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Yeah, never mind. The intelligence level of this board is too low for this information.

Good work, doctors.



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Then why did she call out the white people having graduation parties?



You ever go around Newman kids? They’re spoiled as frick. She said “privileged” when she should’ve said “spoiled”.
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ooh yeah im just going to leave this one here. This was before we shut down.


You think you’re making a good point, but you’re not. This is like citing a quote from mid season about the team with the best record being the best in the league, then looking back at it after the Super Bowl and acting like it wasn’t a reasonable assessment.
That’s very good news that I hadn’t heard. Thanks for that.
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Ok if you say so


Lol at the downvote. Sucks to suck. Try sticking to things you know frickall about. Medicine and vaccines aren’t it.
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Vaxart is in phase 1 of an oral vaccine that won’t have to be stored at low temps and will travel better. It prob won’t be out until March 2021 tho, and that’s if everything goes smoothly. Moderna is def the front runner right now tho since AstraZenaca messed up a bit.


Astrazeneca didn’t “mess up a bit”, they appropriately paused their trial and found a new illness someone developed was unrelated to the vaccine, and then resumed the trial.
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A typical freezer will go to -4 F. Common Deep freezers go to-20. Since the phase 1 trials, Pfizer has determined that their Vaccine can be stored for up to 3 months at -4 F, like the Moderna vaccine.



Link? Everything I‘ve seen says -110 F. If you’re correct that’s great news.
There is also this technological hurdle to clear.

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The technology to produce vials/syringes that will withstand their low temps that RNA vaccines need doesn’t exist yet. I’m currently in a trial with Pfizer and received two doses of vaccine vs placebo and each time had to wait for the injection to be prepared for 30-45 minutes (or just going through the motions with saline so I wouldn’t know I was getting placebo).
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told you you were lying didn't I dude


1. Uninformed
2. Opinionated about topics he doesn’t know
3. Can’t count to 6


Life is going to be tough if it isn’t already.
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Vastmind


Congrats man. I had two classmates who had long careers before going to med school—one had been a fighter pilot and the other was a police officer. They are both great physicians and earning well for their families now. Many others in my class left shorter careers for medicine and are thriving now too.

Nothing wrong with going after your dreams.
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Link?

According to the CDC. We are at 109% of “expected” deaths for this year at 1,881,000. That puts excess deaths estimated at 155k. You’re off by 100k.



205,000*. Transposed a couple of digits. Though since I last looked it’s up to 215,000.

I got the information from GitHub which publishes their methods here:

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And the economist publishes the GitHub data in an easily digestible form here:

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Peer reviewed data on this topic following the statistics through May:

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What we really need is a total deaths in the USA by year as a % of population to see if there is any meaningful statistical correlation between Covid and overall deaths.


That’s been done and all cause deaths are outpacing the average by 250,000 as of the end of July, so by that it seems to show deaths are underestimated.
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In the very same CDC table mentioned earlier, the final comorbidity listed (other than "all other causes) is:

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Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events


There are currently over 5000 deaths in this category. Seems like this could cover a wide range of things: car wrecks, suicides, fall injuries, drug overdoses, and murders.


So how would you classify someone who was an accidental injury (let’s say they shot themselves in the leg with a gun in their pocket) and were in the hospital and contracted COVID and died, or went to the OR to fix their gunshot injury and never came off the ventilator because they had COVID? “Other adverse events” also covers iatrogenic diagnoses, so if someone got a line infection or a UTI while admitted for COVID it goes into that category.

Even if you were making a valid point (which you aren’t), that’s still only 5000 out of 190,000 deaths.

You’re grasping at straws to try to show that data that you don’t like is incorrect, and yet again you are someone who doesn’t have the knowledge base to know what the data you’re looking at means. I suggest asking the university of Facebook for your tuition back.
From your own article:

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Despite health officials knowing the man died in a motorcycle crash, it is unclear whether or not his death was removed from the overall count in the state.


So was it counted or not? Doesn’t seem to definitively say anything and it also doesn’t sound like a widespread problem if so.
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Are we talking about the same experts that list motorcycle crash deaths as China Virus deaths?

Those experts?

Or not those experts but other ones totally not making it up?


Let me guess, your cousin’s, uncle’s, barber’s roommate died in a motorcycle accident and the family said the death certificate blamed COVID.

I call bullshite unless you, or anyone actually shows something concrete of that. Doctors don’t risk their medical licenses to falsify death certificates, especially for a reason that benefits them in no way.

Your post was so dumb I felt like it wasn’t worth my time to respond. Probably shouldn’t have but it’s already typed, so here you go you cretin.
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Several of the comorbidities present in the remaining 94% shared a causal link with being infected with COVID.



Going beyond just that, 50% of the remaining 94% had ARDS (a form of respiratory failure directly related to the virus) as their only other diagnosis. Like I said, people even bring up up the 6% stat are only showing then don’t know anything about death certificates and formed an opinion with no knowledge. The knowledge is also easy to get as you can download the table in an excel spreadsheet from the CDC and look for yourself, so on top of being too ignorant to realize their ignorance and to unaware to realize they should defer to people who actually do this for a living, they’re lazy for not just taking 5 minutes to look for themselves.
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Lol the CDCsaid exactly what I said it did, all of those deaths had complicating factors except 6%, sweet melt though homie


Actually, no, you’re wrong. You just don’t have the knowledge base to understand the data. You’re like a rat crawling across a page of text trying to make sense of the shapes.
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But this is exactly correct. 6% are covid only. The biggest co-morbidity? Respiratory failure.


I filled out a staggering number of these in March and April. It was the worst 6 weeks of my career so far. Hopefully it stays that way.

Every single one of them I filled out more than one diagnosis, because nobody died of COVID alone. They died of respiratory failure (from COVID) and/or viral sepsis (from COVID).

Any death certificate filled out like the 6% that had just COVID were actually incorrectly/lazily filled out. Anyone who has filled one out before knows that.
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I interviewed at the only DO school in the nation that also offers a dual degree Ph.D (at least at the time I was interviewing), and I couldn't pick out what was different between the MD curriculum and the DO curriculum other than the osteopathic stuff.


There’s not much difference between the curriculum of Caribbean med schools and US allopathic ones either.

There is however a big difference between the quality of matriculants and the quality of products of the schools. The same is the case with Allopathic vs. Osteopathic med schools. There are exceptions of course, but the averages are lower for osteopathic, plus almost nobody that has an allopathic option for enrollment picks an osteopathic school.
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Should change it to Milwaukee, which of course is Algonquin for “the good land”