Cowboyardee

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 higher mortality rates from non-covid conditions due...

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 N95s are surprisingly effective even when reused ...

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 know.

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

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 their speech and/or professional conduct violates the ...

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 do.

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, last I checked. Again, nope. With th...

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 bulletproof anyway. But it's beyond obvious th...

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 yielded very interesting data. But I have no idea...

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 misleading, and largely the result of over-simplified repor...

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 people under 50 than the virus itself, despite a p...

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 patients, while also bumping the more 'stable' patien...

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 (which of course include the participants with di...

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 happens to profoundly sick people in SIRS and ARDS. Pne...

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 hospitals and other employers shouldn't make it ma...

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 21,000 people under the age of 54. That's, what, 1...

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. Strangely, I've never once coded anyone due to vaccine ...

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 the vaccines, now please? Maybe we can weigh the lik...

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 authorized for emergency usage because they performed ver...

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: https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download And also, we now have th...

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 the immediate future. I say this because the emerg...

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 you're not actually a bot. However, I don't think...

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: Nurses have opinions and some of those opinio...

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 lowered bar for safety that comes with emergency ...

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 seasonal nature and the relative ineffectiveness of ...