Life Insurer: Deaths Among Working Age Americans Up 40% Under Covid
Experts dispute the idea that Covid is sparing the non-elderly.
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During a COVID-19 Surge, ‘Crisis Standards of Care’ Involve Excruciating Choices and Impossible Ethical Decisions for Hospital Staff
Hospital staff are bracing themselves for overload….if they aren’t there already.
Read more...Administration’s Obvious Covid Flail: Officially Abdicates as Case Count Hits Record; Scientists and Press Misrepresent Data to Put Happy Face on Omicron
The Biden Covid response is visibly coming apart at the seams.
Read more...Maybe No Omicron Boosters?
The Administration, in the form of Dr. Fauci, is taking another anti-public-health stance by talking down Omicron boosters.
Read more...California Suit Takes Aim at Private Equity Engaging in Illegal Practice of Medicine by Owning Outsourced MD Practices
An important new suit targets a central and not even well disguised private equity abuse: illegally practicing medicine via owning MD groups.
Read more...Crash Course: Injured Patients Who Sign ‘Letters of Protection’ May Face Huge Medical Bills and Risks
Dr. Kingsley R. Chin demonstrates how utterly depraved some medical scammers are.
Read more...The Democrats Go Full Götterdämmerung as Manchin Makes DOA of BBB Official; Omicron Undermines Scapegoating the Unvaxxed
The Democrats may finally be getting their comeuppance.
Read more...More Cheery Omicron News
The latest Omicron findings.
Read more...Mirabile Dictu! Appeals Judge Rejects $4.5 Billion Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement for Giving Sacklers Release from Civil Suits
A surprising but welcome smackdown of the Purdue Pharma settlement that would have let the Sacklers secure their considerable loot.
Read more...Omicron: Fog of Information and Definitions
More Omicron updates and musings.
Read more...Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge
Vignettes on how care gets compromised as hospitals start to be overwhelmed.
Read more...Being Rich Does Not Make You More Generous. It Makes You Meaner.
Why relying on the kindness of strangers, particularly rich ones, is not such a hot idea.
Read more...The US Doesn’t Have Enough Faculty To Train the Next Generation of Nurses
Nurses’ ranks were being hollowed out even before Covid due to not instructing enough to fill rising needs. That shortfall getting worse.
Read more...Cornell Goes Code Red, Cancels Most Campus Activities During Covid Spike with “Very High Percentage” Omicron in Fully Vaxxed
The Cornell “Alert Level Red” with “very substantial” Omicron cases among the fully vaxxed and boosted confirms Omicron’s contagiousness.
Read more...Omicron Cases Serious in Denmark and Overall Morbidity Picture Not Pretty Either
The Omicron news hasn’t gotten cheerier.
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