what's this about? "In a heterologous priming schedule, the second dose uses a different vaccine product than the first dose. By contrast, heterologous boosting refers to the administration of a vaccine from a different vaccine platform from the vaccine that was used to complete the primary vaccine series."
China Sticks to Covid-Zero Policies, Despite Rising Pressure to Ease Restrictions
China is adhering to its playbook of neighborhood lockdowns, location tracking, weekslong quarantines and indefinitely delayed visas, in an effort to eradicate every single case of the virus. The country was again carrying out mass testing and imposing domestic travel restrictions this week in some areas, including Beijing, to stem the spread of an outbreak after a retired couple from Shanghai who were on a cross-country trip tested positive for the virus on Oct. 17. Chinese authorities reported 43 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Monday, in which 29 were locally transmitted. Officials have yet to say when their strategies might shift, even with about 76% of the population fully vaccinated.
The Anti-Vaccine Movement Supports Big Pharma Itâs common knowledge that anti-vaxxers are dedicated to filling the coffers of Big Coffin. Simple math leads to another obvious conclusion: they also work extremely hard to enrich hospitals and Big Pharma.
A recent analysis estimated that 342,000 unvaccinated people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the USA over a 3-month period this summer, and each hospitalization costs about $20,000. Though the analysis âmade assumptions that result in a conservative estimate of costs attributable to preventable, unvaccinated hospitalizationsâ, it concluded that âtotal preventable costs for those three months now stand at an estimated $5.7 billionâ. While this analysis did not specify how much money was spent on pharmaceutical agents, clearly these costs make up a substantial part of any hospital bill. As any doctor knows, patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are treated with a cocktail of pain medications, steroids, antibiotics, sedatives, and anti-viral agents. While some of these medications are cheap, others can be quite expensive. Remdesivir, for example, costs over $3,100 per treatment course. Given how hospitals seek to maximize profit, even a single Tylenol pill can cost $15.
In contrast, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine costs $19.50 per dose, while the Moderna vaccine costs $15 per dose. Medicare also pays about $40 for administering the vaccine. As such, vaccinating these 342,000 individuals with two mRNA doses would have cost around $41 million, though only about $13.5 million of this would have gone to pharmaceutical companies. Even if every unvaccinated patient hospitalized with COVID-19 was treated with just nine $15 Tylenol pills, the vaccines would save money. Overall, the cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization is 150 times more expensive than vaccination. (...)
Biden should have appointed a replacement to Fauci.
Whether he's a savior or demon, he's become an increasingly divisive figure, and not good for the country.
Biden should have appointed a replacement to Fauci. Whether he's a savior or demon, he's become an increasingly divisive figure, and not good for the country.
I mean, we all make mistakes. We all learn and grow. But I still think that the people who are going around espousing "beliefs" that trump science and data and logic - they need a big red mark smack in the middle of their forehead now, so we know later that they were the reason behind all this misinformation and preventable death.
Of course, I recognize that there were well-meaning physicians back in the day, and even recently, who - with very good intentions - passed around ideas that hurt people. Looking at you, thalidomide.
But still, people need to be held accountable. It's like finding 100-year-old Nazis and deciding to let them go because so much time has passed. No.
there's the 60 minutes thing in the mid seventies too vaccine technology is like anything else the more we know, the better they get there's always a learning curve digitizing biology is allowing us to operate with super precision the benefits for healthcare now and in the future are massive two big things are going to continue to happen: life span and health span will continue to increase and the cost and availability will continue to improve broadly speaking biotech is making a huge leap forward i encourage everyone to take a look regards
Over the years, Iâve written a lot about Mike Adams and his medical misinformation website Natural News, both here at SBM and elsewhere. Regular readers know that Mike Adams has long been one of the most prolific promoters of medical pseudoscience, misinformation, and conspiracy theories dating back nearly two decades. Over the last couple of weeks, Adams, who only occasionally makes the news, has found himself in the spotlight as a result of a story published earlier this month at Ars Technica by Ax Sharma entitled âHacker Xââthe American who built a pro-Trump fake news empireâunmasks himself. Basically, itâs the story of âHacker X,â whose real name is Robert Willis, coming forward to describe how he had become the mastermind of one of the biggest fake news systems in the world but had decided to âcome cleanâ and describe how he had used his skills to promote all manner of conspiracy theories and build a pro-Trump network of websites and social media. (...)
Since then, I and others have written a number of articles about Adams, including most recently his entirely expected pivot to spreading COVID-19 misinformation, such as claims that COVID-19 vaccines are leading to a âholocaustâ, causing cancer, and promoting a âdepopulation agendaâ. (...)
I mean, we all make mistakes. We all learn and grow. But I still think that the people who are going around espousing "beliefs" that trump science and data and logic - they need a big red mark smack in the middle of their forehead now, so we know later that they were the reason behind all this misinformation and preventable death.
Of course, I recognize that there were well-meaning physicians back in the day, and even recently, who - with very good intentions - passed around ideas that hurt people. Looking at you, thalidomide.
But still, people need to be held accountable. It's like finding 100-year-old Nazis and deciding to let them go because so much time has passed. No.
I don't care much one way or the other about their beliefs or politics, but this:
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is simply garbage. This isn't the kind of statement an educator makes, it is more in the realm of conspiracy nutcase.
Edit: I don't really worry, I think they are doing a crap job educating and it's probably a scam/grift to get money and spread their personal beliefs without being 'challenged' by science or facts or gravity and the round earth.
Or they just make money by telling people how they can fix all of their kids' problems. See: DeVos, Betsy
@Miami... the supposition that people vote in their best interests would suggest they know what's best for them. In a world of constant, immediate feedback on "right and wrong", I think people will trust others to make those decisions for them, and they will believe that others who appear to agree on other topics will look after everything else. The people who want the borders closed and are against abortion tell me that the vaccines might harm me in 2 decades...I trust they're looking out for me.
i'm seeing enough buffoonery (including anti-vax) to go around for both the far right and far left propping up extremism isn't the answer (focusing on conflict is nuts and could be dangerous) it's possible that they may have gone from one side to another (first glance on opensecrets looks like they donated to the gop this last election) if quizzed i'm sure they might say something like: we did it for the children! don't people always vote/donate for what they consider their best interest?
I don't care much one way or the other about their beliefs or politics, but this:
Rather than helping childrenâs immune systems, there is a large belief in the United States that the excess of mandatory vaccines is actually damaging them. In fact, in the past 20 years, U.S. statistics prove that children are experiencing doubled rates of Attention Deficit Disorder and learning disabilities, doubled rates of asthma, tripled rates of diabetes, and a rise in autism in every single state at the rate of 600 percent.A lot of kids are suffering and it is up to us as a Miami international school community to rule out any and all possibilities contributing to the rise in chronic diseases and disabilities for our students. Before we, as a school, mandate anything that could possibly be causing so much harm to our students, studies need to be urged to be conclusive as to whether common mandatory vaccinations lead to various common health disorders. Families and children should have medical freedom. Students should not be forced to endure these immunizations until there are more significant long-term studies and examinations of the various implications and side effects of these drugs.
is simply garbage. This isn't the kind of statement an educator makes, it is more in the realm of conspiracy nutcase. This isn't anymore valid than saying "we suspect frequencies close to 2.4MHz, so we should all disable channels 1,2 and 3 on our WiFi", or "We didn't see these things before Kraft took the red dye out of Mac-n-cheese, so we demand the return of artificial coloring in our Mac-n-cheese" If that's the standards they are using for their 'education' programs, I worry about how good a job they are doing. Really - "rule out any and all possibilities contributing...." sheesh, wait until I really get going on my list of things that could be causing problems and should be eliminated or fully vetted (MANBIRD!).
Edit: I don't really worry, I think they are doing a crap job educating and it's probably a scam/grift to get money and spread their personal beliefs without being 'challenged' by science or facts or gravity and the round earth.
