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Has the FDA been playing too fast & loose with new drug approvals? -- Which of the COVID-era changes to the American workplace will be sticking around -- Why COVID knocks out your sense of smell
There was a lot of controversy when the FDA approved an expensive, and possibly ineffective drug for Alzheimer's patients last year. Turns out this h…
4 years ago
Test positive for COVID and immediately get antiviral treatment pills? -- Virtue signaling of a different kind from a maskless State of the Union -- Kiwis fed up with COVID
President Biden has announced a new plan for the pandemic that will let people take antiviral drugs immediately after testing positive, right at the …
4 years ago
Masks off for California's school kids & teachers, but is the timing right? -- Cracking down on nursing home regulations in the post-COVID era
California is ready to let school kids show their faces. It's lifting the statewide mask mandate in schools, in two weeks. But state public health o…
4 years ago
The masks are coming off -- Why are developing countries still in desperate need of COVID vaccine doses? -- Just what we needed, a new bird flu outbreak
The CDC says most Americans live in places where healthy people can safely stop wearing masks. This comes in new guidelines that shift from looking a…
4 years ago
A new COVID vaccine booster option coming to market? -- LA County easing back on its mask mandate, with some caveats -- Hot vaxxed summer 2.0
Two pharmaceutical companies say their new COVID vaccine can is 100 percent effective against severe disease and hospitalization. We take a closer lo…
4 years ago
Will we need a fourth......and fifth........and sixth(!) dose of COVID vaccines to keep our immunities in shape? -- Will Americans emerge from the pandemic weaker against global competition? -- The secret to children's ability to shrug off COVID
Were the COVID booster shots just the start of what will become annual--or even twice annual--vaccine doses to keep up our immunity against the coron…
4 years ago
Maybe the worst of COVID isn't really behind us?! -- Canada's anti-vaxx trucker blockade of Ottawa reaches the end of the road -- COVID & the onset of mental illnesses
Doctors have been warning of a new COVID variant that could pop up and cause problems like Delta and omicron. It might already be among us.........as…
4 years ago
Thanks to omicron's terrifyingly quick spread, did we back into herd immunity? -- Yet another scary symptom of Long COVID: long-term heart damage
Turns out that even with the massive spread of the omicron COVID variant and the resulting spike in hospitalizations and deaths this winter, omicron …
4 years ago
Our great mask debate likely to stick around even as mask mandates go away -- Navigating the pandemic exit and the new set of uncertainties, anxieties it brings with it
California's indoor mask mandate disappears at midnight. That is unless you're in LA or Santa Clara counties. Even Disneyland says no more masks. The…
4 years ago
With nary a mask to be found in the Super Bowl crowd, are mask mandates on life support? -- What if the next coronavirus variant that comes along is worse than anything we've yet seen?
While the overwhelming majority of you were probably watching the action on the field yesterday, we couldn't help but notice that during crowd shots …
4 years ago