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04-09-2020, 06:13 PM | #19322 | |
Now you've pissed me off!
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Fortunately, all flu shots have been inactivated vaccines for several years now, which means you can't get the flu from the shot, but a mild fever and malaise are not uncommon. |
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04-09-2020, 06:17 PM | #19323 |
I love your mom
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The odds of dying from the flu shot are a lot smaller than dying from the flu.
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04-09-2020, 06:22 PM | #19324 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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04-09-2020, 06:28 PM | #19325 |
Mahomes: We Are All Witnesses
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People waiting in long lines not exactly social distancing to get paper unemployment forms because they lost their jobs from said social distancing mandates... sad irony.
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04-09-2020, 06:29 PM | #19326 | |
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04-09-2020, 06:31 PM | #19327 |
In Search of a Life
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04-09-2020, 06:33 PM | #19328 |
Beyond the Rapids
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Many of the young people who are hospitalized with COVID are smokers/vapers. It's thought that because of the particular type of receptors the virus binds to in the lung, which are also affected by smoking and vaping, that smokers and vapers might be more vulnerable than first thought. Either one should be considered to put even a young person into a high risk category.
Perhaps vapers are overrepresented among covid patients as well because of how much sharing of those devices goes on or correlation with other risky behaviors such as a lack of distancing. In any case, among people you wouldn't normally expect to get hit this hard by a virus, smokers and vapers seem to be right alongside the obese, diabetics, and people with other chronic lung/heart issues. FWIW |
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04-09-2020, 06:35 PM | #19329 | |
Life is changing..
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04-09-2020, 06:37 PM | #19330 | |
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04-09-2020, 06:37 PM | #19331 |
I love your mom
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04-09-2020, 06:39 PM | #19332 | |
Mahomes: We Are All Witnesses
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04-09-2020, 06:40 PM | #19333 |
Prestige Worldwide
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Looks like about 250 more cases today and 40 less deaths so far today per Worldometer.
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04-09-2020, 06:44 PM | #19334 |
Life is changing..
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I wonder if quitting smoking now would have any impact - or if it's too late.
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04-09-2020, 06:45 PM | #19335 | |
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Animal models have also demonstrated that smoking leads to an increase in Ang II and a decrease in ACE2. Again, more of the bad, less of the good. If you take those factors together (again this is a theory without much evidence yet), then the mechanism of insult makes sense to me. |
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