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  1. Covid Vaccine

    Cowboyardee replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have an alternative (but equally unsettling) explanation for the rise in non-covid excess deaths above the threshold: covid has overwhelmed hospital infrastructure to the point that we are seeing...

  2. Lessons learned from Covid

    Cowboyardee replied to St.BaptistRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hmmm... I've learned that proning works well (maybe even better) even before intubation. Got reaquainted with ultrafiltration. Learned a lot about the immune system. Learned that...

  3. Covid Patients on enhanced droplet precautions in a regular room

    Cowboyardee replied to telenurse2009's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We don't have anywhere near enough negative pressure rooms. I mostly just wear an N95 and face shield full time. Been neck deep in covid since April and havent gotten it somehow, as far as I...

  4. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You understand that you're posting a survey from before the results of the vaccines' clinical trials were published,

  5. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    In the US, the first amendment protects individuals from governments persecution for speech. It does not, should not, and never has protected individuals from sanctioning by licensing bodies when...

  6. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's not 'interesting but weak.' It doesn't support the claim you're using it to support. Full stop. Stop appealing to it. If you have compelling evidence, I'm all ears. If not, quit pretending you...

  7. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nope. False positives aren't really a problem with the PCRs or antigen tests. Very high specificity. Actually, false negatives are. Something like 1 false negative for every 3 or 4 positive tests,...

  8. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I didn't read the study itself. I don't know where it was published, who peer-reviewed it, or crucially what the conclusions were in the original publication. It's not like peer-review makes a study...

  9. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I've seen headlines about offering the Pfizer offering the vaccine to the placebo group. You're certainly right that more time for the placebo group to differentiate from the vaccinated group would've...

  10. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I want to emphasize that this is speculative (I know you weren't necessarily claiming otherwise, in fairness). For one, discussing different "strains" of the virus is probably a little...

  11. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I, for one, was verging on giving up because you seem to be filibustering this thread, and were refusing to back down from wholly unsubstantiated claims like where you said the vaccine was riskier to...

  12. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You are on a forum filled with people who work in hospitals. Next to this thread are a few thousand accounts of hospitals being overrun by covid-19. In my hospital, we've doubled our critical care...

  13. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The trials grouped type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes together. The data that was published reported efficacy for the diabetes group, specifically. Though adverse events were reported in general...

  14. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I treat covid, in an ICU. And I promise you, as a professional, that you don't know what you're talking about. At all. Secondary infections are common in covid patients. Because that's what...

  15. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    By the way, everybody on this thread agrees it should be voluntary. As far as I remember, not a single poster has said that they want the government to enforce vaccination. I've been on record saying...

  16. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is ridiculous. Find some real data, not a vague out of context quote talking about relative risk. "Almost none"? https://www.CDC.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm Try over...

  17. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Please stop making up BS and posting it as a fact. You have no way of knowing this, and it is almost certainly incorrect. I've personally coded a dozen or more covid patients under 50 this year....

  18. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Geez guys. How could it? The trials are a few months worth of data. Please read them. I posted them more than once. Can we have an intelligent discussion about the likely long-term effects of...

  19. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We need a majority of the population to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. I've read 70%; I've read 80%. Hard to say exactly. But a lot of people. Meanwhile, these vaccinations were...

  20. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'll put that information out there, because I want to believe it helps, spoon-feeding or not. Here is the phase 3 trial of the pfizer vaccine, as submitted to the FDA:...

  21. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The government will not be mandating covid vaccines, now or in the foreseeable future. I feel very confident saying that. I also think employers by and large won't be mandating covid vaccines in...

  22. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You posted this same response, verbatim, twice. It was also at the beginning of the last page. Since some of your posts respond specifically to questions asked in this thread, I'm going to assume...

  23. RN coworker discouraged me

    Cowboyardee replied to LPNwithBIGdreams's topic in General Nursing

    After a few years of arguing with other nurses on this forum about everything from etiquette to the definition of "bullying" to life and death decisions, I've finally come to a profound realization:...

  24. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A caveat to start with: I've said a couple times on this thread that I don't believe the vaccines should be mandatory at this time, due to concerns about both the autonomy of healthcare personnel, the...

  25. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    Cowboyardee replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    All viruses mutate, including sars-cov-2. I never claimed otherwise. My point was just that, compared to the influenza virus (which has a notoriously high rate of mutation, contributing both to its...