From today’s NYTimes, see the diagram below.  What do I see in the curve?  The slope downward from this last (3d) peak is too steep.  The epidemic curves of diseases generally rise steeply and fall more slowly as the virus runs out of susceptibles.  See the two prior peaks for an example.  In this case,…

Looks like the Nature publishing company is trying to regain some respectability.  They are publishing information that has been suppressed (mostly) since the start of the pandemic.  It turns out that Covid immunity following infection appears to be life-long. Even for mild cases.  (Of course, you heard it from me that immunity was going to…

Sunday, July 5, 2015 Public Health Gone Awry: Birth Dose of Hepatitis B Vaccine (IOM chimes in on lack of good vaccine data) Hepatitis B is a serious disease.  It is highly prevalent in many countries in Asia (nearly 10% of Chinese carried the illness in 1992), but fortunately is of low prevalence in the…

From the Atlantic:  … the GOP establishment is changing along with its elected officials; the RNC voted in a winter meeting to literally renounce NSA domestic surveillance. “It was passed by a voice vote as part of a package of RNC proposals,” Benjy Sarlin reports. “Not a single member rose to object or call for further debate,…

And I do not recall all the doom and gloom back in January 2021 about overcrowding and lack of staffing.  WaPo claims hospital staffing is only down 2%-4% overall, but the lack of staffing is due to employee illnesses and overwork.   Don’t tell me that the CMS brain trust couldn’t put together the fact this…

I vote for Drs. Swaminathan as the most adept at saying nothing.  In other words, making sure that whatever the future outcome, she won’t be wrong.  Coming up with these meaningless statements while appearing to be erudite–well, it is a remarkable talent.  I wonder if Tony taught it to her, or if she learned it…