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Raskolnikov2089 posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv-9mkwrKfP/ Yeah but nothing bad is going to happen to me. In fact it's mental illness to think that anything bad has ever happened to the protagonist of any story.
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Aug 16, 2023 18:44
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:What are my odds of a false positive on a 2 month expired Lucira? I swear someone posted a couple months back about an expired Lucira showing positive, that I think ended up being a false positive after multiple RAT and/or maybe a PCR. I would definitely isolate as if positive until you can get some confirmation. But I might not break out the paxlovid yet.
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Aug 17, 2023 17:37
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Steve Yun posted:one week pre-positive periods That's very concerning in terms of paxlovid treatment. But for screening I suppose it's less concerning than increased pre-symptomatic timelines.
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Aug 18, 2023 23:11
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Gunshow Poophole posted:this is actually exactly how a simulated virus would respond to being aggressively confronted with the set of treatment guidelines and screens we've set up around paxlovid I mean I don't think you're wrong necessarily, but there's zero chance enough people have taken paxlovid relative to the amount of people catching COVID to have any evolutionary effect.
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Aug 19, 2023 13:20
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silicone thrills posted:lol This is literally the dumbass vaccine "hoarding" logic from 2 years ago. Incredible. No one one literally took a shot out of anyones arms. There were millions of doses literally thrown away. Remember when they crucified that one guy in the press (and I think did he get fired? Or threatened his license or something?) for giving the last couple doses of a vial to some people he knew and/or family rather than trash it. Meanwhile now if you go get a shot they will immediately open palm slam the remaining doses in the vial into the trash the instant you walk out rather than bother trying to keep it in the fridge for the 4 hours or w/e until it goes bad.
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Aug 21, 2023 20:28
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Chad Sexington posted:I don't know who ratted, but I got an email from HR "confirming" my hybrid modality. Yeah even though my immediate supervisors are fine with it I got asked to go through HR / Accommodation process because of some VP of gently caress-all's push to get people back in the office. So I'm assuming that's their way of saying No but not having to do it themselves and/or covering their rear end. There's literally nowhere in the building with anything resembling decent ventilation, so it'd mean wearing a respirator all day and going out to my car even to drink water. I guess if anyone has actually had luck getting approval for remote work through a corporate HR process I'd be happy to hear any advice. (Yes I'm actually immunocompromised. I should be able to get documentation from my Doc, though I'm not sure I can get them to explicitly say 'Let him work remotely.')
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Aug 24, 2023 18:14
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I tried to order some of those Metrix tests from peach and A) Their website sucks, B) They are now sold out of tests already. Boo.
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Aug 24, 2023 21:55
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One of the peach people posts on reddit very occasionally and said they still have no word on any production of Luciras again, and they were a bulk distributor for them so guessing they probably would know. They also said there's a another supposedly-as-good-as-PCR-but-as-cheap-as-RAT test coming through the FDA pipeline but no ETA yet: https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...A-Flu-B-and-RSV
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Aug 24, 2023 22:03
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nexous posted:So I got my MRI, had to take off my Vflex and they had no surgical so I raw dogged it. Then apparently they messed up my IV so they injected the contrast into not a vein and it burned like the dickens. I mashed the alert button but the MRI tech said that was normal and it took me 5 minutes to convince them it was not normal because I’ve had it before. They went and asked the radiologist and all of a sudden there’s several new unmasked people in the room telling me to sign some document and that this happens sometimes just ice it down when you get home. They re-IV the other arm and complete the MRI and glad to get out of the maskless hellhole. Obviously really sorry you went through that. Not sure if it's worth putting in the OP that there are some respirators that have absolutely no metal and are OK in an MRI, like these from moldex: https://www.moldex.com/product/2600-n95-series-respirator/ or https://www.moldex.com/product/4600-n95-airwave-pleated-easy-breathing-respirator/ Usually available from grainger. They're not very adjustable so if they don't fit your face, well, they don't fit your face. And of course ymmv because you never know what a MRI tech is going to say, but it definitely won't set off the little metal detectors, because there's none in there. I've personally gone through an MRI with a 2600 shown there. Also some (not all!) half-mask elastomerics have no metal. Though at least one model I tried has a screw.
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Aug 29, 2023 22:25
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Asproigerosis posted:Yeah iodine (CT) gives you a sudden flushing hot and pissing yourself sensation. Gadolinium (MRI) doesn't do anything, sometimes it makes people nauseous from a physiological response but that's really rare. As far as the infiltrate goes there's nothing to do about it except let the body absorb it out. I can handle any contrast you got but please stop asking me to walk down a 50 foot hallway immediately after giving me a giant shot of glucagon. Thankfully the second time I had the same tech and he did not want to pick me up out of a pool of vomit in the middle of the hall again.
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Aug 30, 2023 20:36
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:I know nothing about this aside from it being posted in my "still coviding" group: Yep this is the supernova (aka Evusheld 2.0) trial. I'm getting pretty pessimistic about this trial because: A) This mab is already pretty old. Back in April they were saying it still worked against all variants, however they were saying that sort of poo poo about evusheld after it was painfully obvious it was no longer effective. B) The timelines they're talking about are a 15 month trial, that is just starting now, meaning market in like... a year and a half at the absolute earliest? I can't imagine why they think this is worth doing if it's going to be up against the Yyz.6.21 variant in late 2025 at the earliest. All that said I probably would have done it but there's no locations anywhere near me, you have to visit like a dozen times, and given past reports about recover, they'll probably demand you take your mask off in the middle of some maskless clinic to do a nasal swab and poo poo.
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Aug 30, 2023 23:03
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I mean most all the omicron deaths happened in Jan/Feb 2022 right? So that's got to have a fairly large impact.
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Aug 31, 2023 17:57
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:good 120mm noctua fans are like $30 a piece anyway. I built a couple with those 140mm Arctic P14 fans that were suggested in CR circles a couple times. Expensive and I don't recommend because rather than a box fan white noise sound, they have a more annoying PC fan whine/warble that bothers me much more than just a box fan would.
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Sep 1, 2023 17:44
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Speaking of tests, Metrix tests are at least temporarily in stock at peach medical. https://shop.peachmedical.com/products/Over-The-Counter-Antigen-Test-Kits-c134955564 DISCLAIMER: I ordered some but haven't gotten them yet. I'm not making any claims about peach or the tests themselves. Buyer beware. $47 for each test, $75 for the reader. So not much cheaper than Cue. Website says expiration will be April, but I'll report back once I get them.
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Sep 6, 2023 20:12
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maxwellhill posted:you want your dad's immune system to realize that there's a virus, and begin launching countermeasures, before the paxlovid puts the virus on pause. otherwise putting the situation on pause is for nothing if the good guys don't show up to the battlefield for cleanup at all during the 5 day course What are you basing this on though? I think the prescribing info is just testing positive, regardless of symptoms. I'm not sure if icantfindaname meant exposed or actually positive.
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Sep 12, 2023 02:57
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So far none of the awesome non-chain pharmacies me or my parents got shots at in the past are getting it. Too expensive and too much hassle dealing with insurance for it. Sweet! Looking forward to having to drag my corpse into a crowded CVS to get coughed on by a dozen sick kids in order to get a vaccine.
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Sep 18, 2023 02:18
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NeonPunk posted:Well this could explain why some folks were constantly testing negative Forget booster banditing. How do we bandit tests that work? https://www.accubiotech.com/product-covid-19-antigen-cassette-saliva.html Good news: Work approved my ADA to work from home because of immunocompromise in spite of new 'back to the office' push! Bad news: No pharmacies here have the shot yet, and the good one (where they will come outside to do the shot) won't have them until maybe October...
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Sep 18, 2023 22:25
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Well none of the good pharmacies are getting it anytime soon, so I'm just going in to the chain grocery store pharmacy tomorrow at like 8:30a hopefully people stopping by before work will be done and it'll be reasonably quiet inside.
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Oct 1, 2023 22:32
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Well nobody at the pharmacy was masked, unsurprisingly. But at least it was very quiet and only one other customer there (also getting a COVID shot but not wearing a mask). Though on the way out I saw a woman with two kids all wearing KN95's coming in, so maybe they had the pediatric vaccine?
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Oct 2, 2023 15:50
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You wouldn't want immunocompromised people to inhale dust on their way to the procedure rooms where they perform aerosolizing procedures like endoscopies on people who haven't been tested for anything!
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Oct 2, 2023 19:10
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Oracle posted:aim to be first in at o’god hundred and then pull it on as soon as you wake up/have whoever is waiting for you in the room put it on you when they wheel you in. The procedure room itself will have masked doctors/anesthesiologists and good ventilation Excuse me while I laugh until I pass out.
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Oct 2, 2023 20:32
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Man this shot is kicking my rear end this time, which is weird since I had basically no reaction to the others. The lovely part is being on the drugs I'm on, I know I'm still getting little to no benefit from it even though I'm having a massive reaction apparently.
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Oct 3, 2023 19:56
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:my wife has the same issue you've got iirc and she's currently in insurance hell trying to swap her Stelara from UPMC to Cigna. She's also hiding how lovely it is from me because she suggested I make the job change and doesn't want me to feel bad about it even though I can hear and see her getting stuck on the phone for hours Oh boy, I've spent, I don't know, 150+ hours on the phone arguing with insurance and specialty pharmacies about Stelara. What's loving crazy about it is the stuff costs less than half of what it did ~5 years ago, and they're still the biggest motherfuckers in the world about it.
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Oct 5, 2023 16:01
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I'm not sure that's that clear. Rapids often do have a very faint indent that will catch a shadow, if there's no actual color to it I personally would read that as negative.
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Oct 6, 2023 06:16
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Of course I've thrown away all my RATs, but there is always a line there, it's visible even before you do the test. Depending on lighting I could absolutely take a picture that makes it stand out even more. I'm not saying that's definitely negative, but I can definitely see how someone would read it that way, since that doesn't stand out any more to me than the line that's always there.
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Oct 6, 2023 15:45
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Ok... I don't know what to tell you. I don't remember if it was the ihealths or one of the other brands in that same plastic stick form factor. There is 100% absolutely a visible indent right where the test line is, and if the light hits it right it's absolutely visible as a faint shadow if you're really looking. With a bright light and a close up with a camera you could take a picture of a negative (or even completely un-processed) test that looks like that. I'm not going to waste money on some RATs to take a picture. Feel free to not believe me I guess. I remember it vividly because I also thought 'Oh poo poo maybe this is positive, but it doesn't actually look like color, just a shadow/indent' so I opened another test to do another and to look at it un-processed and the line I was seeing was there on the unprocessed one. Rescue Toaster has issued a correction as of 16:10 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Oct 6, 2023 16:07
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It's definitely privilege. But I know for me, if my wife hadn't pushed me to go to Mayo clinic (or if my insurance hadn't let me), I'd very likely be dead or have been seriously disabled because of the rank incompetence of the doctors I had locally. This was way before COVID and I'm sure things are even worse in many places in terms of access to competent specialists. I know the nearest real university hospital which is supposed to be good is also massively backed up so it's not like that's a guarantee either though. Also maybe I should plan on keeping enough cash on hand to bribe the ambulance driver to take us there instead of the local shithole if one of us ever needs a ride in the wee-woo wagon. This is all evidence of a good and working healthcare system. Rescue Toaster has issued a correction as of 17:37 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Oct 6, 2023 17:34
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:I was chatting with the driver of a shuttle bus I was taking the other day and he shared that his dad had just been diagnosed with some sort of cancer or tumor or something in his throat. He spent 2 years randomly losing his voice and being told it was nothing until last week when he took himself to the hospital and had a doctor pull the In my case, before I went to mayo, the lovely local doc came in after doing a test, while I was still asleep from anasthesia and told my wife "Yep! Test was positive!" and turned around to walk out until my wife started yelling at him. That was the last straw when she demanded I get a second opinion. The Oldest Man posted:Mayo has one of the only specialist clinics in the country for one of my wife's things. She tried to enroll there once and they sent her a form letter telling her her case wasn't interesting and to gently caress off (politely). I have no idea why my case was interesting enough to them although the words "unusual and aggressive" were used which is not what you want to hear at Mayo. Eventually they did say 'Ok this is stable enough, we'll send you to one of the satellite mayo clinics, but it is with a doc who did their fellowship here.' So I'm still very lucky in that regard.
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Oct 6, 2023 18:35
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Aranet4's on sale for $168. Both from their website and through Amazon. I ordered through amazon since their website linked to it anyway, and it said shipped by Aranet, but it was actually shipped together with other amazon stuff by amazon, so they must be handling distribution entirely. I've not heard of any counterfeit Aranet's anyway so, fingers crossed.
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Oct 8, 2023 02:09
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silicone thrills posted:Yeah the last time I got the flu was in 2011? ish and I spent the entire time in bed sweating through my sheets and feeling like my bones were breaking. poo poo was super loving scary. COVID is just the flu man. Like when I had the flu in ~2007 and was in the ER w/o insurance and had to drop out of school and lost my job and both my school and hospital sent my bills to collections. Just a mild summer flu.
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Oct 8, 2023 23:26
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yoloer420 posted:Here it is without requiring a xitter account: https://nitter.net/IfuekoNadine/status/1710790723878936619 Someone still trying to sell those Luciras with an Oct 22 expiration date! Stock up!
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Oct 10, 2023 02:53
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icantfindaname posted:I have to do some spreadsheet stuff this weekend, and have been holding out for novavax. Should I just get mrna immediately or is potentially getting novavax one or two days before still ok? It's probably too late to have much impact, but get whatever you can get as fast as possible. Two weeks is what you want minimum really. Two days is nothing. I think (probably in the old thread) there were charts showing it was more like the 1-2 month range where antibodies were at a peak after a shot. It takes longer the older and more lovely your immune system is, I think. Rescue Toaster has issued a correction as of 15:59 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Oct 10, 2023 15:55
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I mean I'm probably last one to the party here but I finally picked up an Aranet4 and I feel like ~900ppm resting in my house isn't amazing. But at the same time, other than opening windows in the winter.... ? Installing a heat recovery air exchanger is a big ordeal, and my cat eats plants.
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Oct 11, 2023 01:28
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Pingui posted:...what exactly do they suppose will happen? Sell more pax.
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Oct 11, 2023 03:36
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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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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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Jort Fortress posted:Nearing 24hrs after the Novavax shot and regret to inform you that it hosed me up pretty good! My understanding is that at the end of the day, even if they have different mechanisms, both types of vax present a bunch of basically the same spike proteins to your body to produce antibodies for. I wouldn't necessarily expect much difference in side effects.
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Oct 14, 2023 17:51
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The Oldest Man posted:If you've got a shared wall, you might have a shared plenum space or something like that, a shared wall that develops positive pressure on their side sometimes, etc. There's a million ways to get a little puff of virus air from one way to another on a million to one chance, and that's all it takes. It sucks, but trying to Sherlock Holmes it probably isn't going to get you anywhere. Going this long without getting it means whatever you're doing is working. When I setup a negative pressure room for my wife one time, there was an extraordinary amount of air moving between the two spaces that I had to seal bit-by-bit. Even a small pressure imbalance caused a huge amount of flow, so yeah with a shared wall only a slight pressure imbalance caused by one or both of you having open windows or doors and a breeze outside can move a massive amount of air between the buildings very quickly. That's not even counting what might be happening with attic spaces and ventilation. Unless exceptional steps have been taken to seal them, it's going to be nearly impossible to isolate the air spaces in apartments or condos.
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Oct 18, 2023 14:24
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If you're not watching the trump thread, in NY his defense is complaining that a bunch of the AG's team tested positive for COVID and they should delay the trial. Only people wearing masks in the room? The remaining members of the AG's team. None of Trump's people are wearing masks while complaining about COVID risk. The judge seems unimpressed by their arguments.
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Oct 24, 2023 16:34
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Well I know of another person who just got got on a Florida vacation. Seems like there's a common thread here...
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Oct 24, 2023 19:11
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