Medical News of the Day
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Medical News of the Day - Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Substacks
Bye bye Disinformation Governance Board (Unreported Truths) - May 18, 2022
The Biden Administration appears to be giving up on its newest pathetic yet Orwellian effort to suppress free speech.
Taylor Lorenz, the world’s least self-aware journalist (heavy competition for that title), has dried her eyes long enough to report that the White House has “paused” the Disinformation Governance Board, sparing us all from having to sue it as a per se First Amendment violation (assuming we could ever figure out what it did).
Covid News
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus (Reuters) - May 19, 2022
More Shanghai residents were given the freedom to go out to shop for groceries for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday as authorities set out more plans for exiting the city-wide COVID-19 lockdown more fully.
COVID-Zero: This is how China rounds up thousands of people for quarantine (Alarabiya News) - May 18, 2022
Thousands of people in a village near the Chinese port city of Tianjin were ordered into government quarantine, with videos circulated on social media showing residents being marched through streets and onto buses as officials continue to deploy the country’s strict COVID-Zero playbook on new outbreaks.
Residents of Liuanzhuang village in northern Tianjin were ordered on Monday to pack their belongings and prepare to be transported into isolation centers, a voice can be heard saying over a loudspeaker in one of the videos, after dozens of COVID-19 cases were detected in their district. Footage shared on social media networks like Weibo and Twitter showed crowds of people, luggage in tow, walking toward or waiting in line for buses.
How the Bay Area Became California’s Latest Covid Hot Spot (DNYUZ) - May 17, 2022
The Bay Area has emerged as the state’s latest Covid hot spot, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among California’s 58 counties, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Alameda currently have the highest rates of Covid transmission, according to The New York Times tracker.
New York made 11M bottles of hand sanitizer. Now it has 700,000 gallons it can't get rid of. (Politico) - May 18, 2022
On a former airport runaway in Central New York sit 706,172 gallons of NYS Clean, in an array of bottle sizes, on 4,000 pallets that stretch the length of three football fields — out in the open, covered in tarps and likely never to be used, much of it already expired. It will likely cost New York million of dollars to dispose of it, possibly shipped out of state in hundreds of trucks to be incinerated, according to environmental experts and officials familiar with the process.
First daughter Ashley Biden has COVID, bails on another Jill Biden trip: WH (New York Post) - May 18, 2022
President Biden’s daughter, Ashley, tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t join her mother on a trip to Latin America, first lady Jill Biden’s office said Wednesday, shortly before she departed for Ecuador on a three-nation tour.
The 40-year-old first daughter backed out of a trip to Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine earlier this month, citing exposure to the virus about a week after she attended several parties for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
No return of mask mandate despite new ‘high’ COVID-19 risk, Mayor Adams vows (New York Post) - May 19, 2022
Mayor Eric Adams vowed Wednesday not to bring back an indoor mask mandate for New York City, a day after his Health Department determined the five boroughs have reached a “high” level of transmission risk.
Adams explained he opted not to impose a face-covering requirement despite the color-coded COVID-19 alert system he adopted in March dictating the city should now “require face masks in all public indoor settings” because deaths and hospitalizations remain low and residents have increased access to at-home testing kits and medication for the virus.
Covid Vaccine News
Ladapo Says “Lack of Data” Behind Biden Booster Authorization for Children (Florida’s Voice) - May 18, 2022
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said there is a “lack of data” behind the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to authorize the first COVID boosters for children ages 5 to 11 Tuesday.
“Dr. Ladapo finds the lack of supporting data disappointing. The question should be whether or not the booster improves clinical outcomes, and there is no evidence that it does in this population,” Florida Department of Health Spokesperson Jeremy Redfern said.
Other Medical News
U.S. monkeypox case reported, as Spain, Portugal report infections in growing outbreak (STAT) - May 18, 2022
The United States confirmed a case of monkeypox infection on Wednesday in a man who recently traveled to Canada. It is not yet clear if the man, who lives in Massachusetts and who traveled to Canada by car, is connected to the growing outbreak of monkeypox cases in Europe.
The case was announced in a statement posted to the website of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Confirmatory testing was done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which had warned earlier Wednesday that cases in this country were likely to begin to be detected.
Workers hope returning to the office will help their sex lives: survey (New York Post) - May 18, 2022
While 35% of available office workers think in-person work will help their sex lives, 49% said it won’t make a difference. Just 16% believe it will make their sex lives worse, according to the survey of more than 2,500 office workers by corporate gossip site Blind.
Videos/Podcasts
How Many Lives Were Lost Due to NIH Corruption? (Peak Prosperity) - May 17, 2022
A new revelation of NIH greed and secrecy is really disgusting, yet sadly not shocking. With corruption now so deeply entrenched at all levels of life and government, new revelations of gross and corrupt behavior have lost their ability to shock.
Today’s Tale of Corruption comes to us courtesy of Open The Books, a U.S. non-profit advocacy agency dedicated to tracking government expenditures.
After being forced by the NIH to file a federal suit, Open The Books was able to determine that the NIH received over $350 million in kick-backs from pharma companies over the years.
So, the model, such as it is, is that Fauci and the NIH distribute some $30 billion of taxpayer money to Big Pharma and then receive hundreds of millions from for-profit companies that then license some of the findings resulting from that money.
And this is only the NIH. Presumably, university researchers similarly benefit from patent royalties developed using funds provided by U.S. taxpayers.