WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 25: Abortion rights and anti abortion rightactivists fill the street in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during a protest in the wake of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade outside on June 25, 2022 in Washington, DC.Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. The 1973 landmark ruling established the constitutional right to an abortion. Over a dozen states have laws meant to immediately outlaw abortion upon a reversal of Roe. The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that established the constitutional right to an abortion. The opinion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization threw out the ruling as the nation's highest court sided with Mississippi and other … [Read More...]
Coronavirus dashboard for May 20
Coronavirus dashboard for May 20: signs of a peak in BA.2.12.1 in bellwether jurisdictions; is BA.4/BA.5 next? With no significant economic data today, let’s take a look at where the BA.2.12.1 COVID wave is. Nationwide cases (thin line below) have increased about 3.5x from their bottom of roughly 26,700 five weeks ago, to just over […] The post Coronavirus dashboard for May 20 appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Healthcare Reads and News
The not – so – latest healthcare articles to arrive in my inbox. Pay attention to the xpostfactoid piece. What Andrew is detailing is there is assistance in getting better plans offering lower cost as defined by President Joe Biden’s Rescue Plan. People are not taking advantage of those discounts for lower cost healthcare insurance. […] The post Healthcare Reads and News appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Explaining Mutations and Variants
Blogger and Commenter Professor Joel Essenberg addresses Covid variants being called mutations. As a geneticist, I am troubled by the promiscuous use of the word “mutation” to describe amino acid or nucleotide differences from a reference sequence. In nearly all cases, there is no known functional significance attached to these differences. Accordingly, the differences are […] The post Explaining Mutations and Variants appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
What’s going on with covid death rates by age?
I assume/hope there’s a non-scary answer to this question, but I don’t have time to figure it out, so I’ll just throw it out here . . . From the NYT today: How can cases and deaths have declined by the same amount since January, given that older and more vulnerable people have been disproportionately […] The post What’s going on with covid death rates by age? appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Risk of Being Killed by Police Varies by Your Ethnicity
A Healthcare Issue Derek Chauvin trial live: Paramedic who responded to George Floyd told partner. ‘I think he’s dead.’ When paramedics arrived, Bravinder saw multiple officers on the side of the road on top of “our patient lying on the ground next to a squad car. He said he “assumed there was potentially some struggle […] The post Risk of Being Killed by Police Varies by Your Ethnicity appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Medicaid Enrollment Grew ~30% Year-Over-Year
Medicaid expansion enrollment grew nearly 30% year-over-year in 19-state sample, Andrew Sprung, XPOSTFACTOID, March 17, 2021 An update on Medicaid expansion enrollment growth since the pandemic struck. Below is a sampling of 19 expansion states through January of this year, and 14 states through February. Maintaining the assumption, explained ;here, “relatively slow growth in California would […] The post Medicaid Enrollment Grew ~30% Year-Over-Year appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Reader Mailbag: Playing the Covid-19 Vaccine
Reader Question:Do you think it is too late to invest in the players involved in developing vaccines for Covid-19? If not, is it better to go with the large companies or the smaller upstarts?I think there are two angles here. First, Covid itself. I doubt anyone really knows whether these vaccines will be effective enough to get rid of Covid (for the most part) within a year or two, or if we are dealing with a new virus that is constantly mutating and here to stay, in which case annual Covid shots are probably in our future. Since the experts would probably punt on this question, I will too. It sure seems too early to rule out annual shots that would likely be solid moneymakers … [Read More...]
Coronavirus dashboard for October 20: some good news among the gloom
Coronavirus dashboard for October 20: some good news among the gloom ; Total US confirmed infections: 8,273,296* Average US infections last 7 days: 59,527 (vs. recent low of 34,354 on Sept 12) Total US deaths: 221,052 Average US deaths last 7 days: 738 (vs. recent low of 689 4 days ago) *I suspect the real […] [Read More...]
COVID-19, Moderna Therapeutics mRNA Vaccine, and Crichton
I understood how some combinations of drugs work in attacking Covid-19 with one drug acting as an ionophore allowing another drug to enter a cell and attach to Covid RNA stopping its replication. I found this nice chart on National Geographic offering up an educational semi -medical and microbiologist depiction of how Moderna’s new vaccine […] [Read More...]
Pandemic boundaries
Via the Boston Globe comes the consideration of boundary problems this pandemic poses between US states. Worth a discussion. Also, on the world stage, the EU and other countries consider relaxing travel restrictions from ‘safe’ countries, the US not among them. Visitor quarantines may seem like a smart intervention to keep the virus from crossing […] [Read More...]
Coronavirus dashboard for June 12: the costs of recklessly reopening begin to come due
Coronavirus dashboard for June 12: the costs of recklessly reopening begin to come due – by New Deal democrat It is pretty clear now that in general those States (but not all) which left lockdowns the earliest and with the most lax continuing restrictions are suffering renewed outbreaks of the coronavirus, *possibly* in several cases […] [Read More...]
Will Labor and Capitalism Survive the Current Republican Party?
On April 20th Georgia Governor Kemp called for “reopening more of the state’s economy to minimize the ‘terrible impact of Covid-19 on public health and the pocketbook.’” It would apply to certain non-essential businesses. Kemp, who was later told by Trump it was too early to reopen Georgia’s economy, was following Trump’s lead to begin […] [Read More...]
Coronavirus dashboard for April 4: with lockdowns in place, testing still far behind, no action on necessary “test, track, quarantine” plan
Coronavirus dashboard for April 4: with lockdowns in place, testing still far behind, no action on necessary “test, track, quarantine” plan – by New Deal democrat Here is the update through yesterday (April 3) I’ve changed the format, moving the “just the facts, ma’am” data to the top, and comments at the end. The four […] [Read More...]
Hydroxychloroquine, Anthony Fauci and Kevin Drum
This is a comment on “Is Anthony Fauci Really Our Truthteller-in-Chief?” by Kevin Drum. I will briefly summarize. Drum quotes from the latest press conference “Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19? DR. FAUCI: No. The answer is no.” Later after Trump says […] [Read More...]
Science Backed Home Healthcare Remedies
From treehuggers, “Home Remedies,” Melissa Breyer, August 12, 2019 treehugger publication was also a part of Slate’s “Green Challenge” which Slate started publishing in conjunction with treehugger.org. a decade plus few years or so ago. Chicken Soup for a Cold? Toronto-based dietitian and Director of Food and Nutrition at Medcan, Leslie Beck: “There is no […] [Read More...]
Technology and Productivity. What went wrong?
Kevin Drum wrote a typically brilliant post on absurdly high estimates of the growth of the number of health care administrators. I was very interested in one little passage. My comment. Dear Kevin You used to work for a tech company and IIRC in public relations. Now your day job is as a blogger-journalist. Don’t […] [Read More...]
Seema Verma Spends $Millions of Taxpayer Funds Trying to Improve Her Reputation
Spoiler: It isn’t working. Charles Gaba at ACA Signups had this up. In an excellent scoop by Dan Diamond and Adam Cancryn this morning, Politico reports that CMS Administrator Seema Verma, the woman in charge of Medicare and Medicaid who takes great joy in trashing Medicare and Medicaid has spent millions of dollars on partisan […] [Read More...]
CVS – Earnings Implosion And Opaque Near-Term
The pharmaceutical supply chain cohort is simply unable to obtain firm footing in the backdrop consolidation within the sector, legislative backdrop, drug pricing pressures, rising insurance costs and a market that has lost patience with these stocks. All of these factors culminate into sub-par growth with a level of uncertainty as this sector continues to […] The post CVS – Earnings Implosion And Opaque Near-Term appeared first on INO.com Trader's Blog. [Read More...]
Why Your Next Startup Should Focus on Healthcare
Breakdowns exist in the healthcare system, specifically in the efficiency and accuracy of patient care. But that provides enterprising entrepreneurs with opportunities to fill those gaps through tech. [Read More...]