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Tag Archives: pandemic
COVID Notes: More Covid Patients; Studies on Long Term Covid; A Million Deaths
I had several COVID positive patients this week, all vaccinated. All relatively speaking mild (i.e. no respiratory distress), including members of my family. COVID is constantly mutating. It would appear that one of the mutations is responsible for the … Continue reading
The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
By Nicholas Wade | May 5, 2021 Reprinted with permission. First appeared in medium.com here and in the bulletin.org here. Check out the comments at both of these sites. Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health
Tagged China, corona, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, virus, Wuhan
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How to Climb out of the Financial Rut in NY State
On Feb. 5th R&R heard a presentation by Rebecca Saletan and Nick Lyndon on “The Invest in our New York Act”. It is a package of 6 bills for the State of NY. Together they are proposed to raise more … Continue reading
Posted in budget, Coronavirus, economics, economy, Fair Labor Standards, Pay Equality, Poverty, Tax Reform, Uncategorized
Tagged billionaires, capital gains, corporate tax, pandemic, Tax Reform, wall street, wallstreet tax
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SARS-CoV-2 mink-associated variant strain
This story is of some concern… (1) WHO, 6 November 2020 Since June 2020, 214 human cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Denmark with SARS-CoV-2 variants associated with farmed minks, including 12 cases with a unique variant, reported on … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus
Tagged Coronavirus, Denmark, MILWAUKEE, mink, pandemic, WHO, wisconsin
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How Masks Matter
OK. Seriously, what is the latest on masks? Bottom line: if most people wear an effective mask we can significantly curb viral transmission It is increasingly clear that there are differences in mask quality and protection. Here is one example … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Zeldin
Tagged airline, Coronavirus, COVID-19, masks, pandemic, travel
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What are Trump’s chances?
What are the chances of hospitalization, ICU admission, and death in a COVID-19 patient like Donald Trump? There is a ton of data relating to age of the patient, sex of the patient, obesity, pre-existing conditions, etc. There are important … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Pre-existing Conditions, Trump
Tagged Coronavirus, pandemic, positive, Trump
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Pence staffer calls out Trump, endorses Biden
Former Pence aide, Olivia Troye, says she will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic.Watch this short video!
Posted in Coronavirus, GOP, Health Care, Trump, Trump atrocities, Zeldin
Tagged Biden, endorsed, Olivia Troye, pandemic, Pence
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Pandemic: How did Trump’s America Screw up?
The United States has just 4% of the world’s population but over 25% of its confirmed COVID‑19 cases and deaths. With arguably the most advanced healthcare research and top hospitals and doctors, it seems difficult to fathom. What the hell … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Fake News, GOP, Health Care, National Security, science, Travel Ban, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic
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Trump’s Science Denialism
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead”. —THOMAS PAINE In just over three years the Trump administration has decisively diminished the influence of science in its priorities and … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 elections, Health Care, Nancy Goroff, science, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged CDC, defunding, denial, NIH, pandemic, science
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COVID-19 – US is only industrialized country without a national policy
By: Norbert Goldfield MD – founder of ‘Ask Nurses and Doctors’ (AND) August 14. ‘Ask Nurses and Doctors’ (AND) notes Negative Covid Tests, Ongoing Anxiety, No Jobs, What Is to be Done? All my symptomatic patients for the … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged anxiety, COVID-19, fatigue, masks, national policy, pandemic
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Irresponsible!
Just in case Lee Zeldin and company forget how irresponsible they are, see our prior post about Zeldin in Tulsa, at the Trump rally, and Zeldin on Airforce One without a mask. And now we are seeing the direct consequence: … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, GOP, Health Care, Trump, Trump atrocities, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, Herman Cain, pandemic
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Stepien or Parscale? The Corona virus does not care.
WaPo reports that “Trump replaces campaign manager as polls show him trailing Joe Biden in 2020 race”. President Trump announced on Facebook Wednesday evening that Bill Stepien would become his campaign manager, replacing Brad Parscale,… Recent national and swing-state polls … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, economy, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged masks, pandemic, rally, Tulsa
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They Live in this Country. God Help Us.
Submitted by Rita Wasserman. Here is the problem:
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged mandating masks, masks, pandemic
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The Scale of Testing Compared to the Scale of the Outbreak
Fox News, Trump (and Zeldin) are blaming the current resurgence of Covid-19 cases on increased testing. So let’s have a look at the data! I highly recommend this website: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing. The following graphs come from this site which has data … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic, resurgence, testing
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Lee Zeldin Promoting Massive COVID Super-spreader Event
The reelection campaign for U.S. President Donald Trump required attendees reserving tickets for a June 20, 2020, rally in Tulsa to agree they will not sue the campaign or event organizers should they be exposed to COVID-19 at the event. … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged pandemic, superspreader event, Trump rally
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Protest in Commack drawing criticism
Some insightful letters to Newsday: The behavior of a few unruly demonstrators at the recent Commack protest was shameful [“Trump cheers LI protesters,” News, May 17]. If these few were, say, 4% of the demonstrators, the other 96% could have … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, economy, Ethics, first amendment, GOP, long island, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, economy, opening up, pandemic, protests
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Is the healthcare “free market” working for you?
Journalist Jon Walker published a new piece for The American Prospect titled, “A Guide to the Nightmare of Getting Health Insurance in a Pandemic,” which detailed the absurdity of the U.S. system. Walker paints a picture of a healthcare system … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, trumpcare, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged health insurance, healthcare system, pandemic
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Rampant Asymptomatic COVID-19 in a Homeless Shelter
I have previously written about “the forgotten” and why Coronavirus infection in these populations affects us all. I am talking about people in prisons, people in nursing homes and people in homeless shelters. Outbreaks of COVID-19 in these populations do … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Poverty, Uncategorized
Tagged asymptomatic, COVID-19, homeless, outbreak, pandemic, shelter, testing
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Is the East End ‘Open for Business’ as Usual?
Gurney’s Inn, long an iconic resort on Long Island’s eastern tip at Montauk (June 5, 2013) Credit: Doug Kuntz Some East End resorts are planning to open soon. Contrary to some assertions that misinterpret Governor Cuomo’s Executive Orders, resorts are … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Town Board, Uncategorized
Tagged business, COVID-19, Gurney's Inn, pandemic, reopening
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R&R - Reachout and Rebuild 