New CDC Respiratory Virus “Community Snapshot” Caves to Covid Minimizers, Deceives Those Who Want to Stay Safe
As bad as you would expect. Yellow wader time!
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Fauci “Shares Insights on His Career” and the (On-Going) Covid Pandemic
Fauci’s blind spots and the Covid public health debacle.
Read more...Mpox (“Monkeypox”) Round-Up: History, Wastewater, R0, and Is It Airborne? (Yes)
Great news on wastewater, less great news on R0 and airborne transmission.
Read more...Mask Bans Slowly Spread [cough, cough] in States and Localities
Mask bans passed in North Carolina and Nassau County, NY; mask bans considered in New York State, Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA.
Read more...Eight Reasons Mask Bans Are Beyond Stupid
Eight talking points on mask bans.
Read more...Looking for Long Covid: A Clash of Definition and Study Design
Influential studies from the VA St. Louis take a broad view of long Covid. Not every expert agrees with the approach.
Read more...Expert: Why Covid and Future Pandemics Are a Bigger Threat than Nukes
Persistent political and public health failures expose us to pandemics, while vastly underestimating their long-term health effects.
Read more...Layoffs, Retirement, and Post-Pandemic Inflation
Finally, a look at how Covid-related early retirement has contributed to our recent inflation.
Read more...Bird Flu and Biomedicine, An Essay on What We Might Expect
Bird flu as a case study in the category error of libertarian medicine, the misuse of preprints, and resulting poor public health policy.
Read more...Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm?
“It’s hard to not compare this to covid, where early on we only tested people who had traveled.”
Read more...“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Some updates on long Covid make for an indictment of US public health. Not that that should come as a surprise.
Read more...Ninth Circuit Supports Jacobson Public Health Doctrine, But Accepts “Non-Traditional” Covid Vaccines May In Fact Be Treatments (and Hence Should Not Have Been Mandated)
Key question for consequentialists: If “non-traditional” vaccines are in fact treatments as under the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, what happens to the liability of Pfizer et al. for vaccine injury?
Read more...Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
Read more...How One Advice Columnist Handled Our Covid Pandemic, Over Four Years
Carolyn Hax tries to sweep back the tide with a broom.
Read more...Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
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