I’m curled up in a fetal ball just thinking about how his medical and dental insurance are both going to try to claim that payment is the other one’s problem. That’s going to take roughly 700 phone calls to get paid.
Ed Cara
edcara
Born and raised in NYC, Ed covers public health, disease, and weird animal science for Gizmodo. He has previously reported for the Atlantic, Vice, Pacific Standard, and Undark Magazine.
Ed updated after we yelled at him -- Mass changed its reporting criteria and now they basically don’t report anything to CDC. They’re as buggy and disease-ridden as the rest of us on the East Coast...
Copied from Defector a while back: Read more
This isn’t really all that surprising and is true of most serious illness. People with multiple medical problems are more likely to have severe cases and be hospitalized. People develop more complications while seriously ill or hospitalized and are debilitated after a hospital stay, leaving them vulnerable to other… Read more
I appreciate this article, but it’s worth noting that for someone like myself who has never heard of this and am intrigued by the “as little as $15 per device” thing, Googling “red light therapy” brings up (outside of links to this specific research) a whole duckpond of quackery. I believe that the results presented… Read more
Mitochondria are the part of the cell... Read more
I’m trying to picture a few ways vaccinia could have ended up being mislabelled as smallpox. Credentials: I’m an infectious disease biologist, I’ve worked with monkeypox briefly and with various other less hazardous poxviruses for several years. Read more
You’re really exercising the patience of a saint here, Ed.
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Maybe it’s just that we’re so used to looking for sensationalist click-bait headlines that we start with a too-skeptical bias from the beginning and are finding it hard to give up on it when we can’t find something wrong.
You really think that more people have died from Covid than lost their sense of smell, when loss of smell is one of the most common symptoms of the virus? That 1.6 milliion figure is the 5% that’s permanent.
Once a tick tries to bite a vaccinated person, the hope is that its saliva will set off an almost immediate immune reaction. Read more
Now every skeezy person who gets the clap is going to be all “I swear baby, I got it from the hot tub! Gizmodo says so!”
Lab experiments, meanwhile, have demonstrated that gonorrhea can survive for a few hours on commonly shared fabrics like towels, leaving open another route of transmission. Read more
If all goes well, the host will lash out and bite, scratch,or otherwise infect another animal, starting the cycle all over again. Read more
I’m currently on it. It’s fucking good.
Hard to keep getting the next dose to maintain the loss, but good so far.
I started at the end of July. 14th week weigh in was today. So far I’ve lost 36 lbs. (2.5lbs a week average). So not too fast that it is dangerous, but consistent. Read more
Wegovy is impossible to get from insurance and the waivers are basically non existant. A lot of people are just paying full price for it. Look at reddit for example.
I know the best way to take it.
Isn’t the actual death toll in India believed to be in the millions?
There’s a found footage horror film form 2012 based on this creature which is pretty fun if you’re into body horror. Read more