Whatever you think of Big Pharma, consider that Big Insurance is happy to pay for vaccines because it’s cheaper than paying for treatment for the diseases they target.
Tag: health
Waiting at home for a video link is in some ways better…
Waiting at home for a video link is in some ways better than waiting at the doctor’s office, because you’re *home*, but there’s always that nagging suspicion that the email with the conference link has been lost and they’ve been waiting for you to connect for the last 10 minutes and will just move onto the next patient.
It has now been an hour since the front office called to do check in over the phone. No message has arrived with the link to video chat with the actual doctor.
*yawn*
So it turns out the zoom link was buried in a message from way back when I scheduled the appointment, and they marked me as a no show. Rescheduled with another doctor at the practice who has an open slot this afternoon.
The appointment info in their portal said that directions would be sent in a message…but not that they already had been.
Virologists have reconstructed the genome of an HIV sample preserved since 1966…
Virologists have reconstructed the genome of an HIV sample preserved since 1966, long before the virus was discovered. Comparing it to modern strains has helped fill in the history of the virus, which appears to have jumped to humans around 1900-1920.