https://www.hipaajournal.com/k-and-b-surgical-center-healthpointe-medical-group-notify-patients-about-hacking-incidents/
https://www.hipaajournal.com/ransomware-attacks-reported-by-family-medical-center-of-michigan-buddhist-tzu-chi-medical-foundation/
https://www.hipaajournal.com/august-2021-healthcare-data-breach-report/
**** https://issuesinsights.com/2021/09/28/bidens-vaccine-mandate-gets-more-pointless-every-day/
***** https://www.justfactsdaily.com/covid-19-is-not-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/vaccination-deadline-arrives-new-york-healthcare-workers
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/novant-health-fires-more-175-not-getting-vaccinated
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/hospitals-staffing-shortages-vaccine-deadlines-loom
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/94735
https://www.kansas.com/news/coronavirus/article254556767.html
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7039e4.htm
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/29/new-york-governor-confirms-covidianism-is-a-pagan-cult/
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimates-covid-hospitalization-risk.aspx
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article254589352.html
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article254599627.html
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/94760 Pharmacist Pleads Guilty to Giving COVID Vaccine to Kids Under 12
— Vaccines were administered to two dozen children ages 7 to 1
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/94757
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/94760
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/94740
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/covid-related-attacks-prompt-hospital-issue-panic-buttons
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/vaccination-deadline-arrives-new-york-healthcare-workers
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/covid-vaccine-mandate-deadline-hits-ny-hospitals
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/misinformation-leads-animosity-toward-healthcare-workers
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/how-workers-responded-to-new-york-s-vaccination-mandate.html
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/youtube-bans-will-remove-all-vaccine-misinformation-on-site.html
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/959970
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/09/30/when-will-the-u-s-be-released-from-covid-prison/
https://reason.com/2021/09/29/vaccine-mandates-coming-for-k-12-students/
https://thebluestateconservative.com/2021/09/30/from-bad-to-worse-new-york-we-miss-you/
https://100percentfedup.com/unhinged-mom-compares-unmasked-kids-to-loaded-firearms-video/
https://thebluestateconservative.com/2021/09/30/what-alabamas-football-stadium-tells-us-about-the-risk-of-dying-from-a-covid-breakthrough-infection/
According to the CDC, 99.999% of fully vaccinated people had not died as of July 26 from contracting a breakthrough case of Covid. Stated differently, only 0.001%—one one-thousandth of a percent—of fully vaccinated people died of complications from a breakthrough infection. That’s less than one death out of every 100,000 fully vaccinated breakthrough patients.
According to this CDC webpage, 4,493 vaccinated Americans have died of Covid as of September 20.
Democrats say the mandates are necessary for the good of us all. Forcing vaccines on the unwilling is much like forcing Christians to embrace abortion because Democrats believe allowing pregnant women to get rid of their unborn baby is a good thing.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/94764
https://wamu.org/story/21/09/29/who-cares-for-dc-students-with-covid-symptoms/
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/960060
https://rumble.com/vn4erf-pelosi-goes-maskless-as-she-hugs-and-shakes-hands-with-everyone.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58680204
Meaning 2/3rd are vaccinated
https://dailypatriotreport.com/shocker-dems-vote-against-covid-tests-for-illegal-aliens-entering-u-s/
https://roanoke.com/news/local/education/facing-high-covid-transmission-rates-botetourt-schools-will-release-students-early-on-wednesdays/article_ed98fac8-2232-11ec-a6a6-9f175e59b0b9.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1
https://abc7chicago.com/vaccine-mandate-illinois-unvaccinated-teacher-nicole-cournaya/11058052/
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/959950
Merck Says Research Shows Its COVID-19 Pill Works Against Variants
Molnupiravir instead targets the viral polymerase, an enzyme needed for the virus to make copies of itself. It is designed to work by introducing errors into the genetic code of the virus.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/354998/covid-vaccine-young-child.aspx
https://news.yahoo.com/huge-demand-remote-learning-rethinking-180100533.html
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/09/30/cox-vows-block-any-bill/
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/New-York-s-vaccine-mandate-doesn-t-apply-to-all-16497041.php
New York's vaccine mandate doesn't apply to all medical workers
Inconsistent policy allows nurses, physicians who treat disabled and mentally ill to test in lieu of getting a shot
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/california-s-vaccination-mandate-early-results.html
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/959929
COVID-19 and the US Courts: Challenges to Vaccine Requirements
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/94802
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/94796
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/94789 People are getting Moderna boosters anyway.
***** https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94785
Vaccinated college students at many elite schools are the subject of an ongoing experiment -- a screening study, in fact. Every week, or twice a week, depending on the school, they are asked to take a test for SARS-CoV-2. If positive, they have to quarantine, and if enough kids test positive, the entire school or campus has an escalation of restrictions. This experiment is being run at several schools across the country, but notably not others. Sadly, this experiment is not technically research. It did not receive institutional review board approval, and the primary purpose is not to track whether it works. Instead it has simply been mandated by the colleges. Also regrettably, it does not have a clear control arm.
Famously, and mostly in response to asymptomatic screening, Duke University instituted an outdoor mask mandate in late August (now "mostly" rolled back), despite a 98% student vaccination rate. In mid-September, Brown University temporarily closed the dining halls, and more than five students cannot gather together inside or outside. At Oberlin College, masks are required indoors and outdoors, and the only time students can remove the mask is when eating alone or with their roommate. Wow!
Of course, as an expert on evidence-based medicine, the first argument I will make is there is no evidence that this policy -- asymptomatic screening and strict mandates -- slows the spread of the virus, or more importantly, keeps students, faculty, and staff from feeling sick. Showing that would require a cluster randomized trial. But apart from saying the evidence is lacking, the policy raises three other questions.
First, if these policies are effective, why wouldn't similar protocols be implemented for healthcare workers? College students might get other college students or the staff on campus sick, but healthcare workers can get patients sick -- especially severely immunocompromised ones. I surveyed 15 people I trained with in diverse practice environments from academic medical centers, to private practices, to hospitals, to VA medical centers, to solo practice across three hospital systems, and no one reported asymptomatic testing. Not for nurses, nor physicians, nor staff. If these interventions are so protective, why are we doing them in locations mostly comprised of healthy 20-year-old kids? Why aren't we doing this for workers on bone marrow transplant wards? (I say this just to highlight the absurdity of the policy. I would not endorse hospitals following suit unless a cluster randomized trial shows it benefits patients.)
Second, why not community colleges? Why not state schools? News reports of the colleges that are most aggressively screening students read like the list of U.S. News and World Report top colleges. They are the wealthiest, most selective schools with the largest endowments. But if this policy is beneficial, why is it not being adopted by state schools? By community colleges?
And finally, what about off campus? Elite colleges can regulate their halls, quads and dorms, but the moment you set foot off campus the rules change. I suspect less than one tenth of 1% of Americans are being tested like this off-campus. And, there are no rules in place to prevent private gatherings. Two blocks off campus, none of the restrictions are being followed. No matter how hard they try, colleges cannot wall themselves off from America. I suspect their efforts will be for naught.
These policies also have clear downsides. All people have only a finite amount of patience for interventions and restrictions, and we must wonder whether these policies are the best use of that. It is possible, perhaps likely, that when colleges take a break, that students will have risk compensation -- or swing in the other direction -- with joyous outpourings of in-person interaction. Additionally, these policies may contribute to anxiety and depression among a vulnerable age group. And lastly, there is another price paid here. You are only young once, and the experiences forged in youth shape the adults we become. I mourn for what these college kids are missing.
A final point worth considering is why colleges impose these rules. While widespread testing can be beneficial for understanding the prevalence of a disease, these policies aren't based in compelling evidence and seem more targeted at another goal. Such policies are unlikely to please most students, but much more likely to appeal to the sensibilities of their parents. The most parsimonious explanation then is that elite schools cater to elite parents, and they are engaging in these policies to give parents the comfort that their child is safe -- while no one on earth knows if the policies help, and more importantly, if they are worth the price of life interrupted.
https://reason.com/video/2021/10/01/california-business-owners-sue-gov-newsom-over-the-lockdowns/
https://rumble.com/vn7aw9-insane-burger-king-requires-vaccine-card-to-buy-burger.html
https://rumble.com/vn79w5-newsom-forces-all-california-students-to-receive-the-vaccine.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/merck-says-antiviral-pill-for-covid-19-is-effective-plans-to-file-for-emergency-authorization_4026860.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/california-to-require-covid-19-vaccine-for-students-to-attend-schools_4027479.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/covid-19-vaccine-status-age-discrimination.html
Fully 25 percent of deaths were among vaccinated people, the county reported. How can this be? If the vaccines are so effective that they reduce mortality 42 times over, how could the vaccinated account for such a large proportion of the deaths? The answer is actually quite simple: the overwhelming age skew of the disease, which — in the time of vaccines, breakthrough cases, and Delta — we are still, as a public, hugely underestimating and which is governing the post-vaccine pandemic landscape as clearly as it did the pre-vaccine landscape. To put it more bluntly: in assessing an individual’s risk of dying from COVID, age appears still as important — and maybe even more important — than vaccination status. And while encouraging further vaccination remains by far the best tool we have in fighting the pandemic to an endgame détente, we should also be clear along the way about the continuing risks to the vaccinated elderly and what might be done to protect them.
Most people know the pandemic has hit the elderly hardest — that is the meaning of the age skew, that the disease grows much more severe the older you are. But if they have seen a chart illustrating this, it probably looks like this gentle upward slope, from the UK’s NHS:
All else being equal, an unvaccinated 66-year-old is about 30 times more likely to die, given a confirmed case, than an unvaccinated 36-year-old, and someone over 85 is over 10,000 times more at risk of dying than a child under 10. And although many infections still go undetected (complicating any attempt at a universal calculation of risk), your chances of dying from a confirmed case roughly double with every five to eight years of age, as countless data across multiple countries demonstrated last year — an effect larger than even the most significant comorbidities. The “exponential growth” of mortality risk by age is, in other words, another aspect of the pandemic we have processed only poorly.
Over the past nine months, vaccination has utterly transformed the shape of the pandemic in the places where it has penetrated the whole population. The effect isn’t just visible in countries like Portugal or Iceland — where the threat appears to be fast receding and which give an encouraging picture of our possible future — but in parts of the United States as well. But for all its transformative, liberating power, vaccination has not broken the basic age skew of the disease or offered anyone an exit ramp from it. Instead, in two profound ways, vaccination has confirmed the age skew: by producing severe breakthrough cases concentrated overwhelmingly in the elderly and by reducing the risk faced by individuals by an astonishing degree that is nevertheless smaller than the still more striking effect of age.
According to the CDC, 70 percent of breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalizations and 87 percent of those resulting in death were in patients over 65. The median age of breakthrough deaths in England was 84; in King County, it was 79.
According to an analysis of British data by the Financial Times, a vaccinated 80-year-old has about the same mortality risk as an unvaccinated 50-year-old, and an unvaccinated 30-year-old has a lower risk than a vaccinated 45-year-old. Even a 42-fold reduction, as was found in King County, would only be the rough equivalent of the difference between an unvaccinated 85-year-old woman and an unvaccinated 50-year-old — the sort of person who was very worried last year before the arrival of vaccines and who may this year be worrying many of those around them by not getting one.
To be clear: They should get one since doing so reduces disease transmission significantly, thereby limiting the future course of the disease, and because it would reduce their own risk of death from COVID by such a dramatic degree that it doesn’t even make sense to call it a degree. But it’s a sign of just how large the age skew is to begin with that getting vaccinated doesn’t deliver you into an entirely new category of pandemic safety — safer and more protected than anyone who hasn’t gotten vaccinated — but simply pushes you down the slope of mortality risk by the equivalent of a few decades.
Recent data from the U.K. illustrate the phenomenon neatly: unvaccinated children are safer from COVID-19 death than vaccinated adults of any age: https://t.co/E1oHhKrCCA?amp=1
In England, the incidence of hospitalization among unvaccinated kids was lower than that of those vaccinated aged 18 to 29, and in recent weeks, the hospitalization rate among kids ages 5 to 14 has been only about one per 100,000. Over the course of the entire pandemic, which has killed more than 135,000 Brits, just one boy and seven girls between the ages of 5 and 9 have died; between the ages of 10 and 14, nine girls and five boys have died. These are all tragedies — and each means many more years of life lost than with a death among the elderly — but they are nevertheless relatively few in number. As schools reopened on the backslope of the U.K.’s Delta surge, there were about seven times as many British kids under age 5 hospitalized with the respiratory disease RSV as there were with COVID. https://t.co/rMwobUeZGF?amp=1
It simply doesn’t makes sense to talk about vaccinated 15-year-olds and 95-year-olds in the same breath and unvaccinated 15-year-olds and unvaccinated 95-year-olds in a different breath. In fact, it distorts the picture of the pandemic as a whole when we regard risk as neatly divided by vaccination status. That’s because a vaccinated 95-year-old is still probably over a thousand times more at risk of death, all else being equal, than an unvaccinated 15-year-old. Which means we probably shouldn’t be giving those two groups the same advice about masks or social distancing or boosters.
When I asked the CDC about the case fatality ratios implied by its quasi-national study — which suggested, during the observed period, vaccinated seniors were twice as likely to die, given a confirmed case, as unvaccinated people between the ages of 50 and 64 — the lead author suggested that it would be better to consider the incidence rate, which looks at how many people in a given time period suffer a particular adverse event. According to that measure, death among vaccinated seniors was two and a half times more common than death among unvaccinated people ages 18 to 49.
That is one reason why a country like the U.K. — enthusiastically considering boosters for the elderly — is at the moment advising against vaccinating even the teenagers already eligible here in the U.S. Vaccines for kids are a reassuring prospect for worried parents and have often been described as an important milestone for school reopening, too (though, to date, less than half of eligible teenagers have been vaccinated, and the rates among younger kids may well turn out to be lower). But in terms of shrinking the country’s overall mortality risk, the enduring fact of the age skew suggests that boosting the immunity of the elderly would be much more consequential.