‘Simply put, getting vaccinated is going to be our patriotic duty,’ and America should consider making it difficult for the unvaccinated to participate in society, three doctors wrote. A coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory, and tax penalties, higher insurance premiums, and denial of many government and private services ought to be considered for those refusing…
Month: August 2020
Harvard University reports “Risky Drugs: Why The FDA Cannot Be Trusted”
A forthcoming article for the special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), edited by Marc Rodwin and supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, presents evidence that about 90 percent of all new drugs approved by the FDA over the past 30 years are little or no more effective for patients than existing drugs. All…
National Law Review reports “Vaccinate or Terminate – Mandatory Vaccination As Workplace Policy”
To some, a COVID-19 vaccine will be a welcome development that will permit employment to return to the pre-pandemic paradigm. Others, however, may legitimately believe that a vaccine threatens their health or spiritual well-being. A widely available vaccine that immunizes the population generally may well support individual opt-outs from vaccination, but these factors should be…
Columbia Journalism Review reports “Journalism’s Gates keepers”
LAST AUGUST, NPR PROFILED A HARVARD-LED EXPERIMENT to help low-income families find housing in wealthier neighborhoods, giving their children access to better schools and an opportunity to “break the cycle of poverty.” According to researchers cited in the article, these children could see $183,000 greater earnings over their lifetimes—a striking forecast for a housing program still in its…
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reports “COVID – What have we learned?”
We have learned that people who are asymptomatic can, cannot, can, cannot, can, cannot, can… spread the virus. That the accuracy of PCR antigen testing is brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless. That false positive tests are impossible, common, impossible, common, impossible, common. That facemasks are useless, necessary, useless, necessary, useless… absolutely necessary. COVID –…
Market Watch reports “Sweden has developed herd immunity after refusing to lock down, experts claim. Its coronavirus infection rate is falling”
Leading Swedish health experts claim the country has a falling coronavirus infection rate because it was one of the few that didn’t go into lockdown and has rejected the use of masks. Arne Elofsson, a professor in biometrics at Stockholm University, thinks the population has developed a form of immunity: “Strict rules do not work…
AIER report “Madness in Melbourne”
The Premier has imposed a vicious police state without precedent in this country’s history. His name is Dan Andrews (a sweet-sounding name that masks the tyrant he has become), and he tweets out pictures of empty streets to brag about what he has achieved in the name of suppressing a virus. Tacitus’s line about the Roman empire…
The Hill reports “Positive COVID-19 tests hit record low in New York City”
The percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive has reached a record low in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Wednesday, a sign that enough people are being tested and that the city has control of the virus. “This is extraordinary,” de Blasio said during a press conference. “Now we all know every day…
Washington University reports “Boosting immune system a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19”
New findings from a team of researchers led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis point to another theory and suggest that patients become ill because their immune systems can’t do enough to protect them from the virus, landing them in intensive care units. They suggest that boosting immunity could be…
CEBM reports “The Declining Case Fatality Ratio in England”
The CFR has fallen substantially from its peak in April. We now present data suggesting that the CFR as of the 4th of August stood at around 1.5%, having fallen from over 6% six weeks earlier. The recent publication of statistics based on deaths following a COVID-19 positive test in the last 28 days allows the calculation…