The simultaneous collapse of American and Chinese pandemic dogmas

Last update: Monday 12/6/22 

At a recent STAT conference, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid-19 coordinator proclaimed, "We are now at a point where I believe if you’re up to date on your vaccines, you have access to treatments … there really should be no restrictions on people’s activities,” Jha went on to say, “I’m pretty much living life the way I was living life in 2019.” In other words, Dr. Jha has returned to normal living ... and his blunt declaration implies that he believes that everyone who is up-to-date on vaccines (and boosters) should also be able to return to normal 2019 living.

Are the risk factors for long COVID related to the risk factors for COVID?

Last update: Monday 11/14/22 

This note briefly summarizes well known patterns of risk for severe illness and death from COVID that have been true for all of its variants. It then identifies patterns in the dysfunctions inflicted on COVID survivors that have been identified in a wave of recent large-scale studies of long COVID. These studies seem to suggest that those who at risk for the most severe disruptions in their lives from long COVID are the same persons who are the most at risk for severe illness and death from COVID.