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.
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.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01666-2 The issue is not whether there is some vaccine efficacy for the first two shots, especially with the early variants—there is some efficacy. The vaccines provided good protection briefly, which lasted longer the younger you were, which began falling within weeks of vaccination. Unvaccinated pregnant women in this study from Scotland had more severe…
If you get really sick you will need prescription drugs. But for those who want to maximize what they can do to fight COVID using easily available Over-The-Counter (OTC) treatments, or who want to stock up with a package of items to be ready, here is a list for you: Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/breakthrough-infections-cdc-data/2021/07/28/dcaaa6b2-efce-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html Health CDC reversal on indoor masking prompts experts to ask, ‘Where’s the data?’ Excerpts: New recommendations from federal health officials this week on when vaccinated Americans should don face masks came with a startling bolt of news: People who have had their shots and become infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus can harbor large amounts of virus just like…
December 21, 2009 07:15 CET/ Novartis press release: Basel, Switzerland All three Novartis A(H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccines prequalified (read that as untested or inadequately tested for third world distribution) by World Health Organization (WHO) for use in developing world · First prequalification from WHO for multiple influenza A(H1N1) 2009 vaccines from a single company: Celtura®…
From a story in the Frederick News-Post: Duley’s fiance of seven years, Mike McFadden, spoke to The Frederick News-Post on Saturday from their home in Williamsport and provided a statement on her behalf. “Jean is currently at an undisclosed location,” McFadden said. Duley had numerous meetings with the FBI in the past month, McFadden said,…
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/did-this-virus-come-from-a-lab-maybe-not–but-it-exposes-the-threat-of-a-biowarfare-arms-race/ Dangerous pathogens are captured in the wild and made deadlier in government biowarfare labs. Did that happen here? SAM HUSSEINI There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild are sometimes studied in labs — and sometimes made more dangerous. That possibility,…