Answer: allow these doctors to practice as “Assistant Physicians.”
Commission Report: COVID response exposed “collective national incompetence.” We needed a commission to know that?
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Saturday Links
- Patriotic Millionaires call for a 90% top income tax rate, but refuse to pay that much themselves.
- Studies are finally coming out about the adverse effects of COVID vaccines.
- Study: Screen time and suicide among kids are connected.
- White House plans to provide free covid vaccinations to the uninsured.
- Moderna and IBM to make new vaccines using quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
- Study: Although Medicaid pays for contraception, age-adjusted rates of most or moderately effective contraceptive use among Medicaid beneficiaries vary almost fourfold across US counties and rates of long-lasting, reversible contraception (e.g., IUD) vary nearly tenfold.
Friday Links
Is your Covid vaccination status a private matter? Has the government been tracking people who are unvaccinated? 73% of U.S. adults who are unvaccinated say they would not get a shot with an updated Covid formula either. How the party bases are changing: In the recent mayor’s race, Chicago’s high-income, elite neighborhoods voted for more…
Thursday Links
- The FDA approves some drugs other nations don’t want.
- Study: After St. George’s Hospital in The UK ended its mask mandate for staff and visitors for some, but not all, wards, there was no difference in Covid infections between the two settings.
- Meta analysis of 2,168 studies finds that wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic led to negative health consequences, including itching, headaches, and restriction of oxygen.
- Aaron Carroll: Contra the Cochrane mask study.
- A new wealth tax in Norway causes the rich to leave Norway.
- US compensates people injured by the Covid vaccine for the first time.
- Health care cost effectiveness: how much is a quality adjusted year of life worth?
- A type of jellyfish has achieved immortality.