks. How this country faded 1M + deaths I’ll never know.

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This is not true. The gold standard RCT was only done in one way. Doing it in other ways is a risk.

Appraising medical literature isn’t a hobby of mine churchill.

I’ll be sure to waiting with baited breath for you pick some irrelevant holes in the study’s findings, only for the US to carry similar but way smaller studies in 6-12 months time and declare similar findings.

Yeah, because this is about the british vs america, not the inherent issues with chart review studies.

I’m sure they’re all vaccinated

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Parents getting vaccinated Mon/Tues

Can’t wait for them to demand to visit me and my wife… kinda.

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my girlfriend, a second grade teacher who has
been teaching in class since August, managed to get scheduled to get her first moderna shot on Sunday. they’re having a big drive through site for school board employees.

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Should we tell him that all the Nature links I’ve been posting ITT come from a British journal?

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Not liking this May 1 announcement from Biden in terms of political optics/strategy.

I think it’s just going to piss people off if they can’t get a quick appointment then.

https://twitter.com/offbeatorbit/status/1370014375298412552

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So my sister-in-law in Ohio just showed me an app ArmorVax. It let me sign up for shot clinic in rural Ohio. 8 hours one way. Thursday the 18th.

Anyone know about this? I’d hate to drive 8 hours for nada.

Fingers crossed.

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It happened. There were about a dozen people with the same idea I had and we all got shots - most importantly, including my wife. No lying whatsoever - they had extra shots that had been thawed and were happy to get them in arms. It was Pfizer so I go back in about three weeks (same clinic will be back, I don’t have to hunt around). On the way home I noticed Bill Gates in an unmarked Crown Victoria pretty close on our bumper, but my 5G connection has never been stronger.

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This is the only correct answer

Huh apparently they take out of state people. I won’t feel too bad, I did pay on the order of $50k for my daughter to go to college in Ohio.

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Per CDC, Utah is around average for vaccine distribution. And yet

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1370215471413391365

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It depends on penetration or the high risk population. If that high (>3/4?) then it just needs to get in arms as fast as possible. The flux of vaccine in should get better and better so going to a open model works.

There should still continue to be doses reserved for targeted needs including front line workers and underserved communities but better to open a little early than late by forcing a strict hierarchy. Every shot is a good shot at this point.

Don’t they ask about it on the pre-vaccination questionnaire I have no idea what the protocol is if one says yes, but I thought they asked if you’ve had COVID in the two weeks prior.

Nice. Up in OR, I don’t know of any pop up clinics where you could even hope to get something must-go at end of day. It’s just this weird system where you sign up on a website, and if eligible, it’s “don’t call us, we’ll call you.” And then you wait around for weeks hoping they’ll call. I did have a friend who got the call, though, so it’s not nothing.

My Mac has been acting up all week since I got the shot. :thinking:

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