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    It is, but not with large donors.
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    It's behavioral. FL's vaccination rate was slightly above US average, nearly the same as CA.
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    More evidence that vaccine administrators should be aspirating before injecting, this time for mRNA vaccines to avoid myocarditis: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab707/6353927 Conclusions This study provided in vivo evidence that inadvertent intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may induce myopericarditis. Brief withdrawal of syringe plunger to exclude blood aspiration may be one possible way to reduce such risk." There was already a ~2006 study that showed that venous injection of adenovirus vaccines could cause the same type of unusual clotting seen in the AstraZeneca and J&J/Janssen vaccines. When my wife got her 3rd Moderna injection, she asked the nurse to aspirate, which she did. Got blood the 1st two tries, clean on the 3rd. The CDC continues to recommend against aspirating, to avoid potential pain to the patient from moving the needle around. UK likewise says not to aspirate. It takes under 2 seconds, no real downside.
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    Well maybe the upcoming Texas audit will show that Trump lost there too.
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    From the article, it is not apparent whether the nurse had consent at all. I can't imagine that it isn't standard procedure to have the vaccinee sign a consent first, though.
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    On September 21st, the Texas Department of State Health Services listed 253 cases of children hospitalized with covid (now 237 cases in screen shot below). Multiplying by US population/Texas population, then scaling downward to adjust for the higher overall infection rate in Texas vs. US overall, that 237 would be about 2300 kids for the entire country. So 2000 current may not be that unlikely.
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    Like the "gone this year" segment from the Oscars, but this is some of the people that posted BS memes about covid, then died. i.e., FAFO. Some well known, most not.
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    How so? From exit polls, whites were the ethnic group that voted most for the recall (still voted against, overall). Whites with no degree were the only group to vote in favor of the recall.
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    With the vote tally so far, the margin is even better than when Newsom was elected in 2018.
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    So that was a waste of $300 million of our state tax money, to get exactly the predicted (non) outcome. Not to mention a large amount of campaign money. As of now, something like 48% of the people did not vote for any candidate, just the question of whether the governor should be recalled.
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    My wife has a compromised immune system, made worse by immunomodulatory drugs she is on. She's had 3 doses of Moderna, but was only at about the 2% percentile for antibodies after the 2nd dose. She is sad that she may never see one of her best friends again (they are not local, but still got together), because her friend is not getting vaccinated. Same for another friend. I wouldn't modify my behavior as much (only one very slight comorbidity, normal immune, not overly concerned), but I absolutely must avoid picking up anything (even common cold) and passing it on to her. Sigh. I will get a 3rd dose myself, as soon as it is authorized. I could just claim to be immunocompromized and get the 3rd -- it wouldn't get questioned, but will wait a couple of weeks to see what authorizations come down the pike.
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    I wonder how many anti-vaxxers have that as a reason for their reluctance? I've seen it as a meme on the HCA reddit thread, but not very often. I doubt (with absolutely no basis ;-) that it comprises a double-digit percentage of all sarscov2 anti-vaxxers.
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    Religious exemption form for healthcare workers seeking not to take the vaccine. https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2021/09/11/about-religious-exemptions-for-vaccine-resisters-conway-regional-health-system-says-you-must-really-mean-it
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    Interesting open letter from a year ago to the then FDA head regarding his mis-statements about covid treatments, in particular the purported benefit of convalescent plasma, and succumbing to pressure from the administration: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/936611 Recent paper showing that convalescent plasma has been found to have no benefit, and actually harmed patients. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01488-2
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    If only.
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    There are hundreds of these on https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/ It is sad, at least many of them are. FAFO applies to most of them. I unfriended someone on FB a year ago for posting similar memes and other political things that he knew were lies.
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    There is always a way
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    Here is some data showing good correlation between neutralizing antibodies and protection from symptomatic infection:
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    Not sure how this Israeli infection rate data numerical transforms to protection rate, but you can see the trend.
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    Pan-corona vaccine looks like a possibility.
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    100LL will no longer be available at my local airport. Not sure of the date, just been decided. Factions have been trying to get rid of the airport for decades.
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    Data from Israel shows good protection from the 3rd dose. Data is from 1M people, about 55/45 split between those that had the 3rd dose and those that only had the 2 doses. Greater than 10x improved protection.
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    It seems that being overweight and having a goatee is an additional risk factor.