ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”
Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care
Read more...Category Archives: Pandemic
Masks ***ARE*** a Fashion Item! In Asia.
A look at Hong Kong-based MaskLab.
Read more...Annual Numbers of Excess Deaths in the US Relative to Other Developed Countries Are Growing at an Alarming Rate
America continues to be exceptional, here in our level of excess deaths.
Read more...NIH “12 Symptoms” Long Covid Study: Another Scientific Communications Debacle, or Worse?
It would be really nice if the NIH were not as dysfunctional as CDC. But I have my doubts….
Read more...Is There a Covid Wastewater Spike in New York City?
Spoiler alert: yes. Though it’s not easy!
Read more...NYC Sheriff Miranda Hawked ‘Gimmick’ COVID Protection Just Before Mayor Adams Hired Him
Anthony Miranda touted the ‘virus buster’ with a convicted racketeer and a Queens business leader embroiled in an Elon Musk-imposter spectacle
Read more...“Lessons for a Pandemic”
Lessons learned, and not, from a pandemic that isn’t over.
Read more...I’d Love to Go Long Masks, and… Maybe Someday! Tasks for the American Mask Manufacturers Association
Masking can become a social norm if masks become fashion items, but that can only happen if the mask industry adopts some standards.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Now Significant Among the Young
The US cancer of deaths of despair has progressed from less educated middle aged whites to the young of all stripes.
Read more...United Pilots Picket for Better Contract After American, Southwest Counterparts Authorize Strikes
Will “the most pro-labor president in history” get to smash another looming strike?
Read more...Mass General Hospital Decrees that Patients May Not ***ASK*** Staff to Wear Masks, Even If Immunocompromised (ADA Complaint Filed)
Mass General Hospital mandates patient infection from Covid.
Read more...Rochelle Walensky: Not With a Bang but a Puddle of Tears
We had low expecations for Rochelle Walensky and she underperformed. A partial catalogue of the damage she did.
Read more...Yellow Fever in Slave-Owning New Orleans and Covid Today: Symbolic v. Social Capital
Then and now: Immunity, whether real or imagined, had serious implications. It affected where people worked, what they earned, where they lived, and with whom they dealt.
Read more...Covid: The Poor People’s Pandemic
Liz Theoharis, co-chair of Poor People’s Campaign, indicts how Biden is abusing the needy by ending pandemic emergency programs.
Read more...KLG: When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict
Who are these scientists and what are their motivations? The default position of the powers-that-be has been to view scientists as disinterested seekers of the truth of the natural world. However, scientists and their patrons who are “science adjacent” can be anything but disinterested.
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