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More than 600,000 people in Tricare, a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System, received emails July 17 asking if they would donate blood for research as "survivors of COVID-19."
But just 31,000 people affiliated with the U.S. military have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus, which prompted confusion, Military.com reported last week.
"Just wondering [if] anybody [got] an email from Tricare saying since you are a COVID survivor, please donate your plasma.?? I have NOT been tested," wrote a beneficiary on Facebook. "Just remember all those people inputting data are human and make mistakes."
The mass email went to every beneficiary located near a collection point.
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In Error, Tricare Tells 600K Military Beneficiaries They've had COVID-19
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @11:46AM (5 children)
Well, it's the same folk who classify information about Roswell, UFO, and possible alien artifacts.
Someone's hiding a lie. Probably to justify holding a warrantless public job.
Knowing the source, I take what Government says with many grains of salt.
Remember the last panic over peak oil? A lot of us took what the media heads said seriously and made really bad decisions, based on misplaced trust of the words spoken behind podiums bearing the great seal of the department of muckymuck.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @12:04PM (2 children)
This is why Biden must be elected, he will properly fund the government so they can continue covering things up and lying to us.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @12:08PM (1 child)
Especially stuff like Andrew McCabe's classified $75k table. It's a national security risk if people knew what they are spending tax money on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @10:52PM
That was $75k for a "Cone Of Silence" not a table.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 28 2020, @01:42PM (1 child)
I hope "a lot of us" learned from those really bad decisions.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:44PM
The problem is *what* got learned from those "seriously bad decisions". One of the things that *should* have been learned was to read carefully, but few seem to have learned that.
FWIW, most of the really "bad information" came from either politicians or PR flacks. The medics were generally a lot more cautious about just exactly what they said, and didn't avoid saying that they weren't sure or needed more information. Or were precise about which masks they wished people would avoid (i.e. the N95 masks). A lot of that detail got filtered out when it was paraphrased by the media flacks. I don't feel the folks I trusted ever mislead me, though there were times when they made the wrong guess about what the correct action was. And I still feel they are underestimating aerosol transmission.
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