Anybody want a Corona?

[Bammer]

95% of Americans haven’t bothered taking the latest covid booster.

i regret not taking it. friday night slight tickle in my throat. got chills monday night, cough, congestion lasted until tuesday evening. was going to go into work wed and took a test to be safe. positive.

i feel like i have been hit be a truck. ears are plugged and zero energy

worse than 2020 when i had it at christmas

Dont feel to bad, Fauci just got it again and he had the real vaccines.

But how sick did he get?

Very sniffley!!

[Peeps]

saturday into sunday i had the shivers and a slight fever

monday on was the standard flu but with an extra does of exhaustion

[Bi_3]

Hello facts. Long time no see.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Man that sucks. A co workers of mine died and she was on a respirator when she had Covid in ‘21

[simple schoolboy]

How is this entity still eligible for Federal grants?

[Bammer]

Oh hey what’s up Covid 19 thread bump in November 2023

[Rangi Guy]

Oh hey what’s up Covid 19 thread bump in November 2023

What's up is my daughter and I went and got more covid shots over the weekend

[Anders]

My co-worker just got it for the firs time.

[spike]

An 80 year old woman in my building has it. Her car is parked all wonky in the garage with all the windows open, so I reached out to her. I guess a friend drove it back from the hospital for her, where she was until a day or so ago. Not good.

[simple schoolboy]

The US Army is allowing those that refused the jab back to duty. (if they request to "correct their status" or some such. Good luck getting to your desired staffing levels.

[Matters]

The US Army is allowing those that refused the jab back to duty. (if they request to "correct their status" or some such. Good luck getting to your desired staffing levels.

Good. Last I read New York and Washington state courts ruled to allow government employees who refused the shots to return to work with back pay however those employees are still not back at work due to appeals by those state governments who won’t admit they enforced an ineffective policy. California still hasn’t even gotten that far.

[B]

I have a coworker who was a lifetime smoker. Had a stroke at age 45. She blames the stroke on the COVID vaccine. Probably gave her lung cancer too.

[simple schoolboy]

I have a coworker who was a lifetime smoker. Had a stroke at age 45. She blames the stroke on the COVID vaccine. Probably gave her lung cancer too.

Female smokers generally make it much longer than that before they have a major cardiac/ clotting event, yeah? Did she benefit from the vaccine? That it's not clear that she did suggests she isn't wrong to resent taking it. 18 year olds should resent the shit out of it.

[Bammer]

I have a coworker who was a lifetime smoker. Had a stroke at age 45. She blames the stroke on the COVID vaccine. Probably gave her lung cancer too.

Female smokers generally make it much longer than that before they have a major cardiac/ clotting event, yeah? Did she benefit from the vaccine? That it's not clear that she did suggests she isn't wrong to resent taking it. 18 year olds should resent the shit out of it.

There were good people on both sides

[B]

Did she benefit from the vaccine?

That's impossible to say on an individual basis without bloodwork, but she has never had COVID.

[Matters]

Could you explain how bloodwork would give you a clear answer?

[B]

Could you explain how bloodwork would give you a clear answer?

How else would you know if she didn't get COVID because of luck or because of vaccination?

[B]

Honestly, even bloodwork wouldn't tell you much.

You'd be able to see if she hand antibodies, but maybe she got antibodies AND never got exposed.
Maybe she had a subclinical case prior to vaccination.

It's pretty much impossible to say on an individual basis, "you benefited from the vaccine." and "you did not."

Thus .... epidemiology!

[McParadigm]

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998988?form=fpf

The number of premature births in California jumped during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and came back down after vaccinations became widely available, new evidence reveals.

For example, researchers found that during that year, there was a 29% increase in deliveries before 37 weeks of gestation. In absolute percentages, rates increased from 7.3% to 8.7%. When they accounted for maternal social, demographic, and other factors, there remained a 15% increase in the likelihood of preterm births, from 7.3% to 8.4%.

This increased rate that was associated with the pandemic in 2020 disappeared completely by 2022. But not all areas of the state returned to baseline quickly.

"One finding that was surprising is the sharp decline in the impact of maternal COVID-19 infection on preterm birth in areas with high vaccination rates compared to areas with low vaccination rates," said lead investigator Florencia Torche, PhD, professor of sociology at Stanford University in California.

"This sharp decline supports the claim that it was vaccination ― rather than alternative health-protecting behaviors among pregnant people — that accounts for the reduction in preterm risk," Torche said.

Rates of premature births did not differ significantly until May 2021, the point that vaccines became more widely available. However, in comparing babies born to women who tested positive at birth from July 2020 to February 2023 to siblings not exposed to COVID, they found "marked differences."

COVID vaccination helped avoid thousands of preterm births and related complications, the authors note. It was also cost saving. Research shows that each preterm birth was estimated to cost more than $80,000, they added.

"A critical implication of this study is that vaccination provides an effective protective mechanism for the health of the newborn, substantially reducing the risk of preterm and other adverse infant health outcomes," Torche said.

Bujold said this scientific approach confirms the hypotheses from some smaller studies and helps to reassure pregnant women about vaccination

[wease]

One of my centers had a patient call yesterday after her visit and she started accusing them of giving her the Covid vaccine when they gave her a Rocephin injection. She demanded to know which brand we gave her so she could research all the outcomes of her receiving that brand’s vaccine.

We’vE NEVER carried any Covid vaccine. Ever.