How you digging the XL?
Couple out of the Koda 16.
First got a little too aggressive with the moz, but underneath had a fresh pizza sauce built on cherry and early girls from the garden. Next level fresh sauce.
"The science has not changed" may be one of the most misleading and totally nonsensical statements made by someone that is trying to influence public health regarding to covid boosters. Just total garbage rhetoric that contributes nothing to the public health debate.
Well the question was about sb's medical opinion regarding the benefit of a particular vaccine administered to specific subgroups of low risk individuals, not vaccinations generally. Ninety five percent of docs take vaccinations, but only a small fraction take RSV vaccination, for example. Cause the benefit is to certain subgroups of at risk individuals.
Here is a poll of healthcare providers from 2024 re: COVID boosting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24004420#s0030
Nearly 20% of hcps didn't want to boost themselves, and ~1/3 of hcps with children were unsure or hesitant about vaxxing their children at all, must less putting them on the booster treadmill.
Thread reads like an American Anonymous support group.
Zoom out for some perspective y'all. The American experience spans centuries at this point, but is really fucking young in the grand scheme of things. We are infants figuring out a political system that in the end just might not work out.
Three hundred as a single gift at end of the year is dumb. We kick in in 25-50 dollar increments a few times a years directly for gifts for our elementary school aged kid's teachers. A few hundred to the elementary PTO, and a few hundred more to the district education foundation stuff. The latter through their gala situations. After elementary shit gets pretty opaque in terms of tracking the money directly to the benefit of the teachers, and with sports involvement dollars start to flow to the booster clubs.
It's kind of a wild world where people are advocating boosting healthy 6 month olds and the people that think that maybe we need some hard clinical endpoint data to support that are somehow anti-science. Just bizarro tribalism.
Here is a hot take, but fits the data.
Biden's prostate cancer was diagnosed a while back. He got on ADT at some point ca. 2022. The ADT was associated with the obvious and manifest cognitive decline.
How else do you come out and say that it is hormone sensitive on this timeline? It's really the only way that the pieces fit together.
We had lots of real time conversation here. For example I was a vocal advocate of first dose vax maximization and extended interval second dosing. Just cause you have a short memory does not mean the rest of us do jimmy.
RSV vaccine strategy is an interesting case study in the context of this discussion. Initial recommendations were shared decision making model. That evolved from one year to the next into arguably more restrictive age- and risk-based recommendations. Nobody lost their minds about it. The recommendations just evolved based on experience and context. COVID booster recommendations in the US have been divorced from reality and the rest of the world for some time now. It's long overdue that they are brought in to line.