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...
@Bob Wachter Covid Chronicles Day 838
Twitter Thread by UCSF Physician Bob Wachter MD Link to Latest Tweet: Day 838 http://www.covidstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bob_Wachter-on-pandemic-status-July-2022.pdf
Pandemania, Part 1
By Charles Eisenstein Oh my goodness. The social illness that the pandemic launched into its active phase is far from over. That is obvious from the comments on my last post, where I asked for suggestions on how to approach the Covid topic from a post-pandemic...
The Answer to Physician Misinformation is NOT More Physician Oversight
A long history of drug scandals abetted by corrupt doctors who never faced sanctions from their own profession makes clear that physicians cannot self-regulate. By Paul D. Thacker A recent essay in the New England Journal of Medicine helped highlight, underline and...
To Fight Monkeypox, Remember the Lessons of Covid and H.I.V.
By James Krellenstein, Joseph Osmundson and Keletso Makofane Mr. Krellenstein, Dr. Osmundson and Dr. Makofane are public health experts and advocates focused on infectious disease prevention. When Covid-19 cases were exploding across the United...
Gen Z Is Cynical. They’ve Earned It.
By Jessica Grose, Opinion Writer Credit...Scott Olson/Getty Images Cameron Kasky had just gotten off the phone with his grandfather when I talked to him on Wednesday, the day after the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two...
It’s Still Covid’s World. We’re Just Living in It.
By Farhad Manjoo, Opinion Columnist There are days, now, when you can almost forget about the virus. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are still being infected with Covid-19 daily — an average of about 361 Americans died from it...