After record-shattering numbers of positive COVID-19 cases were recorded over the weekend in Florida, the governor defended them in a news conference Monday. “Two days ago, the State of Florida conducted 144,000 cases. Put that in perspective. When we were here in March, we were probably doing hundreds a day,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/what-the-record-shattering-number-of-positive-covid-19-tests-in-florida-really-means
Category: Transparency
FOX35 reports “Florida Department of Health says some labs have not reported negative COVID-19 results”
After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state’s report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state. Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high…
Slate reports “The CDC Has Been on a Steady Decline. We’re Just Finally Noticing”
The once-world-class agency has been surprisingly absent during this pandemic. It’s part of a broader trend for American institutions. Since shortly after the end of World War II, the CDC in Atlanta has been the axis mundi of the infectious disease world, head and shoulders above any other national public health agency. And yet, now that a…
Medium reports on public health’s underlying problem “Vaccine Fundamentalism”
The subject of this piece is an examination of the war metaphor in public health and the fundamental role of vaccination in this effort. It is time for public health to move beyond this out-dated metaphor, revisit its assumptions, and expand the purview upon which it gauges health, thereby better equipping it for the 21st…
The Atlantic reports “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”
This was published in 2010 but the findings and outcomes are still relevant. Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their…
WSJ reports “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No”
The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths. Do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of Covid-19? Joe Malchow, Yinon Weiss and I wanted to find out. We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis….
Fox breaks news: “Chinese virologist accuses Beijing of coronavirus cover-up, flees Hong Kong: ‘I know how they treat whistleblowers'”
Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li-Meng Yan told Fox News in an exclusive interview that she believes the Chinese government knew about the novel coronavirus well before it claimed it did. She says her supervisors, renowned as some of the top experts in the field, also ignored research she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she believes could…
Doctor to Orlando Medical News: “Why Increasing Number of Cases of COVID-19 is NOT Bad News”
In marked contrast to measles, shingles, and other infectious disease, “cases” of COVID-19 do NOT require the presence of ANY symptoms whatsoever. Health departments are encouraging everyone and anyone to come in for testing, and each positive test is reported as yet another “new” case of COVID-19! Hence, anyone who has a positive PCR test (the nasal…
Orlando Medical News reports “As COVID Testing Soars, Wait Times for Results Jump to a Week or More”
Elliot Truslow went to a CVS drugstore on June 15 in Tucson, Arizona, to get tested for the coronavirus. The drive-thru nasal swab test took less than 15 minutes. More than 22 days later, the University of Arizona graduate student was still waiting for results. “This is outrageous,” said Truslow, 30, who has been quarantining…
JB Handley writes “Lockdown Lunacy 2.0: Second wave? Not even close”
The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave. The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs… https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2020/6/28/secondwave