herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Mayo Clinic Wants to Establish Covid-19 Vaccine Facts

    herring_RN replied to Julie's topic in Disaster Preparation

    THANK YOU! Her is one fact that may help people decide whether or when to be vaccinated: Myth: COVID-19 vaccines will alter my DNA. Fact: The first COVID-19 vaccines to reach the market are...
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    COVID: I'm ready to leave the hospital until the end of the pandemic guilt

    herring_RN replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is from last April. It begins, "Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature." (It...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Announces Advisory Committee Meeting to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

    herring_RN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on Dec. 10 to discuss the request for emergency use...
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    How soon can we expect to see cases go down now that Biden is president?

    herring_RN replied to DesiDani's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee December 10, 2020 being held
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Announces Advisory Committee Meeting to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just a reminder that the FDA "Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee" is being broadcast now. I plan to watch off and on here: Here are the Event Materials...
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    Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    herring_RN replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Here is a working link:
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    Denial as a Strategy

    herring_RN replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Thank you! Here is a working link:
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    NBC's The Nurses - Just another nurse show?

    herring_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    We no longer have cable or satellite TV. I get ABC, CBS, NBC, their extra channels, and three PBS channels. It's enough TV for me. Not very interested in this, but will probably watch
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    NBC's The Nurses - Just another nurse show?

    herring_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I too enjoyed Code Black. In 1999 and 2000 I worked a lot of registry shifts, many at "Big County". Once I worked in the "Red Blanket Room", but was assigned a GI bleed, and R/O MI. The charge...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Announces Advisory Committee Meeting to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee December 10, 2020 Meeting Announcement Agenda: The meeting presentations will be heard, viewed, captioned, and recorded through an...
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    Covid Vaccine

    herring_RN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't remember this "rhetoric to persuade. pyramid" being taught when I took freshman English in
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    Covid Vaccine

    herring_RN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    COVID-19 Results Briefing: the United States of America December 4, 2020 ... Daily deaths in the last week increased to 1,660 per day on average compared to 1,470 the week before (Figure 2)....
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    Covid Vaccine

    herring_RN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fact Check: Has COVID-19 Had No Impact on Overall US Deaths This Year? False reports and claims about COVID-19 cases can cause people to ignore the serious consequences of failing to take...
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    Covid Vaccine

    herring_RN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The way I think of this there ARE peer-reviewed publications. During the months of the clinical trials the tens of thousands of volunteers did not exhibit safety concerns. The groups receiving the...
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    Covid Vaccine

    herring_RN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    THIS IS NOT RESEARCH, BUT IS WORTH
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    One third of nurses that die from covid are Filipino

    herring_RN replied to Tweety's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I live and worked 42 years in Los Angeles. About 25% of the RNs in Southern California are from the Philippines or their parents were. When I was a new LVN I was blessed to be oriented, mentored,...
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    New Study - Hospitals Hike Charges by Up to 18 Times Cost

    herring_RN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fleecing Patients: Hospitals Charge Patients More Than Four Times the Cost of Care SUMMARY OF FINDINGS U.S. hospitals charge on average $417 for every $100 of their total costs, in...
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    New Study - Hospitals Hike Charges by Up to 18 Times Cost

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    COVID-19 surge threatens hospital finances Hospital operating margins are poised to fall as COVID-19 cases increase, data show. Although federal relief funding gave some relief, the median...
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    Covid Vaccine

    herring_RN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    From last July: Promising Interim Results from Clinical Trial of NIH-Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine CONCLUSIONS The mRNA-1273 vaccine induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all...
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    A Few Words from Dr. Anthony Fauci

    herring_RN replied to jeastridge's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Mar. 27, 2015: Why NIH's Anthony Fauci is treating Ebola patients himself As head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci wields a $4.4 billion...
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    I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Forcing Trump’s Election Lawyers To Tell The Truth ... The hard truth dodged by those Republican attorneys — and their client and his cult — is that Joe Biden soundly defeated the...
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    Pardon for Michael Flynn under discussion at the White House

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    In offering a pardon the President is agreeing that the recipient has committed or been found guilty of a crime. The granting of a pardon to a person who has committed a crime or who has been...
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    GSA TELLS BIDEN THAT TRANSITION CAN FORMALLY BEGIN

    herring_RN posted a topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Nov 23, 2020 3:20 PM The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter...
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    A Few Words from Dr. Anthony Fauci

    herring_RN replied to jeastridge's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fauci: Thanksgiving gatherings will put families at risk As hospitalization and death rates continue to rise due to COVID-19, millions of Americans across the country are preparing this week for...
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    Post-Covid: How to Cope

    herring_RN replied to Ellekat2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sixty Minutes had a report. The young woman was told it was mental, not physical. They were wrong. The physician featured is suffering post COVID too. You can watch the video. Puzzling, often...