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...Category Archives: Pandemic
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.
Read more...Masks Work, Our Comprehensive Review Has Found
Finally, a rigorous study on mask use shows definitively that masks do indeed work, as in reduce transmission of respiratory diseases.
Read more...Word of the Day: Don’t Say “Covid Pandemic.” Say “Covid Syndemic”!
“‘Tis a mystery,” except not!
Read more...Could WHO’s Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through the Air” Already Be Obsolete, Two Weeks After Its Release?
WHO’s terminology and WHO’s science are both questionable.
Read more...H5N1 Happily Mutates Away, while Public Health Establishment Plods Along, Treating the Virus as a Food Supply Issue, and Not as a Potential Pandemic
Lambert puts on his Mr. Pandemic™ hat.
Read more...WHO’s New Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through The Air” (with a Note on the Pandemic Treaty)
Droplet dogmatists routed 👏 👏 👏
Read more...More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market)
Are the effects of Long Covid on the workforrce “material”? Plus the labor market, labor force participation, “the economy,” etc.
Read more...Interview: Puncturing Misconceptions About Vaccine Hesitancy
“Vaccine hesitancy” less pervasive than some say
Read more...Will Human-to-Human Bird Flu (H5N1) Be the Long-Awaited “Disease X?”
A Bird Flu round-up, mostly from an institutional perspective.
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