[COVID NEWS] Tech Tips to Score a Covid Vaccine Appt. at CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens & More

By artappraiser on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 10:27pm |

is a FREE ACCESS WSJ article, no paywall:

Battling websites for a vaccine appointment? @joannastern booked slots for eligible family and friends using these tricks https://t.co/u3J9RqT4Wq
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 6, 2021

Previous COVID NEWS thread HERE, covering 3/18 thru 3/31

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-tips-to-help-score-a-covid-19-vaccine-appointment-at-cvs-rite-aid-walgreens-and-more-11614594600?mod=e2tw

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Do vaccines lower transmission? YES, absolutely.

How much? By a lot—75% to 94% in recent studies.

Do vaccines completely eliminate any and all transmission? NO.

That is why we still need to mask after vaccinating until cases are very low or zero. #COVID19

(HT @MonicaGandhi9) pic.twitter.com/0fMpSSmOjZ
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 1:47am

Mom of 4, and a public defender in NYC, has learned to be refreshingly blunt:

Apportioning health care—or anything else—based on race is wrong. Racism is racism, even when you dress it up in the language of “Equity”. https://t.co/SxWM3N9rbT
— Maud (@MaudMaron) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 4:01am

Except for a valued threatened Indian minority culture, e.g. a state's mainstay and legacy*? Last Lakota speakers? Or if a black or other minority shows 5x vulnerability to an illness over others?

Race *is* a category. Gender *is a category. Age *is* a category. It's whether using a category for particular policies improves society or takes it backwards, is a valid *temporary* measure, or requires longer term fixes...

I'm pretty tired of all these absolutes. "The exception makes the rule" - if there's no fudge factor for specific border cases, it'll turn brittle and break.

*Statws give tax breaks and incentives to companies, particular industries, build stadiums to woo money-losing events.... Are our human categories so averse to *any* weighted support?

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 4:22am

BREAKING: Fully vaccinated individuals can resume low-risk travel, the CDC says, though they should still wear a mask when traveling on public transportation, including airplanes. https://t.co/tbfgQoG74k
— ABC News (@ABC) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 12:05pm

um yeah, BIG FAIL for trust in Biden admin:

This is embarrassing https://t.co/JsvjmmJJlr
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) April 2, 2021

If they needed to express nuance, CDC shouldn't have sent out that press release as worded!

edit to add, Conor Sen's comment:

“Just because the CDC said something doesn’t mean you have to follow it” applies regardless of who the President is. If they want public buy-in they need to earn it.
— Conor Sen (@conorsen) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 1:28pm

Dr. Fauci gets more than a little peeved when Neil Cavuto asks him about the idea that, even if we're all vaccinated, we'll still have to wear masks into 2022. He says we can't say for sure, but we shouldn't be saying that it's going to be said as a definitive. pic.twitter.com/qd3YXsVjLv
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 5:14pm

sunlight!

“Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.” https://t.co/v8mvocUJCB
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) April 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 3:43am

“VERY ILL”—many players of the NHL Vancouver @Canucks are “very ill” with #COVID19, some confirmed to have the aggressive Brazil #P1 variant. The 14-player outbreak is “unexpected” and the team is in “tough shape”. Practices & games cancelled. BC has huge #P1 outbreak. pic.twitter.com/3Bw6gEy23M
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 7:20pm

Let this sink in—wealthy sports franchise, NHL @Canucks:

—Had >50% of its team #COVID19 sickened

—Many decimated “very ill”

—Despite strict workplace protocols

—Despite big PPE budget

—Despite daily testing

The #P1 variant is just that badass.https://t.co/Ohve0bQqft pic.twitter.com/LzFkiRRYKp
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 11:42pm

“The vaccine is, to me, I believe, is saving life, and that's what Jesus Christ would want us to do, to help save life.”

– ⁦@Franklin_Graham⁩ https://t.co/zu761LUzIy
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 3:30pm

why Franklin Graham's statement is a big deal:

Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread as quickly as the virus itself. “If we can’t get a significant number of white evangelicals to come around on this, the pandemic is going to last much longer than it needs to." https://t.co/Azj3QULDHD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 4:40am

Turned out to be quite a bit worse! https://t.co/1F3rMaIprS pic.twitter.com/enmg6Uk3xr
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 5:32pm

No black-white disparities in the covid mortality rate among those with an education level less than "some college." pic.twitter.com/T2taa908vv
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) April 4, 2021

3/ LOL scratch that I still forgot to include the link I included in my previous, failed attemptshttps://t.co/L7TWKtolly
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) April 4, 2021

4/ This is so useful and nicely displays the limits of our hyperessentialized, frequently class-erasing national conversation about race pic.twitter.com/E2o70ToDy2
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) April 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 12:36pm

Suicides were down in 2020, not up:

These are preliminary estimates, but Biden repeated as recently as two weeks ago (https://t.co/1Rq8rCSFjP) that "suicides are up" amid the pandemic, and there continues to be no good national evidence for that claim. https://t.co/vjx9QUdD10
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 12:38pm

60Mins distorts DeSantis?

Looks pretty bad...

This is wild. Watch Ron DeSantis’s full answer on Publix, Walgreen’s and CVS vaccine distribution and look at the edited cut 60 Minutes used: pic.twitter.com/FqTRgOZS9Z
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 5, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 1:35pm

THANK YOU. I saw how viral that 60 Minutes thing went yesterday, and it did have a very suspicious political smell to the whole thing. I am glad some people are questioning it, as nasty as DeSantis can be. Actually, I didn't bother to dig into it much precisely because it smelled like politics and very much a built narrative.

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 1:43pm

Good advice using the 60 Minutes example. (Keeping in mind: outrage = ratings, Trump was a pro at that, and as evidence, you have the decline in cable TV news ratings after he left office):

Any time something makes you outraged there’s a high likelihood it was manufactured and stripped of nuance.

Spend a month, any time you’re outraged, looking at the primary source. You’ll be shocked at how much popular narrative is pure deception. https://t.co/i4XB75K8cf
— Austen Allred (@Austen) April 5, 2021

Here’s the text - they cut everything in bold.

This is not an accident. This is not journalism. These people are intentionally lying to you for profit and should be treated as such.

And this kind of “reporting” is not unique to 60 Minutes. pic.twitter.com/jSzVZdwGhS
— Austen Allred (@Austen) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 2:32pm

It's almost enough for slander? (IANAL)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 2:36pm

it's certainly the difference between political activism and journalism

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 4:24pm

The former head of Florida's emergency management agency (a Democrat fwiw) pushes back on 60 Minutes story tying Publix donations to DeSantis to its state vaccine distribution contract https://t.co/svEckfoIU8
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 4:36pm

only if more rappers would do this:

It’s my vaccination card... go get vaccinated everyone! https://t.co/Of7IE0QvXj
— E v a n (@evanmanivong) March 23, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 4:23pm

FABULOUS!

Can you imagine Trump complimenting Schumer like this? No you cannot https://t.co/LxXRuIvmmO
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) April 5, 2021

Senator McConnell is right — and we thank him for his leadership. It’s important every American do their part and get vaccinated when it’s their turn. https://t.co/EaFt3WfwLW
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 4:47pm

Hey, LA! CSU Bakersfield is giving Pfizer shots to anyone who walks in, from any county, any age, don't need to technically be "eligible." They have a HUGE surplus of doses every day & are encouraging people to come so they don't get wasted. If you can swing the drive -- go! https://t.co/0ci2b9AiMU
— Vera Herbert (@veraherbert) April 6, 2021

VACCINES AVAILABLE FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS!!!!

NO appointment needed, NO eligibility requirements!

Happening at CSU Bakersfield who have a surplus to administer. They are welcoming everyone 16+!

Open 8am-6pm daily, including weekends.

INFO: https://t.co/Rd4mudPExT
— Tiff Mink (@minkus) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 4:50am

Biden to move up deadline to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccine by April 19 https://t.co/6Ak9KRSjOy
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) April 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 10:34am

Hotep Jesus (black male of the type that was a Trump supporter) vs. Morgan Freeman:

"I'm not a doctor, but I trust science. And I’m told that, for some reason, people trust me ... If you trust me, you’ll get the vaccine," Morgan Freeman said. https://t.co/kXy789fSh7
— The Hill (@thehill) April 5, 2021

I don't trust Morgan Freeman.

Retweet if you don't trust him either. https://t.co/0NL0Y5B0nF
— Hotep Jesus (@HotepJesus) April 6, 2021

See you there! Should be fun. A quick grift from you coming to fruition.

You’re gonna have to do better than “An0maly’s saying Trump is pushing the vaccine” (obvious fact). https://t.co/iBS85DM3rR
— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) April 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 11:40am

The ultimate Sad Biden policy rollout: Massive funeral assistance program for covid victims, up to $9,000 per person for burial costs, via @marycjordan @sullivank https://t.co/v1YH0WXoO2
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 8:29pm

B.1.1.7 variant first discovered in the UK is now the most common strain of COVID-19 in the US, according to CDC

3 hours ago @ Twitter's Covid 19 topic

CDC Director Dr. Rachelle Walensky addressed the prevalence of new strains in the US, saying B.1.1.7 has become the "most common lineage circulating" in the country.

CDC Director: "Across the country, we are hearing reports of clusters of cases associated with daycare centers and youth sports." Wednesday (4/7) Dr. Walensky said, "the B.1.1.7 variant is now the most common lineage circulating in the United States." pic.twitter.com/ppoMJImeh2
— CBS Newspath (@cbsnewspath) April 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 6:53pm

AND furthermore, along with UK variant now the most dominant in US -

U.S. cases averaging the same as last summer, so no one should yet think pandemic is over @drsanjaygupta reports pic.twitter.com/1BlsMalDmy
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 7:43pm

I did get a couple of chuckles once the "chorus" started at 0:30

DO IT OUTDOORS
(now with 100% more FEIGL-DING) pic.twitter.com/pkwm1tiin4
— Brittlestar (@brittlestar) April 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 8:22pm

Chuck Berry, "My Feigl-Ding" (i want to be saved by my Feigl-Ding)

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 1:08am

New Study Finds Covid Spikes After N.F.L. Games With Fans - The New York Times https://t.co/LuFcnIc7tx
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) April 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 3:19am

New Zealand suspends all travel from India after surge in COVID cases at border https://t.co/WeG8rXFkbX axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) April 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 3:23am

Luntz clearly has studied this thoroughly, all we gotta do is a name change from "passport" to "verification" and presto, it's that simple, a lot of opposition noise will disappear! If all our problems were only that simple to solve...a phenomenal instance of "words matter"

A vaccine “passport” is perceived as a government mandate that threatens personal liberty.

A vaccine “verification” is preferred to “passport” by every population subgroup. Why? Because it is a statement of fact, not a government-issued document.

https://t.co/xy5A3uXPCw pic.twitter.com/WIXFloOs3s
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 7, 2021

History books will mark our nation’s politicization of COVID as a leading cause of death for the more than a half-million Americans.

We can’t keep making the same mistakes, especially as we approach the moment when all American adults can get vaccinated.https://t.co/gCwqcswdVC
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 7, 2021

A majority of Americans (60%) either strongly support (34%) or somewhat support (26%) a vaccine verification document.

https://t.co/wXKpecuRNq pic.twitter.com/FmpIJ2jQTD
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 5:13am

good example why people buy into GOP ideology that big Federal government is a waste of your money, that private sector does it better:

It's pretty incredible that scientists invented a vaccine, mass produced it and vaccinated 100 million people in less time than it took for the CDC to update its guidance on the need to wipe down your groceries https://t.co/byBeaVOZx1
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) April 8, 2021

yes of course those businesses needed and wanted big gummint help, but this has to be finessed about that not too much, not too much, i.e. there is great danger with going overboard with an army of bureaucrats and regulators.

Rather, just the opposite: businesses and innovators like the ability of big governments who have the power to CUT THE RED TAPE, not create more?

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 4:35pm

and Trump always pretended he was doing the latter, that was one of his main sells, i.e. a great health care plan is easy peasy, we're going to give you one, not all this bureaucratic nonsense...

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 4:58pm

When a Brooklyn mother lost her husband to COVID-19, it left one hole in her heart and another in her pocket.

Nearly a year later, she's struggling to pay the bills and even feed her family, she says. https://t.co/i3fS55DBWQ
— THE CITY (@THECITYNY) April 9, 2021

[....] Ileana Cotto is among them. She and her husband, Joel Gomez Dominguez, were scraping by with five children, ages 9 to 17 at the time, at home in Williamsburg when he got sick last year.

Gomez worked as a Brooklyn apartment-building superintendent bringing in $600 a month, while Cotto stayed home taking care of their youngest daughter, who has an intellectual disability. They were both looking forward to the spring — they sold empanadas and soda at local baseball diamonds to supplement their income.

That never happened. Last March, while making his rounds at the apartment complex, Gomez started feeling ill. The 37-year-old checked into Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn and was diagnosed with COVID-19. By April 6, he had died [....]

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 5:46pm

The pandemic has disproportionately impacted disabled people, from employment to healthcare, and now vaccine rollout.

"We were dying in mass numbers in nursing homes," says @maysoonzayid. "And to this day those disabled deaths are not acknowledged." pic.twitter.com/b0BBsTNbsK
— Zerlina on Peacock (@ZerlinaShow) April 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 11:05pm

scary anecdotals

Detroit-area hospital is out of ventilators tonight for Covid patients, a source tells me. Michigan has almost as many people hospitalized now as the peak last April. It's very bad.
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 10, 2021

Please. Everyone needs to listen to Michael Osterholm’s podcast, The Osterholm Update: Covid-19. Yesterday’s talks about this resurgence. He has been right 100% of the time since last March. MI outbreaks include more than 200 K-12 schools & youth sports, among kids. Same in MN.
— Kathleen Zurcher (@KAZurcher) April 10, 2021

Yep, I'm in MN and we're surging too. Osterholm predicted this and he was right as usual.
— Karen Ziemniak (@ZiemniakKaren) April 10, 2021

Yes, Most public health experts have been warning for weeks. Osterholm is one of the more vocal. Please heed his warning. If we keep relaxing our behaviors, the variants (evolved to spread more quickly) will have an edge. Get vaccinated + Pub Health practices are the way out! pic.twitter.com/AiwG0fhpR8
— Vee, MPH/MHA (@veebee1010) April 10, 2021

A friend of mine visited his terminally ill partner in MI this week (first time he has been allowed to visit in months). He said the hospital was like a war zone; totally overwhelmed with Covid patients. Be careful out there. Stay vigilant.
— Tom Wills (@foot_on_foot) April 10, 2021

He writes: “...we are surrounded by the dread malady... the hospital is completely overwhelmed... it is a Purgatory of the infirm, with gurneys in the hallways... life has never looked as precious to me as it does right now.”
— Tom Wills (@foot_on_foot) April 10, 2021

This will kill non-covid patients. My relative caught covid waiting for a room by spending the night in the hallway--no rooms available. He died of covid two weeks later.
— Murphy’s Mom (@MadelineRobin3) April 10, 2021

Co-worker in AZ proud of AZ no mask and everything open, making snarky comments to me, in OR because we are still pretty locked up. I said the #'s don't lie. We have way fewer cases. I've supported my governor the whole time.
— Standup America (@Dsp503) April 10, 2021

I left AZ last week, most likely for good. The covid response there was ghoulish and thats putting it nicely. Between DoNothing Gov. Ducey and all the anti maskers, I was scared all the time.Wouldn’t be surprised if they spike there too. Hope they don’t. Still have friends there.
— @luxtempo (@luxtempo) April 10, 2021

Florida will be there very soon. Colorado is on its way as well. Denver is very bad right now.
— Nebhusker84's Ghost (@nebhusker84) April 10, 2021

I didn't believe it. I now do.

Source: https://t.co/DT17pZOkax pic.twitter.com/JmX1YfobVg
— Chip Uni (@chip_uni) April 10, 2021

1400 to 8800 cases per day in 40 days. #B117 is nasty. @DrEricDing
— Aintropy (@Aintropy) April 10, 2021

continues!

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 11:15pm

Osterholm: "There isn't a country in the world right now that has seen a big increase in this B117 that is not locking down, we're the exception." #zerocovid #greenzone #covidisairborne https://t.co/hboBPwB3e0
— Greta Fox #COVIDisAIRBORNE (@Greta_NP) April 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 11:20pm

“A black market in fake vaccination record cards is reaching epidemic proportions online” https://t.co/qUHkik8WjA
— Mohamad Bazzi (@BazziNYU) April 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 11:26pm

Nate Silver calls out Fauci for gaslighting

It's pure gaslighting at this point to say we don't know whether vaccinated people spread the virus. Tons of studies—including from the CDC!!!—show that vaccines massively reduce (though probably not entirely eliminate) transmission. https://t.co/vekZpR9gLk
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 10, 2021

I admit I am sympathetic to Nate Silver saying this. Fauci is doing paternalizing spin, simplifying complex explanations about the need for masks against variants for the masses to mass media. This is where the field of Public Health sucks. Just tell the truth and let friends and relatives do the work of explaining to the stoopids.

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/10/2021 - 3:09pm

Here's where the UK really shines. America is going to have a tough time getting this many people to take the vaccine. https://t.co/wABsp6nH3A
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) April 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/12/2021 - 7:44pm

He knows the minds of Republican voters, and I think he's making a valid point. I wonder if whatever good this might do as far as convincing hesitant Dem minority voters will be counteracted by more right-wing denialists thinking it's all a liberal plot. Though I think he's too broad in the way he says it, as I do think peer pressure works with this kind of thing. Best to not make it such an "official national liberal group" activity, better to speak more directly and individually to fans and followers on social media?

Vaccination concerns are most effectively addressed by doctors, not celebrities and politicians. https://t.co/Jvr64aopCS
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 13, 2021

Eyes on the prize: forget the politics, get as many vaccinated as possible however possible, pure numbers is the key, nothing else. Only virus mutations win if too many remain unvaccinated for too long.

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/13/2021 - 1:57pm

a gym, an anti-mask business owner, and 580 individuals infected with the B117 variant. https://t.co/58WY1htrhM
— Darryl Leroux (@DarrylLeroux) April 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/14/2021 - 10:55pm

[COVID NEWS] Tech Tips to Score a Covid Vaccine Appt. at CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens & More

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