Dr. Rochelle Walensky recommended workers in high-risk settings to also be offered Pfizer Covid booster doses, despite the CDC advisers voting against this group getting the third shot.
Category: Policy
If businesses can mandate vaccines, they should mandate affordable health care, too
Earlier this year, Houston Methodist gave its 26,000 hospital employees an ultimatum: Get vaccinated or get a new job. It was one of the nation’s first vaccine mandates. And it was a big, multilayered risk: with legal, financial and ethical consequence…
Will You Need A Booster Vaccine Against Covid-19?
Infectious disease expert Dr. Mark Kortepeter discusses what we know so far about Covid-19 vaccine booster shots and what information scientists need to make the decision.
Covid Vaccines: The Pandemic Politics To Watch Out For
It’s high time Washington politicians and public health pooh-bahs stop treating people like children, ignoring scientific evidence and acting in destructive and arbitrary ways.
It is time to make a dent in social determinants of health
As a doctor, it is pretty humbling to reflect on the fairly minimal impact our health care system has on individuals’ overall health. One study I find particularly intriguing shows that socioeconomic factors (e.g., education and income), and physical e…
Medical malpractice: Don’t let the minority define us
When we shake our heads at the snake oil salesmen of yesteryears and wonder how the people then could have been so naïve as to fall for the crude shenanigans, we are wearing blinders with our eyes wide open. Malpractice remains alive and well. Those wh…
Medical malpractice: Don’t let the minority define us
When we shake our heads at the snake oil salesmen of yesteryears and wonder how the people then could have been so naïve as to fall for the crude shenanigans, we are wearing blinders with our eyes wide open. Malpractice remains alive and well. Those wh…
As Covid Rages And Key Medicines Run Out, GOP Lawmakers Have Restricted Public Health Powers In At Least 26 States
Republican legislators have passed laws restricting officials’ ability to deploy standard means of infection control, including quarantine, issuing mask mandates and closing businesses.
Lawmakers don’t care for our patients. Doctors do.
On September 1st, 2021, Texas Senate Bill 8 went into effect. While the law’s stated goal is to severely limit a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in Texas, it also designates private citizens to sue not just abortion providers, but an…
European Union Plans U.S.-Inspired Agency To Fight Future Pandemics
In addition to the new agency, the bloc will also donate an extra 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries.
