When I go to the doctor, I bring a list of medical questions that I asked Shazam

I calculate the radius using dead reckoning

That’s an impressive ratio, by the way.

The guy is the director of the NIH and the acting director of the CDC. And you’re worried that he’s being canceled?

No way, the National Academies is supposed to support science. Platforming those who undermine science runs counter to the National Academies’ mission, and to human progress.

The National Academies has really debased itself. Sad to see.

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You should buy my self-help book that addresses this, it‘s a bargain at just $129.
Just send over your checking account number and routing number.

I used to think fixed election dates were the best, but a mechanism to force early elections would be helpful here.

Unbelievable

It will split your sides

I got you man.
When will you pay me back?

I moved to Canada from the US and there are no pennies here. I haven’t missed them once.
(The relative purchasing power of a penny is about the same in both countries).

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Why do you keep talking about "pair of thyroid hormone"? I just have one thyroid.

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Regarding the White House’s announcement that Trump has a rash to his neck due to a “preventive“ skin cream:

-this is almost certainly fluorouracil (probably with calcipotriene added), which treats certain pre-cancers (actinic keratoses) and early stage squamous cell carcinoma. Not deadly.

As an American studying at university in the US, I tried to organize a college trip for students to serve as election monitors overseas.

We had to scrap the trip because most countries have snap elections and we couldn't plan. I thought those countries were so dumb for that. Now I know better.

Next year, when private equity replaces all physicians with AI, penisomab sales are going to skyrocket.

This made my day

It’s worth it, even if it’s just to have another passport for visa-free entry to places.

Confounding Variables

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(Technical note: there are already 2 forms of flu vaccine in the US that are not made from eggs: Flublok and Flucelvax.)

You’re right, and I didn’t do a good job clarifying in the main portion of the thread that most of our flu vaccine comes from eggs but not all.

5. The hostile regulatory and trade environment will drive vaccine manufacturers out of the US. Vaccines will be made in other countries. There's an advantage to having robust vaccine manufacturing in your country--you get dibs when there's a pandemic. The US is going to lose that advantage.

4. An advantage of mRNA vaccines is that an mRNA manufacturing facility can make many different vaccines, and switch between them. That lets you surge production of any particular vaccine if there's an outbreak.

You can only use eggs to make vaccines for flu and MMR, and they can't be scaled up.

3. The FDA is again revealing that it is anti-vaccine. This decision reinforces that we are almost certainly not going to have any new vaccines approved so long as the Trump/RFK regime remain in power.

2. The decision shows that FDA can't be trusted, because the FDA spelled out for Moderna exactly what it wanted in a drug submission. Moderna followed those instructions, and the FDA rejected the application anyhow without reviewing it. Goodbye US drug development.

The beauty of an mRNA influenza vaccine, such as what Moderna has developed, is that you can manufacture it extremely quickly, and you can easily and quickly adjust the vaccine strain to match the virus, even as it mutates.

Eggs can be finicky, and might not grow the exact vaccine strain you want.

Also, you don't want a vaccine supply that depends on chicken eggs, because if there is a flu that infects both humans and birds, and it kills the birds, now you might lose the things that lay the eggs that make your vaccines. (Chickens that make vaccine eggs are sequestered to prevent this).