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How do you make 15 million of anything without realizing there's an issue, let alone the most scrutinized thing on the planet right now?
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"He" is 'a common and accepted genderless pronoun.' ? Uh, no. And continuing to propagate damaging falsehoods make it very tough for many of us. "He" is a male pronoun. He/Him/His "She" is a female pronoun. She/Her/Hers "They" is a neutral pronoun. They/Them/Theirs
Dominique (a non-gendered name) goes to school everyday. They take the bus. Is this a proper English sentence? (question from a non native speaker)
The possible confusion is the fact that “they” could be singular or plural. AKA “singular they” [1].
Your second sentence could be referring to some other group of people who are not Dominique who instead of going to school take the bus.
Quality Control and Safety procedures (put in place to meet medical manufacturing regulations) prevent a bad batch of vaccines from entering the market and potentially harming patients.
Alternate title: Quality Control and Safety procedures (put in place to meet medical manufacturing regulations) prevent a bad batch of vaccines from entering the market and potentially harming patients.
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Jesus Christ, this shouldn't happen in a certified cGMP (food) facility let alone a pharmaceutical plant. HACCP would prevent this in any number of ways.
Errors like this happen in every single GMP and clinical facility. What makes them different is 1) there are ample checks in place to prevent mistakes from ever leaving the facility, and 2) there is process that reduces the chances of having it happen in the first place. But all of these places will have incident logs of mistakes like this, along with corrective actions that change the procedures and make it less lik…
They shouldn't happen in a 150yr old, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company.
How hard is it to restrict the ingredients available to the "chef" to the ones needed for the current product? Not hard at all unless you want to save a few dollars cutting corners.
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Yes, a common and accepted genderless pronoun.
When has 'he' ever been used in a genderless context?
It bothers me that people have expectations of perfection. Of course there will be breaks in the chain the lead to doses being wasted. There are thousands or millions of ways for it to go wrong, and only a few ways for it to go right. It is an astounding miracle of human progress that we can get to this point.
This should make some people sleep badly. Assuming somewhat efficient allocation, a 30 day delay delivering 15 * 10^6 one-shot vaccines equals ~1100 deaths[0], plus many long term health issues for survivors. Fingers crossed this f*ckup won't delay the lifting of the US vaccine export restrictions. Many people objectively need the vaccine much more urgently than the healthy young adults currently starting to be vacci…
I wonder if those vaccines were primarily going to be distributed locally. I live nearby, and my county's weekly covid update said they expect to have most people 16+ vaccinated by the end of April because we're supposed start getting an increased number of vaccine doses every week.
"The error should not affect Johnson & Johnson doses currently being delivered and administered nationwide, as they were produced in the Netherlands. ... The Times says the accident won't stop the U.S. from reaching President Biden's goal of having enough vaccine by the end of May for every adult, but in the global race against the virus, every dose counts." Won't affect vaccine delivery for Americans. Difficult to s…
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When has 'he' ever been used in a genderless context?
Apparently it started in the 18th century, so there's a lot of inertia to overcome to get people to change. But she says it was from the 18th century onwards that people started using male pronouns when describing someone of a non-specific gender in writing and this marks the time when opinions on what pronouns should be used started to change. "You might have a sentence like 'if a student comes to see the teacher, h…
Just thought I’d throw that out there.