I'm within the age range where most insurances will cover it, but mine (the student health plan) won't. Which is just dumb, really. But the student health plan is really horrible -- they'll cover a total of $500 a year for prescriptions. (My parents have said that they'll pay for me to get the HPV vaccine if I want it. I need to talk it over with my doctor, but I probably will be getting it.)
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - May 19, 2007 1:17:37 pm PDT #8298 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - May 19, 2007 1:20:19 pm PDT #8299 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just checked -- the only vaccine that Chickering student health plan (which seems to be the student health plan at most colleges) will cover is TB. Which is just $15 anyway. Gardasil is three doses at $150 each, not covered by student health insurance.
Pix - May 19, 2007 1:21:14 pm PDT #8300 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Just to be clear--I think it should be mandatory, but I also think it should be free. A totally separate topic, I know.
Trudy Booth - May 19, 2007 1:22:02 pm PDT #8301 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
One of the other things my ObGyn said was that there is some indication (and further studies in the works) that there can be reductions in infection in people already infected with the virus if they get the vaccine. Which is interesting.
Dana - May 19, 2007 1:24:38 pm PDT #8302 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sumi! What a race that was.
Zenkitty - May 19, 2007 1:41:05 pm PDT #8303 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
HPV vaccine. In general, I am opposed to the government, or anyone really, making me do something. But. When it's a case of a thing that will save many lives, and harm no one, and you know that many people for whatever reasons will not do it, then yeah, I think it should be government mandated. And free.
I wonder if the reaction of the general public to this vaccine will be different when it becomes widely known that it causes oral cancer, and in men, as well as giving sexually active women cervical cancer. Though I guess some people will still see it a punishment for having sex.
Liese S. - May 19, 2007 1:48:23 pm PDT #8304 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Dana, I know! I was holding my breath!
Zenkitty - May 19, 2007 2:06:41 pm PDT #8305 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Is anyone around who could translate a phrase into Latin for me?
Hil R. - May 19, 2007 2:14:28 pm PDT #8306 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm reading a book on mathematical writing. It's a pretty useful book, but the author has a tendency to throw in some rather random-sounding examples. As an example of what not to do: "This semisimple, sesquilinear operator serves to show sometimes that subgroups of S are sequenced."
(He also insists that the proper way to write a mathematical paper is first person plural. I think it feels horribly awkward to write that way, but it seems to be standard, so I'll do it. Sorry, we think it feels horribly awkward to write that way, but it seems to be standard, so we'll do it.)
Topic!Cindy - May 19, 2007 2:23:56 pm PDT #8307 of 10001
What is even happening?
Hil, there's a TB vaccine, now? I know there's the Tine test, but I didn't realize there was a vaccine.
Thirty years of mandatory vaccines had eradicated Polio in the US, and I was born the year after they lifted the mandatory vaccination of all children.My kids had to be vaccinated. I wonder if they reinstituted it. My oldest got a live vaccine. They then had a lot of problems with it, and so my younger ones had a different one. One was a drink, one wasn't, but it's all fuzzy now.
OK, but the risk is not just to them. Vaccines have a limited protection for the person getting vaccinated if they are the only one taking them. In the case HPV I think is 75%, in other more. The real protection is the herd affect. If everone or almost everyone takes it then when it fails for one person, the odds are it won't be passed on to someone else, and if it is, the odds are it won't get passed to the next person.
So if you are vaccinated and no one else is , you still have a 1 in 4 chance of catching if exposed and a real good chance of getting exposed. But if everybody (or nearly everybody has the vaccine, you have a three in four chance of resistance if exposed, plus a good chance of not getting exposed.
Incidentally, this is why boys should be vaccinated against HPV as well. In addition to the chance that it does something we don't know about to them, even if they are asymptomatic they can pass it on to girls. If boys are vaccinated as well as girls you get a much better herd affect.
I agree with all this Gar, but I'm not part of the government's herd. As I said, I will choose to vaccinate my daughter (and my sons if my pedi recommends it, and if it has been tested on male humans, to prove it is safe for them), but if people can't catch it casually, I don't think the government has the right to force it, even though it is, in my opinion, right that everyone get it.