The Scientific Response to COVID-19: What Does the Biomedical Literature Say?
A look at what passes for research on Covid, and how we got there.
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Did the US Jump the Gun With the New Omicron-Targeted Vaccines?
On the queasiness over the dearth of testing for the new omicron vaccine “booster:.
Read more...Hospital Infection Control Departments Tenaciously Resist Airborne Transmission, Aided by CDC
Another deep dive into the hellish netherworld of CDC’s horrid documentation.
Read more...Please, Vote for Somebody in the CalPERS Board Election. Your Money Is at Stake.
If you are a CalPERS retiree, please be sure to vote in the board election now underway. You deserve to be properly represented.
Read more...Fears Over Cost of Living ‘Solutions’ Proposed by Truss-Backed Think Tanks
Liz Truss looks set to shaft ordinary Britons when the UK is already reeling from a cost of living crisis.
Read more...Alzheimer’s Disease and Modern Biomedical Research: A Cautionary Tale in Several Parts
How foundational work on Alzheimers’s disease was based on fradulent, um, manipulated data, yet not much rethinking has been done.
Read more...‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response
Yves here. This is the first time I’ve come across the People’s CDC, and I like the cut of their jib. They have a series of demands for Covid action. And while continued “access” to vaccines is on the list, it’s their dead last action item, with N95 masks and ventilation and testing and improved […]
Read more...If You Thought This Summer’s Heat Waves Were Bad, a New Study Has Some Disturbing News About Dangerous Heat
The big heat is set to become more pervasive. A look at projections on where and how bad how soon.
Read more...Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”
More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.
Read more...Some Rural Hospitals Are in Such Bad Shape, Local Governments Are Practically Giving Them Away
John here. This article provides an interesting view of the economics of rural hospitals, which are closing at an alarming rate. In particular, it highlights how counties often negotiate from desperately weak positions, even when they have invested in the infrastructure. Another recent KHN article reported on the start-up Noble Health, which took over two […]
Read more...National Cyber Defenses Mean Businesses Can Keep Making Money From Public Services
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher Cyber attacks targeting private sector providers for essential public services result in additional waste of public resources. When public health care fails in cyber security, politicians are quick to blame staff on the ground. But when private companies become the weak link, state resources are spent […]
Read more...Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers
Abortion has heated up normally sleepy state and local attorney general races.
Read more...Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign
Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.
Read more...Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance
Read more...For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
Inflation is putting families with big ongoing medical costs under terrible stress.
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