@DHStom@tedlieu Sadly there are many doctors here in the South that are recommending that their patients avoid the vaccine. I'm headed to a visitation tonight. Guy was 57, had type 2 diabetes, doctor said avoid the vaccine. Horrible.
@sarahzhang As a pharmacist in Texas, we just started (today) giving vaccines to people other than LTCFs. We now do 65 and up, BUT we also do below 65 with certain health conditions, and there is NO REQUIREMENT OF PROOF of those conditions. You can see where this is going.
@AnandWrites Testing is overrated. Inequality is overrated. It's nice to know that anything that has a substantive influence on public and economic health outcomes is overrated.
@DonnaYoungDC@sbg1 Since this a prescription medication, I would be curious to know the current laws for the board of pharmacy in DC (unless he came by it elsewhere such as NY). TX, for example, only allows prescription under strict parameters.
@sbg1@atrupar Age, gender and CV history all play a role in how risky this drug is to any one person. If one is thinking of "borrowing" their relatives hydroxychloroquine and feels that "it couldn't hurt", DON'T. It very well COULD hurt.
@sbg1@atrupar The cardiovascular risks associated with this drug are also present with common antibiotics. So, can it kill? Yes. Is it common? Probably not. The reprehensible part is when his behavior is modeled throughout the broader population. Higher numbers = more unnecessary deaths.
“America is first in the world in deaths, first in the world in infections and we stand out as an emblem of global incompetence. The damage to America’s influence and reputation will be very hard to undo”— Amb. Bill Burns says in @EdwardGLuce tour de force https://t.co/Onn2kvTFe0
@Public_Citizen Patrick Bateman is in charge of the pandemic response and serves as the de facto President of the United States. We’re good. Shouldn’t be a problem.