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Massachusetts Public Health enlisted MIT to study the efficiency of masks at protecting from COVID. The results were not pretty.
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/the-baker-knew?s=r Nonetheless, Massachusetts imposed mask-wearing, using masks purchased in China and other masks that were known by officials in the Health Department to have virtually no benefit. This is the long story, garnered from over 1200 pages of state government documents released by FOIA, of how Governor Charlie Baker sent the Patriots plane to China…
Healthcare deductible costs rose at 16x the rate of inflation since 2006/ NYT
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…
Another case on the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers beaten down
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/federal-judge-declines-14-states-challenge-to-cms-vaccine-mandate.html A federal judge in Louisiana on Dec. 2 declined a case brought by 14 states challenging the Biden administration’s rule that requires COVID-19 vaccination for eligible staff at healthcare facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs. In November 2021, CMS announced that healthcare facilities that receive federal funding must ensure workers are vaccinated against the…
Caustic Government Report Deals Blow to Diabetes Drug/ NY Times
The NY Times’ Gardiner Harris has covered a crucial issue unpinning the use of drugs in modern medical practice. As I point out on the left side of this blog: “Clinical data generated or presented by the manufacturers of drugs, vaccines and devices cannot be trusted: there are hundreds of studies proving this. But this…
WaPo claims dramatic rise in child deaths from flu–but CDC graph shows lowest percentage of hospitalizations in children of past 5 flu seasons
The Washington Post claimed last week: ‘Swine flu’ strain returns; dramatic rise in deaths of young adults, children. But CDC does not collect info on young adult deaths. It does collect info on child deaths, however. And it collects data on hospitalizations. It is actually the 50-64 year olds who are suffering more hospitalizations this…