Washington’s state medical commission has suspended the license of a controversial physician assistant who has used social media to promote opposition to masks and vaccines, and unapproved treatments for Covid-19, the Vancouver Columbian reported on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The suspension, [...]
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October 16th, 2021 - 1:07 pm § in Health
Physician assistant embroiled in Covid-19 controversies suspended
GOP congressman visits school and tells kids to defy mask policy
A Republican congressman from Virginia is telling high school students to disobey their school’s mask policy and refuse to wear masks. Rep. Bob Good (bio here, photo below), who represents a mostly rural district abutting West Virginia, spoke to a high school government class on Thursday, October [...]
October 15th, 2021 - 4:21 pm § in Donald Trump, Health
Vaccine lotteries were a bust
Vaccine lotteries “failed to convince people to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” a Seattle TV station reported on Friday, October 15, 2021. “Researchers from several universities [who] studied vaccination records … from 19 states – including Washington – that ent[...]
October 14th, 2021 - 10:05 am § in Health, Law and Courts
What happens when kids overdose on Covid-19 vaccine?
More and worse side effects, it seems. A father and mother went with their 5- and 4-year-old kids to Walgreens for flu shots, but they all got adult-strength Covid-19 vaccinations instead. Now the kids have “fever, body aches, cough, headaches, and nausea,” according to the family’[...]
Idaho doctor: “We’ve lost the war”
The virus is here to stay, Dr. Steven Nemerson, chief clinical officer at Saint Alphonsus Health System of Boise, told reporters on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 (read story here). “Today I’m here to tell you we’ve lost the war.” “The reason it is here to stay,” he ad[...]
October 12th, 2021 - 10:49 am § in Health
Daily aspirin out of favor
A federally-sponsored medical panel may soon recommend that people over 60 shouldn’t take aspirin to prevent a heart disease or stroke unless they’ve already had one, because the potential harm cancels out the benefits, CNN reported on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. (Read story here.) Taking[...]
Grade her “F” in civics
“A Wyoming teenager who believes that mask mandates violate her constitutional rights was arrested for trespassing after she refused to leave school grounds” last week, the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Monday, October 11, 2021 (read story here). Grace Smith, 16, a junior at [...]
October 11th, 2021 - 12:56 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
WSU coach’s odds of getting vax exemption don’t look good
WSU football coach Nick Rolovich could lose his job if he doesn’t comply with the vaccine mandate applicable to all state employees. Rolovich, a Catholic, has applied for a religious exemption, presumably on the grounds that fetal tissue was used in vaccine testing (although not in the vaccine[...]
October 9th, 2021 - 12:18 pm § in Health
Covid-19 decimates third-world countries
See map below for third-world countries (pictured in red) decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic. What you actually see is the pandemic has hit the western hemisphere hard, except — strangely — for Central America. And, of course, Canada where people are more sensible than Americans. Return [...]
Anti-maskers harass kids walking to school (video)
Anti-maskers are widely viewed as a rogue element in American society. Objecting to being required to wear a mask is somewhat understandable; people don’t like being told what to do, even for their own good. (The problem is that going unmasked not only puts them at risk, but also endangers oth[...]