Health Care and Profits, a Poor Mix / NY Times
An excellent piece discusses how turning over aspects of healthcare to private industry led to greater costs without accompanying benefits, and compares the US with other first world countries.
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Predominance of antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccine breakthrough cases from the San Francisco Bay Area, California/ UCSF lab
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A Tale of Two Authoritarians/ Matt Taibbi
The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the scene…/ https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-authoritarians Read the whole article. Below is just the middle section: …Remember our Health and Human Services Secretary saying last summer, in advance of a “door-to-door” campaign that was supposedly about…
Op-Ed: The Death of Mr. Ivins
This am’s Hartford Courant carries a sensible Op-Ed. It ends, Congress should press the Justice Department for a full and public accounting of this case. Forcing the FBI to lay out its evidence against Mr. Ivins is the only way the public can be sure the agency’s methods were reasonable. It’s only fair.
WHO: Acute respiratory (including swine flu) disease prevalence around the world
The map I previously posted disappeared off this website. However, WHO updates the map weekly. To see the current week’s map (and you may click to compare it with previous weeks) please go to the WHO site.