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.
Glenn Greenwald (who left the Guardian to start a new online news service Nov 1) has long had a unique ability to pile on the pithy quotes. This time he outdid himself, simply by quoting from an amazing report written for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) by Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor….
The NY Times runs a very detailed website, updated daily, with COVID cases, hospitalizations, tests, deaths, vaccinations. It is chock full of charts and graphs. Much of the data is granular down to counties. Some of it relates to the whole world. It’s a one-stop shop where you can find data on almost everything COVID-related….
CDC does not just award grants, it also obtains research grants from other federal agencies and industry. Here is one grant CDC got from an Australian biotech company to advance research on the company’s pandemic flu vaccine. How might such relationships affect CDC’s impartiality in fulfilling its mission to recommend vaccines for general use in…
from the Canadian Press: Researchers from Melbourne, Australia tested pregnant patients with life-threatening swine flu infections for levels of antibody in different antibody subclasses. This test is rarely done, but is used to investigate possible immune deficiencies. Serendipitously, the researchers and treating physicians found that one class of antibody (IgG2) was low in most of…
Great, accurate, thorough film by James Patrick https://rumble.com/v192brc-dr.-peter-mccullough-full-interview-planet-lockdown-series.html
First, access to hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine was restricted. The chloroquine drugs only work during active viral replication. While extremely safe at prescribed doses, and used daily for years by hundreds of thousands of patients with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, overdose can be fatal. Awareness of these facts led to the FDA restricting the use of…