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I’m worried if we bring in another HC, he’s just going to clamp down and neuter our players again, just the same way Krueger and Byslma did. At least with Granato, for better or worse, we know he won’t. So, at this point, do we want good hockey or do we want a “name coach” coming in and forcing his round system into a square peg?

Excellent. This is entirely fixable. Someone get on the horn with Kevyn and tell him we don’t want the “low probability” picks, but the “high probability” ones instead.

I like the LA offer. I would even agree to swap 1st rounders this year to get it done.

Yes, that’s nuts. I’d give them Hutton and next year’s 1st.

Update. My wife got the Pfizer today and I’m getting the Moderna on Monday.

My wife and I live in Maryland. We’re both physicians, myself I directly care for known Covid positive cases. Neither one of us has been vaccinated, nor have we been notified when this will happen. Radio silence. We have colleagues in DC and VA who have been vaccinated though.

Well, you know exactly what it says on the boards, so obviously it worked very well. I would say that’s very effective advertising.

Be careful interpreting a positive IgG. My wife is a physician too. At work, her and her colleagues got theirs tested a couple months back (all asymptomatic). They were just doing it out of curiosity. My wife’s came back positive. I then got mine tested and it was negative. We sleep in the same bed. One of her colleagues was also positive, while her husband’s was also negative. Incidentally, fast forward a couple months, and this same colleague is now home with symptoms and is PCR positive. That said, we had an inpatient a few months ago that eventually needed to be intubated for a progressively worsening pneumonia. NP PCR was negative x3. Then I believed they tested a BAL, which came back positive. Strange virus.

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Agreed. What should rule this decision is simple. Do you have direct contact with confirmed positive cases on a daily or weekly basis? And if you contracted Covid, would you be able to quarantine without a detriment to society? But, no, the government wants to work in the world of hypotheticals. Well, what if this population contracts Covid? Also, keep in mind, many hospitals across the country are telling their nursing staff to continue to work if Covid positive and asymptomatic. This is how bad things are.

Once it’s in the facility, yes, they have a big problem. That said, people in LTCFs should be having very limited interaction with the public. They basically shouldn’t be leaving the property. Now, there are people who can bring the virus in. This is why they have barred visitation for the most part. I do agree that LTCF workers should be vaccinated, as these are probably where the outbreaks originate. Another reason they probably shouldn’t be vaccinated is the availability of casirivimab, imdevimab, and bamlanivimab. These are the now FDA approved monoclonal blocking antibodies that convey passive immunity. Why this? Because the elderly usually have poorer immune responses towards vaccines. Any case of Covid pops up in a LTCF? They all get treated prophylactically and fire is put out. My $0.02 of course.

Just as I predicted (and sent some people into a state of surprise), healthcare workers will not be given preference when it comes to vaccination. Director of CDC has stated nursing home residents will be given the vaccine first, followed by a combination of people at high risk for mortality (obesity, diabetes, etc) and a select number of healthcare providers. I read this as hospital administrators. Yes, this is backwards considering nursing homes can isolate. I can’t isolate from patients coming to me because they are sick. Fortunately, it’s not going to up to him, but rather individual state governments.

I’ll take a stab at this: firemen, policemen, teachers, daycare workers, prisoners, homeless shelters, people in long-term care or retirement communities, cashiers, restaurant workers, hospital administrators. 50M doses is only 15% of the US population and will go quick. The only thing physicians have going for them is that the nursing unions will demand it or will force a strike. If the nurses get it, it’ll be harder for them to exclude physicians.

But that’s not how things work. Drug companies rarely have to repeat P3 trials unless they are borderline results or failure due to a placebo population not matching historical controls. HPV vaccine is much different. For almost everyone who receives it, there’s no perceptible benefit. People don’t live in fear of contracting HPV and developing cervical cancer decades later. In fact, most don’t care and only do it because their doc is recommending it. This vaccine is different and the benefit is palpable. People will be asking for it. No one makes an appointment to get their HPV vaccine unless they had a family member who died of cancer.

A trial of over 26k participants isn’t going to need a repeat P3. I’m not sure what type of data you think it would contribute. Duration of response is certainly going to be under the microscope, but this isn’t a reason for a repeat trial considering their participant number. Under normal circumstances, there wouldn’t be an additional P3, but rather the FDA would take its time (6-12 months) to do its due diligence to gather data on this duration. I also have less concerns about people getting their 2nd vaccination to complete the dosing. For other vaccines, yes, this would be an issue. I’m more worried about people refusing to get their 1st. People who got 1 dose have at least bought in to the idea and would likely go back for their 2nd.

I’m a healthcare worker. I come in direct contact with multiple positive cases per week. I volunteer as a swabber at our testing site. I fully expect I will not be in the correct demographic to receive this vaccine first. This whole thing has become so politicized. People have lost all sense of reason.

If they view him that way, they likely won’t get anything for him in return. Chicago is a couple steps away from a full rebuild. I can’t see how Kane will be part of that and would probably start dropping hints of a trade. Plus, Kane will be a shell of his former self by the time they are rebuilt. Geez, we think we’re wasting away Jack in his prime, look at Chicago. Teams know he doesn’t fit into he Hawk’s long-term plans, so they’ll wait them out.

A no checking league is also going to adversely affect player development. Players grow with challenges and checking removes this. What happens when they make it to the NHL and are getting steamrolled? I guess it will be back to the AHL or wherever to become reacquainted with physical contact.

-80 C freezers are found plentiful within every University hospital system and every blood bank. My lab even owns 3. Standard equipment in research setting or blood processing unit. And for every 3 freezers, there’s usually a running spare in case one goes down (and emergency that happens). Problem solved. I don’t see this as a regular “go to your doctor’s office” type of vaccine. There will likely be centralized distributions within towns/cities.

He has been in an inside position for years to learn about Mitts. If he hasn’t formed an opinion himself (rare nowadays), he certainly has talked to people who have. I would be shocked if he has nothing to say about him, but if he does, then he’s going to give an opinion. Even if he doesn’t know if he’s going to be good or bad (who really does know?), then after being in a position for years to learn about him, then this certainly is an opinion too. Haven’t you read a letter of recommendation that doesn’t really say anything good or bad about someone? What does that tell you? Let’s be frank. If the Arizona GM asks Jankowski about Mitts, do you think he’s just going to respond with verifiable facts that you or I could provide? If you want to get into semantics, sure, there is a non-0% chance he would provide strictly facts, but come on. His new job is to evaluate talent, so if his GM asks for his thoughts, he’s not going to “I really don’t know. I can’t tell one way or another”.

One way our another, Jankowski is definitely going to have an opinion on Mitts. We just don’t know if it’s a good or bad one.

I disagree that he is only going to minimally improve. He just completed his rookie season. Outside of a sophomore slump, it really wouldn’t make much sense for a rookie not to improve in subsequent years. And maybe his “improvement” is maintaining his production outside of being on Jack’s line.

And we’ll be paying Hall $8M for 45-60 games? If they plan on shortening the season and wasting contracts, I’d rather they waited 1-2 more months for the vaccine to start.

I didn’t say it was a lie, but that there was zero substance to it because anyone is free to call GM Adams and ask for them for a trade. That’s not what I would consider as news as it probably happens a few times per day. Considering there’s no tollbooth to such an action, then why would anyone care? Do people run stories about when a GM ties their shoes? These are not substantial occurrences. Given that, this story was then twisted into the Sabres entertaining trade offers and that Eichel may have requested a trade and was possibly unhappy. That was the story, not that the Rangers called once about Eichel. That was cleared up by Adams, not the dude that tweeted the story.