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Boris Galerkin posted:I get that but I’m assuming that your time is better spent doing literally anything other than sitting on hold on the phone, complaining to someone on the other end and/or trying to convince them your covid shot should be free, and then worrying about whether or not they told you the right information after getting the shot but before getting your bill. No complaining, no convincing (lol expecting the person that answers the phone has any power whatsoever) just asking, getting informed in a tone of voice that say they’ve been getting asked this a lot lately (gosh guys maybe update your website) not even that long on hold. FYI anecdotally it looks like BCBS seems to cover all Walgreens/Walmart locations.
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NPR is reporting the following re: paying for the booster: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/27/1202055493/covid-vaccine-booster-insurance-coverage quote:For those with insurance, whether you have private insurance through your job, or you're on government sponsored insurance like Medicare, it should be free to you, without copays or charges. They kink to the following page (not sure who KFF are): https://www.kff.org/infographic/insurance-coverage-of-updated-covid-19-vaccines-a-cheat-sheet/ quote:Because of the Affordable Care Act and laws passed during the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines will continue to be free of charge to virtually everyone with private and public insurance coverage, although uninsured adults will have no guarantee of free vaccines. Again I don’t know who the KFF are, but the NPR linked to them and I’m assuming that the NPR have fact checkers. But still, instead of going through this hassle of will they won’t they or if/when I’ll get reimbursed if I unexpectedly had to pay out of pocket I’d rather just tell CVS or whoever “I don’t have insurance” and not worry about it. I’m lucky the pharmacist at Walgreens didn’t bother asking me to pay cause apparently they told my insurance I paid $45 out of pocket (and out of network so it doesn’t even count towards my deductible) and I’m doubly lucky that my insurance covered the vaccine either way. But if I had known there was a chance I’d have to pay $45-$150 I’d have just told them I didn’t have health insurance and get it over with. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Again I don’t know who the KFF are, but the NPR linked to them and I’m assuming that the NPR have fact checkers. KFF is the former Kaiser Family Foundation. They're independent of Kaiser Permanente (though yeah, same guy) and they've got a very good reputation as a healthcare research and news org.
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I worked briefly in one of kaisers call centers and in the training they said the overall organization was broken down into three arms. The health care provider side (their sort of walled garden system where they try to handle all aspects of healthcare), the insurance side, and the non-profit/policy recommendation side.
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Yiggy posted:I worked briefly in one of kaisers call centers and in the training they said the overall organization was broken down into three arms. The health care provider side (their sort of walled garden system where they try to handle all aspects of healthcare), the insurance side, and the non-profit/policy recommendation side. Those are all parts of Kaiser Permanente; part of the reason why KFF changed its name is because Kaiser Permanente also has parts of it named "The Kaiser Foundation" and somesuch.
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Sep 28, 2023 03:43
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KFF is the Christian Science Monitor of healthcare, except that they’re not constitutionally forbidden from a change of name.
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Sep 28, 2023 04:03
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Just got off the phone with Aetna asking about vaccination booster coverage. It was pretty clear they didn’t get this question before. Probably gonna call again tomorrow and see if another person can confirm it. I hate this country lol
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Sep 28, 2023 17:08
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Just book the appointment and tell them you don’t have insurance I don’t get what the reluctance is and think of all the poo poo posting you could do if you didn’t waste your time calling and talking to people on the phone?
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Bless hardworking county health departments.  https://twitter.com/DurhamHealthNC/status/1707130759444636058
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Other than the reason why I don't have to worry about getting a shot for 6 months, I'm kinda glad I don't have to worry about getting a shot for 6 months.
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Work surprised us by bringing covid shots to the office which was clutch. I was ready to take the following day off because I was sure I’d be flattened like I was with every single other covid booster, but I oddly feel fine despite my arm feeling like a mule kicked it.
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Yeah, my first two shots laid me out the next day, the next two boosters had me kinda tired,my updated one last Friday didn't really do anything. Except sore arm. And improved reception on my phone.
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Got my free covid test kits today on the same day the 5G nanobots were activated. Coincidence? 
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Got the new booster yesterday, feel like crap today but not as bad as the 3rd and 4th shots.
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I had been doing Pfizer for everything until this booster, where I got Moderna. Pfizer never gave me a reaction but the Moderna made me feel gross and tired and gave me a headache for one day. No idea if the brand makes a difference and not that bad, all things considered.
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I AM GRANDO posted:I had been doing Pfizer for everything until this booster, where I got Moderna. Pfizer never gave me a reaction but the Moderna made me feel gross and tired and gave me a headache for one day. No idea if the brand makes a difference and not that bad, all things considered. All Pfizer here for whatever it’s worth
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I AM GRANDO posted:I had been doing Pfizer for everything until this booster, where I got Moderna. Pfizer never gave me a reaction but the Moderna made me feel gross and tired and gave me a headache for one day. No idea if the brand makes a difference and not that bad, all things considered.
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I AM GRANDO posted:I had been doing Pfizer for everything until this booster, where I got Moderna. Pfizer never gave me a reaction but the Moderna made me feel gross and tired and gave me a headache for one day. No idea if the brand makes a difference and not that bad, all things considered. I had 5 hits of Pfizer and the most I ever got out of it was a sore shoulder. I just take whatever one they give me, and that's how it worked out. I need to get my new booster still, are they all mrna based, or is that new moth vaccine out now too?
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Mischievous Mink posted:I had 5 hits of Pfizer and the most I ever got out of it was a sore shoulder. I just take whatever one they give me, and that's how it worked out. I need to get my new booster still, are they all mrna based, or is that new moth vaccine out now too? Novavax is shipping to distributors now, available later this week. However, the same are where I read that (phone posting or I’d link it, it was Reuters) claims the company has adopted “cost cutting measures” and will probably go broke if this doesn’t get strong sales. Call me crazy, but I’m not thrilled at the idea of a vaccine from a company that is “adopting cost cutting measures.” I wish we knew what any of that meant.
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Kestral posted:Novavax is shipping to distributors now, available later this week. However, the same are where I read that (phone posting or I’d link it, it was Reuters) claims the company has adopted “cost cutting measures” and will probably go broke if this doesn’t get strong sales. Call me crazy, but I’m not thrilled at the idea of a vaccine from a company that is “adopting cost cutting measures.” I wish we knew what any of that meant. Layoffs most likely? There's no need to worry about vaccine quality, it's strictly controlled. It's sad because novavax has cool tech, but they were late to the market and by the time it became available the big selling point of not being mRNA didn't convince very many vaccine hesitant people. (Even though a lot of them said they were just worried about mRNA and would get a "traditional" vaccine, most of them didn't once one became available).
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JazzFlight posted:I'm the inverse (but same results), where I've been getting Moderna all this time and a couple days ago I switched it up and got Pfizer. Absolutely zero reaction from the Pfizer while previously I'd have chills and a fever for exactly 1 day after. The Moderna dose is much higher than the Pfizer dose (100 μg versus 30 μg) https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/05/moderna-beats-pfizer-among-two-dose-covid-vaccine-recipients-aged-60-and-over/ Moderna’s elicits a stronger immune response and might be better at preventing breakthrough infections. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/14645/
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Are we still calling it breakthrough infections? in 2023? We've known the vaccines don't prevent infection past a few months for a while now.
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spankmeister posted:Are we still calling it breakthrough infections? in 2023? We've known the vaccines don't prevent infection past a few months for a while now. Yes since there's a substantial difference between the severe form of covid and the minor form that vaccinated people can get.
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SaTaMaS posted:Yes since there's a substantial difference between the severe form of covid and the minor form that vaccinated people can get. Huh? That doesn't make any sense at all. It was called a breakthrough infection back in 2020/2021 because it was assumed by many that the vaccines protected against infection. Later it turned out they didn't fully protect against infection, for a while they did but after a couple of months that protection waned and you would get mild disease instead. (like how most vaccines work). But the "breakthrough" moniker stuck, and it got a negative connotation even, suggesting that the vaccines weren't doing their jobs. (In reality they were, and still are!) Relating it to severity of infection like you're doing is like rewriting history.
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spankmeister posted:Huh? That doesn't make any sense at all. Cool so what would you call it when someone gets vaccinated and still get serious illness from COVID-19
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SaTaMaS posted:Cool so what would you call it when someone gets vaccinated and still get serious illness from COVID-19 Cool so are you saying a mild infection after vaccination is not a breakthrough infection?
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Uh, so like I got Pfizer and can’t get a do-over. I’m still good, right? Like what the gently caress.
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Pfizer is absolutely fine. Moderna is fine too. Don't worry about it.
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SaTaMaS posted:The Moderna dose is much higher than the Pfizer dose (100 μg versus 30 μg) Moderna’s raw power was making some people sad, so it’s only fifty micrograms now, and it has been since the “boosters” in the latter part of 2021. 2022’s bivalent Spikevax was fifty micrograms as well. https://www.fda.gov/media/155675/download posted:Each 0.5 mL dose of SPIKEVAX (2023-2024 Formula) contains 50 mcg nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding the pre-fusion stabilized Spike glycoprotein (S) of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant lineage XBB.1.5. Each dose also contains the following ingredients: a total lipid content of 1.01 mg (SM-102, polyethylene glycol [PEG] 2000 dimyristoyl glycerol [DMG], cholesterol, and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine [DSPC]), 0.25 mg tromethamine, 1.2 mg tromethamine hydrochloride, 0.021 mg acetic acid, 0.10 mg sodium acetate trihydrate, and 43.5 mg sucrose. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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1st time trip report: yeah, this sucks. I think I got off easy, but I'm still in it. I'm like 40 days out from the latest vax, the two rapids I took on day one of feeling rear end both had faint lines that took a bit to show, and 1.5 days into paxlovid I'm feeling sort of normal already. That pax taste really is gross though. And now I have some context..I'm pretty sure that would have taken my rear end out in 2020.
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still nuts to me that theres still people who have lasted this long without getting it at least once. i just assume everyone's had it once, then a friend or coworker will get it and say its their first time and my mind gets boggled. regardless, get well soon goon.
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buglord posted:still nuts to me that theres still people who have lasted this long without getting it at least once. i just assume everyone's had it once, then a friend or coworker will get it and say its their first time and my mind gets boggled. First time they're aware of. I haven't kept up, is SARS-CoV-2 still largely asymptomatic?
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My family just got it for the first time last week (of course it was a work conference) For me it feels like it barely qualifies as getting it as at worst I felt a tiny bit of sinus congestion feeling/headache and a positive line so light I could barely see it and then tested negative again 4 days after I can see how some people can have gotten it and never known My kid had one day of bad congestion and then had been mostly fine but still testing positive after 5 days. My wife has had it worst and it knocked her out for days but she also got it on the tail end of being sick with something else so her immune system was probably pretty knocked down. Paxlovid seemed to help a lot
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Bald Stalin posted:First time they're aware of. I haven't kept up, is SARS-CoV-2 still largely asymptomatic? I still have to get tested for work before every job in my industry or you can't work (film, for the actors sake not mine sadly), so I was actively testing this entire time. This is the first time I've popped pos on any rapids in what must be at least a hundred tests if not more. I also haven't got sick in general since 2019 after getting and consistently wearing kn95s as soon as those were available I don't mask in my apartment though (e: i don't live alone), which is likely how I got it considering masking seemed to work otherwise this long. I also stopped going to any crowded thing like galleries or concerts or anything, which honestly wasn't that big of a deal. It is possible, and I do know a few other people who just were good about n95s who also haven't had for sure, one having constantly been through mastectomy stuff this entire period (thank god) anywhoo, i don't want this again e: this actually made me realize a specific worst case; i feel totally fine but continue to test pos for weeks, making me unemployable until i clear a test..i know this is a thing for some people, fingers crossed. going to rapid again on day 10 e2: being totally real rn, the covid threads on SA were the best source of info for masks, I totally had the 3m half-face thing going (which made me feel like a total idiot but clearly worked in the pre vax, no n95 availability first part of 2020) SA threads also helped me not starve to death when the only things open were grocery stores and all the grocery delivery services were price gouging and booked solid (don't have a car)..some genius goon pointed out curbside pickup never had a wait time, and i could just get a courier to take the groceries from that curb to mine..that was some clutch advice. not bad for a dead gay comedy forum zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Nov 7, 2023 |
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Bald Stalin posted:First time they're aware of. I haven't kept up, is SARS-CoV-2 still largely asymptomatic? Yeah, I can’t believe I’ve never had it, but I haven’t really gotten sick since 2019 other than a cold that was over in two days.
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Washington post profile of the new CDC director, not particularly complimentary: How CDC’s new director is trying to regain trust shattered by covid quote:[...] Almost all the negatives are coming from within CDC, interestingly.
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Researchers in Switzerland might have found out that the complement system is causing long covid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38236961/ https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/zurich-researchers-find-protein-clue-in-long-covid-puzzle-/49141422 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn1077
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Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreakquote:As a Florida elementary school tries to contain a growing measles outbreak, the state’s top health official is giving advice that runs counter to science and may leave unvaccinated children at risk of contracting one of the most contagious pathogens on Earth, clinicians and public health experts said. in parallel... Tax records reveal the lucrative world of covid misinformation quote:Four major nonprofits that rose to prominence during the coronavirus pandemic by capitalizing on the spread of medical misinformation collectively gained more than $118 million between 2020 and 2022, enabling the organizations to deepen their influence in statehouses, courtrooms and communities across the country, a Washington Post analysis of tax records shows. Full articles at the links and well worth the price of subscription as usual. Crossposting to the pseudoscience thread in SAL. As ever, the financial motive reflects the urgent need for greater regulation, direct enforcement against and removal of the people and products that can profit from alt-med misinformation.
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