A Trump-hating professor at the University of California recently posted “Got my flu and new covid vaccines at CVS this morning”:
His friends (nearly all Trump-hating academics) were thrilled. Here are some of the 27 comments:
- Sounds good. For the theorists amongst us …. Yale researchers last year used, simple parsimonious 😃 models (see screenshot) to compute the optimal time of year for a Covid vax. For NYC, it’s Sept. 15th.
- Where? There appear to be none available (yet) in San Diego. Using their scheduling tool, I could only get it to declare me eligible if I clicked the “I have an underlying condition that makes me susceptible to severe outcomes from the COVID-19 virus”. Is that what you did? (Response: CVS in La Jolla Village Square. I went to pick up a prescription and the pharmacist asked if I would like to receive the flu and/or covid vaccine.)
- Good on you. I have been told to wait until next month. Wearing my mask on the MTA until then.
- Mazel tov. I had Covid a few weeks ago so I will have to wait a few months. (This is my favorite; she got 7 previous shots and then got the disease and her confidence in the value of Shot #8 is not diminished.)
Readers: I hope that all of you posted on Facebook after receiving a vaccine!
No news on the fed rate cut, Jimmy Kimmel, or Facebook glasses attempt #1382974615. Being told the next big thing is yet another goog glasses reboot that requires users to write prompts to flip a light switch was pretty miserable.
How many Microsoft engineers does it take to flip a light switch on? Zero, Bill G. just changes the standard to on. (Of course, then all the lights in the house go on, small bug.)
> Wearing my mask on the MTA until then.
Why only “until then”? Belt and suspenders, Scientists. (Those goog glasses sound wack.)
The truth about flu vaccines, and “36,000 flu-deaths per year”:
> The CDC’s decision to play up flu deaths dates back a decade, when it realized the public wasn’t following its advice on the flu vaccine. During the 2003 flu season “manufacturers were telling us that they weren’t receiving a lot of orders for vaccine,” Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications at CDC’s National Immunization Program, told NPR. “It really did look like we needed to do something to encourage people to get a flu shot.”
> So the CDC created the term “influenza-related” (not “influenza-caused”) to include ANY deaths where the flu MAY have been a factor. Using this new, loose definition, CDC’s computer models could tally people who died of a heart ailment or other causes after having the flu. The CDC now says there on average 36,000 “influenza-related” deaths per year. Yet previously in 2001, only 257 death certificates listed the flu
source: http://archive.is/DbmUk