The most ferocious recent human epidemics – AIDS, SARS, Ebola, MERS, Sars Cov 2, have been viral epidemics that “jumped” from other species.

We won’t know the truth until we do what places like South Korea and Italy’s Veneto region have done effectively: test and track.

Consider the death case rate for Covid-19. It has became a matter of comparison, even competition, between governments, letting some crow they’ve done a better job.

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Physicians treat the chart rather than the patient (some estimates put 44% of ER physician time as spent on charting), and many electronic records are walled off from each other.

In a clinical world discovering a new mania for guidelines, it’s important to ask about the “standard of care.”

A giant experiment is now getting tried on the public, driven by political passion and fabulous profits – three Exchange traded funds already exist for stocks of marijuana companies.

The default party to benefit from a revival of American competitive capitalism is the Democrats.

Medicare is being ground down by groups that see opportunities for enormous new profits and power, and will not stop until they to get them.

One of the most promising treatments now available is immunotherapy – helping to teach our own immune system how to kill the cancers it’s failed to keep at bay.