Last week, Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida promised to begin preparations to downgrade COVID-19 to the same disease level as the seasonal flu. In the UK, those under 50 who are healthy and without preexisting conditions like cancer will no longer be offered the COVID booster. Last year, the Danish government stopped offering the vaccine …
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In January of 2022, New York’s hospital system released their data on COVID-19 hospitalizations for 2021. The data showed that only 58% of these hospitalizations were from COVID, meaning that the virus was the reason why these people landed in the hospital in the first place. The other 42% of COVID hospitalizations were from people …
Last week, an article published in The Atlantic titled “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” argues for forgiving one another for what we said or did when we supposedly were ignorant of all covid science. The article was written by Emily Oster, a professor of Economics at Brown University. I entirely disagree with the article. Those …
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At the beginning of October, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to “designate the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or “COVID-19,” as unprofessional conduct,” according to the bill’s own language. Thus, doctors in the state can now risk losing their licenses if they engage in spreading what the government …
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Among certain sectors of the American population, the Omicron variant has caused panic, despite overwhelming evidence that this variant is mild, presenting as symptoms that are indistinguishable from the common cold. See Dr. John Campbell break things down here: As a result of this panic, some schools around the country have chosen to go back …
I was not planning on crafting an extensive reflective blog about this story initially, but after hearing many smug “horse dewormer” comments from my colleagues this week, I felt morally obligated to write about it. So here we go: In early September, a local news station in Oklahoma ran a story about local hospitals being …
For those of us immersed in the world of nutritional science and the knowledge of the countless benefits that the whole-foods, plant-based (WFPB) diet can bring, the notion that the WFPB diet has protective properties against coronavirus infection and health complications has seemed sensible. This month, a study with led by researchers at Harvard Medical …
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Among developed countries, the US is unique in how much large corporations dictate the doings of government and in the way they prevent Americans from attaining basic rights found in all other industrialized countries. For example, the US is the only developed country without universal health care. The New York Times recently put together a …
The covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the fragility of our economic system and the desperate insecurity that many people live in during normal times. Many countries are on the brink of plunging into severe economic depressions and countless people who find themselves out of work as many sectors of the economy must close down are …
Continue reading “So It Begins: Germany to Conduct Universal Basic Income Experiment!”
As quarantine puts many Americans in danger of bankruptcy and unemployment levels might soon rival those at the height of the Great Depression, Congress has decided who it really wants to take care of in these times, and it is not the average worker. Bailouts for large corporations are taken as given, but one paycheck …
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