AndrewBissell

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Definition of 'fully vaccinated' could change, CDC chief says. What that means(sfchronicle.com)
8 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|6 comments
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Covid booster mandates? NJ hospital is among first for those who got J&J shots(miamiherald.com)
2 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|0 comments
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Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of hospitalization for Covid(thelancet.com)
40 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|122 comments
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UK study finds vaccinated people easily transmit Delta variant in households(reuters.com)
8 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|0 comments
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Adverse Effects After Pfizer Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection, by Age and Sex(nejm.org)
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Surgeries, tests postponed as 4,000 unvaccinated B.C. medical staff put on leave(vancouversun.com)
8 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|2 comments
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Large study finds a cheap antidepressant lowers risk of Covid hospitalization(nytimes.com)
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ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients – but most don't have Covid(npr.org)
12 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|3 comments
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J&J is using a bankruptcy maneuver to block lawsuits over baby powder claims(npr.org)
48 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|22 comments
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Singapore hospitals risk being 'overwhelmed' after record daily Covid deaths(theguardian.com)
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
But almost no one is "excluding themselves for non-medical reasons." They're excluding themselves because they're at very low risk from Covid, the adverse event rate for these vaccines is about 30-50 times those of the f
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
> Sooner or later there won't be many unvaccinated left to spread the disease Ah yes, their ranks might be thinned by up to 0.2% if they all catch COVID!
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
The "overrun ICUs" thing is a canard, and to the extent it's true is mostly the fault of our having slashed the number of hospital beds over the past decades under the imperatives of for-profit healthcare. Prior to 2020 you c
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
> You don’t have a “right” to participate in modern society if it will make others deathly ill. Everyone who engages in any social contact with others could potentially transmit to them a pathogen which proves lethal. This emphatically
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
Well none of the push for mandates or vaccine passports or other such nonsense makes much sense if the vaccines don't prevent spread and only provide an individual benefit of reduced risk. I mean, although many people are able to hold
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CDC Director: U.S. may change “fully vaccinated” definition as boosters roll out(axios.com)
27 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|72 comments
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White House delays release of JFK files “to protect against identifiable harm”(cbsnews.com)
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
Taking as given your charitable view of the motivations of the people involved, what would you guess is the track record so far in terms number of lives saved versus number of lives lost from research which creates an entirely new virus in
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
Sounds like this is really going to be a great thing for everyone's health and well-being.
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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan(vanityfair.com)
87 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|11 comments
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
> The group believes they’re linked to controversial psychological experiments conducted there in the 1950s and 1960s that received funding from the Canadian government and the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). ... Ponting’s t
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Mohawk Mothers demand search for unmarked graves at McGill University(globalnews.ca)
2 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|1 comments
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
Sorry, in retrospect the sarcasm in my comment isn't apparent enough.
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Lipid nanoparticles for the inhalation of mRNA(nature.com)
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
"The worse the vaccines work the more we need to mandate them"? Herd immunity is not going to happen with Covid, it's a pipe dream. Certainly not with vaccines with a peak 37% effectiveness against the currently dominant
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
They've put $2 billion into their settlement fund, or $50,000 per claimant. A strong deterrent against similar misbehavior in the future!
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J&J looking to bankruptcy to resolve 40,000 baby powder cancer lawsuits(abcnews.go.com)
7 points by AndrewBissell 5y ago|9 comments
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
This isn't scientific evidence, it's theoretical discussion and a priori reasoning.
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
I hear this point raised often with no scientific evidence ever offered to back it up. Actually, some recent research found that the vaccinated were more likely to host antibody-resistant escape variants (in this case Delta): https:&#x2F
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by AndrewBissell 5y ago
This study stopped collecting data on May 30, it's way out of date at this point especially wrt Delta and could not have captured the waning efficacy the vaccines have exhibited over time. > Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial

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