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Veterinarian currently out of Paxlovid lol. Still think hoarding is harmless???

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Hospital is out of amoxicillin, still think the american healthcare apparatus is harmless????

Baddog posted:

Fighting with my neighbor's dog over the paxlovid scraps.

Dren posted:

https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-veterinarian-prescribes-covid-19-drug-for-mystery-dog-illness/45991983

what the heck is up with these dog illness articles and it seems like no one ever tests the dogs for covid? is it really hard to test a dog or something? here they gave the dog paxlovid without a positive test! they don’t even do that for people!

The Oldest Man posted:

Everything about the way our civic society conceptualizes values has been spoonfed to us over the last 100 years by a fully militarized industrial propaganda apparatus that cares nothing for human life. That's the water we swim in.

Kragger99 posted:

Caininemectin

The Oldest Man posted:

A PCR or LAMP test won't work unless the sample also contains human DNA and admitting you pooled your own sample with a dog's to bypass that issue as a medical professional of any stripe would be problematic

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https://www.cp24.com/news/covid-19-vaccination-sites-to-be-closed-in-toronto-as-pandemic-funding-expires-1.6663636 posted:

COVID-19 vaccination sites to be closed in Toronto as pandemic funding expires

The City of Toronto will soon be shutting down its four fixed-site COVID-19 vaccination centres as emergency pandemic funding from the province ends.

On Dec. 13, the clinics at Metro Hall, Cloverdale Mall, North York Civic Centre, and the site near the Scarborough Town Centre will permanently close.
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The closures come as wastewater data now shows that the rate of COVID-19 infection in Ontario is at its highest point in more than a year. The Public Health Ontario data also suggests that other indicators are pointing to rapidly rising levels of viral activity as the temperature drops and residents spend more time indoors.
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https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chinas-respiratory-illness-surge-not-as-high-as-pre-covid-who-official-4609838 posted:

China's Respiratory Illness Surge Not As High As Pre-Covid: WHO Official
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO official said, the increase appeared to be driven by a rise in the number of children contracting pathogens that two years of COVID restrictions have kept them away from.
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"We asked about comparisons prior to the pandemic. And the waves that they're seeing now, the peak is not as high as what they saw in 2018-2019," Van Kerkhove told health news outlet STAT in an interview on Friday.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...9-lockdowns-end posted:

Child respiratory sickness overloads China’s paediatric clinics – reports
Authorities appeal for calm, saying spike is due to end of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

A surge in respiratory illnesses in China, particularly among children, has reportedly swamped paediatric units in city hospitals, while authorities have urged calm, attributing it to a post-lockdown wave of illness.

Many hospital wards are full, according to state and other media reports in China. The Global Times reported on Tuesday that the Beijing Children’s hospital was receiving up to 9,378 patients a day and had been at full capacity during the past two months. It also said outpatient clinics, paediatric clinics, and respiratory departments at several Beijing hospitals were booked out for at least seven days.
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Steve Yun posted:

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happy anniversary

Dren posted:

https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-veterinarian-prescribes-covid-19-drug-for-mystery-dog-illness/45991983

what the heck is up with these dog illness articles and it seems like no one ever tests the dogs for covid? is it really hard to test a dog or something? here they gave the dog paxlovid without a positive test! they don’t even do that for people!

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Wasn't the logic behind Santa giving you a lump of coal basically "you were a poo poo kid, but you can have this so at least you're a little less likely to freeze to death over the winter and you can try again next Christmas"?

Really harkens back to a time when children were lucky to get the gift of another year of not dying from scarlet fever or typhoid or somesuch

Insanite posted:

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is this the andromeda strain

Pingui posted:

Nah, I read the scientific article abstract earlier and didn't post about it, because it isn't really relevant unless you handle seals. It wasn't known prior what caused so-called "seal hands" (sepsis), because the bacteria doesn't incubate well (it grows at 32 C, but stops at 42). It doesn't seem like a good candidate for making the leap to humans.

The timing is amusing though.

Insanite posted:

... what if i handle seals

lots of seals

all day
every day

shazbot posted:

+1 to the not dying in surgery club. not a boss like unfortunate getting the trippy-b but I’ m down a cancer ridden kidney. masking was bettter than expect, got a swank private room. stingy with the pain meds and taking a poo poo and/or farting are part of my discharge requirements

all in all 0/10 don’t get kidney cancer


I spell checked like half this post but can’t concentrate enough for the rest. peace

shazbot posted:

+1 to the not dying in surgery club. not a boss like unfortunate getting the trippy-b but I’ m down a cancer ridden kidney. masking was bettter than expect, got a swank private room. stingy with the pain meds and taking a poo poo and/or farting are part of my discharge requirements

all in all 0/10 don’t get kidney cancer


I spell checked like half this post but can’t concentrate enough for the rest. peace

shazbot posted:

+1 to the not dying in surgery club. not a boss like unfortunate getting the trippy-b but I’ m down a cancer ridden kidney. masking was bettter than expect, got a swank private room. stingy with the pain meds and taking a poo poo and/or farting are part of my discharge requirements

all in all 0/10 don’t get kidney cancer


I spell checked like half this post but can’t concentrate enough for the rest. peace

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Petey posted:

according to spotify wrapped i spent more than 3500 minutes listening to twiv this year

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Welp, the "D" word was uttered today. Approaching "spreadsheet or back to normal" decision point at warp speed. I just do not understand.

The math for me is so simple. Avoid unnecessary unmasked interactions with strangers to minimize how often you get infected. That's it. But I might as well be speaking greek.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/pfizer-is-sued-by-texas-over-covid-19-vaccine-claims-2023-11-30/ posted:

Pfizer is sued by Texas over COVID vaccine claims

Pfizer (PFE.N) has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine.

In a complaint filed in a Lubbock County state court, Paxton said it was misleading for Pfizer to claim its vaccine was 95% effective because it offered a "relative risk reduction" for people to who took it.

Paxton said the claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data, and vaccine recipients' "absolute risk reduction" showed that the vaccine was just 0.85% effective.

He also said the pandemic got worse even after people started taking the vaccine, developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech (22UAy.DE).
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shazbot posted:

+1 to the not dying in surgery club. not a boss like unfortunate getting the trippy-b but I’ m down a cancer ridden kidney. masking was bettter than expect, got a swank private room. stingy with the pain meds and taking a poo poo and/or farting are part of my discharge requirements

all in all 0/10 don’t get kidney cancer


I spell checked like half this post but can’t concentrate enough for the rest. peace

shazbot posted:

yes I’m hoping for the farting route to be honest

A Bag of Milk posted:

Perhaps you are right, I am not confident enough to push back on this view. My understanding is that small covid reservoirs always existed in China, which is why lockdowns did happen from time to time, as the reservoirs were discovered. But living under capitalism may have just stunted my political imagination. Its hard to even think about an effective, global contact tracing system that most people would have bought into. If the infrastructure existed to vaccinate everyone at once, maybe there was also a tiny eradication window if 8+ billion people would have been jabbed before the emergence of delta. [kanye voice] I guess we'll never know

shazbot posted:

+1 to the not dying in surgery club. not a boss like unfortunate getting the trippy-b but I’ m down a cancer ridden kidney. masking was bettter than expect, got a swank private room. stingy with the pain meds and taking a poo poo and/or farting are part of my discharge requirements

all in all 0/10 don’t get kidney cancer


I spell checked like half this post but can’t concentrate enough for the rest. peace

Pingui posted:

Congratulations on a successful surgery! Getting the big C sounds like a rough time.

Hope you make a speedy and full recovery