Interview on my license status with Kristina Borjesson and Kelly O’Meara, Sept. 21

Has she been asleep for the past year? Or does she know something we don’t? ———– And now we hear there is a cholera epidemic in Syria.  More BW?  This is a reflection of unsafe water or deliberately contaminated water supplies.  It kills via massive diarrhea and dehydration, though it is otherwise not a severe…

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I can rarely stay still this long but managed to find enough dishes and cleaning to hear the whole thing.  A very good interview that gives everything its context.  Love it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-a-mike/id1436799008?i=1000551758816 ‎Coffee and a Mike: Edward Dowd #370 on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Coffee and a Mike, Ep Edward Dowd #370 – Feb 21, 2022…

From the Washington Examiner:  Cervical cancer accounts for less than 1 percent of all cancer deaths, so it was somewhat surprising when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fast-tracked approval of Gardasil, a Merck vaccine targeting the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes the disease, in 2006. As of Jan. 31, 2010, 49 unexplained deaths…

The scope of this epidemic does not fit all the data we have been given. The Rzero number has to be greater than 2.2, much greater, to get so many cases so quickly in Wuhan and Lombardy, if the earliest case occurred in November-December, and the doubling time of the epidemic is 6 days.  The…

A NYT editorial discussed healthcare costs last week using two simple graphs. In case you still have good insurance, take a look at what has happened to the rest of us.  Over seventeen years, the cost of insurance premiums has risen at 6 times the rate of inflation.  Over ten years, deductibles rose at 16…