Not another COVID newsletter
In last week’s newsletter on vaccine mandates, I implored you all to think. Many of you rose to the occasion with insightful feedback.
#192 – COVID Part 2: Masks, long COVID, boosters, mandates, treatments, and more
“I think people are starving out there for honesty on this topic that’s not tribal” – Marty Makary
Why I’m for COVID vaccines, but against vaccine mandates.
In the heated debate over vaccine mandates, science and logic have often been lost amid politics and fear.
#189 – COVID Part 1: Current state of affairs, Omicron, and a search for the end game
“Where’s the humility? People are hungry for honesty right now.” —Marty Makary
#169 – Katherine Eban: COVID-19 Lab Leak: Examining all sides of the debate and discussing barriers to a full investigation
“There is no smoking gun per se. What there is is smoke coming out of a lot of windows. … There is enough smoke coming out of enough windows that we cannot take the lab leak hypothesis off the table, and so for me, the most credible people on this, they’re not saying it was a lab leak. What they’re saying is, ‘Why can’t we have a full investigation?’” —Katherine Eban
#160 – Paul Offit, M.D.: The latest on COVID-19 vaccines and their safety, herd immunity, and viral variants
“If you ask me the question, ‘What do I fear most about this whole pandemic?’ it’s actually not the variants. … It’s that there would be a significant percentage of the population that is going to choose not to vaccinate so much so that we can’t get to that 80+% of population immunity we need to slow this virus.” —Paul Offit
Was COVID-19 the only culprit behind the extraordinary increase in deaths last year?
Leading causes of death in 2020
#159 – Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.: Evolution of the anti-vaccine movement, the causes of autism, and COVID-19 vaccine state of affairs
“What started out as an anti-vaccine movement is now a movement against any kind of public health intervention and demonizing scientists and basically calling us the boogeyman.” —Peter Hotez
mRNA vaccine technology
Science builds on science
Metformin and COVID-19 mortality risk; a timeline of Kobe’s last day
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