Category Archives: Health care

NIH ‘Very Concerned’ About Serious Side Effect in Coronavirus Vaccine Trial

FDA mulls whether to follow British regulators in resuming a vacccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage.

US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Drug in the Last Decade

Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019

Fauci Says COVID Vaccine Trials Could End Early If Results Are Overwhelming

The FDA’s eagerness to launch a Covid-19 vaccine is not a way to win public trust, particularly in light of the agency’s record of bad calls.

Could Religious Exemptions Trump a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate? Well, That Depends

How far could US authorities readily go in implemeting a vaccine requirement?

Tom Ferguson: Biden Blurring Almost Everything

Political scientist Tom Ferguson juxtaposes the factions around Biden with how Roosevelt eventually stared down banks and corporatists in the second phase of the New Deal

‘Threadbare’ US System Denounced as Study Shows 12 Million Lost Employer-Tied Health Care During Pandemic

New data on how many lost their health insurance, which often means health care, due to Covid. And the numbers are not getting better soon.

Another COVID Mystery: Patients Survive Ventilator, But Linger in a Coma

Another way Covid-19 can mess up people who survive the disease: protracted comas

Columbia Journalism Review Publishes Detailed Expose on Gates Foundation Buys Influence With Journalists

Why you should not trust the Gates Foundation.

Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick

More evidence in support of masks.

UK Government Accused of New “U-Turn” on Local Covid Contact Tracing with Outsourcing Giants Serco and Sitel

“Local councils should be doing the whole lot, not just the mopping up. Serco and Sitel are cherry picking and doing the easy bits and leaving the difficult stuff to local authorities.”

Preparing for the COVID-19 Third Wave: The Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a promising Covid-19 treatment that is being ignored.

COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul

There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system.

Universal Testing: An Overlooked Covid-19 Policy Response

Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.