Sugoi & Yokunai

Not so fast. CIDRAP published this report stating that a medical study showed that getting myocarditis from the mRNA vax is less severe than getting it from the virus itself. But let's take a look at the study itself.  The time span of the study is December 2020 to June 2022 so it covered the period of all the strains, from Wuhan ancestral to omicron. But look how they define myocarditis from COVID-19 infection vs from the vax:

Individuals admitted to the hospital for myocarditis within 7 days after receipt of any dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine were categorized as having postvaccine myocarditis.  Individuals admitted to the hospital for myocarditis within 30 days of SARS-CoV-2 infection and who did not receive an mRNA vaccination within the preceding 7 days were categorized as having post–COVID-19 myocarditis.

How was 7 days determined as the cutoff? I've always felt that those who have had COVID-19 and later get the vax have it harder, because the immune system attacks spike protein, which the vax places onto the surface of myocardial cells. I bet they didn't even check to see if a vaxxed person had COVID-19 before (natural immunity). This may be why the cohort considered unvaxxed and COVID-19 infected had a higher rate of hospitalization. And I always am suspect of studies that don't take into account all the problems after the first 14 days after the first jab. This is why trust in the medical profession has fallen.

“Evolution to strategies that are neutral to race and ethnicity is essential. Ultimately, all who aspire to a profession in medicine and cardiology must be assessed as individuals on the basis of their personal merits, not their race and ethnic identities.”

...even anonymised data can sometimes be linked back to you if it’s specific enough, Woollven warns. “So while Apple isn’t directly storing your conversations in a way that’s linked to you, there’s still a small risk that a very specific query could potentially be connected to you.”

OCPP says this extra money could disqualify some folks from receiving federal aid like food stamps, then forcing Oregon’s government to pay the difference.

“Because those programs are income-based if you make above a certain amount, you no longer qualify for them. Measure 118 runs the risk of bumping people off those programs,” Ordóñez said. “The authors of this measure anticipated this problem and wrote in a hold harmless provision that would require Oregon to fill in the gap if the federal government says this rebate counts as income. This means a large amount of money the measure raises will actually go toward filling the gaps it’s created.”

What’s markedly different about this technology is that it removes the clinician from the loop, making the child — or their parent or carer — the end user.

“What this tool is going to do is take emergency triage data, make a prediction and have a parent directly approve — yes or no — if the child can be tested,” Singh says. This alleviates the burden on the clinician and accelerates the whole process. But it also creates many unprecedented issues. If something goes wrong with the patient, who is responsible? And if unnecessary tests are done, who will pay for them? “We need to, in an automated way, obtain informed consent from the family,” Singh says. And the consent has to be reliable and authentic. “It can’t be like when you sign up for social media and there are 20 pages of small print and you just hit accept,” Singh says.