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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social

RFK has posted this on the other site and it's utter garbage. Millions of children + people under 65 won't be able to get a COVID shot anymore. A shot they wanted and needed. More people are going to get unnecessarily sick. More will die. For what?

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aug 27, 2025, 9:17 pm • 108 35

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mgg517.bsky.social @mgg517.bsky.social

He also promised to not make decisions as he is not an MD. Liar. Senator Cassidy, still waiting for your reply on this issue since you voted for this jerk.

aug 28, 2025, 12:16 am • 2 0 • view
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Keeper of the Flame @rosieogrady53.bsky.social

For seniors: Will Medicare still cover costs of vaxx? Shingles vax is being denied by Medicare. Will Covid vax be covered or only thru individual's healthcare plans if a Dr says it's medically necessary?

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aug 27, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social

Here's the CDC's list of "underlying conditions" associated with higher risk for severe COVID-19 www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...

aug 27, 2025, 9:28 pm • 44 10 • view
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Roxy @roxy33.bsky.social

A doctor said people should claim the exception "physically inactive".

aug 27, 2025, 9:32 pm • 3 1 • view
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social

Reminds me of Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), who is a pediatrician, tearing into RFK a coupla months ago for all his dangerous lies about vaccines. "I will lay all responsibility for every death from a vaccine-preventable illness at your feet." www.huffpost.com/entry/congre...

aug 27, 2025, 9:31 pm • 145 47 • view
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Lollioness @lollioness.bsky.social

I have a question for someone with knowledge of medical insurance; has RFK limited the vaccinations that Medicare/Medical/private insurance are required to pay for, and are people who do not have the qualifying conditions able to purchase the vaccine for themselves at full price? Or are they

aug 28, 2025, 3:00 am • 9 0 • view
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Lollioness @lollioness.bsky.social

completely forbidden under any circumstances from receiving the vaccine if they do not have the qualifying conditions?

aug 28, 2025, 3:00 am • 7 0 • view
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social

Labour in the UK has cut 13 million vaccines to clinically vulnerable people. It’s all so worrying this move towards antiscience.

aug 28, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jasmin Watson @jasminwatson.bsky.social

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aug 27, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Miles Long [demisexual_flag_emoji] @freedadhugs.bsky.social

Well, I have depression, so that takes care of me, but now I have to figure out how my kid can get the jab.

aug 27, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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SheiSho @xxriotgrrrrrlxx.bsky.social

Covid mandates were ended years ago. Where was this clown?

aug 27, 2025, 9:32 pm • 7 0 • view
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It's Aunt Masha to you @mashamasha.bsky.social

$20 says he's mad that it's been covered under ACA and is willing to make any old shit up to make that coverage go away.

aug 27, 2025, 9:52 pm • 5 0 • view
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AlterEgo PhD @murray104.bsky.social

RFK needs to leave the planet. He is endangering the lives of so many. I can get a Covid shot but not the thousands of students on my campus? Someone please explain.

aug 27, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social

We literally can’t get them unless a doctor is willing to agree our conditions qualify. And what if we don’t have conditions- we just can’t miss work or caregiving or don’t want to give it to a vulnerable person we live with?

aug 27, 2025, 9:24 pm • 7 1 • view
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It's Aunt Masha to you @mashamasha.bsky.social

Ohhh that is a valid concern for me. My mom's health has taken a turn for the worse this year and a lot of the care fell on me, being only child and all that. (She gets a ton of professional care too, through Medicaid, nobody tell the current admin please, they might decide to pull it) So, yeah,

aug 27, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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It's Aunt Masha to you @mashamasha.bsky.social

I pretty much can't get Covid since I now have to visit her frequently. I'm not above telling my Dr that and letting him write in whatever qualifying condition I can be made to sound like I have.

aug 27, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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LionHeart2233 @lionheart2233.bsky.social

Jen what are you talking about? Read his list again. He says very clearly, he will not stop anyone from getting a covid shot if they want one. The whole list is correct. The whole world has already done what he is doing. No one is recommending covid shots to healthy people any more.

aug 27, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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The worst person you know @biden2028.bsky.social

Absolute bullshit. For example in Australia, we still recommend annual vaccination and are provided them for free www.health.gov.au/our-work/cov...

aug 28, 2025, 6:02 am • 1 0 • view
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LionHeart2233 @lionheart2233.bsky.social

The WHO From the WHO. Not recommending the shot for healthy people under age 65. Source: www.who.int/emergencies/...

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aug 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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LionHeart2233 @lionheart2233.bsky.social

Not quite. From your source, it is only "recommending" the shot for those over age 65 and the vulnerable. You should not be risking the shot if you're healthy under 65. They are saying you can get it if you want, but not recommending it.

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aug 28, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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The worst person you know @biden2028.bsky.social

Given i have had multiple with no adverse effects, I'll risk it.

aug 28, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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BDE - Big Donkey Energy @boulevaardvark.bsky.social

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aug 28, 2025, 12:40 am • 2 1 • view
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Arty-san @arty-san.bsky.social

I stopped in at the pharmacy where I've been getting vaccinated. I've gotten #Covid shots there almost since the day they became available for my age group. Today for the first time, they didn't have any. They said #flu should be available next week and Covid might be available and to check back.

aug 29, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
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FractalGardens @fractalgardens.bsky.social

Placebo controlled trials for a vaccine against a virus that can cause death or severe health impairment is patently unethical. What IRB would approve this? New cancer trmts are compared against the standard of care, not a placebo. Evaluate vaccines for safety & efficacy (accomplished for Covid)

aug 27, 2025, 9:28 pm • 6 1 • view
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LionHeart2233 @lionheart2233.bsky.social

I will volunteer for the placebo controlled trial along with millions of others of us who have never got this shot and never will. I have got lots of vaccines in my life, but would never get a covid shot, insane, haven't you looked at the science?

aug 27, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chet Davis @chetdavis1959.bsky.social

Go, and I say this with all due respect, fuck yourself.

aug 27, 2025, 10:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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The worst person you know @biden2028.bsky.social

You realise that in a placebo control trial, you may or may not receive the vaccine? The point is to randomise the groups so you remove as much variability as possible.

aug 28, 2025, 8:47 am • 1 0 • view
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LionHeart2233 @lionheart2233.bsky.social

Yes, true, the recruiters will know who never had the shot, but the people doing the recruiting do not tell the people doing the study who they are. That's how you do it for a placebo controlled trial.

aug 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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The worst person you know @biden2028.bsky.social

I really don't think you understand. In a placebo trial, the participant will receive either a placebo or a treatment, unknown to them. The point is to control for the effects of the participant being in the study. You cannot say yoh will never receive the vaccine and then enter the trial.

aug 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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FractalGardens @fractalgardens.bsky.social

In a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, *no one* knows who got what. Everything is coded. When the trial is completed, it is analyzed. Occasionally, an interim analysis will show a clear treatment effect and end early, because to deny life-saving treatment is unethical.

aug 28, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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The worst person you know @biden2028.bsky.social

From what I can guess, they have confused cohort study with placebo controlled studies.

aug 28, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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FractalGardens @fractalgardens.bsky.social

I think they are confused in general. And that is an understatement.

aug 28, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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LionHeart2233 @lionheart2233.bsky.social

Yes, but the way described it will work as well, using recruiters. It can be made to work, maybe not perfect but still good, far better than nothing.

aug 28, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Frances Del Rio @kali8989.bsky.social

and what's the fvcking rationale for this rationing???

aug 28, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
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MAGA Can’t Surf 🌊 🏄 @spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social

There is never rationale, no strategic objectives, key results, nor measurable impact

aug 28, 2025, 7:17 am • 0 0 • view