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Try to Keep Up with the COVID-19 News (Good Luck)
Things are happening fast all around the country and in Iowa when it comes to news about the COVID-19 vaccine boosters and mask mandates. It looks like the Iowa ban on mask mandates for public schools will be on temporary hold by a Federal restraining order for now according to a news item from the…
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The Monsters
Sena and I got our annual flu shots last week, and I also got a pneumonia vaccine. We’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 since earlier in the year. Now we’re waiting for the word on whether we’ll need COVID-19 vaccine boosters. We’ll probably know more about that by the end of the week after the…
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FDA Advisory Meeting on Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Announcement
The FDA announcement about the Advisory Committee meeting on the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster for September 17, 2021 is here. The time will be 8:30 AM-3:45 PM ET (check your time zone provided on the FDA YouTube web page). Review materials (if available) will be posted at the FDA link provided in the announcement.
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Pelican on the Lake
Sena and I went for a walk on the Terry Trueblood Trail yesterday. We saw a huge apple tree on the trail. We’ve never noticed it before. The boughs were bent and broken from the load of apples. There were a lot of buzzing insects, maybe some annual cicadas among them. We saw a lone…
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Comirnaty vs Comiranty Spelling Bee Issue Resolved
This is just an update on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty vs Comiranty spelling issue at UIHC, which has been resolved today. It took a few emails to get it fixed. I was beginning to think I was losing my mind and that I was the only who could see the mistake. Comirnaty had apparently…
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Comirnaty Misspelled by the Medical Community
This afternoon I just notified somebody at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine’s name is misspelled on several of their web pages. The new name for the vaccine is Comirnaty (pronounced koe-mir-na-tee). UIHC misspells it as “Comiranty.” And it has been that way for at least a week,…
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Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters
The messaging on COVID-19 boosters is being clarified by the CDC and the FDA in separate announcements, posted September 1, 2021. The CDC update is here. The FDA announcement is here. The FDA plans to hold a virtual meeting about the issue September 17, 2021 from 8:30 AM to 3:45 PM EST and it will…
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Love Each Other More Now
When I think about all the mandates and bans against mandates for the COVID-19 vaccines and masks, I wonder about my own motive for getting the vaccine and wearing a mask. In one sense, I’m doing it for myself. I’m a retired consultation-liaison psychiatrist and I got called to the intensive care units a lot.…
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