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Not enough COVID? Hospitals complain there are too many beds unfilled and they’re losing money
Rather remarkable article. We had a huge COVID surge in January, but apparently this corresponded to fewer admissions. Inpatient revenue declined 19%. I thought that was a good thing: the huge Omicron wave was relatively mild. Also, some patients have stopped trusting the medical system. Hospitals won’t admit that yet. Not that there are lots…
Mandatory Vaccinations: No, we’re not there yet, but why have we started going down that road?
“Once you start requiring doctors to get it, doctors are going to think it’s reasonable to make patients get it. It starts you down that mandatory route, and I don’t think we want to go there.” So said George Annas, renowned bioethicist, NEJM columnist and department chair of Health Law at Boston University School of…
Clarifying info on the anthrax vaccines Ivins studied
From Eric Lipton in the Aug 9 NY Times: “There was a real threat, the former colleagues acknowledged, that the anthrax vaccine Dr. Ivins had worked on during that period, known as Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed or AVA, might be pulled from the market Most troubling were problems at the Michigan manufacturing plant, which had been…
“U.S. scientists say uncertainties loom about Ebola’s transmission, other key facts”/ Reuters
Reuters’ Sharon Begley has to be one of the very best science journalists in the US. She always gets to the meat of the matter. Here she gives us the highlights of what scientists said remains unknown about Ebola transmission, at an IOM meeting November 3. The full article is below, and it confirms what…
Most Physicians Overestimate Treatment Benefits, Underestimate Harms/ Medscape
An interesting study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was discussed yesterday on Medscape. Unsurprisingly, it appears we doctors overestimate the benefit of what we do, and underestimate the risk–by a lot. “Clinicians are likely to underestimate harms and overestimate benefits of tests and treatments, according to the results of a review of 48 studies published online January…
Take a look at these two brief but comprehensive, well-written reports, one on the pandemic and the second a comparison of ivermectin and remdesivir
Physicist and activist John Droz has prepared two very interesting reports, chock full of links and references, on the medical establishment’s response to the pandemic, and a second report on ivermectin and remdesivir.