MunoRN RN

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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You've never heard an explanation of people should get vaccinated other than "get vaccinated! Period! ? So you support a mandate that all nurses who don't work in a Covid unit should be required...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Handwashing is not without adverse effects, and I've often wondered if the much of the attempts to rationalize opposition to vaccines was just so people wouldn't have to admit they are too afraid of...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think you're conflating a couple of different issues. I was responding to the general argument that Covid isn't really that bad, and that vaccines don't really offer all that much benefit....
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The study did not compare viral loads in those who were fully vaccinated with the unvaccinated, so I'm not sure where you are getting your conclusion from. There are however a number of studies...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    How do you figure patients admitted with Covid got their infections from staff after
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm required to perform hand hygiene to reduce the risk of spreading infections to patients, is that not about protecting people, but about controlling
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    From your link: "Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020." In other...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Even prior to Covid, vaccines have been well established to be able to end pandemics, primarily through reducing the ability of viruses to spread, it's certainly worthy to consider that Covid might be...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    All vaccines utilize mRNA to create antibodies, and overall mRNA triggers cell production a few billion times per day in all of us. The only difference is that with traditional vaccines the...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't know that seat belt laws are the most accurate example, whether or not people should have the freedom to turn on their headlights at night would be a better example. Is it a step towards...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hospitals aren't mandating vaccination because they want you to be vaccinated for own benefit, many could probably care less. It's because patients have a right to be protected from harm where there...
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    Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    MunoRN replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our ICU is now fully Covid, non-Covid ICU patients are scattered elsewhere in the hospital, including a cath lab and EP lab. Out of 30 Covid patients in the ICU only two remain un-intubated,...
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    Covid-19 Religious Exemption

    MunoRN replied to NurseA2021's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I would keep in mind that religious exemption only come into play when there is no job-related reason to require vaccination. When it comes to direct patient care, it's already been well established...
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    Why did the CDC do this?

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm not sure what you're saying the two have to do with each other. But no, I don't think there is anything nefarious about ensuring that all entities can pursue medical research and that the...
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    Why did the CDC do this?

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The CDC, along with other public health entities on other countries, pursued patents on the genetic sequencing of SAR-CoV (1) in 2003 to ensure that research on the virus could be conducted by any...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't thing it was ever claimed that the immunologic response to an mRNA or any other vaccine is isolated to the injection site (there is no (viral load of an mRNA vaccine). A b and t cell mediated...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We develop a primarily b cell response to the common cold, which is short lived. This is why of the couple hundred virus strains that have the potential to trigger a cold, the vast majority are...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't know that people really don't care about things like the risk of thromboembolic events related to vaccination, it's that this is indeed a concern and that getting vaccinated is by far the most...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The number of people who have died as a result of Covid and those who have died with, but not if Covid are tracked as separate data. I'm not sure where people are getting that a physician would...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "this is what people are hearing" because people you are spreading the misninformation. Like 'traditional vaccines', mrna vaccines familiarize your immune system to a disease so that it can mount...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have to assume your reference to "a study of 50k people" refers to the Cleveland Clinic study, which included 1,200 who had been previously infected and were unvaccinated (not 50,000). Given the...
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    Pfizer Approved by FDA

    MunoRN replied to JadedCPN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I would guess it will transition from "I don't trust a vaccine not approved by the government" to "I don't trust a vaccine if it's approved by the
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No, I don't see those as being fundamentally different statements. It's not quite an even comparison though since in your example the person is suggesting a course of action where there is no...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There is fairly overwhelming consensus on who should get vaccinated, everybody, it had been that those who had an anaphylactic reaction to the first dose should not get the second dose, until the...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    MunoRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Again, I'm not sure that leaving something out that is implied in the statement anyways creates a fundamental difference in what was said. If someone says "the covid vaccine causes covid", then...