Regarding “Anthony Fauci didn't get the hero’s sendoff he deserved. So it goes in the world of public health” (Open Forum, SFChronicle.com, Jan. 4): Dr. Steven Solter’s observation that public health professionals rarely if ever get much credit, let...
Will 2024 Be a Vaccine Election?
By Paul Krugman, Opinion Columnist Will Republicans once again nominate Donald Trump for president? Or will they turn to Ron DeSantis instead? I have no idea. What I do know is that anyone imagining DeSantis as a more sensible, saner figure than Trump — a right-wing...
Why is the Government Gagging Doctors?
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Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists
By Anthony Fauci Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. lthough I hesitate to use the hackneyed expression “It seems like just yesterday,” it does feel that way as I prepare to...
China Has an Extraordinary Covid-19 Dilemma
By David Wallace-Wells More than one-sixth of the people on the planet live in China. That’s 1.4 billion people who have spent the last three years in the world’s most intrusive pandemic surveillance state, designed to limit the spread of Covid-19 at almost any cost....
It’s not too late to stop being a tool of oppression
By Professor Jem Bendell Strategist & educator on social change, focused on Deep Adaptation to societal breakdown Death rates are still above normal in many countries of the world. The medical experts don’t know why. It could be from the long-term complications...
Thinking through the holidays this year
By Your Local Epidemiologist: Katelyn Jetelina It’s been a while since I’ve shared my own chronicles of navigating this pandemic. I dread doing so, because I receive so much hate after. But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the questions as we navigate the...
We May Have Only a Few Months to Prevent the Next Pandemic
By Craig Spencer Dr. Spencer is an emergency doctor and professor at Brown. He survived Ebola in 2014 after treating patients in Guinea and recently treated Covid-19 patients in New York City. I’m often asked what it felt like to have Ebola. Eight years later, I...
They’ve gone too far with the children – so what do we do?
By Professor Jem Bendell, Strategist & educator on social change, focused on Deep Adaptation to societal breakdown Some countries recently stopped administering Covid vaccination to children. Sweden ceased recommending it for healthy children under the...
FDA to Vax Injured: We Got Nothin’
By Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Senior Investigative Reporter at Trial Site News | I'm a fire-in-the-belly muckraker who abhors the role of money-fueled corruption in government and medicine. My job: Expose it. Twenty people who were harmed by Covid-19 vaccines came to...
What Joe Biden Knows That No One Expected Him To
By Ezra Klein, Opinion Columnist We need better technologies to enable a better politics. But we need better politics to create better technologies. Maybe, just maybe, we’re on the verge of getting both. On Monday, President Biden announced that Dr. Renee...
I’ve Got the Covid Blues
I got the Covid bluesHazmat outfit to read the newsI gots that damn viral bluesMystifying perspiring invisible shitBlowing through the wind like Yesterday’s news bluesI can’t think breathe or snoozeI gots the rumble rumble chest-rattly Bubble gut blues I’ve...
Why Many Americans Turned on Anthony Fauci
By Ari Schulman Mr. Schulman is a science and technology writer and editor of The New Atlantis. This is an excellent critical account of Anthony Fauci’s missteps as well as his strengths. A new wave of journalism is analyzing the many failures in the US response...
DEEP DIVE: The Covid “Fudge Factor”
A map of Covid data corruption -- and the Covid approach that worked! By Maxim Lott Unusually candid look at the actual impact of Covid based on a review of excess mortality rather than reported Covid deaths.Michael Lerner Warning: This newsletter will will hit sacred...
Monkeypox Is About to Become the Next Public Health Failure
By Scott Gottlieb Dr. Gottlieb is a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When about 100 cases of monkeypox had been confirmed or suspected in Europe in May, it was clear...