Showing posts with label COVID-19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COVID-19. Show all posts
Monday, July 14, 2025

The Administration's Three-Pronged Assault on Health Care

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I wish I could offer a link to an outstanding article in the current NY Review of Books  entitled "The Dismantling of American Health ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Outrageous Upside-Down World of the Department of Justice

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A Salt Lake City plastic surgeon -- Kirk Moore -- was indicted in 2023 for a COVID scam. I'll let the U.S. Attorney's announcement ...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Washington Physicians Seek Supreme Court Injunction, Claiming 1st Amendment Right to Spread Vax Misinformation

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Three physicians licensed in Washington State have disciplinary proceedings pending against them based upon their unfounded public statement...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

COVID-19 Vaccine Fraud: The Worst of the Worst?

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Here's the case summary from USDOJ (Office of Public Affairs, June 17, 2024): A New York woman pleaded guilty today to fraudulently de...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

New Study Confirms Public Health Policy and Tools Were Weakened by Judicial Decisions During COVID Pandemic

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Health Affairs  has "pre-posted" the most detailed and insightful study I've seen that shows how court decisions -- including...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

CDC Updates Guidance on COVID+ Infections

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I noted in an earlier post that the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) was considering a significant change to their recommen...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Biden's State of the Union Address: 13 Health Care Take-aways

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Becker's Hospital Review takes a look at "13 healthcare takeaways" from President Biden's State of the Union address las...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Chicken Soup for COVID-19?

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Earlier this week, NBC reported that the CDC is considering a substantial change to its isolation guidelines for individuals who are COVID+...
Friday, January 05, 2024

Donald Trump and the Perils of Practicing Medicine Without a License

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Hydrochloroquine for COVID? Remember when that was a thing? From The Messenger (Jan. 4): In a study published this week in the journal Biom...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Physician Acquitted in $15M Healthcare Fraud Prosecution

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A federal jury in Maryland convicted the physician on five counts of healthcare fraud in connection with his billing practices for level 4 C...
Monday, August 14, 2023

RFK, Jr., Public Health Law & Policy

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is running for the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nomination. He is a prominent member of one of this coun...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Physician Discipline: Covid Denier's License Suspended, but Not For Lying

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Sherri Tenpenny, D.O., testified before the Ohio legislature that the Covid vaccine "magnetizes" recipients and interfaces with 5G...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Public Health Law Priorities to Pursue While Congress Recesses

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The American Public Health Association (APHA) sent out its call to action during the current Congressional recess. In addition to providing ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

COVID-19: GAO Recommendations Can Help Federal Agencies Better Prepare for Future Public Health Emergencies

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There's a general consensus that COVID-19 exposed gaps in this country's state and federal public health infrastructure (in the broa...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Don't Deny COVID Care to the Unvaccinated

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1. It's bad policy. 2. It's not feasible. 3. It's unethical. These are the messages from Ed Yong's latest piece in The Atlan...
Monday, November 01, 2021

Vaccines and Religious Exemptions

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Prof. Wendy Parmet had an excellent guest column in the NY Times on 10/31 concerning religious exemptions from vaccination mandates during ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Unvaccinated patients added $5.7 billion to June-August healthcare expenditures

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It's not surprising, but it is still staggering. As reported by Health Affairs : "A surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations among people...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

The latest surge: It's real and it was avoidable

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Paul Krugman's N.Y. Times newsletter today ( not posted yet , but it should be soon) has two altogether unsurprising but very revealing...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

DFW's COVID-19 Hospitalizations Have Tripled in the Past Month

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This is today's dispatch from Steve Love, the CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council: We have 1,126 COVID-19 patients in our hosp...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Atul Gawande Nominated for Global Health Role at USAID

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Good news for fans of Atul Gawande (books: Amazon author's page ) who will be pleased to know Pres. Biden has nominated the author/surg...