You go Harper, you just suck on your binky until you are done.

One aspect of this that could contribute to the author’s feelings that has yet to be addressed.

I find the “vaccines for one gender” as an excuse for poor vaccine uptake is mendacious BS.

It was my understanding that initially the concern was that men would obtain no direct benefit from the vaccine so even the mildest side-effect would reflect harm. Then everyone figured out where all that oropharyngeal cancer was coming from and .... everyone benefits!

Yes, the medicinal beverage/food approach. Grates on me so bad. Often heard with “will you have a little something in your hand?”. A quaint Irishism (at least I only know Irish people who say this) meaning would you like something to eat? However, my mind can’t relinquish the vision of someone pouring soup into your…

Me too. Poor post-docs don’t pay for expensive formula if they can avoid it.

Yes indeed, doctors do immunize newborns on their first or second day of life against Hepatitis B virus.

Yes, OMG! All that awesome scandinoir! Love The Bridge and I've survived the sub-titles. Strangely enough, I enjoy hearing the dialog even when it means nothing (except for that handy- fits everything "tac" (sp?).

So true.

No

Unless you live in a bubble, that just cannot be true. What may be true is that you don't have a close social circle that includes seniors or friends with kids. However, you presumably live in a world that requires you to ride on public transport, stand in a line to purchase fast food, cruise through stores, got to…

Did he not make the automatic assumption that your wedding cake would be fruit cake with marzipan and fondant icing?

That is a gateway drug into all of Post Modern Jukeboxes covers! Remember last week when they wanted to know who was buying records...... for the first time in years the answer was MEEE! All three!!! So entertaining.

Happily, I scored a darling "sulky teen" from the experience.

With you sister, minus helicopter, brain bleed and vat-flash but will throw down with kidney and liver failure and a "touch of cortical blindness".

Perhaps the only thing that you could do, and encourage everyone else who is baby-adjacent is get your booster. The reason the pertussis persisted, even when uptake of the vaccine was higher was that immunity associated with childhood vaccination began to wear off (probably because as the incidence of infection…

That information is in the article, ~90% of exposed naive individuals will become infected. In practical terms, if you are not vaccinated then you are almost certainly going to become infected if you are exposed. If you read MMR articles you'll see reports of individuals contracting it because they sat in an ED…

This is sci-speak for we had permission to recruit 100 women into the study and we didn't quite make it.

Agreed.

He must be really afraid of those legislators to reject collecting on the "indirects", the % the school would obtain over and above the direct costs of the grant.