That’s what I’m waiting for; viable lawsuits against Fox for all the misinfo and lies they spread.
“Just entertainment” they claim?
Then they should be forced to have an endlessly cycling chyron stating that everything they broadcast is FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
i’ve read that there are sometimes allergic reactions – i dont know if it’s similar to penicillin ( if so: a lot of people outgrow their penicillin reactions as adults. ) they are supposed to keep you around for a bit after the shot to make sure all is well.
it’s brilliant. we’ve gone past “some people are saying” to “on my other fox news show i was saying” – so we don’t even need the pretense of evidence or logic anymore. just a literal echo chamber.
interesting bio notes. he was senior advisor to david cameron, god father to one of his kids, and is married to the former head of public policy at google who went to uber after she replaced david plouffe when he became obama’s campaign manager. ( she’s now at netflix )
that world is too small.
A literal Nazi skinhead talking about fomenting right-wing “revolution” on Fox News
Usually they hide this shit behind layers of metaphor and code words
He’s like a cartoon character, a Max Headroom villain
The concern is for people with a history of severe allergies, not specifically to any particular thing. This is a very highly reactogenic virus, prone to stirring up the immune system quite strongly. As such, the vaccine to some extent shares that trait. As usual, the risk of vaccination (2.5 per million is the number you cite, although that seems a bit high, and reflects reactions, not deaths) has to considered against the infection, which is currently running about 3% mortality and many times that in terms of morbidity.
Here is what CDC says about Pfizer:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7002e1.htm#:~:text=During%20December%2014–23%2C%202020,within%2015%20minutes%20of%20vaccination.
Here is more up to date data on both:
2.1/million for Moderna, 6.2/million for Pfizer.
Most emphatically, these are rates for anaphylaxis, not deaths. When I got mine, we were required to hang out for 15 minutes after to monitor for that occurrence so it could be treated if necessary. Not a reason to not get the vaccine.
Portugal is considering sending patients with Covid-19 to other countries.
In an interview, the Minister of Health said that the government is studying the possibility of asking for international help, including for the use of hospitals in other European Union countries.
Fuck.
WTAF??
(Yes, this is a complete sentence)
Try millennia. It’s one of the oldest medications known to history. Autumn crocus is listed as a remedy for joint pain in the Ebers Papyrus, from about 1500 BC. Colchicine itself was isolated in the early 1800s. It’s a great anti inflammatory drug, with a really neat mechanism of action; unfortunately, it has a rather narrow therapeutic index, and a lot of the potential side effects are very common, especially diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Since some of the worst effects of COVID appear to be related to poorly controlled inflammation, colchicine is a logical choice for meds to try. Glad it’s showing promise.
One of the biggest problems with colchicine in recent years has been a major price increase following the FDA’s decision to license it as an orphan drug a few years back. Went from a few cents a pill for generic colchicine to about $6 a pill for “Colcrys.” I don’t think that’s an issue worldwide, just here in the good old USA.
Opportunistic, unempathetic, self-serving slimeballs.
I have been reading and fielding infuriating “analyses” of the risk of covid infection vs. risk of covid vaccine. I want to put this out so the community has ammunition should you come across similar nonsense. It comes down to simple math. IE:
Currently, overall, covid-19 is running about 3% mortality. This is 30,000/million.
There is, obviously, a huge demographic factor in that number, with young, healthy adults running 0.1% give or take mortality. This is 1,000/million
Keep in mind, this is for mortality. These numbers do not include hospitalizations, recovery at hoime, long term disability, etc.
Current data suggest a rate of serious complications for the covid vaccines at 2.1/ million for Moderna, 6.2/million for Pfizer. (data from papers above) Why the difference? WDKS.
In summary, overall risk is 5,000 to 15,000 times greater of dying from the infection than of having a significant reaction to the vaccine.
In the lowest risk group, still 161 to 500 times more likely to die from illness than suffer significant side effects from vaccination.
The conclusions I leave as an exercise to the reader. Should not be hard to suss out.
Damn, I read an article about a person with a severe reaction, and now can’t find it. Short version: very unpleasant, much less unpleasant than, say, intubation.
Dear god.
Businesses need to be able to fire anyone who won’t take it. If your “religion” or whatever means you won’t do your job, your employer shouldn’t be forced to keep paying you.
Too early to say but it just can’t be a coincidence, we’ve had absolute numpties burning down 5G towers and now this is the next logical step. How many more people will now die as a result of this delay?
Not surprising. Many nursing home workers are POC, and they’ve been worried about hesitancy in their communities since the vaccines were in the development stage. Agreed about making it a condition of employment, too. There are large numbers of employees/contractors in healthcare who are classified as caregivers. They are in contact with a lot of people on a daily basis, so getting as many as possible vaccinated should be a high priority.
This has been coming up and it’s soooo annoying, so…
Don’t get me wrong, these happen, and we really don’t have a good understanding of why. The OB-GYN in FL who died following vaccination of sever autoimmune thrombocytopenia was almost certainly (full analysis not complete yet) a victim of this kind of rare but tragic side effect. There is no perfect, none nada, zilch, does not exist. Every choice we make is balancing risk and benefit. In this instance, the statistics are pretty clear. It is not and never will be infinity to zero, but it is thousands to one. I will roll those dice.
