I guess we can’t expect better than “the jab” from “the guardian.”
Test subjects were administered Amivantamab.
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England has referred to vaccines as jabs long before it started to be used as a pejorative.
Nobody is confusing which meaning they meant.
Use of the word to mean vaccine is just reductive and awfully informal.
it doesn't mean vaccine, it just means an injection of any kind - at least in the UK
I remember reading somewhere that (especially) Russian disinformation campaigns learned British English. They, pretending to be American anti-vaxxers, spread it to the dialect of the dumbest Americans.
'Jab' is basically a case study in skipped localization.
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Yes, they say as much in the article
OOTL: what’s wrong with jab?
It's just awfully informal and reductive for something life-saving and sophisticated.
Imagine a paramedic saves your life and you call them a meatsack.
I would most likely have said they were shocking someone, rather than administering defibrillation, though both are just round about ways of saying they were turning someone's heart off and on again.
The fact they administered what I consider a mind blowing treatment by way of jab just goes to show what amazing things humans can do.
I've only heard it in the context of antivaxxers. Apparently it goes back further in the UK, but that's when it broke containment.
All the antivax bullshit started from the piece of shit grifter doctor Andrew Wakefield back in the 90s in the UK.
Well, the guy who kinda caused the modern anti vax movement is an UK export, might be that.
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I wish the media would stop calling a shot a “jab”. Ever since COVID everyone calls any kinda shot a “jab”.
The UK has always called it a jab and headlines are optimized for length. This sentiment is just US defaultism.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/04/why-do-we-call-vaccinations-jabs
The medical sense of “jab”, meanwhile, has a rather less salubrious origin, as a 1914 dictionary of criminal slang introduces it: “Jab, current amongst morphine and cocaine fiends. A hypodermic injection.”
NYP's equivalent is The Sun.
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It's the Guardian. The New York Post of the UK.
I thought that was the daily mail
No the daily mail is the toilet paper analog in the UK
The Guardian is still a better in most regards. However, I think their quality of journalism is gradually declining over the years.
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I hope whomever patents it gives it away.
Johnson and Johnson, so... Not likely.
Pharma is not about curing people it‘s about constant medication. Otherwise the profits are less.
If they don't, it still won't stop India from flooding the market with the generic versions.
Cant wait for the antivaxxers do backflips over this
Some movies like "I Am Legend" have this as their plot, where it does not end well, so they are already prepared.
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Woah, this is HUGE. That's so cool! Good things are still happening! Woo!
This just in, the Trump administration has banned this medication.
"Cancer is nurgles gift" or something
its a biologic medication, the suffix ending with -mab always is associated with biologic. if you have psoriasis they use these kinds to treat them, or an autoimmune disease.
MAB Monoclonal antibody
Weird that the headline and snippet implies that it supplants immunotherapy, when it sounds like an immunotherapy.
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But what about all the people who have died from cancer‽‽‽ Is their sacrifice in vain?
/s of course
There's such an insane percentage of people that this is real life for.
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How much is the jab? If you have United Healthcare, you are not getting jack shit.
Best we can do is "the stab" it's like the jab but much more painful. Oh and it doesn't have medicine in it.
But it relieves all symptoms within minutes. Terms and conditions may apply.
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This sounds great, and I'm happy for those who had good results.
But what happened to the other 102-43-28-15 = 16 patients? Because if they all spontaneously combusted after taking the treatment, that might change how you view things...
I think the numbers are worse. The 43 includes those with tumors that shrank or disappeared. In otherwords: 43 (shrank and disappeared) = 28 (shrank) + 15 (disappeared).
So what happened to the other 102 - 43 = 59? Still it's roughly 40% chance of improvement when other treatment methods have failed, which I think a lot of people would be willing to take. I'm often skeptical about early results though.
this here - the 43 is is the total.
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