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The trailer alone is worth sharing widely, thank you! I don’t think many people realize that clean water, sewage management and food safety contributed to a THIRTY YEAR increase in life span in the last century - or that we used to lose a third of our children (that’s why you had to have more than two, to replace yourselves.)

I just got a new MMR vaccine because I got my first one when they first came out. I knew people who got polio. Everybody got measles and mumps. I knew women who bore babies with birth defects because they (the pregnant mothers) got measles. And men who became infertile because of adult - onset mumps.

Maybe we did too good a job of making these diseases invisible through mandatory vaccination (joke) - two generations on and a lot of people think vaccines are a hoax or dangerous. I get really frustrated.

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An EUA has been granted by the FDA for Permagard, a product of a company called Invivyd. it is monoclonal antibodies designed. to protect the immunocompromised from covid. it appears to be robustly effective. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE report on this in your next publication.

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I'll look more into this for next week, thanks.

I get a fair number of misinformation/junk science comments on here (which I delete), so for anyone else who sees this and is suspicious, this is a real development: https://www.fda.gov/media/177068/download

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Thanks ... this is for real. Another drug company .. a major one but I can't remember which ..... is very close to its own monoclonal antibody cocktail. What immunocompromised people like me will be looking for is someone reliable like you to make understandable English out of the scientific terminology in the reports from the company. How much protection is offered? What is the right sequence for IC people to get another shot of the vaccine (now allowed by FDA every 4 months for the IC and every 2 months with MD approval) and Permagard? What IC precautions can be relaxed ... eat in restaurants inside again? Be in someone's house without ventilation (masks still required aswell?) Can I get back to my once a month indoor money bridge game? and masked or unmasked? Thanks for your wonderful newsletter. Many of us IC people rely on it to help pinpoint our risk.

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Helpful, thank you!

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