📍NOTA BENE—I hope the free rapid antigen #COVID19 tests mailed out by the US Postal Service are mailed when it is at least 36 degrees F (2 C )**— or else freezing temperatures can ruin the RAT kits. Make sure your test’s “control” line still works. globalnews.ca/news/8493030/c…
2) It’s not just where the kit is delivered - it’s also where the tests kits are stored during distribution. Many mail sorting centers leave mail in unheated areas - and in trucks for the morning mail run overnight. All these could break the temperature chain.
3) But sending it out is still fastest method of delivery. Please sign up today… takes 30 seconds.
4) the FDA should clarify how long the rapid test kits can be stored outside the 2-30 degrees C (35.6-86 F) temperature ranges listed on the box. Hope the wiggle room is flexible enough for USPS delivery in January.
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💡We need to consider this vaccine—a whole virus traditional one that may add more protection versus variants (watch the🎥 why) & mRNA-vaccine-hesitant folks can be comfortable with. ➡️The FDA should honestly authorize #COVAXIN—EUA app submitted & waiting.
2) Notably, unlike a single target spike protein vaccine line mRNA ones or the adenovirus (J&J and AstraZeneca) ones, an inactivated whole virus traditional vaccine has multiple protein targets for which the body can “learn” to build recognition and immunity if spike is mutated.
3) P.s. I own **zero** stocks in COVAXIN makers. I’ve never traded their stock.
REMINDER—when a #COVID19 wave 🌊 crests— we are only 50% through the wave… the other **half of all cases occur on the way down**. ➡️Thus, keep in mind— hitting peak means we are only halfway through a marathon. Many places have not peaked yet. Stay vigilant. 🙏
2) here are more US states. It hasn’t peaked yet in half the states overall. Again, 50% of the cases and hospitalizations are after the peak.
3) We are a whole month into #Omicron wave and only now are people waking up that Omicron is not so “mild” as propaganda machines have foretold it to be. Only a bit milder intrinsically— but exponential math swamps any intrinsic mildness.
FIRST ever case of a man who suffered agonizing penis pain due to a “mild” #COVID19 infection 3 weeks earlier that caused a blood clot of his penis vein—mid-erection. It took 2 months of blood thinner treatment before he regained normal function. Mild? 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc…
2) The deep dorsal penis vein runs the whole length of the penis and is involved in supply of oxygenated blood to the organ.
An ultrasound showed “no [blood] flow in the vein” due to a clot around half way along the penis.
3) The unnamed male had suffered penile pain for three days before being seen by a urologist in Iran, who referred him for tests.
The discomfort began following an erection while having sex, the 41-year-old married man told doctors.
🧪NEW—all households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from the US Postal Service.
•Limit of one order per address
•One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen #COVID19 tests
•Ships starting in late January
2) the free rapid antigen home test ordering process is extremely simple. You can order more if you have more than one address it seems. There isn’t any fine print that says limit one per household. Just one per *residential address*. special.usps.com/testkits
3) However, USPS website does validate if the address has had an order placed already before. Thus, please don’t order for a friend’s address without their okay. And it seems **different APARTMENTS are okay** if the address is recognized by USPS to be a known apt building.
BREAKING—Hong Kong suspects hamsters in the first animal-to-human transmission in 🇭🇰—will now cull 2,000 hamsters. Pet shops & owners ordered to hand over all hamsters bought since Dec 22 out of concern a pet shop employee was infected with Delta variant. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
2) Officials made the order on Tuesday after 11 samples taken from hamsters came back positive and two more human infections emerged linked to a pet store. A shopkeeper was earlier diagnosed as the city’s first untraceable Delta infection in more than three months.
3) The animals would be tested before euthanisation, authorities said.
Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Dr Leung Siu-fai announced that all owners who had bought hamsters since December 22 would have to turn over the animals.