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    Smart watches for health care providers

    JVBT replied to Zapi791's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is an old post, I realize, but I just purchased a Venu SQ smart watch and Ilke it, but the second hand goes dim after < 15 seconds. How do nurses who use smart watches take a pulse or count an...
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    If you could go back in time, what would you tell the first American COVID patient before he boarded the plane from Wuhan?

    JVBT replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I agree. However, how possible was / is this, realistically? What happened, happened on a mass scale, and there are opportunists everywhere, ready to take advantage and have a huge impact. So,...
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    If you could go back in time, what would you tell the first American COVID patient before he boarded the plane from Wuhan?

    JVBT replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I would tell him that cases were coming from Europe in addition to China, and the virus was likely circulating in December in the
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    COVID: It's Time to be Outspoken

    JVBT replied to Jenna Arsenault's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is exactly correct and thank you for writing this for all to see and learn. As Scott Gottlieb (yes, Media Master and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb) says, "we know their viral titers fall...
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    COVID: It's Time to be Outspoken

    JVBT replied to Jenna Arsenault's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I just looked up hospitalizations by age. On Oct 16, the 18-49 year old age range has about 800, while the 65 and over have a little fewer than 200 more than that, so your comment tracks. I'll keep...
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    COVID: It's Time to be Outspoken

    JVBT replied to Jenna Arsenault's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Is there no byline? If not, why not? I agree with just about everything in this (authorless) piece and really appreciate it. I may start a thread of my own, but lately, it seems that the comments...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes, it's dependent on vaccination, which is my point. And I think we can tell some things about Delta, based on how it's passed through other countries. I don't think it's unforeseen that with the...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    But don't you think we actually do have a way this thing is gonna go? I mean, you could pretty accurately track the gradual increase in cases with the slowdown of the vaccinations. One has something...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Question for those nurses working with patients staying in your facility two weeks or even longer: how do things go in your setting with patients who refuse to get
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Cases are definitely on the increase now, even if
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    Take the Time to Watch!!

    JVBT replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nearing the end, and O my Lord, he's talking about the "globalists" and vaccination as a way to enact behavioral norms. (Because he says you have to be vaccinated to go to a, wait for it, Dallas...
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    Take the Time to Watch!!

    JVBT replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    At about a quarter of the way through I was finding myself agreeing with him on many things. But towards the end of this exceedingly long video, I asked myself has all the world gone crazy? In my...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There is still time to turn the increasingly swaying ship around. People are practically walking down the street desperate to give vaccines. What is the key to unlocking this asinine hesitancy? That...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Something - not Texas - is definitely up. Last week, our percentage decrease in cases day by day was increasing impressively, usually about 25% on up. Now it's down to a -0.2% decrease, a fairly steep...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The rapid decrease of cases in the US is certainly decreasing, but I don't think Texas went from ~1,000 cases per day to
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There are vaccines, they are just not used in the US. FWIW, I have heard, but don't know for sure, that the TB vaccines are mostly used to prevent an encephalopathy in children as opposed to...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I tend to think that what's going to happen is that, due to lack of vax availability, vaccine disinformation, vaccine hesitancy, denial and refusal, is that the virus will simply remain endemic in...
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    COVID-19: Ivermectin

    JVBT replied to Kooky Korky's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Also
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    California is a huge state, not affected by Covid uniformly. The Bay area has been notable for taking the virus seriously, its diligence, good planning, masking and vax
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    JVBT replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Not that I'm any kind of expert, but what I'm hearing is that naturally acquired immunity lasts up to the present date. In other words, when they started measuring antibodies, if they were 6 months...
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    U.S. pauses J+J Covid vaccine due to cerebral blood clots + thrombocytopenia

    JVBT replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    From what I understand, the one person we know of who died after the J&J vaccine was also given heparin, now known to be a contraindication in this particular case. There is at least one other...
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    COVID vaccine may help long-haulers

    JVBT replied to nursej22's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A rare sign of
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    I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    JVBT replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Right. It involves talking it through. There have been some interesting papers, shows, podcasts on how to talk through the thinking of someone against vaccines. I think you're right, you won't be able...
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    I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    JVBT replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Ireland has had over 3,000 deaths from Covid this year. Their yearly flu deaths are max 500. You sound like you've been listening to Ivor Cummins, someone I've liked for his challenge to prevailing...
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    I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    JVBT replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The mRNA platform used by Moderna and Pfizer (two manufacturers of the Covid vax) is not new and, according to a Nature article I found online, has been well researched since at least 2008....