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Flu cases keep dropping as predicted/ CDC
from CDC’s FluView
Most Physicians Overestimate Treatment Benefits, Underestimate Harms/ Medscape
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…
UK data: vaccine prevents deaths for a few short months, and then it doesn’t/ ONS
The following graphs straight from the UK Office of National Statistics seem self-explanatory to me. Perhaps if you keep on getting boosters you may not die as readily. But those earlier shots are sure wearing off quickly, and after a few months have passed, they do not, as claimed by the CDC, prevent deaths. It…
Director of Denmark’s National Board of Health says the country was mistaken to vaccinate children for COVID/ TV2
In hindsight, we did not get much out of vaccinating the children, Brostrøm admits by Emilie Haaber Lynggaard We have become wiser, and we would not do the same today, says Søren Brostrøm. With the knowledge we have today, we did not get much out of having children vaccinated against coronavirus last year. This…
NY Times Explains the PPE Evolution
I would recommend that healthcare workers read the complete article. We are used to outfit #1, but the details for #2 and #3 (especially their removal) are hazy for many of us, since we have never before had to use this level of personal protection to protect ourselves from our patients’ infections. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/15/us/changes-to-ebola-protection-worn-by-us-hospital-workers.html Changes to…
CDC’s Weasel Words and Weasel Employees Force Flu Vaccinations on Healthcare Workers
In the last post, I explained that CDC was the source of the plan to investigate rates of healthcare worker flu vaccinations. CDC collaborates with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use staff (and patient) flu vaccination rates to calculate hospital “quality” — and the “quality” number determines up to 4% of acute…