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They’ve known this for almost 100 years: Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make…
White House staff required to use N95 masks because they know cloth masks basically do not work. During her first press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested those…
Good grief. I noted this last April – over the span of 3 days the public health quacks went from face masks do not work when used by the public…
Several investment firms have suggested this: “Our view is by summer — by Independence Day — we will be free of the coronavirus. We’ll reach critical mass, herd immunity in…
The stream of social media photos of celebrities and health care workers getting vaccinated has become obnoxious. I am glad that HCWs are getting vaccinated and glad that older folks…
Does this mean the conspiracy theorists were correct? 2020 was a trial run? Geesh. Sir Lindsay Hoyle told a gathering of counterparts from some of the world’s most powerful countries…
If we assume all measures work, then we prove all measures work. And of course, we ignore the time dimension: A mask mandate, combined with complementary public health measures, could…
Locking people up like prison inmates was no better than less restrictive measures: The peer reviewed study, which was conducted by a group of Stanford researchers and published in the…
On March 27, 2020, four days after Oregon’s lock down when in to effect, the Oregon Health Authority issued a $145,000 grant to an activist group named SNACK BLOC, under…
Update: On December 15th, the Oregon Health Authority reported 54 deaths (all of these deaths took place across about six weeks prior to today’s report). Of these, 42 of those…