Doctors are clamoring for more clarity on Paxlovid prescribing amid Covid-19 rebound concerns https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/07/paxlovid-prescribing-covid19-rebounds-data/ By Edward ChenJuly 7, 2022 Reprints + A patient with pills of Paxlovid. Six months after the emergency use authorization of Paxlovid for high-risk Covid patients, physicians say prescribing still isn’t clear-cut.ALEX WELSH/THE NEW YORK TIMES Six months after regulators issued an emergency…

 https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/Marik-Covid-Protocol-Summary.pdf Critical Care Covid Management Protocol, updated Sept. 28 by Marik et al. HCQ was omitted, I am told, to avoid controversy.  These are effective treatments also.

The 2009 “Swine flu” A (H1N1) outbreak has been recognized for the past six weeks. It has been studied intensively, we are told, and a number of Americans have died from the disorder, although less than 1% of those diagnosed with this specific virus. It apparently is a bit more contagious than the usual flu,…

Re: US county bars unvaccinated children from public spaces amid measles emergency Cite this as: BMJ 2019;364:l1481 New York state is one of 47 states that allow parents to claim a religious exemption from their children’s vaccines. One to two percent of parents take advantage of this legal avenue to avoid vaccinating their children. The US has…

Kerry persists today in making outsize claims that he fails to support.  My comments are in parentheses. Secretary of State John Kerry, in his remarks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged Congress to vote in favor of the president ordering a military strike and argued that “the risk of not acting is greater than…

http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/05/12/boston-electronic-medical-records?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170512 By Drs. John Levinson, Bruce H. Price and Vikas Saini It happens every day, in exam rooms across the country, something that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago: Doctors and nurses turn away from their patients and focus their attention elsewhere — on their computer screens. By the time the doctor can finally turn…