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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago

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    18% of Americans haven’t ever seen a doctor and 40% of Americans haven’t seen one for 5 years.

    What the fuck? Have you a source for those numbers because they’re shocking

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      Hmm looks like some stats I pulled were from polls, and I fell victim to people paraphrasing that around 20% of rural people not having a primary care doctor in the last few years as “not even having seen a doctor” sorry about that.

      40% of Americans haven’t seen a doctor in 5 years: https://studyfinds.org/americans-avoiding-the-doctor/ https://www.aarp.org/pri/topics/health/coverage-access/health-care-rural-america/?

      But the limited stats on primary care and a lot of self reporting is very bad.

      62% parasites infection: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.10.23284404v1.full

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7253135/#%3A~%3Atext=Overall%2C+67.4%25+of%2Ca+community+where

      Typing in “southern united states rural primary care access” in Kagi has a lot of sad results.

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        You got the fucking receipts

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        Thank you! They are some wild numbers.

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      I haven’t seen a doctor in at least a decade and a half, when my parents took me to checkups as a child. I’m very lucky to be healthy, and am in the gym 3-5 days a week to keep my streak going as long as possible.

      However, I’m calling bullshit on this:

      A number of studies in low income communities in the south show that over 60% of people in those communities have intestinal parasites. That’s just the ones we know of.

      That sounds insane to me. 60% is a motherfucking epidemic. Where’s the source for these studies???

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        They sourced their claim

        https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7253135/#%3A~%3Atext=Overall%2C+67.4%25+of%2Ca+community+where

        https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.10.23284404v1.full

        Its really sad

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        It’s extremely common in Africa. My ex who was Zulu hated that you couldn’t get deworming here. Ignore the fact that in Ontario you aren’t getting worms. She brought her misconceptions that KZN is like here.

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        I haven’t seen a doctor in at least a decade

        How do you handle vaccines?

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          I don’t get vaccinated regularly. Covid was an exception, and I got that at some medical place that was offering them for free (In hindsight idk what type of business they were, but the dude who injected me looked like a real doctor)

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            After three doses, almost everyone is initially immune,[2] but additional doses every ten years are recommended to maintain immunity.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus_vaccine

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