- The federal government approved about $5 trillion in total pandemic relief money; the amount lost to fraud could reach the $250 billion to $560 billion range.
- At-home, rapid antigen tests that let you test for COVID, Influenza, and RSV all at once are widely available in Europe. But you can’t have one because they have not been approved by the FDA.
- Small rural hospitals got pummeled by the pandemic in 2022.
- Not only did the members of Congress not read the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, more than half didn’t even show up to vote. They voted by proxy.
- Pharma study: pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers are ripping off patients. Why didn’t they release this before the election?
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
It’s the End of the Line for the Travel Nurse Gravy Train
Nurses willing to travel to Covid hotspots could once earn $5,000 a week. Their pay was cut substantially at renewal in March and April of 2022, as demand for traveling nurses declined. Now many nurses who relocated to take on nursing assignments far from home are crying foul. A law firm has even gotten involved claiming nursing travel agencies pulled a “bait and switch” to lure nurses into jobs they would not have taken at lower pay.
Tuesday Links
How Twitter suppressed information about Covid. I think I now understand why the mainstream media has been ignoring everything Elon Musk is releasing about Twitter. Everything that happened at Twitter was also happening at the NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc. A meta-analysis of 62 studies finds that narcissism is positively correlated with time spent on social media, frequency of…