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WaPo 7/28 publishes multiple truth grenades as well as fake news about breakthrough cases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/breakthrough-infections-cdc-data/2021/07/28/dcaaa6b2-efce-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html Health CDC reversal on indoor masking prompts experts to ask, ‘Where’s the data?’ Excerpts: New recommendations from federal health officials this week on when vaccinated Americans should don face masks came with a startling bolt of news: People who have had their shots and become infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus can harbor large amounts of virus just like…
CDC reports high FLU death rates in young Americans, but may be overestimating by 300%
CDC notes the following, where P stands for pneumonia and I stands for influenza: Among 14,628 P&I deaths reported through the 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System from September 29, 2013 to February 8, 2014, a total of 571 (3.9%) were influenza-associated (i.e., they had influenza listed on the death certificate as an underlying or contributing…
Legalized Marijuana Could Help Curb the Opioid Epidemic, Study Finds/ Reuters, NBC
Finally some good news! Legalizing pot may have large, unpredicted benefits, according to NBC and this Reuters article: In states that legalized medical marijuana, U.S. hospitals failed to see a predicted influx of pot smokers, but in an unexpected twist, they treated far fewer opioid users, a new study shows. Hospitalization rates for opioid painkiller…
So how good is the flu shot really?/ Clinical Infectious Disease
CDC says flu vaccines prevent flu, on average 40% of the time, but even if you do get flu, the vaccine makes it less severe. But when these two claims were tested in Australia, neither was found to be true. The Australian study found that (in 17 hospitals over 7 recent flu seasons) there was no reduction…
I had to write another letter to the Board of Licensure in Medicine today. I felt they should be the first to hear my confession.
Dear Secretary Okoronkwo, Attorney Smith and Dr. Saito, There is something else I would like you to provide to the Medical Board and the Pharmacy Board. One of my complex, high risk patients for serious or life-threatening Covid just got Covid. The patient and I wanted him treated with hydroxychloroquine. I reviewed his dozen or…
Thanks Elon! Locked and suspended Twitter account for telling the truth
My main account is @NassMeryl, which is blocked. It has not gotten any additional followers for weeks, with the dial stopped at 14.9 thousand. This account was locked yesterday as I disagreed with a paid ad for vaccinating children fom DHHS.