Recent comments in /f/boston

50calPeephole t1_jefjzdy wrote

Literally ran first in human clinical trials on the vaccine during the pandemic, so I guess you can argue both sides have valid statements.

I'm not arguing who's right here when it comes to EUA's I'm pointing out that, as a medical researcher myself, the when of requirements matters. We were still collecting data when first shots in arms were being injected under the EUA.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization

>Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. The HHS declaration to support such use must be based on one of four types of determinations of threats or potential threats by the Secretary of HHS, Homeland Security, or Defense.

May authorize unapproved medical products...

The vaccine didn't get approval until much later, but essentially it still wasn't approved, and still in clinical trials. The fda's own website states this clearly. Vaccines were still in phase 3, or wide scale clinical trials looking at safety and efficacy:

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explained

I'm 100% with the FDA on this, the benefits outweighed the risks by far.

I'm also with the workers on this- until the vaccine is officially approved no person should be forced to take it against their will as a condition of their continued employment.

How do you negotiate the middle ground of "we need workers and we need to stop the spread?" I have no answers for that, but I do not believe that terminating employees was the right way.

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AKiss20 t1_jefjnfq wrote

They fish on the Assembly side now and sometimes are assholes and leave fishing line and bait lying around 🤬. My dog managed to grab a bundle of fishing wire and bait before we could see it. Thankfully no hook and the ER vet could make her vomit it back up with no harm.

Most of them are fine and harmless enough but some are real assholes who clearly don’t care about littering or any other user of the park.

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downthewell62 t1_jefgz5o wrote

> I'm not talking about vilifying police, Im talking about vilifying unions in general

Police unions (and other federal/state job unions) are radically different from private sector unions in almost all functions and forms. No one is vilifying unions in general. They're vilifying police unions, which are used almost exclusively to protect police abuses

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Psychological-Oil672 t1_jefgui2 wrote

Those are not the common catch; but it’s funny people don’t wanna believe New England waters are fucked. Yes folks we’ve done a lot to clean them up, but how can you quantify a century of dumping polluted in the river; believe what ever y’all want lol

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ch1ck3npotpi3 t1_jefg9r0 wrote

You'll be flying into Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) with American. With United, it's San Francisco (SFO). With Delta, you'll have a choice between Atlanta (ATL), Detroit (DTW), Minneapolis-St Paul (MSP), or Seattle-Tacoma (SEA).

Make sure you budget enough time for the layover to clear customs, navigate the airport to your connecting flight to BOS, and to account for any unexpected delays. I'd recommend at minimum 2 hours for your layover, more if you choose to fly into one of the super massive airports at ATL or DFW.

Korean Air offers a direct flight from Seoul-Incheon (ICN) to BOS if you want to avoid a layover, although it'll likely be more expensive than the US-based airlines.

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