- How Republicans would change the CDC.
- The effect of one of the eat-your-spinach SS reforms: raising the normal retirement age.
- Since the passage of IRA, drug companies have discontinued an additional 36 research and over 21 drug development programs. In oncology alone, over a dozen drug development programs have been discontinued.
- The Biden-Harris administration wasted nearly one billion on covid misinformation
Is Trick or Treating on Halloween a Public Health Risk?
When I was a child, we were always hearing about horrible thing that happened to kids while trick or treating on Halloween. There were rumors of kids eating candy, only to find it laced with razorblades. There was gum adulterated with LSD and candy bars injected with Heroin. Horror stories were commonplace but come to think of it the information was always secondhand, heard from friends of friends. There was never first-person confirmation.
WHO: Tuberculosis Top Killer Worldwide
Now that the Covid-19 Pandemic has waned tuberculosis is once again the top killer of people worldwide. By some estimates the mortality rate is about 50% if left untreated. More than eight million people around the world are infected with tuberculosis (TB), according to the World Health Organization
Wednesday Links
- Evidence on the declining mental health of children and theories to explain that from Jonathan Haidt.
- Rochelle P. Walensky wins the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award.
- Here are all the reasons she doesn’t deserve it.
- The media is misreporting what the IRA act actually did.
- How a Donald Trump presidency would change health care. (Included: Goodman Institute plan to revamp the Obamacare exchanges.) Statnews