Keeping Things in Perspective

“Look, there is no federal solution,” Biden said Monday, according to a transcript of a conversation he had with a group of governors. “This gets solved at a state level.” What does this mean? Having spent a trillion or more “responding” to the Pandemic with zero benefit or accountability, during which all the friends of government…

 https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/risk-of-nurses-leaving-too-high-to-mandate-vaccine-says-ballad-health-ceo.html Many healthcare workers are vaccinated against COVID-19, but others are refusing to do so as part of their employers’ requirements. As a result, hospitals and health systems have lost employees, and one healthcare executive said a mandate could cost his 21-hospital system too many nurses. “We have about 6,000 nurses in our system,” Alan…

Happy Thanksgiving:  You’re fired.   Donald Trump couldn’t have done it with more aplomb. “Health system TriHealth had a message for 150 employees Wednesday: We really mean it this time.   The 150 workers who didn’t get the required flu shots by the Nov. 16 deadline received termination notices the day before Thanksgiving…” On November 20,…

There is no getting away from the NAS report conclusions, as reported worldwide:  the science does not support FBI’s claims that Ivins was the anthrax perpetrator. See articles from the AFP, NPR, AP, Science, and a later WP article. The FBI responded that their case was based on a totality of the evidence, not just…

The following excerpts from today’s NY Times article point to serious failures of data collection, analysis, and commitment to safety at FDA.  The failures follow lax, politically-driven regulations, which allow products to be licensed without data if they are substantially like other licensed products.  There is no good guideline for how alike the products must…

An interesting study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was discussed yesterday on Medscape.  Unsurprisingly, it appears we doctors overestimate the benefit of what we do, and underestimate the risk–by a lot. “Clinicians are likely to underestimate harms and overestimate benefits of tests and treatments, according to the results of a review of 48 studies published online January…