Category: Friday Links

Johns Hopkins professor, Dr. Marty Makary on Fox News says when he goes to doctors’ conferences almost no one is wearing a mask.

What’s the right sales tax for tampons? This is a big issue in Texas.

If Pfizer’s Covid pills work so well, why aren’t people taking them?

How right wing think tanks think about health care.

British Court: officials broke the law when they sent untested (Covid) patients to nursing homes. And so, apparently did US governors Cuomo, Murphy, Wolf, Baker, Pritzker, Whitmer, and Walz. 

What is it like to continuously monitor your blood sugar? You can see the effects of a smoothie or a Cadbury Creme Egg in real time. (They are about the same.)

During Covid, the Flu was virtually nonexistent. The latest flue vaccine is only 16% effective.

Geoengineering can cool the planet, as man-produced sulfur dioxide in the sky reflects the sun. The downside: one billion people could be at greater risk of malaria.

Myanmar targets doctors: They are arrested in their homes and in hospitals; 30 have been killed.

The jury system works. Doctor acquitted of murdering 14 end-of-life patients by prescribing pain killers to hasten and comfort their death.

Time to free the nurses?  In half of U.S. states, nurse practitioners cannot treat patients directly without a physician’s supervision.