Public Health: Public Health lacks self-awareness
Public health has often said, in so many words, if we’d been more like China we would have stopped Covid, oblivious and unaware of their own past statements, and disconnected…
Public health: Should you get a Covid booster and when should you get it?
This is a fantastic, detailed, yet easy to read Q&A about Covid-19 boosters – highly recommended: Updated COVID-19 Boosters FAQ — Deplatform Disease (About the author of that). I am…
Demographics: Decline in births leads to closing obstetric hospital units
The decline in births is causing some smaller hospitals to consider closing their obstetrics units. Research suggests they begin to have too few births to maintain the services and care…
Public health: One third of gym users have not returned after Covid shutdowns
Nearly one-third of gym-goers say they have not returned to their workout facility. For those that haven’t returned, 27 percent said they don’t have plans to go back, according to…
Public health: Ten pages of Covid rules for a Nov 2022 event
Ten single spaced pages of Covid restrictions to attend a “con”-like event in mid-November 2022! Kumoricon » COVID-19 Expectations for Kumoricon 2022 Mandatory vaccination or lab/pharmacy issued negative PCR/Rapid test…
35-Demographics: Huge social benefits programs do not increase fertility rates
Nonsense – this issue is global and not just the U.S.: The most important reason for America’s deepening baby bust is that it has become much more difficult for millennials…
Public health: They did everything right but still got Covid
Why mitigations and lockdowns were mostly useless: For more than two years I basically lived like a hermit to avoid just this scenario. Sure, after getting vaxxed and boosted I…
Media notices disease model projections mostly worthless
Predictions about the pandemic rarely age well. In the United States, the pandemic appeared to be winding down in May 2021 amid a vigorous vaccination campaign, only to get wound…
Follow up: Monkeypox cases to hit 100,000 in August
First, we have this forecast from May which projected that everyone in the world would have monkeypox by the end of June. Not a parody. Self-described epidemiologist, nutritionist and health…
25- Demographics: Pandemic policy effects on students may last decades
Just as WW2 impacted population demographics and age distributions up to the present, the policies (most of which did not work) of public health will cost society and individuals for…