Does the national mask mandate make you feel safe? Candidate Joe Biden’s promised plan to control the COVID-19 pandemic featured everybody wearing a mask for 100 days. Former CDC director Robert Redfield said it might take only 4, 6, or 8 weeks (up to 56 days), and later up to 12 weeks (84 days). Now […]
Cases are declining; millions are getting vaccinated. Can you think of something besides COVID yet? New COVID-19 infections have fallen 45% in the U.S. and 30% globally in the past 3 weeks, according to the Daily Mail (see graphic). Hospitalizations have fallen 26% since they peaked on Jan 12. This decline can’t be attributed to […]
Middlemen claim to negotiate discounts on drugs and medical supplies for insurance plans and hospitals. “The money saved is supposed to … benefit patients,” explains Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD. But too often, the middlemen keep most or even all of the difference. They call the discount a “rebate,” but in truth it is essentially a kickback. This hurts patients in a number of […]
In a letter to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and its Arizona State Chapter ask him to take a proactive stance on early or prophylactic treatment for COVID-19 with ivermectin in vulnerable populations, including prison inmates and staff. “The medical community is mobilizing to administer vaccines as quickly […]
Doctors and public health authorities are still pushing flu shots, fearing a “twindemic,” but should you pause for thought? Some quip that COVID-19 is a great killer, having wiped a out deaths from influenza, heart disease, and cancer. Deaths that are somehow “associated with” COVID, as with a positive PCR test within a certain time […]
Vaccines are coming out at warp speed, but is the virus faster? It was feared that a new strain of COVID was loose on a mink farm in Denmark, so a million mink were killed, destroying an industry. Seven municipalities were put on extreme lockdown affecting 280,000 people. But it didn’t help (see graphic below). […]
Vaccines are being distributed by the millions, but can and should you get one, and where? Moderna is confident that it can produce 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2021—enough to give two doses to 75 percent of the U.S. population. But obviously not everyone can be vaccinated at once. The first doses are […]
The trucks are rolling, bringing pallets of COVID-19 vaccine to distribution centers. If you are in the 1A allocation group, you’ll be the first to get the vaccine. Should you take some precautions? A nurse apparently fainted on live television while touting the vaccine that she had just received. Fortunately, people close by eased her […]
In an Action Alert to its members, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) warns that the so-called No Surprises Act is really an insurance company protection bill. “Poised to be rushed through in the final days of the lame duck Congress, [it] is a surprise attack on patients’ access to independent physicians.” The […]
If you are in the first allocation group, you might be lining up for your COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) after a 9-hour advisory committee meeting on Dec 10. The Moderna vaccine may follow soon. Committee members […]