My interview yesterday with Kristina Borjesson on all things Monkeypox

Healthcare workers comprise a huge chunk of employees.  They are the only group for which a national COVID vaccine mandate had stood.  Many are extremely unhappy about this mandate–especially when some states or employers have announced they must also get boosters.   Facing close races in November and predictions that the Republicans will take over the…

If your vaccine doesn’t necessarily protect you or me very well, you can’t achieve herd immunity and there is no societal justification to mandate the shot, or squeeze the unvaccinated. Supposedly, CDC just figured this out.  More to the point, the media just started reporting on it, mostly because of a leaked set of CDC…

Someone just wrote me that local media were reporting that the hospital morgue where they work had run out of room due to Covid victims.  But what the local media were not reporting was that the morgue only had 2 spaces! Did you see the amazing Rolling Stone magazine story (repeated by Rachel Maddow) about…

I like this article on planetary temperatures on the Australian Academy of Science website, which provides facts and seems even-handed: globally averaged near-surface air temperature rose by around 0.8°C [1.4 degrees Farenheit] between 1850 and 2012 (Figure 2.1c). The rate of warming increased in the mid-1970s, and each of the most recent three decades has…

I will elaborate on this important subject as I learn more.  And what more has been learned about the benefits of lamivudine, an antiviral used by a Liberian doctor with reported high survival in a small number of patients?  UPDATE Nov 14:  A WHO committee says it does not work.  MSF will test 2 antiviral…