Have the Democrats Risked Ruin by Increasing Vaccine Hesitancy in the Electorate?
The Precautionary Principle and the politics of vaccine development
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Battle Rages Inside Hospitals Over How COVID Strikes and Kills: Aerosols or Droplets
The wonky, seemingly semantic debate over SARS-COV-2 transmission has a real-world impact on what sort of protective measures health care companies need to take to protect their patients and workers.
Read more...Why the Phrase “Access to Health Care” Should Always Pin Your Bullsh*t Detector (and You’re Not Alone)
How the ubiquitous phrase “access to health care” erases financial and “administrative burdens,” a fact now only beginning to be recognized by health are professionals.
Read more...‘A Definite and Sustained Increase’: Europe Leads Record Single-Day Worldwide Covid-19 Infection Surge
Europe reported nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday—more than in the U.S., India, and Brazil, the world’s Covid-19 case leaders
Read more...Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order
Trump believes he protected people with pre-existing conditions and eliminated surprise billing via an executive order. He did not.
Read more...Why Don’t We Study Countries That Have Had COVID-19 Success?
Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and New Zealand have recorded low COVID-19 deaths. Why do we hear so little about the reeasons for their success?
Read more...“Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump”
An illustration that some and perhaps many Trump voters don’t fit mainstream media stereotypes.
Read more...WATCH: Katie Porter, Squad Members Eviscerate Big Pharma CEOs Over ‘Exorbitant’ Drug Prices
ngresscritters go after drug price gouging. But what will it take to make it stop?
Read more...Google/Fitbit Will Monetize Health Data and Harm Consumers
Top economists warn of the dangers of the propsed Google acquisition of Fitbit and look at possible remedies.
Read more...The US Excess Mortality Rate from COVID-19 Is Substantially Worse than Europe’s
Debunking yet another defense of the US’ abject Covid-19 performance.
Read more...Corralling the Facts on Herd Immunity
learing up some confusion on herd immunity, a key topic in Covid-19 policy debates.
Read more...Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” Covid-19 Vaccine Development Program: Dominated by Military Personnel, Accused of Corruption
Operation Warp Speed is a public/private partnership set up by the Trump administration, which is developing several vaccines for Covid-19 in parallel.
Read more...Update on Federal Covid-19 Data at HHS: Hysteria on TeleTracking Data Manipulation Unwarranted, but Concern on Palintir Surveillance Oddly Muted
The danger in the HHS Protect project on Covid-19 isn’t data manipulation, but what the data will be used for (which almost nobody is talking about).
Read more...These Secret Safety Panels Will Pick the COVID Vaccine Winners
A small, secret panel of experts is tasked with reviewing crucial data on the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines that U.S. taxpayers have helped fund, including products from Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and others.
Read more...Andrew Cuomo Says NY Officials Will Do Separate Review of Any COVID-19 Vaccine
New York state governor Andrew Cuomo steps into the debate over approval of covid-19 vaccine and will appoint panel to set NY distribution.
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