From the perspective of an infectious disease epidemiologist, I like FluNearYou better.

As an epidemiologist, I’m counting on it. ;-)

Thoughts and prayers for your butthurt.

You have to look at these statistics in the context of your own case. Many people who get these surgeries are in advanced age, so even the 10-year survival rate looks bad (around 16% are dead in ten years). But think of it this way...

Thank you for not writing “just 36% effective,” like some news outlets are doing. “Just” denotes that it’s not good enough, or that it’s not worth it. I’ll take a 1% effective vaccine over no vaccine any day of the week, including Fridays.

Funny how some people will take 0% vs 10%, right? That Nirvana Fallacy is strong.

I’m at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Akron. I will fight you!

“Whatever you need,” said the orange bladder filled with an inert fluid today on television... “Whatever you need so long as it is approved by the NRA, targets Muslims and Mexicans, or makes me a dollar,” he likely meant to say.

Tone troll is tone trolling again, ma!

It pays the bills.

Maybe you can follow-up on this article with one on which vaccines you do need to boost, and when? (Asking for a generation of people who are underimmunized by the time they go off to college.)

Addendum... And/or a PA, NP, or RT, hell even a med student (but not all med students, only the smart ones)... And that one guy who watched the episode of The Resident, where Cary Agos decides to go to law school to support his heroin habit.

Just a quick public service announcement. Your body works very hard, yet efficiently, to keep your blood pH between 7.35 and 7.45. Anything outside this level, and you will feel incredibly sick, or even die. Anything. I’m talking hundreths of a pH (which is the negative log of the concentration of hydrogen atoms...…

¿Tamales y atole? ¿Donde?

So... I’m reading that I should wait for the Microsoft Courier?

Of course, if you ask him, living the life he’s led has been worth it. After all, only a few men get to be POTUS. But, if you ask me, it wouldn’t be worth it. Who wants to be loathed so much? Who in their right mind, that is?

Pop quiz, Emily. How long does the influenza virus last on your hands? Compared to Ebola?

Here’s someone who gets the show!

Piers already covered this false outrage, “Paul,” ass per the article. Do try and keep up.

And I just tore my achilles’. Thanks, Beth!