- Goldman Sachs throws Fauci and CDC protocols under the bus.
- American life expectancy has dropped three years!
- California bill would penalize doctors who spread Covid falsehoods, like “Ivermectin works” — even if it really does work. (NYT, gated)
- Omicron appears to produce contradictory results (pos/neg) when various test are used.
- Health benefits of tea.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- The chronically ill have trouble paying their bills.
- Survey: 43 percent in the 19-30 age group has used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous year.
- How to earn $139,000 a year as a nurse.
- What a black hole sounds like.
- 40% of US births are out of wedlock. But internationally we are in the middle of the pack. In Iceland it is 71%.
Thursday Links
- Study finds socioeconomic gaps in deaths by alcohol and wonders how we can achieve equality. That’s easy: have successful people drink more.
- Spain bans air-conditioning below 80 degrees during record-setting summer heat.
- Pfizer CEO tests positive for Covid.
- Democrats could have used the IRA bill to add on all kinds of abortion protections; yet not a single amendment was offered.
- Five ways the government has made things worse, not better, for diabetics.
- Why you can’t trust the Covid death statistics.
- More on the debate over SSRIs.
Thursday Links
- Social Security’s online Benefits Calculator – don’t rely on it.
- How the FDA makes decisions: ruling first, evidence later.
- Something parents might want to read before they get a Covid vaccine for their kids.
- Why does the new IRA bill create medical benefits for millionaires, while doing nothing for 2 million low-income adults in a “coverage gap”—too poor to claim credits on the Obamacare exchanges, but ineligible for Medicaid?
- Bats can prolong their lifespans by hibernating. Could that work for humans?
- Study finding we already knew: higher income people spend more on health care.