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Indoor Dying posted:Awesome that everyone has to play Wheel of Doctors There's a great late stage capitalism game show idea. "Behind one of these doors... Healthcare!" Applause light comes on, audience gives polite claps. "But behind the other two doors... Mass shooters!" Audience erupts.
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Sep 6, 2023 21:17
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genericnick posted:That was a hepa, not a merv13 though. No idea whether that matters in the end Bag the fucker up, you might need it again one of these days.
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Sep 6, 2023 21:21
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Soap Scum posted:aside from that: FDA approval for a new RAT is expensive in time/money, and i guess if the old one works well enough, no one wants to spend the money on that process. Same reason all the test instructions are still for v1.0 of the virus. Even if throat swabbing or whatever is a lot better for the current variants, you can't change the instructions for your device without going through the FDA and convincing them that the change is warranted.
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Sep 6, 2023 21:23
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perverse incentives all the way down you say?? are you sure?
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Sep 6, 2023 21:25
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Steve Yun posted:tomorrow Ok. I wonder if my library has free tests still. That are probably also expired. gently caress hellworld Indoor Dying has issued a correction as of 21:31 on Sep 6, 2023 |
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Sep 6, 2023 21:29
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Indoor Dying posted:Awesome that everyone has to play Wheel of Doctors People in this decade can and will kill you with smiles on their faces. Plan accordingly. SardonicTyrant has issued a correction as of 21:35 on Sep 6, 2023 |
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Sep 6, 2023 21:31
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Sure the number is up, but not as quickly as before!https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-09-06/cdc-new-covid-19-hospitalizations-increase-nearly-16 posted:CDC: New COVID-19 Hospitalizations Increase Nearly 16%
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Sep 6, 2023 21:51
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Soap Scum posted:ah, word, thought i might have missed it during my posting break. that's cool one exists there, although i don't live there anymore, so :') might check w/ friends in the area and see if anyone wants and send you a PM if so though The Oldest Man posted:RATs detect the nucleocapsid protein which is highly conserved; they still work just fine. The problem is people aren't swabbing right or are expecting miracles that they could never provide in terms of pre-symptomatic detection. DominoKitten posted:I went to try and read up on how the RATs even work on a variant level because I didn't know and this brief NIH explainer talks about how they've done research on this and I guess the RATs as they currently stand have a high robustness to changes in the virus? It seems like the question is whether or not any sample you're giving the RAT has enough viral material in it to detect. A PCR can catch a much smaller amount of virus due to the incredible sensitivity of the process, where it's amplifying what's there over and over until it can be detected. Thanks, I'm weirdly relieved that its more of a skill issue than a variant issue for why RATs don't perform the way I wished they did. There's many other problems, but at least there's one less than I thought.
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Sep 6, 2023 22:18
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all of you people getting paxlovid via telehealth are literally stealing paxlovid from crying mothers and babies. jackbooted hidrb and sesamecare thugs are right now breaking down the doors of hospital dispensaries and literally pulling pills out of people's mouths. i hope y'all are happy with the destruction and chaos you have wrought and that your irrational concern with what amounts to a mild case of the flu is directly murdering vulnerable populations
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Sep 6, 2023 22:18
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but doctor...i am the vulnerable population!
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Sep 6, 2023 22:22
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school district just emailed saying they're prepared to bring back mask mandates as outbreaks occur (3 or more cases in a classroom)
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Sep 6, 2023 22:26
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Israel going back to PCR testing hospitalized patients.quote:The Health Ministry instructed hospitals in Israel to begin conducting PCR tests on new patients for the next week due to a recent rise in novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) cases on Monday.
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Sep 6, 2023 22:28
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/divalectics/status/1699436029042663518?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw Long COVID: It's not a guarantee*
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Sep 6, 2023 22:28
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fosborb posted:school district just emailed saying they're prepared to bring back mask mandates as outbreaks occur (3 or more cases in a classroom) Which state?
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Sep 6, 2023 22:28
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fosborb posted:school district just emailed saying they're prepared to bring back mask mandates as outbreaks occur (3 or more cases in a classroom) if you send them home fast enough then you'll never reach the limit of 3 or more cases in a classroom. 2 kids have COVID? send them home. Now you are back to 0 cases. 10 kids have covid? same deal. send them home and presto: 0 cases in a classroom
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Sep 6, 2023 22:28
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fosborb posted:school district just emailed saying they're prepared to bring back mask mandates as outbreaks occur (3 or more cases in a classroom) lol that the majority of humans are unable to grasp the concept that cause->effect only travels in one direction and that closing the barn doors after the horse got out is ineffective
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Sep 6, 2023 22:28
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nexous posted:lol that the majority of humans are unable to grasp the concept that cause->effect only travels in one direction and that closing the barn doors after the horse got out is ineffective but then if anyone comes by and asks how you lost all your horses, you can point at the closed barn doors and tell them there was nothing you could have done
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Sep 6, 2023 22:30
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this is antivax (reinstitution of PCR testing is accepting that strategy of only vaccination is not enough which will cause people to shun the "useless" vaccine) if israel really wanted covid numbers to drop they'd stop testing
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Sep 6, 2023 22:30
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Oracle posted:Which state? Maryland they did trash their COVID dashboard this school year. boo hiss bedpan posted:if you send them home fast enough then you'll never reach the limit of 3 or more cases in a classroom. 2 kids have COVID? send them home. Now you are back to 0 cases. 10 kids have covid? same deal. send them home and presto: 0 cases in a classroom after being open for 6 days, several schools have already hit the criteria. oops
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Sep 6, 2023 22:33
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Strep Vote posted:but doctor...i am the vulnerable population! remember the time the alabama state emergency management agency created a triage guide after h1n1 in which the disabled would be excluded from life-saving care because they were judged as having a lower pre-illness 'quality of life' than the able-bodied and were less likely to, quote, go on to "enjoy happy productive lives"? pepperidge farm remembers
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Sep 6, 2023 22:34
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we realize school shootings are a problem so we will be instituting mass bandage deliveries after a shooting. you’re welcome
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Sep 6, 2023 22:34
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fosborb posted:Maryland now will the mandate masks or change the criteria?
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Sep 6, 2023 22:34
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fosborb posted:(..) So will they bring back masking? "Actually the email said 'prepared to', so no" 
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Sep 6, 2023 22:35
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nexous posted:lol that the majority of humans are unable to grasp the concept that cause->effect only travels in one direction and that closing the barn doors after the horse got out is ineffective deciding a fire department is a good idea after all once the city is on fire
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Sep 6, 2023 22:35
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bedpan posted:if you send them home fast enough then you'll never reach the limit of 3 or more cases in a classroom. 2 kids have COVID? send them home. Now you are back to 0 cases. 10 kids have covid? same deal. send them home and presto: 0 cases in a classroom The smart solution is to distribute the sick kids across classes.
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Sep 6, 2023 22:36
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Strep Vote posted:but doctor...i am the vulnerable population! you should be put on public trial in the hague
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Sep 6, 2023 22:37
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Pingui posted:The smart solution is to distribute the sick kids across classes. send the sick kids to in school suspension so that they don't count as in a classroom anymore
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Sep 6, 2023 22:37
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bedpan posted:send the sick kids to in school suspension so that they don't count as in a classroom anymore  Use it as an overflow buffer once you already have 2 sick kids in a class.
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Sep 6, 2023 22:39
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the victorian social services policy of "less eligibility" but for children with covid
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Sep 6, 2023 22:40
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Pingui posted:The smart solution is to distribute the sick kids across classes. Thinking about the school that rotated kids every 14 minutes so that no one child would hit the legal limit of 15 minutes' exposure.
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Sep 6, 2023 22:40
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bedpan posted:the victorian social services policy of "less eligibility" but for children with covid i don't think this idea ever actually went away lol
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Sep 6, 2023 22:41
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Oracle posted:So the thing with all these online services is that they're basically portals doctors/NPs can sign up to provide care through, and YMMV as to the quality of a doc who is willing to sign up to a health care portal to take on patients sight unseen. I've heard of people being told they should take ivermectin through some of these more than once, for instance, and some seem like they just want to help people who might otherwise be shut out of the traditional health care system. Just note the ones that seem sane and reasonable, check ratings and see if you can't specifically choose them on a future visit vs letting the algorithm decide. The NP I got yesterday was helpful but I guess there is a concern naming them might be counter productive? Teabag Dome Scandal has issued a correction as of 22:51 on Sep 6, 2023 |
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Sep 6, 2023 22:41
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Strep Vote posted:but doctor...i am the vulnerable population!
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Sep 6, 2023 22:49
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The processes mentioned are about as idiotic as you would assume:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/09/covid-infection-surge-universal-masking-return/675239/ posted:The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This Fall  Archived link: https://archive.li/LAELw
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Sep 6, 2023 22:50
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fosborb posted:after being open for 6 days, several schools have already hit the criteria. oops
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Sep 6, 2023 22:56
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Pingui posted:The processes mentioned are about as idiotic as you would assume: quote:Wolfe has mulled pulling the more-masking lever when respiratory viruses account for 2 to 4 percent of emergency and urgent-care visits; at UVA, Sifri has considered taking action once 1 or 2 percent of employees call out sick, with the aim of staunching sickness and preserving staff. “It really doesn’t take much to have an impact on our ability to maintain operations,” Sifri told me. But “I don’t know if those are the right numbers.” "it doesn't take much to have an impact on our ability to maintain our operations" vs picking numbers that guarantee you're going to be totally hosed hmmmm
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Sep 6, 2023 22:58
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fosborb posted:Maryland dang who could have forseen such a thing?
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Sep 6, 2023 22:59
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bedpan posted:jackbooted hidrb and sesamecare thugs are right now breaking down the doors of hospital dispensaries and literally pulling pills out of people's mouths. don't threaten me with a good time
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Sep 6, 2023 23:00
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The Oldest Man posted:"it doesn't take much to have an impact on our ability to maintain our operations" vs picking numbers that guarantee you're going to be totally hosed once one or two percent of your employees are actively called out sick, its basically guaranteed that several more percent are about to call out sick, and are currently spreading covid inside your hospital, right?
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Sep 6, 2023 23:00
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celadon posted:once one or two percent of your employees are actively called out sick, its basically guaranteed that several more percent are about to call out sick, and are currently spreading covid inside your hospital, right? actually no one could have predicted this
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Sep 6, 2023 23:02
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