I dunno. My big pharma and big mask checks easily cover my medical school loans and the personal and professional fallout from committing fraud and compromising my personal ethics. All us physicians are in it together and if anyone breaks ranks...well they know what will happen. ***
I also...
WisconsinWildcard
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafePCR often will have false negatives. There are several reasons/circumstances that can increase your risk of a false negative. For instance, a common sporadic disorder that we use PCR for is HSV encephalitis (herpes encephalitis). Often you have to test 2-3 times to get a positive result and you always...Last edited by WisconsinWildcard; 08-07-2020, 09:41 AM.Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeYou have already been taken to task by others but just to correct you, yet again, you picked 60K which is a very bad year for influenza. Most people, you included, probably do not know that these are estimated numbers, they are not confirmed by testing. Covid deaths (despite what idiots say) have much...Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeAre you really trying to make the argument that having a higher R naught level and letting the disease persist in a population does not cause downstream effects like continued high mortality in high risk groups?...Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeTo clarify as states differ in semantics with that and DNR/DNAR language: the person you designate is basically everything. Most of the verbiage in the documents is clinically irrelevant....Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeYou are really doubling down on being a heartless idiot, aren't you. Just some education...
Plenty of people derive meaning while in nursing homes. You also are conflating a lot of things. Many discharged patients from the hospital go to a nursing or long term care facility for further...Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeHe is a living example of Nobel's disease. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/0...irrationality/
Not sure why a structural biologist fancies himself a epidemiologist.
No shit. We could close down so many hospitals and save hundreds of billions a year if we just...Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeBeda Stadler is an idiot. Here is his hot take in mid-June.
"The virus is gone for now. It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold."Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeWest nile has an interesting life cycle in the states. It has a high mortality in crows and they are a major vector. It is cyclic. The crows get infected, which causes it to spread and humans get it. All the crows die, and it largely disappears. Crows recover, and it comes back. Cleveland had one of...Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeI agree. It is bad. I have gotten pretty deep with many of the science deniers on the site and wasted much time, but this one is a new level....Leave a comment:
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This is a question for any of those who are on the public/private line and contribute to a TSP. Is the 19,500 contribution limit include both TSP and 401k (or 403b) contributions?
I now have access to both a TSP and 403b, but the way I understand it, I am still limited to 19500 total of...Leave a comment:
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I meant to have a winky emoticon after my last post to help with the lightheartedness of my post but the new format make that near impossible. Fucking boomers
Anyway it is good eventually. Not sure when but put the time in....Leave a comment:
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It gets better...snob
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As usual agree with Les. This may help as well. Take a look at this graph in the paper. Depends a lot on the test. Also know that asymptomatic carries should follow a similar course of testing positivity.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2765837Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020in USCHO CafeOne thing that people often miss when it comes to ICU bed capacity is that during the pandemic, hospitals have stopped basically all elective procedures that would take up an ICU bed. Up to 50% or so of ICU beds in a tertiary care facility with multiple, organ specific ICUs are usually taken up by routine...Leave a comment:
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WisconsinWildcard replied to Covfefe-19 The 11th Part: Suck It Up And Die Grandpa I Need A Manicure!!in USCHO CafeI will not reply directly to the bad faith actor who linked a laughably superficial (or dishonest) interpretation of specificity and sensitivity. For those interested, when using a Bayesian approach to address a clinical question, you estimate a pretest probability of disease, then interpret the test...Last edited by WisconsinWildcard; 07-18-2020, 04:18 PM.Leave a comment:
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