An unidentified German man got 90 shots of COVID-19 vaccine to sell vaccination cards, ABC News reported (read story here). “It was not immediately clear what … impact” this has had on his “personal health,” ABC News said. Presumably he either hasn’t gotten Covid-[...]
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GOP candidate threatens doctors who refuse to prescribe ivermectin
A GOP candidate for Wisconsin attorney general says she’ll prosecute doctors for murder if they refuse to prescribe ivermectin to dying Covid-19 patients (read story here). Karen Mueller (photo, left), who runs a solo practice in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, also has brought lawsuits against mas[...]
Why America has an incurable doctor shortage
America has a doctor shortage that even qualified medical school graduates can’t fill. That’s partly because of a residency bottleneck. Residency is an essential part of a practicing physician’s training. But in 2021 there only 35,194 first-year residencies available for 42,508 new[...]
Canadian study shows ivermectin is useless for Covid-19
A large clinical trial in Canada has confirmed what medical experts say about treating Covid-19 with ivermectin: It doesn’t work. At all. “In the largest trial yet analyzing the effectiveness of ivermectin on treating the coronavirus, … researchers found that Covid-19 patients at r[...]
Oklahoma house calls
Excerpted from E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes, by James Patterson and Matt Everson (get it here), at p. 246: “We get a lot of calls to deal with emergency situations in the rural parts of Oklahoma, where a lot of people live off the grid, without TV or ru[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 4:16 pm § in Health
New BA.2 variant “serious threat” to seniors boosted over 5 months ago
With the BA.2 Omicron subvariant “picking up steam in the United States,” about 28 million seniors risk severe illness because they’re unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, or it’s over 5 months since they got a booster shot, CNN reported on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 (read stor[...]
March 13th, 2022 - 6:17 pm § in Health
What’s next for Covid-19?
“Things seem to be looking up,” CNN says (here). “Vaccines still do a good job of keeping people alive and out of the hospital. There’s increasing access to tests and treatments.” Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are down (but still significant), and the health [...]
What, exactly, are they protesting?
I certainly get the feeling it wasn’t just Covid-19 mandates, but something bigger. In a column last week, Seattle Times writer Danny Westneat pointed out that even though all Washington mask mandates will end two days from now (on March 12), the protests against mask mandates go on, and on, a[...]
Anti-masker calls security guard a “Nazi” for doing his job
Ricky Schroder (bio here) is a minor celebrity, so not-famous I never heard of him until he called a security guard a “Nazi” for doing his job (no mask, no entry). The Twittersphere isn’t being kind to him (see tweets here). I’m not, either. He’s a jerk. This video sh[...]
Where Covid-19 almost certainly came from
There may never be a definitive answer, but genome-tracking scientists have zeroed in on a specific stall at the Wuhan live-animal market (diagram below), and all but ruled out the “lab leak” theory. Read here the complicated story of how they trailed Covid-19 to where it jumped from ani[...]