But that’s due to the vaccines!!! /s
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Marge posted this, her false information is expected.
But look at that one response, how creepy is that?
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Bold of her to assume his 8-year-old will reach adult age.
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Hong Kong reported 1,042 cases in the week ending May 10. In the previous week, the number of cases was 972. The surge in infections has been continuing since the beginning of March, when there were 33 cases weekly, according to the government of Hong Kong.
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Covid-19 cases in Singapore rose 30 per cent from 11,100 in the week ending April 27 to 14,200 cases in the week ending May 3. Over the same period, the average daily Covid-19 hospitalisations rose from 102 to 133, according to the government of Singapore.
The government added that the increase in cases could be due to several factors, including waning population immunity. At present, LF.7 and NB.1.8 — descendants of the JN.1 variant — are the main Covid-19 variants circulating in Singapore, together accounting for more than two-thirds of the cases. Notably, JN.1 is also the variant used in the formulation of the current vaccine.
Cases also surged in Thailand after the recent holiday season. The country has reported a total of 71,067 infections and 19 deaths so far this year.
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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
Regulations.gov
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What is this fuckery?
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A non pay-walled article.
Another lingering question from the framework is how easy it will be for people deemed at high risk to get access to seasonal shots. Makary and Prasad lay out a long list of conditions that would put people at risk of severe COVID-19 and therefore make them eligible for a seasonal booster. The list includes: obesity; asthma; lung diseases; HIV; diabetes; pregnancy; gestational diabetes; heart conditions; use of corticosteroids; dementia; physical inactivity; mental health conditions, including depression; and smoking, current or former.
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I left my comment, and gave them another reason why limiting vaccines based on age is a bad idea. This could have a negative effect on travel for business purposes. If a country requires proof of vaccination and the traveler is under 65, what are they supposed to do? We cannot control which nations might ask for that - now or in the future.
That list contains a lot of conditions that insurance companies tend to bring up when they want to charge higher rates. Maybe that’s just a coincidence… 
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Buy some OTC cortisone cream and put a tiny bit on your finger. Wash your hands and voila, you use corticosteroids!
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Beats my plan of smoking half a cig.
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I think the US could in the past do just that in most cases “you want to maintain tariff free access to our market? Enact laws we want, and don’t those we don’t”.
It’s the Washington Consensus and unilateral tariffs endanger it.
As an aside I’m seeing Asian kids at work in masks at the moment which I hadn’t been seeing recently. We are ventilating quite vigorously.
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Did you ever live with someone who smoked?
My eye doctor was looking at my retinas and he asked me if I was ever a smoker. I said no, but that both my parents had smoked heavily and I had lived with secondhand smoke for the first eighteen years of my life. His immediate reply was ”That’s smoking!”
(I’m old enough to qualify for the shot anyway, though.)
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Nah, but in theory my asthma qualifies me.
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goddammit.
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Fuck it… they should just put it out like all those fucking woo-woo “doctors” do… I mean, how many products are on the market right now in our local pharmacies or whatever that say “THIS HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY THE FDA” but are available for sale anyway.
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For anyone who knows Physics Girl, this is encouraging, but sobering as far as what this shit actually does.
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Just thirty minutes into yesterday’s nearly seven-hour meeting, one committee member broached one of the largest looming questions, saying, “If a different strain was selected for this season, would that require additional clinical trials, etc.?”
The question was asked by Capt. Sarah Meyer, a pediatric vaccine expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and member of the committee, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC.
Jerry Weir, FDA director of the viral products division, responded, calling the question “a little off topic.” The advisors were to decide only what should be in the vaccine, Weir said, “and then the rest of it will be—we’ll work on that later.”
Fucking ghouls…
Just for informational purposes:
Not that RFk and the MAGAts care about facts, of course, but for those who do…
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