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Yea, I fully understand all that, having worked in hospitals a ton. But to me all the below are still not an excuse for not getting tbis into peoples arms. The nursing home? Should have been high on list.
 
Kepler said:
It's gonna happen, I'm sure it happens all the time with other drugs. Very surprised they aren't on triple backup.
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Their reaction was excellent. Saved a lot of doses and a lot of quick thinking
 
Kepler said:
It's gonna happen, I'm sure it happens all the time with other drugs. Very surprised they aren't on triple backup.
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Making a truly redundant system is incredibly expensive. It does no good to have backup generators or batteries if the single motor in the freezer itself fails, or the single door seal gets damaged so the cooling system can't keep up. Every component in the chain has to be redundant, possibly multiply redundant depending on the failure rate of the individual components and the probability of success that you are targeting. If you set the bar as, say, it being acceptable to see only one freezer failure at only one hospital (out of 10,000+ hospitals) every 10 years, you will be stunned by how many layers of redundancy will be required.

The FAA mandates that we design commercial aircraft to have catastrophic incidents due to equipment failures less than once per every billion flight hours for a given aircraft type, so aircraft end up carrying around a *lot* of equipment that might only get used once in the life of the fleet, just to backstop that one really, really bad day when 3 other things failed first. Plus, of course, we had to pay a bunch of engineers for several years to sort through all the possible permutations of failure scenarios to KNOW that that one extra backup might be needed in that bizarre case.

That's a level of expenditure that typically would not have a positive ROI for a hospital, so it does not surprise me at all that they encounter failures on a relatively frequent basis (compared with truly redundant systems like aircraft).
 
But doesnt it seem a little odd that the alarm for the freezer didnt trigger when the compressor failed?
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Like the security cameras all broke the night Epstein died? ;)Hehe
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LynahFan said:
That's a level of expenditure that typically would not have a positive ROI for a hospital
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I'm surprised. I am aware how expensive it is (our industry has analogous systems) but considering how expensive some drugs and other substances are, I concluded the ROI would be positive.

I assume (1) they aren't on the hook for spoilage -- it's the vendor or somebody else, or (2) that's why god made insurance.
 
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But doesnt it seem a little odd that the alarm for the freezer didnt trigger when the compressor failed?
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Alarm would sound when freezer hits a set point for temperature. Stores are full of alarms for coolers and freezers. They still lose product as alarm isn't heard or doesn't work. Most of the stores I work in have the alarm go to security company because minimum wage employees can't be trusted to call when alarm happens.
 
In the article I thought they said the alarm was dysfunctional...seems like an odd coincidence though not really that odd I guess.
 
Kepler said:
I wasn't criticizing the staff. It sounds like they were amazing.
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Didn’t mean to imply you were. I assume accidents will happen like you said- what matters is how they’re handled and this is an A+
 
Kepler said:
I'm surprised. I am aware how expensive it is (our industry has analogous systems) but considering how expensive some drugs and other substances are, I concluded the ROI would be positive.
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hmmm - isn’t your stuff *supposed* to go “boom” on every flight?? :)
 
According to Maine CDC, as of Monday morning, 93% of the vaccine doses coming into Maine have been put into someone's arm.
 
Was reading a story about the NHL last night on The Athletic and they were saying the NHL's hope is that players get vaccinated sometime in calendar year 2021. That doesn't bode well for us to say the least.
 
Kepler said:
A Dem Rep has become infected with COVID after being forced to shelter with maskless Nazi derps during the lockdown.
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I believe a second now has tested positive.

"Hey you know that thing you we've been saying would happen if you didn't take super easy and basic precautions? And you said they wouldn't? And then they did? Yeah."
 
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