SDRick
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Perhaps I am not reading the Positivity Tracker charts correctly, but it appears that the unvaccinated positivity rate is lower?
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This guy in Idaho did the same. He's a skin pathologist and totally went down the path of "alternative" treatments and anti ("needle rape") vaccine. He has no office and doesn't actually see patients in person. But he prescribed Ivermectin, including to out of state patients..
'It should be stopped': Idaho medical group files complaint against Dr. Ryan Cole • Idaho Capital Sun
The Idaho Medical Association filed a Board of Medicine complaint against Dr. Ryan Cole, noting he prescribed ivermectin to patients.
idahocapitalsun.com
He was rewarded by being appointed to the Central District Health Board. The state medical board did nothing. Washington State Medical board is investigating and just charged him.
Washington medical board charges Dr. Ryan Cole with COVID-19 related violations
Dr. Ryan Cole of Idaho has until Jan. 30 to respond to charges from the Washington Medical Commission that he violated standards related to COVID-19 and patient care.
www.spokesman.com
scottf200
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Less unvaccinated are likely going to Walgreen (etc) unless it is 'critical'. They likely are not going because they really do not want to know if they have Covid.
Below is someone I know from my youth in small-town America. I think I removed all identifying details. Yellow underlines added by me.
We've had patients who, literally, their last words were "I don't have Covid!". Just before they were intubated.Less unvaccinated are likely going to Walgreen (etc) unless it is 'critical'. They likely are not going because they really do not want to know if they have Covid.
Below is someone I know from my youth in small-town America. I think I removed all identifying details. Yellow underlines added by me.
Yeah, my wife had people begging for the vaccine just before they were intubated and others denying that COVID existed and refusing to be tested. Luckily the variants morphed to being less pulmonary so that's been a while. Whatever your politics, why go to the hospital and then refuse to be tested so you can be treated?
Krugerrand
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I had Moderna first two shots; first shot my arm was so sore I couldn’t sleep that night, second shot I could barely make it to and from the bathroom for two days. Booster was Pfizer and just felt a bit ‘off’ for a day. I’ll be doing a fourth shot soon; the Pfizer bi-v one and hoping side effects are like last time.
Obviously, I have not been vaccinating as frequently as suggested - it’s just too much for my body. To my advantage, I am anti-social naturally and it’s my day to day life since I was a kid, and I have no problem wearing a mask when I must be amongst humans.
I have not had COVID, nor has my spouse, to the best of our knowledge. I haven’t even had the sniffles since this all began. *knocking on wood*
PACEMD
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This doctor man, he played five,
He played knick knack on my hide.
With a knick knack, paddy whack,
Give a guy a stone.
This doctor man came rolling home.
PACEMD
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I always told my medical students and residents, "As a physician, you can most certainly practice outside the accepted medical guidelines. In fact, you sometimes should. The only caveat being, when you step outside those boundaries, you have to be right." And have the knowledge to support those actions. The world will notice. Watching Fox "News" ain't gonna get you there.........A reasonably educated monkey could have seen that one coming...........
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AlanSubie4Life
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AlanSubie4Life
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(Inaccurate.)
I could not bring myself to read the word salad article thoroughly.
However, I do not think the grifters had the right strategy on COVID. There were a lot of ways to improve the response and those should be examined and applied next time. It did cost lives, but not in the way the article suggests.
It’s pretty clear at this point that the interventions saved around a million lives in this country, so I actually think the efforts made were pretty successful. It just could have been even better, and certainly less divisive.
And I think it is reasonable to assign blame to those who decided to use it to polarize people.
It’s important to assign blame correctly, otherwise we are at risk of learning the wrong lessons for next time!
The people who claimed herd immunity and “focused protection” (or whatever they called it) as a good strategy were wrong.
The people who claimed that infection-acquired immunity was the path, and good, were wrong (even though infection-acquired immunity may be better than vaccine-acquired immunity, that is irrelevant of course, due to the risks).
The people who claimed masks don’t work were wrong.
Etc.
Seems like in future we should provide the protection to prevent spread, and educate everyone on how the virus spreads.
It’s weird to see someone who purports to be an engineer gravitating toward an article that provides no introspection at all.
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Yes, I read the opinion piece by the MD/PhD student as well in Newsweek. While everything he says might be true to a greater or lesser extent, he actually doesn't support a bit of it with evidence. It's actually rather stunning. Guess he got his 15 minutes.
dhanson865
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Yeah, after reading that article (I won't link to it, honestly not really worth the time), and it's right for all the wrong reasons.
(Inaccurate.)
I could not bring myself to read the word salad article thoroughly.
However, I do not think the grifters had the right strategy on COVID. There were a lot of ways to improve the response and those should be examined and applied next time. It did cost lives, but not in the way the article suggests.
It’s pretty clear at this point that the interventions saved around a million lives in this country, so I actually think the efforts made were pretty successful. It just could have been even better, and certainly less divisive.
The thing that most scientists are getting wrong, is that a concerted effort to improve indoor air quality would go a LONG ways to reducing the risk of COVID and other airborne disease.
Implementing standards that monitor and enforce things like number of air exchanges per hour, filtration standards for recycled air, monitoring indoor CO2 levels, indoor filtration, upper-air UV sterilization in public indoor spaces and other shared spaces, would minimize the risk of COVID even without needing to wear masks.
Things that they got wrong was getting too draconian about gathering in outdoor spaces (closing beaches and parks, in retrospect was fairly limited in spreading disease).
Also in retrospect, requiring the use of good masks like N95/KN95 or equivalents (instead of poor quality cloth masks and mediocre surgery-type masks) along with the previously mentioned indoor air quality measures, would have allowed us to behave mostly the same, even in indoor spaces.
Spot on.
We have a case where a woman was charged with going into a park early in the pandemic. The new State Attorney General has declined to prosecute and it's a controversy. On one hand, "rule of law". On the other, yeah, well. Now that we know, it was actually overreach. What do you do?
Idaho AG Labrador to dismiss trespassing charge of supporter from 2020 ‘park mom’ arrest - East Idaho News
MERIDIAN (Idaho Statesman) — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador on Thursday announced that his office filed a motion to dismiss charges against a Meridian woman who was charged with trespassing in early 2020 after using a public playground that was closed because of COVID-19 concerns. The...
www.eastidahonews.com
PACEMD
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.........
dhanson865
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Got a call from the CDC today.
T-mobile marked it as suspected scam/spam call and it was on a line that I don't give out anywhere (they picked it purely with random number generation).
I'm not sure which data set my answers go into but she said the data would go up next week.
I think this is the survey https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/nis/downloads/NIS-ACM-Questionnaire-Q1-2023.pdf
www.cdc.gov
T-mobile marked it as suspected scam/spam call and it was on a line that I don't give out anywhere (they picked it purely with random number generation).
I'm not sure which data set my answers go into but she said the data would go up next week.
I think this is the survey https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/nis/downloads/NIS-ACM-Questionnaire-Q1-2023.pdf
National Immunization Surveys | CDC
The National Immunization Surveys (NIS) are a group of telephone surveys sponsored and conducted by CDC.
www.cdc.gov
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scottf200
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That must be a internal QA/testing document for proofreading by them. It is funny to look at it from a end-user perspective but I appreciate it from a past software developer perspectve.
How, let’s just euphemistically say…, curious that “work setting” does not include “home”Got a call from the CDC today.
T-mobile marked it as suspected scam/spam call and it was on a line that I don't give out anywhere (they picked it purely with random number generation).
I'm not sure which data set my answers go into but she said the data would go up next week.
I think this is the survey https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/nis/downloads/NIS-ACM-Questionnaire-Q1-2023.pdf
National Immunization Surveys | CDC
The National Immunization Surveys (NIS) are a group of telephone surveys sponsored and conducted by CDC.
Having worked from home for 9 years, prior to having to retire from full-time to take care of an elderly parent, I’m amazed that USPS and death care facilities, get their own category, but all homemakers and w@h fall into “other”
scottf200
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FYI -- not sure why I tend to follow this page but it is novel on how slowly XBB.1.5 is moving westward/south-westward.
COVID Data Tracker
CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.
covid.cdc.gov
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