“Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk”
Tag: public health
Disparaging masks is a big problem when personal liberties and health justice are under attack.
The disabled high risk are among the few people masking in public at all for health reasons. And many can’t even afford the best medical respiratory protection available.
No thanks to raw milk cheese.
“Live H5N1 avian flu can survive in raw-milk cheese for up to 6 months”
High levels of lead in protein supplements.
“Protein supplements are wildly popular, but CR’s tests of 23 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day”
Tesla deliberately introduced road hazard with carmageddon mode in its vehicles.
This is seriously wrong.
Google ordered concerned employees back to a bedbug infested office.
And we know that employees weren’t happy about being called back to the bedbug infested office because that’s what leads to incidents like this leaking to journalists.
Another unfortunate victim of the ghost health insurance scam.
So we have to warn each other.
Of course Andrew Cuomo likes anti-mask racist right-wing AI slop.
Andrew Cuomo’s gross racist AI slop video clumsily and offensively attempting to smear Zohran Mamdani voters claiming they’re all criminals, features a non-white person wearing a kn95 mask while shoplifting.
Cutting Medicaid will cost lives and the health of Americans.
Cutting Medicaid will cost lives and the health of Americans, this is clear from the fact that better cancer survival is linked to Medicaid expansion with ACA.
Bad Astronomy guy got the bad virus for the first time. I hope it’ll be the last, but the risks won’t stop for any of us.
It’s only getting worse with the slashing of public health.
Why do Republicans hate young men?
There’s an astoundingly embarrassing Republican advertisement I’m seeing here in Pennsylvania over and over.
Why does industry fund so much stuff that’s easily seen as bogus or suspect?
Brandt AM. Inventing conflicts of interest: a history of tobacco industry tactics. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):63-71. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300292. Epub 2011 Nov 28. PMID: 22095331; PMCID: PMC3490543. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific […]
Trump got his covid vaccine update and flu shot at his second annual doctor’s exam of the year.
“Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year”
After healthcare visits, always check the notes entered into the record for accuracy.
AI errors are probably polluting healthcare records now. For the past couple of years I’ve been finding gross mistakes entered into my records, claims of me saying things I didn’t say at all or in fact I’d said the opposite, or just describing things that were not true or never happened in the visit. And […]
Little infant babies rely on the rest of us around them to get vaccinated to protect them.
We need to just keep unapologetically demanding better, because we deserve better.
Hospitals are Trumpian about hospital acquired infections.
“If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” – Donald Trump, June 15 2020
Mask bans likely won’t solve police abuse of power.
First MAGA railed against anyone wearing masks, now they insist federal law enforcement employees ought to wear them on the job.
On the provenance and funding of extremely cited articles.
I guess maybe John Ioannidis would know.
Conglomerates want to control our resources by owning our utilities.
Blackrock, Blackstone, Blackwater… Why is black a popular prefix with these outfits? (- scratching chin emoji-)
AI boosters use the vulnerable people as scapegoats tactic.
Sometimes it’s meant as a way to put people at ease who believe themselves to not be at risk, and sometimes it’s a way to say it just happens to “those other people” and that’s ok actually.
Parents want school vaccine requirements.
“Parental support for school vaccine mandates remains high in US”