My dad was due to go under the knife tomorrow but they had to reschedule it to next week, because the hospital downtown is currently full.

Will give you one guess as to why.

Hint: it's not because Zach Braff and company are filming Scrubs II: Electric Boogaloo.

My google alerts told me there was a scrubs sequel and it led me here. So disappointed.

So uh, the FDA approved Moderna...

jason from volo wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:04 am

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:53 am So uh, the FDA approved Moderna...

Bring on the damn mandates.

Visiting a country (Korea) that has less than 40 percent of its population vaccinated *not* due to hesitation but due to lack of access makes me more pissed off at the vaccine-hesitant in the USA. So many countries are BEGGING for better access to the vaccine and there are tens of millions in the USA who do not GAF.

And didn't the US and Canada largely model their Covid response centres after South Korea's successful clinics?

Here in Canada, provinces just stopped buying Astra Zeneca because nobody would take it.
What privilege to be so fucking choosey!

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:18 am Here in Canada, provinces just stopped buying Astra Zeneca because nobody would take it.
What privilege to be so fucking choosey!

No doubt because of the bad press. Ironically the AZ and Pfizer vaccines when looked at honestly have very similar rates of efficacy, but the AZ costs £5 and the Pfizer costs £32.

Coincidence?

Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:52 pm

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:18 am Here in Canada, provinces just stopped buying Astra Zeneca because nobody would take it.
What privilege to be so fucking choosey!

No doubt because of the bad press. Ironically the AZ and Pfizer vaccines when looked at honestly have very similar rates of efficacy, but the AZ costs £5 and the Pfizer costs £32.

Coincidence?

Exactly my thinking.

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:31 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:52 pm

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:18 am Here in Canada, provinces just stopped buying Astra Zeneca because nobody would take it.
What privilege to be so fucking choosey!

No doubt because of the bad press. Ironically the AZ and Pfizer vaccines when looked at honestly have very similar rates of efficacy, but the AZ costs £5 and the Pfizer costs £32.

Coincidence?

Exactly my thinking.

Last I checked, the Pfizer cost about $20-30 per dose in the US. Has the Pound Sterling tanked that badly with Brexit already?

Since I've been charged at least five times that much for a bag of saline IV, a 200-U pen of insulin runs about $110 retail, and things like monoclonal antibody treatments run in excess of $2k per dose, this really doesn't seem that extreme a premium.

Geiginni wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:41 pm

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:31 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:52 pm

No doubt because of the bad press. Ironically the AZ and Pfizer vaccines when looked at honestly have very similar rates of efficacy, but the AZ costs £5 and the Pfizer costs £32.

Coincidence?

Exactly my thinking.

Last I checked, the Pfizer cost about $20-30 per dose in the US.

The US pays more than the ROW for most pharma drugs.

enframed wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:02 am

Geiginni wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:41 pm

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:31 pm

Exactly my thinking.

Last I checked, the Pfizer cost about $20-30 per dose in the US.

The US pays more than the ROW for most pharma drugs.

Yeah but £1 is like a million dollars in freedom money (kind of like how a dollar in freedom money is like a million dollars in Canadian dollars). That means it's significantly more expensive in the UK despite the fact that medicine is generally much more expensive here. I think the point was that this is very odd, all things considered.

brownreasontolive wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:53 am So uh, the FDA approved Moderna...

This isn’t correct. Moderna is still under emergency authorization. The news was that Moderna had finished submitting all of their data to the FDA. Pfizer is still the only vaccine in the US to finished the process.