Asked about Novavax when I got my (Pfizer) shot at Tahoe City CVS yesterday, they said they did’t have it yet but were expecting to get it any day now.

Sounds similar to my family's experience (me, wife, adult kid) in late June except we all got it at the same time (probably exposed together). I somehow managed to walk the dog every day while I was...

The safety study was done using Moderna with the original+BA.1 strains. Both vaccines have been updated to original+BA.4/5 for release.

Seems like the consensus recommendation is to be very gradual about returning to exercise post COVID. I'm used to shrugging off a cold or flu and jumping back into training once the worst symptoms...

Sandra Day O'Connor went to Stanford undergrad and law school. As did William Rehnquist. And Earl Warren went to Cal undergrad and law.

That MedRxiv link is missing a character, here's one that works:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.13.22269243v1

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1482026194623086596

With Omicron, throat swabs seem to be more sensitive than nasal swabs due to different disease pathways.

It looks like the study didn't distinguish between type 1 and 2? Also no data on covariates that might also impact likelihood of COVID diagnosis. Overall it seems concerning but not conclusive given...

Once again, the vaccine is saving lives. Average pre-COVID daily death rate in the US was 2.0 per 100K population, there have been 513M doses administered in the US, so the base rate for the 3 days...

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No comments on the merits, but the author seems to be a bit of a quack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Gundry

I posted this before - it showed full mRNA vaccination providing 5.5x better protection against hospitalization than prior infection with no vaccine:...

Yes: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-cost-of-home-testing-for-covid-19-is-eligible-medical-expense-reimbursable-under-fsas-hsas

Also the cost of masks, wipes, hand sanitizer, etc. is eligible....

At least you got it. Scheduled an appointment for my wife at CVS, she drove the 20 minutes into town and waited another 20 minutes at the store just to be told that the pharmacy tech didn't come to...

When I had the shingles shot I complained to my wife that I was up much of the night with chills and sweats. She was like “so like every night for me?” I shut up after that.

New study comparing infection-induced vs. vaccine-induced immunity:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm?s_cid=mm7044e1_w

Also it took years to work out the most effective vaccination protocols for those diseases. Measles was initially a single dose given to infants (at the time almost everyone older had already been...

Regarding vaccine effectiveness and breakthrough cases:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/28/us/covid-breakthrough-cases.html

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And 30% prefer to starve.

I don't blame the people who are unwilling to get vaccinated - they're getting different information from all sides and I can see why people are mistrustful and skeptical and confused, particularly...

Wasn't everyone talking about herd immunity just a few months ago? Now it's gone from "everyone has been infected, the pandemic is about to be over" to "vaccines are useless because they're not 100%".

I feel like we don't see enough charts like this in the media:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Measles_US_1944-2007_inset.png

Or this:
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Good study, thanks for posting. Cheat code: BNT162b2 = Pfizer, ChAdOx1 = AstraZeneca.

My daughter tells me there's a Tiktok video making the rounds where some woman says that the Pfizer vaccine made her tits bigger. Now that's a conspiracy theory I can support. Just need to start a...

From the article:

As a parent whose kids were tested 1-2 times per week all last year, WTF. Does the nasal swab have the 5G microchip too? Would they have a problem with a school nurse taking...

On vaccination vs. prior infection: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm7032e1_w

TL;DR: if you've already been infected, getting vaccinated reduces your rate of reinfection...

Doesn't the Endangered Species Act protect viruses from extinction?

I found this helpful to help people (including me) understand the vaccine efficacy data from Israel:...

Took my 17 year old for shots at two different locations, back in April and early May when only 16+ was approved. She didn't have her driver's license yet so brought her passport as proof of age but...

Maybe they'll join the Dutch Reformed Church.

https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/religious-exemption-for-vaccines-christian-scientists-catholics-and-dutch-reform-church.html

https://twitter.com/Helen_Highly/status/1419007518257385488

Great (long) thread on booster shots, breakthrough cases and efficacy against variants: https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1417544454223843333?s=21

There were anti vaxxers then as well. Nothing new under the sun, etc..

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The efficacy number I've been seeing (for 2 doses of mRNA) is 88%.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/us-delta-variant/2021/06/08/15c10760-c86b-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html


Hope they...

Yes, and he dropped off of Twitter 3 days after the shot - given the timeline it seems likely he was infected before receiving the shot, and sadly became seriously ill shortly after. Of course the...

This is a little more in depth than Snopes and has fewer ads:
https://www.mythdetector.ge/en/myth/what-written-jacques-attalis-book-verbatim-and-who-fabricated-french-politicians-quote

Pfizer planning to request EUA for ages 2-11 in September, 6 months to 2 years sometime in Q4. Also requesting approval to store at standard refrigerator temperatures for up to 10 weeks, which should...

Don't know if you have Uber/Lyft where you are but if you do:...

Agreed regarding making the process simpler, but in case it helps - CVS is scheduling 2nd shot appointments, even if you got the 1st shot somewhere else. Just need to select which vaccine you got in...

Recent Bob Wachter (head of UCSF med school) thread on this: https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1383918646934720515
Basically, don't eat, or on a long flight, eat when everyone else is done and...

It depends... Some are restricted to the local county, others don't care. In particular Walgreen's doesn't seem to care (I was vaxxed in Placer County, my kid in Sacramento County, neither of us were...

Appts in Truckee have been tough to get, the Sac area has been much easier (probably because of more pharmacies and county clinics). I got mine (Pfizer) in Roseville on April 1st (first day of...

Wife had first dose of Moderna Saturday. Sore arm that night but the next day was feeling good enough to do 2 hours of resort skiing and then 13 km of skate skiing (kicking my butt in the process).

Pregnant? Working at SU? NY actually has a pretty broad eligibility criteria at this point - includes restaurant and grocery workers, college faculty and staff (and K-12), and a number of underlying...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/19/vaccines-delayed-winter-storm/

Sent a COVID test to a lab in Houston last week (before the storm), just got the results 7 days later (negative) -...

CDC says no need to quarantine for exposure to COVID after vaccination (with some conditions):
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/clinical-considerations.html

Are you at SB? I know that patrollers there are getting it (including NSP) since they're considered first responders. I don't know if that extends to mountain safety though. My son is on voly patrol...