Go peruse this: http://www.floridahealth.gov/statistics-and-data/ems-data-systems/index.html Emergency Medical Oversight Continuum of Care Data Warehouse The data warehouse currently hosts data from the EMSTARS patient care records that are linked with hospital discharge and emergency department data from the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). A comprehensive data warehouse business strategy is under development to enhance this capability to ensure valid health information is accessible when and where it is needed to improve and protect Florida's health and well-being. HIPPA Gold Mine right there. So yeah, I still stand by my position of "what she did was a big fucking deal".
I will counter that by saying that if you're in a system where literally everyone in the state shares the one password, you are about as far from secure as it gets.
I will amend my statement by saying is "supposed to be" secure. At the very least this has probably brought attention from some Feds that have some serious questions for those State level idiots that were running things.
To give you a brief insight into how serious HIPPA shit is, on my last job I called a patient. It turned out I was going to need to call them back, so I asked them if 123-456-7890 was the best number to reach them at. The number I had just called and they'd answered. I got hit with a HIPPA violation for giving out protected information.
I'm subject-matter expert on HIPAA and I'm assuming you got dinged by your internal privacy department or something and now they have to let the patient know that someone else got their info? If so, it gets reported to HHS at the end of the year, but i doubt any serious sanctions are forthcoming. They go after companies that are doing a blatantly shitty job handling the data on a large-scale.
Pretty interesting and promising stuff on the Pfizer vaccine. Seems like it kicks in with strong protection after about 10 days in a little over 50% of people vaccinated. The second dose bumps that up the 95% number. It also seems to work no matter your race, sex, age, obesity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer.html
Apparently, the Moderna vaccine that is up for emergency use approval is the same iteration that was designed within two days of the genetic sequence being released, before the first confirmed case in the US, even before human to human transmission was confirmed. We've had it the whole time, waiting for trials to provide appropriate data.
I was misinformed by my brother, he died with Covid, while he was being rolled to the ICU. My sister said my brother is devastated because he is likely the one that passed it on to him, and probably why I didn't get the full truth. That deceit kinda stings. I wouldn't have laid blame on him like that.
My sister says he is blaming himself. I haven't spoken to him since she told me. I have no idea what to say to help with that feeling. It's the nightmare situation everyone here has said they want to avoid, taking this virus home to a vulnerable loved one. He told me, "Dad went into the hospital for a pulmonary embolism and then went into cardiac arrest." When he told me he and his wife had Covid, I asked if Dad was safe because Dad used to live with them when they had that massive house. Knowing what I know now, I can tell the way he answered that question was a dodge, he simply said, "Dad doesn't live with us anymore."
The petri dish cruises https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12...-nowhere-tests-positive-for-covid-19/12968086 Or perhaps it's a great self funding idea to test covid vaccines
Hey, I know a country where they give two fucks about conducting proper trials. Is that why the news channels here are stressing how the British patients are the first in the western world?
Our school system is going all virtual starting tomorrow. I was told a while back the special education kids would continue to go in-person, but that changed and they must do virtual also. That's fine with us, we were starting to get a little anxious over him going in-person. I honestly didn't expect in-person education to last this long around here. Our local numbers are still really low, so it has to be based on surrounding larger school systems, as a county we are still at about 5 new cases a day.
I'm not real sure what you are saying. How any one person chooses to interpret that particular bit of semantics probably depends on a lot of things.
Yeah, maybe I'm wrong. Still, I see no reason to stress "in the western world" if in fact it is the first vaccine given anywhere.
Jeez, I just googled "Covid vaccine western world", you're quite right, that is weird as fuck. I hadn't read any national or international news in a couple of days so I missed the big deal they were making out of western world.
I think it's noting "western world" because China has been testing experimental vaccines on the public since early October. There is just zero reliable information on their effectiveness.