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Pneumonia shots are usually explained to patients as being protective against bacterial pneumonia, specifically that caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Turns out they also help protect against other enemies like coronaviruses and influenza viruses. So...
by Examined
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 08:48 AM PDT
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Perhaps you want to be less of a sitting duck for the holidays with Covid, flu, and RSV on the prowl. I’m broadcasting a quick heads up from my small examining room in the real world of primary care. I live here. The media and news sources are right -...
by Examined
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 04:44 AM PST
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The world is nearly four years into the COVID-19 pandemic, but how the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages human lives, both in the short term and across a span of years, is still becoming clear. Earlier this ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 03:10 PM PST
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by zenbassoon
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Amy Maxmen KFF Health News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends new covid-19 booster vaccines for all — but many who need them most won’t get them. About 75% of people in the United States appear to have skipped last year’s...
by KFF Health News
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 09:46 AM PDT
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This morning I had a scheduled flu shot and a surprise COVID jab in a special Saturday session run by my G.P in London. I had already booked my 2 minute slot for the flu vaccine but got a message via the NHS app that they also had COVID boosters...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 11:52 AM PDT
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Updated COVID-19 vaccines �are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots. And this fall, the first vaccines for another scary virus called RSV are rolling out to older adults ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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In our office we are starting to get a lot of questions about the new RSV vaccines that have finally arrived, from people on both sides of the vaccine debate and along the continuum in between. RFK Jr. is not adding meaningful facts to the discussion....
by Examined
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Sunday, Jun 4, 2023 · 7:43:54 PM +00:00 · Peter Olandt Trigger warning: Highly vivid description of vomit and other common cold disgustingness. So before I realized what was happening, my sweet little girl quietly walked over to the other room....
by Peter Olandt
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on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 12:20 PM PDT
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Trump’s no longer president, but he and his racism could still be responsible for millions more American deaths from a new pandemic disease. How and why? I’ll explain in just a moment, but first let’s look at the disease itself. One reason egg prices...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Feb 10, 2023 at 07:03 AM PST
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DK Smart People Survey: Did you receive the COVID- 19 Bivalent booster ? Did you get your flu shot ? COVID-19 and Flu vaccines save millions of lives, and they are generally free and available in many locations. Of course it cannot be implied from those facts that the majority of people are vaccinated. It can be implied that our hospitals are bursting...
by JennaT
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on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 11:05 AM PST
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The flu virus can infect practically every species of mammal. It’s also capable of infecting birds. For a disease to readily infect two groups whose last common ancestor lived somewhere between 320 and 340 million years ago is pretty unusual, but far...
by Mark Sumner
94 comments
on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 11:52 AM PST
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This may seem like a small thing in the scheme of our whole world spinning out of control, but if I don’t vent here, I might explode and spew gobs of gooey gunk all over innocent bystanders. Actually, that would be a fitting end for them, because...
by ladyrima
320 comments
on Tue Dec 06, 2022 at 04:21 PM PST
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Last week, it became clear that under new CEO Elon Musk, Twitter had stopped enforcing a policy against spreading disinformation related to COVID-19 and vaccinations. They didn’t make a big announcement about this. It wasn’t until people began...
by Mark Sumner
452 comments
on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 10:44 AM PST
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A new flu vaccine might not seem like a big deal, but this isn’t the kind of vaccine you can currently get at the local pharmacy.�In a study published this week in Science , researchers from the� ...
by Mark Sumner
84 comments
on Sun Nov 27, 2022 at 01:06 PM PST
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Folks. Things are bad in healthcare right now. We're faced with the worst pediatric health surge in the history of our country.
I worked in Pediatric Acute Care at the University of Virginia ...
by SquireForYou
190 comments
on Wed Nov 23, 2022 at 12:10 PM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Nov 25, 2022 at 02:50 PM PST
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There’s a lot to hold our attention in the news right now: midterm campaigning, the grim specter of an Adderall-besotted urban yeti looming over our lives, Elon Musk doing his part to fight inflation by flushing $44 billion down a high-tech libertarian...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
125 comments
on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 11:20 AM PDT
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About a month ago, I noticed a worrying trend- we started to see a lot more pediatric patients in the ER than we normally did. This was anecdotal at first, but then I heard my friends in primary care and pediatrics were getting absolutely hammered with...
by SquireForYou
93 comments
on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 11:04 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden just gave a quick talk about Covid and got his booster in front of the world. His mini-speech on Covid hammered every point, from vaccines to tests to antiviral pills. He talked about how far we’ve come, including the longest time...
by Liberal Thinking
7 comments
on Tue Oct 25, 2022 at 11:45 AM PDT
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- With righteous outrage and humor, Rep. Jared Moskowitz calls out MTG as Putin's envoy to US CongressBack in 1954, when Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign was at its peak, the Wisconsin senator picked a fight with the U.S. Army, claiming there was lax security at a top-secret army facility. The U.S. Army hired Boston lawyer...23 comments 109 Recs
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- Dickie Betts has passed, now jamming with Duane. The Allman Bros were a major part of my life’s soundtrack. Not because I was into them but my little brother was. Donnie had them cranked all the time, Southern Rock was his genre. Donnie also recently...120 comments 305 Recs
- Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, my heart has been heavy at the suffering of so many innocent people in Ukraine. War is always a tragedy, but this war is particularly touching to me because of its David vs. Goliath, good vs evil quality. The bravery...145 comments 295 Recs
- Today should be an interesting day in Judge Merchan’s court room.� Donald Trump reposted an attack by Fox’s Jesse Watters on the jury members selected for Trump’s current trial in NYC on ...215 comments 435 Recs
- I’m hoping Mark Sumner will be up with a live blog but there’s a load of stuff already happening: All from WaPo Liveblog: Justice Juan Merchan dismissed Juror No. 2, a nurse who said she had concerns after people she knew identified her as a juror and...373 comments 327 Recs
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- In Xaxnar’s excellent post The truth about Amtrak, I began a comment that started to turn into its own essay, and I decided not to hijack the discussion and to write a standalone piece instead. Xaxnar begins: President Joe Biden has made it a priority...91 comments 243 Recs
- I am no fan of religion but will acknowledge there are some benefits to churchlife. My Mom loved church music and looked forward to choir practice and Sunday mornings I was always taken to Sunday school. Dad prefered the Church of the 18 holes when...169 comments 111 Recs
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...189 comments 493 Recs
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- Today at Columbia University the NYPD was called to execute a fascist raid against college students…exercising their right to protest…. www.nytimes.com/… I haven’t seen anything about this here..,.but this is a police state type action. These young...2 comments 2 Recs
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