A medical coder. Someone whose job is data entry. Has decided to throw in their two cents on epidemiology. God grant me the confidence.
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It couldn’t be because the patients this ass has never seen, but whose forms they’ve collated, are largely adults and therefore are already vaccinated, could it? Data entry is an honest gig, I don’t mean to deplore it, but this is a genuine way-the-fuck-out-of-your-lane moment.
dec 29, 2023, 11:11 pm • 37 2 • view
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dec 29, 2023, 11:16 pm • 31 0 • view
Possibly, but measles is still doing the rounds in the USA and in Europe, with hospitalisations/deaths, so no idea where this person works as a coder. Diphtheria has popped up again - a truly horrifying disease. TB never went away. And so on.
dec 30, 2023, 12:03 am • 13 2 • view
Measles is coming back www.who.int/news/item/16....
dec 30, 2023, 12:06 am • 4 3 • view
Grim. All the old Victorian diseases seem to be making a comeback. These anti vaxxers should take a tour of an old graveyard sometime, and see how many children died at very young ages.
dec 30, 2023, 12:24 am • 13 2 • view
that's the thing tho - they don't find it horrific. show them a cemetary full of dead victorian children and they either shrug or say "things are different now," not connecting the dots that the vaccines are WHY it's different. the mental gymnastics are just.... >_<
dec 30, 2023, 12:33 am • 9 1 • view
Mental, isn't it. Folk in those days would have given anything to save their children. Yes some of the diseases are treatable with antibiotics, but the risk of resistance is a whole other nightmare.
dec 30, 2023, 8:43 pm • 3 0 • view
One thing I didn't know about measles is that it wipes the 'memory' of antibodies, leaving you open to catching sth you've had before and recovered from.
dec 30, 2023, 8:45 pm • 5 0 • view
yeah! that's nuts! like, why would you wish that on a child?! gaahhhhh
dec 30, 2023, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
yep.
dec 30, 2023, 8:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Just until the resistant-to-all-known-antibiotics strain of tuberculosis that’s in India really gets rolling.
dec 30, 2023, 12:32 am • 8 0 • view
Oh, FFS.....
dec 30, 2023, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
*Just wait
dec 30, 2023, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m a medical coder and it seems like you are confused about the role. We READ medical records and TRANSLATE that into a code. She’s an asshat, true. Not qualified to give medical advice, true. The data we create is literally used by WHO, etc. to monitor disease. C’mon now.
may 25, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view