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Good news for people hoping their resin covered lungs will protect them. The results aren't public, nor peer-reviewed, so take it with a massive helping of salt. "Marijuana Consumers Who Caught COVID Had ‘Better Outcomes And Mortality’ Than Nonusers, Study Finds" https://www.marijuanamoment.net/marijuana-consumers-who-caught-covid-had-better-outcomes-and-mortality-than-nonusers-study-finds/ posted:Cannabis consumers who caught COVID-19 had significantly lower rates of intubation, respiratory failure and death than people who do not use marijuana, according a new study based on hospital data that was presented this week at the annual conference of The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) in Honolulu. Sounds good, had it not been for this troubling and unbiased information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR9sDYPjNfI
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 15:51 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 14:10 |
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managed to get my 4yo an updated pfizer shot at a cvs. of course, when we called to check on stock this morning, we couldn't get through to the minuteclinic. called pharmacy, and they, too, couldn't/wouldn't contact the minuteclinic. just showed up and it worked out. Potato Salad posted:I love when minority policy preferences end up becoming policy. Makes me really confident that we still live in a democracy. the astroturfing to make those minority policy preferences seem like common sense was so intense, though.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 15:59 |
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SixteenShells posted:
lol even republicans are in favor of the horrific covid mitigations that stole our freedom and ruined a generation of children
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 16:03 |
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Potato Salad posted:I love when minority policy preferences end up becoming policy. Makes me really confident that we still live in a democracy. Noted Dumbass-in-Other-Areas Will Stancil has been tracking and posting Covid mitigation survey opinions for years and at no point did mitigation approval drop below 50%. The entire narrative that Americans were sick and tired of protecting themselves from Covid was artificial from day one, in the same way someone a few pages back mentioned how the pro-smoking campaigns worked: show cool people smoking everywhere and people will think smoking is cool.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 16:03 |
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Reading the article it sure seems like $18.5 million for nasal spray vaccines, $100 million for a consultancy firm and the rest for assorted.https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/13/health/hhs-project-nextgen-covid/index.html posted:First on CNN: HHS awards more than $500 million to study Covid-19 vaccine nasal sprays and more
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 16:36 |
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Pingui posted:$100 million to the New York-based consultancy firm Luminary Labs to administer two competitions focused on incentivizing the development of patches for vaccine delivery and reducing the number of vaccine doses needed for an effective immune response. in disadvantaged communities for three years rear end sounding sentence
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 16:44 |
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Pingui posted:Reading the article it sure seems like $18.5 million for nasal spray vaccines, $100 million for a consultancy firm and the rest for assorted. Are any of these magical nasal spray vaccines NOT a live attenuated vaccine? Every single nasal vax I've heard of before is, and nobody who is immuno-compromised can have them. It would be one thing if there was a chance in hell of reaching any kind of herd immunity, but there isn't. Honestly yet another 'We have the tools, except for all those people who can't have the tools.' sounds like it will just make things somehow even worse for a lot people.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 16:50 |
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my guess is doctors don’t get kickbacks when the prescribe pax so they don’t care as much. maybe not true.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 17:07 |
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My sister's at an infectious diseases conference RN and I can't decide if this slide from it is better for the disease thread or the climate disaster thread They also answered the burning video games/drama shows question that everyone's been asking
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 17:22 |
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Pingui posted:Good news for people hoping their resin covered lungs will protect them. The results aren't public, nor peer-reviewed, so take it with a massive helping of salt.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 17:31 |
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0 of my male friends are willing to get vaccinated, not even with Novavax, because one friend claimed he got myocarditis from the first shot. they are going to get their flu shot today tho “no thx, covid is a basic bitch cold at this point”
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 17:37 |
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I have probably gotten covid from an inpatient hospital stay, or something related to it, because no one else in my household is experiencing a sore throat and a fatigue that is making it hard for them to speak besides me. So that is nice. Hopefully it does not progress into long covid.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 17:42 |
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Costco has Winix air purifiers on sale again for $100. Have been happy with mine I got the last time they were on sale. Pretty quiet on all but the 'turbo' setting and has a air quality sensor that changes color when you fart near in.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 17:52 |
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shazbot posted:0 of my male friends are willing to get vaccinated, not even with Novavax, because one friend claimed he got myocarditis from the first shot. Another public health communications success!
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 18:26 |
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The problem is, when an unprecidented amount of people are sick and out of work, they will be left to die. Americans fundamentally know this but don't think this will happen to them. It is so surreal to be witnessing this.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 18:42 |
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shazbot posted:“no thx, covid is a basic bitch cold at this point” Billions of basic bitches served, then. The other day I remembered one of my fellow hockey players who, like the rest of them, never wears a mask, was telling people that his teenage daughter got long covid and had to give up playing hockey.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 19:00 |
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eXXon posted:Billions of basic bitches served, then. You'd think hockey players would understand the value of masking more than most
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 19:47 |
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https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1712882601277460730?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 20:27 |
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Pingui posted:YMMV but I don't particularly appreciate this framing, as it comes down to more comorbidities and worse healthcare in the cohort, while othering the victims of COVID for white middle+ class people. It is framed in that liberal way, where minorities are victims and you should feel bad about that, but also you are not a minority, so really - if you think about it - you have nothing to worry about and it's fine. good loving lord, imagining thinking people with existing health conditions aren't the canaries in the coal mine for cumulative damage and there's some sort of white people force field that will prevent these outcomes for them
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 20:35 |
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At Costco getting the Novavax juice and saw an employee wearing a surgical mask pulled down covering mouth only. Many such cases!
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 20:56 |
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https://twitter.com/joaquinlife/status/1712853969821950413?s=46 roommate had a Costco appointment but then got a call today that they ran out
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 22:06 |
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1712882601277460730?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw did they name the casket company after the submersible disaster? lmfao
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 22:13 |
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Pingui posted:Reading the article it sure seems like $18.5 million for nasal spray vaccines, $100 million for a consultancy firm and the rest for assorted. Depressing. I would *hope* the majority of that 100 million is going to prizes for actually developing cool/good stuff (dermal patch vaccines? ehhhh). But it does just sound like a more sophisticated version of Scalise and his 500K steaks. It's not like democrats are really any cleaner with this poo poo. Luminary labs - "We serve as thought partners to leaders tasked with going beyond business as usual"
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 22:14 |
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Baddog posted:Depressing. I would *hope* the majority of that 100 million is going to prizes for actually developing cool/good stuff (dermal patch vaccines? ehhhh). But it does just sound like a more sophisticated version of Scalise and his 500K steaks. It's not like democrats are really any cleaner with this poo poo. Luminary labs - "We serve as thought partners to leaders tasked with going beyond business as usual" It is admittedly an uncharitable read (the funds include prize money), but then trust is earned and... well... let's just say I let the headline's level of disingenuous framing guide me.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 22:31 |
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Potato Salad posted:The rebound concern trolling, holy poo poo. "Sometimes when we re-open the barn door the horse escapes anyway so we're not going to bother trying to close it any more"
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 23:41 |
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What's the current situation with the bridge program for free vaccines? I've got a close friend currently without insurance that I'd like to help get a booster.
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 23:44 |
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tangy yet delightful posted:What's the current situation with the bridge program for free vaccines? I've got a close friend currently without insurance that I'd like to help get a booster. says you can find bridge program partners on vaccine.gov? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 00:14 |
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tangy yet delightful posted:What's the current situation with the bridge program for free vaccines? I've got a close friend currently without insurance that I'd like to help get a booster. Use the vaccines.gov website to search and you can filter for 'bridge access program' participants. If they go to one of the regular pharmacies that are participants (CVS, etc..) they may need to be firm and repeat themselves a couple times, and specifically use the terms 'bridge access program' because the person on duty may be clueless and/or want to push to charge people cash or use private insurance if they have it.
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 00:17 |
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Good straightforward article that crams a lot into a little space. Could be one to send to people. https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1712879553897537733 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-pandemic-panic-calm-advice/ It's refreshing seeing an article flat out state that everyone's at risk for Long COVID.
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 01:46 |
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Impressive Friday afternoon news dump; I hope everyone enjoyed the tools while they had them. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-amends-us-government-paxlovid-supply-agreement-and posted:Pfizer Amends U.S. Government Paxlovid Supply Agreement and Updates Full-Year 2023 Guidance Pingui has issued a correction as of 02:39 on Oct 14, 2023 |
# ? Oct 14, 2023 02:36 |
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Pingui posted:Impressive Friday afternoon news dump; I hope everyone enjoyed the tools while they had them.
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 02:55 |
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Time to do a bunch of telehealth
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 03:08 |
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Hey has anyone found any reasonable and treated equivalent to https://cybernightmarket.com/products/mini-far-uvc-lights-set ? I've been trying to get a set for my wife's office for like a year and no luck.
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 03:10 |
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If the private sector vaccine rollout hadn't been so successful, good and cool, I would have questioned the wisdom of changing Paxlovid access in the middle of the winter wave.
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 03:10 |
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Sorry if this has come up recently but this thread moves too fast for me keep up with a lot of the time - are the updated boosters typically being covered by health insurance providers? I thought I saw a few weeks ago that the updated mrna boosters were being purchased out of pocket in some cases. Seeing the pricing info on novavax shots from Costco is getting me curious on what the coverage on boosters is now that Biden and company ruined the good old days of people just throwing syringes at you without an insurance card even being presented. Edit: I just saw the post about the bridge program, but was thinking more of my situation where I have insurance but wasn't sure if or how the boosters are covered adebisi lives has issued a correction as of 03:36 on Oct 14, 2023 |
# ? Oct 14, 2023 03:33 |
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lol/lmao Hearing one of her colleagues say “it’s better than nothing,” Sol Espinoza spoke up. “I’d rather take nothing,” said Espinoza, a firefighter with Cal Fire in San Bernardino. Espinoza said she could never imagine wearing a constrictive device that makes it harder to breathe. https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/firefighters-smoke-respirators-18405003.php
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 03:40 |
Gunshow Poophole posted:Time to do a bunch of telehealth listen Buddy it’s against the rules and you’re gonna make whole roller derby leagues run out of paxlovid with this crazy caver doomer talk just let the pharma giant buy back all the unused, perfectly good medicine, incinerate it, then sell you the same medicine in a different box for $750 per half-course if you can get it prescribed. just be normal
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 03:47 |
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You doomers laughed but look! Someone is taking all of the pax right out of the disadvantaged communities that could have used it! Hoarding millions of doses!
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 04:01 |
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I didn’t touch the obviously cursed object but lmao
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 04:04 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 14:10 |
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adebisi lives posted:Sorry if this has come up recently but this thread moves too fast for me keep up with a lot of the time - are the updated boosters typically being covered by health insurance providers? I thought I saw a few weeks ago that the updated mrna boosters were being purchased out of pocket in some cases. realistically the only problem ive seen with covid boosters and private insurance is some plans are out of network and won't take claims from our pharmacy, i haven't run across any plans charging copays or denying claims... we're only getting 30 novovax at a time which lasts us about a day and a half apparently
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# ? Oct 14, 2023 06:08 |