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Originally posted by NoPantsChico View PostI think that by early April, the supply-demand challenge will flip: As we move along the tiers and the AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines are approved for US rollout, it will be more about outreach, improving the signup process (which the public sector has thus far failed miserably at, hopefully it will improve, and if not the private sector should be better either way) and persuading skeptics.
Most places seem to have about half their population eligible right now (over 65 + comorbidities). I would guess it'll take us about 60 days to get through 60% of those people, at which point you probably start to see it open up. That's assuming we roughly double the number of doses we're given per day between now and early April.
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Originally posted by MissTCShore View PostPsychotic symptoms in COVID-19 patients. A retrospective descriptive study
Psychotic symptoms have been related to other coronavirus infections. We conducted a single-centre retrospective and observational study to describe new-onset psychotic episodes in COVID-19 patients. Ten patients infected by the novel coronavirus with psychotic symptoms and no previous history of psychosis were identified by the emergency and liaison psychiatry departments. Nine of the cases presented with psychotic symptoms at least two weeks after the first somatic manifestations attributed to COVID-19 and receiving pharmacological treatment. Structured delusions mixed with confusional features were the most frequent clinical presentations. Hence, COVID-19 patients can develop psychotic symptoms as a consequence of multiple concurrent factors.
(For what it's worth, one of the psychologists I work with told me that we've seen cases similar to this in the Kansas City area. While this study included only 10 patients, it is apparently not uncommon.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311337/
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Originally posted by sean View PostPfizer dose #1 down. 3 weeks to vaccine dose #2. I read a study today showing this single dose reaches 90% efficacy after 21 days. I am about 5 weeks from going out to dinner.
I’ll be stocking up on tortillas for the coming apocalypse.
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Originally posted by KUGDI View Post
Too bad. You should take this one isolated example of the vaccine not working and extrapolate this to the entire country.
I’ll be stocking up on tortillas for the coming apocalypse.
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~95% efficacy means that there will be people who do not get the benefits of the vaccine. I don't think they're isolated examples, but they are the expectation. That's why a society shoots for as many people as possible getting vaccinated to help protect the people who cannot get the vaccine or the people who are not realizing the vaccine benefits.
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Originally posted by sean View Post~95% efficacy means that there will be people who do not get the benefits of the vaccine. I don't think they're isolated examples, but they are the expectation. That's why a society shoots for as many people as possible getting vaccinated to help protect the people who cannot get the vaccine or the people who are not realizing the vaccine benefits.
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Some lower-stakes but still interesting insights from The Atlantic: Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body
Among the earliest and most enduring (discomforts) have been the type I’ve experienced—aches and pains that emerge without obvious injury, then stick around. “By May, I was seeing a lot more neck and upper back pain, also accompanied with headache,” Jaspal Singh, a pain- and rehabilitation-medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, told me in an email. These problems have since taken over Singh’s practice—he estimated that before the pandemic, 70 percent of his patients were complaining of lower-back and leg pain. Now more than half have the kinds of aches that come from hours at ad hoc workstations—curving your shoulders forward, jutting your head out in front of your body to look at a laptop whose screen is too low, and maintaining that position for hours at a time, all while sitting in a chair meant to support a human for the duration of a meal, not a workday.
And people aren’t just working in more challenging physical circumstances; they’re also spending more time doing it. “In the office, people work for eight or nine hours, but now they find themselves working 10 or 12 hours at home just because there’s no commute time,” Natalia Ruiz, a physical therapist at NYU Langone Orthopedic Center, told me of her patients. “Expectations of productivity have increased because you’re working from home.” In her practice, she’s seen more complaints of back and neck pain, but also more “repetitive strain” injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis in the hands and forearms, and pinched nerves in the elbows.
I'm definitely not working more than I did before (boundaries, yo!), but I did endure some bad ergonomics before it became clear that the pandemic was here to stay and I needed to invest in a proper WFH setup. I still have some lingering shoulder discomfort from that time, but not bad enough to make an appointment somewhere before I get vaccinated, so I'm holding off. Eye strain has also been an issue at times.
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Originally posted by NoPantsChico View PostSome lower-stakes but still interesting insights from The Atlantic: Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body
Among the earliest and most enduring (discomforts) have been the type I’ve experienced—aches and pains that emerge without obvious injury, then stick around. “By May, I was seeing a lot more neck and upper back pain, also accompanied with headache,” Jaspal Singh, a pain- and rehabilitation-medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, told me in an email. These problems have since taken over Singh’s practice—he estimated that before the pandemic, 70 percent of his patients were complaining of lower-back and leg pain. Now more than half have the kinds of aches that come from hours at ad hoc workstations—curving your shoulders forward, jutting your head out in front of your body to look at a laptop whose screen is too low, and maintaining that position for hours at a time, all while sitting in a chair meant to support a human for the duration of a meal, not a workday.
And people aren’t just working in more challenging physical circumstances; they’re also spending more time doing it. “In the office, people work for eight or nine hours, but now they find themselves working 10 or 12 hours at home just because there’s no commute time,” Natalia Ruiz, a physical therapist at NYU Langone Orthopedic Center, told me of her patients. “Expectations of productivity have increased because you’re working from home.” In her practice, she’s seen more complaints of back and neck pain, but also more “repetitive strain” injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis in the hands and forearms, and pinched nerves in the elbows.
I'm definitely not working more than I did before (boundaries, yo!), but I did endure some bad ergonomics before it became clear that the pandemic was here to stay and I needed to invest in a proper WFH setup. I still have some lingering shoulder discomfort from that time, but not bad enough to make an appointment somewhere before I get vaccinated, so I'm holding off. Eye strain has also been an issue at times.
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I’ve had a lot of conversations about increased productivity not being the new norm. People aren’t going to keep working 12 hour days much longer. Smart companies will get out ahead of it. Reactionary companies will be replacing massive portions of their staff. People can be just as productive from home as from any office (overall), but that doesn’t mean the long hours a lot of people are putting in is sustainable.Last edited by KUGDI; 1 week ago.
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Originally posted by MissTCShore View Post
Are you deducting those expenses from your taxes (for the set-up), or did you turn those in to your employer? Also, do you get to deduct a portion of your home expenses from your taxes?
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