Moving fast toward international requirement for vaccine passport

From yesterday’s Japan Times comes a sobering piece quoting the last chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Jaczko only stepped down in 2012) suggesting there isn’t any way to safely manage nuclear power in a world of earthquakes and natural disasters. The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant is a sign that the world…

A Medscape Commentary by John Medrola, MD “I have to remind the American doctor that life is changing.… It’s not a normal life. It’s a #COVID19 life. It’s a pandemic life.” With these words, spoken March 18, during a joint webinar of the Chinese Cardiac Society and the American College of Cardiology, Professor Bin Cao, MD, from China, jolted…

The LA Times reports that what I expected to occur has now happened. The CDC’s ACIP used the swine flu pandemic to gin up flu anxiety and activity. They don’t seem to care that Tamiflu was found to be an “Emperor’s New Clothes” story, nor that the data to support vaccinating everyone (let alone the…

From the NY Times‘ editorial page: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered an overhaul of mental health care for veterans, who are killing themselves by the thousands each year because of what the court called the “unchecked incompetence” of the Department of Veterans Affairs. … delays in treating post-traumatic stress…

The tide is turning.  The origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains in question.  And now the WaPo is supporting a full investigation, below. But don’t expect much from pending investigations by the WHO or a group that has constituted itself as from the Lancet. The Lancet group’s origin investigation is being led by Peter Daszac, PhD, whose…

This article happens to have been written by the son of a friend, but I read it all the way through because it is amazing.  I think it can spark a conversation that will help mend our families–Meryl Coming Clean My experience of the pandemic in South Africa and the case for a more inclusive…