It turns out that both Covid-19 and tuberculosis are spread by aerosols dispersed into the air by tidal breathing or ordinary restful inhalation and exhalation. It is not enough, then, to beware of the cough. Amidst a global surge in TB during Covid times, Covid is teaching us something important about the transmission of a disease that is a very old foe indeed.
Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Can a hospital justify defying a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for staff on the grounds that it would cause them to close their doors?
Adding Your Vaccination Status to Your Resume
Apparently, it is the new must have on your resume.
School Lunch Politics
The shortage of food for school lunch programs has finally hit the press. The New York Times tags it as a labor shortage, no make that a supply shortage. Perhaps it is both. But those who emphasize the shortage is the end result of the decision to make school lunch free to all students during the pandemic know very little about just how skimpy a federally funded school lunch can be in pandemic times under the waiver of many school lunch nutritional requirements. They may also know very little about childhood poverty in the U.S.
Did Missouri’s Vaccine Reward Lottery Work?
Apparently not. No surprises here. There is significant data, from outside the COVID-19 universe, that it is the incentive of hard cash that, if anything, can help motivate the move toward health and wellness seeking behavior. Did anybody in Missouri actually consult anyone else in advance? Who advised that a lottery would draw large numbers of people into the vaccination fold?
Joy is Everywhere at the University of Michigan
This article is the best I have seen of its type, humanizing the cost to university employees of the return to face to face education with no social distancing and vaccination requirements.
The Mask Ask, Montana Style
Seen at the Senior Citizens’ Center in Red Lodge Montana.
Should Washington State’s Hospitals Reject COVID-19 Transfer Cases from Idaho’s Overwhelmed Hospitals?
Should it depend on the vaccination status of the proposed transfer patient? The vaccination status of the population of Idaho? The mask mandate or lack thereof in Idaho? Something else?
No Mask Requirement; No Vaccine Requirement; Forbidden to Impose Classroom Specific Requirements
Could a deceased faculty member’s surviving family bring a wrongful death suit agains the University of Georgia if the death causing variant could be genetically typed?
United Health Care: Quite the Bottom Feeder
United Health Care as the bottom feeder on reimbursement for administering COVID-19 vaccinations/
