Just sent this video to you on FB.

https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1519335793831129088?s=20&t=YJdUjwMsVEGwTzBG9uvDQQ The Explainer Paxlovid is the latest COVID-19 treatment that’s been all over the news. The drug was granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December for anyone ages 12 and older who weighs at least 88 pounds—and Pfizer recently began Phase 2 and 3 trials in children and teens ages 6 to 17. Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill that can be taken at home to help keep high-risk patients from getting so sick that they need to be hospitalized. So, if you test positive for the coronavirus (and your doctor writes you a prescription), you can take pills at home and lower your risk of going to the hospital. The drug, developed by Pfizer, appears to have a lot of positives: It had an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization and death in the clinical trial that supported the EUA, a number that was high enough to prompt the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to prioritize it over other COVID-19 treatments; it’s cheaper than many other COVID-19 drugs (it’s provided for free by the U.S. government while there is a public health emergency); and, perhaps most reassuring, it is expected to work against the Omicron variant. “I think it is the beginning of a ‘game-changer,’” says Scott Roberts, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist. “It's really our first efficacious oral antiviral pill for this virus. It shows clear benefit, and it really can prevent hospitalization and death in people who are at high risk.” If what Makary says is true, shouldn't we know more about what's really her status?

You gonna tell him he can't?

@taiwan_girl Yes, that's correct, TG.

Do the stats measure parallel productivity? Let’s say a well-meaning participant gets invited to a meeting but his active participation is needed for only 5 minutes out of the 45 scheduled for the meeting, so for the other 40 minutes he either “arrived late” or “left early” or “be on mute with video off” and still remain productive working on other things. I’d be very surprised if a company doing its measurements based only on what’s recorded in virtual meetings can get to these things that are not recorded by virtual meeting tools. This well-meaning participant would just contribute to the “arrive late” or “leave early” or “mute/video off” statistics. Before you ask “why invite someone to a 45 minute meeting when he’s only needed for 5”, the practical answer is there are many things for which a 5-minute real-time interactive Q&A can resolve a lot more than back-and-forth group emails that take over 50 minutes to compose.

Same here, we get them at Costco, too. The ONLY downside is when the kids eat pasta, Rao's seems to have much more of a red/stain on their cheeks than other pasta sauces.

BTW, the F-16 production line in South Carolina is still working on orders for foreign governments. Modernization of older F-16's is still done back at the old Texas plant.

Brilliant.

Somewhat serious, somewhat not serious question. But, will some birds live that would otherwise be killed by bird "lung cancer" or something equivalent since wind and solar are not as pollution causing as fossil fuel plants.

@George-K said in Tonight's dinner.: @LuFins-Dad said in Tonight's dinner.: Chuck E Cheese Where the "sausage" on the pizza looks (and tastes) like rabbit droppings. At least they have (had?) a salad bar. Yeah… but they do sell beer, so…

Like any pack of ravenous animals, the leftist mob can sniff out an 'other' who can't be trusted to toe the line. The pretense of righteousness can become almost an afterthought. At some point, it is just a transparent feeding frenzy of barely evolved primates.

If I was her, I'd hire a good law firm...Dewey, Cheatham & Howe.

C'mon, man. There's no need for that, just wipe your ass with the buns and be done with it.

@George-K said in Happy Birthday!: Doesn't look a day more than 1834. That's older than I get in a week!

Yeah, we’ve heard and seen it around here. We’re also having a nasty allergy season. Poor Finley’s eyes are more bloodshot than @jon-nyc ’s when he lived in Brazil… And at night he’s getting nasal congestion bad enough that he’s not sleeping well… Last night I bet we had under 4 hours sleep…

Beautiful

He became a piano tech and stopped posting because he thought expressing controversial views was not good for business. Last I heard, anyway.

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