COVID-19 and Fame
Ask anybody on the planet, “What do Tom Hanks, Boris Johnson, and Prince Charles have in common?” and they will instantly shout – “Corona.”
Ask these same people, “Who were the three Prime Ministers that died of Coronavirus last month?” Few will respond, “Well…there was Nur Hassan Husein from Somalia, Mahmoud Jabril from Libya and Joachim Yhombi-Opango from Congo – who died (respectively) in London, Cairo, and Paris.”
As of May 4, no fewer than eleven movie stars had contracted COVID-19, nine with fatal results. Other victims include retired Commanders of the Turkish and Polish Armies, a well...
Source: GIDEON blog - May 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Cases Events VIPatients Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 4th 2020
The objective is to start treating chronic diseases from the root and not the symptoms of the disease. As we are starting to enroll patients in "senolytics-clinical trials," it will be imperative to assess if senolysis efficiently targets the primary cause of disease or if it works best in combination with other drugs. Additional basic science research is required to address the fundamental role of senescent cells, especially in the established contexts of disease.
Notes on Self-Experimentation with Sex Steroid Ablation for Regrowth of the Thymus
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Source: Fight Aging! - May 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The False Choice Between Science And Economics
This article originally appeared on The Bulwark here.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - May 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy David Shaywitz Source Type: blogs
Can The Tablighi Jamaat ’s Conference be India’s Own Epidemiological Diamond Princess?
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH, MD
“It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.” Abhijit Naskar, Biopsy of Religions: Neuroanalysis Towards Universal Tolerance
On February 3, 2020, the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess docked on Japanese shores and was promptly quarantined with 3711 people on board, because a passenger who had disembarked at Hong Kong two days earlier had tested positive for SARS-Cov-2, or also known as COVID-19. Passengers & crew members were either repatriated or hospitalized in Japan over the next 4 weeks. In total,, more than 700 of them were ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Diamond Princess India Somalaram Venkatesh Tablighi Jamat Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 in the Context of Aging
It is widely appreciated that old people have a poor time of it when it comes to infectious disease. Seasonal influenza kills tens of thousands of older people every year in the US alone. The aged immune system functions poorly, and vaccinations for many conditions have low success rates in older people. Thus the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths are old people exhibiting immunosenescence. Given that the world at large seems to be entirely accepting of the yearly toll of influenza, while COVID-19 is classed as an apocalypse of some sort, one has to wonder how much of the hysteria surrounding COVID-19 stems from the rare - b...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 28, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Your Data Privacy During a Pandemic
Picture a scenario where citizens willingly have their every move tracked via their smartphones; their every bank transaction monitored; and have themselves tracked from CCTV footage. Pretty Orwellian, right? Dubious tracking from smartphones and wearables by unscrupulous third parties is what we explored in our article on the dark side of health trackers.
However, this scenario is a reality in countries from East to West around the globe. Several countries have implemented digital surveillance to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. Others are contemplating this solution, while many believe it will linger after l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 23, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones data privacy cybersecurity tracking coronavirus covid19 contact tracing Source Type: blogs
China Concerns Are No Reason to Maintain the Jones Act Status Quo
Colin GrabowAs scrutiny of theJones Act intensifies, defenders of the 100 ‐year‐old law have come up with ever more imaginative justifications for keeping it in place. One argument currently en vogue is casting the Jones Act as a bulwark against Chinese expansionism. Such framing is not difficult to understand given the poisoned state of U.S.-China relations.But is it actually true? Would China take over or dominate domestic shipping in the Jones Act ’s absence? There is considerable reason for skepticism.It ’s perhaps first worth noting that China, while a major shipping player, hardly dominates th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 22, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
The Known Unknowns of Kim Jong-un ’s Rumored Illness
Eric GomezReports and speculation about Kim Jong-un ’s failing health offer an excellent opportunity to examine several characteristics of the U.S.-North Korea relationship. Specifically, the rumors about Kim’s health is a sobering reminder of all the things that Americans don ’t know about North Korea.The most obvious takeaway from Kim ’s potential health crisis is the difficulty of having accurate information about what is going on in North Korea. The silence of North Korean officials and state media on Kim’s health has not helped provide concrete answers. Kim might be gravely ill, but other high‐rank...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 21, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
How One Model Simulated 2.2 Million U.S. Deaths from COVID-19
Alan ReynoldsWhen it came to dealing with an unexpected surge in infections and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing COVID-19 symptoms), federal and state policymakers understandably sought guidance from competing epidemiological computer models. On March 16, a 20-page report from Neil Ferguson ' s team at Imperial College London quickly gathered enormous attention by producing enormous death estimates. Dr. Ferguson had previously publicized almost equallysensational death estimates from mad cow disease, bird flu and swine flu.The New York Times quickly ran the hot news about this new COVID-19 estimate:The report, whi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 21, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Maryland Acts in Support of the “Right to Test”
Jeffrey A. SingerThe Food and Drug Administration ’s cumbersome and ossified approval process for drugs and tests stands out as a major cause of the federal government ’s failure to quickly and effectively respond when the the COVID-19 virus first attacked. And one thing upon which all policymakers agree is that abundant testing —both for the presence of active infection and for evidence of previous infection and possible immunity—is crucial to ending this crisis.As I have writtenhere, on February 29 the FDA began to loosen these regulations, particularly regarding approval of tes...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 21, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Life after COVID-19: What Will Change?
The news is ripe with information surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. We saw the number of confirmed cases is plummeting in countries like South Korea. In a surprise move, Apple and Google teamed up to help track the virus. Some countries are even thinking of lifting their lockdowns altogether. Yes, that’s the good news we’re all looking forward to: when this will be finally behind us.
Let’s have no doubt about it, this will come to an end, like we discussed in a recent article. We will have a vaccine and new, approved treatments based on millions of patients’ data. We will have new public health protocols to...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research Source Type: blogs
Trump Grudgingly Concedes That Certain Tariffs Are Paid by U.S. Importers
Daniel J. IkensonYesterday, to help businesses stay afloat and keep workers on payrolls, President Trumpauthorized the deferral of tariff payments on imports ofcertain products bycertain companies for a certain amount of time. Before you smile broadly and, perhaps, engage in a few moments of gloating over the fact that, in this gesture, the president has finally conceded that U.S. importers pay the tariffs, first be reminded that Trump sees no cost too big for others to bear and no collateral damage too catastrophic for the economy to endure to ensure he doesn ’t have to admit to a mistake.Trump ’s actio...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
A second historic failure of leadership
That ' s how Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe put it in The Guardian. The first historic failure was of coursethe six weeks or more of dithering, delay and denial in February and March that left us in this catastrophic situation. Yes, the Resident was not the only politician who spent time in denial but whataboutism doesn ' t relieve him of blame, especially since he was briefed repeatedly on the urgent danger of the situation and he rejected what experts were telling him out of hand.The first cases were reported in the U.S. and South Korea on the same day.One country acted swiftly and aggressively to detect and isolate the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 18, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The (Sober) State of Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against COVID-19
If you ask us at The Medical Futurist about the importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare, we will have a lot to talk about. We’ve seen how it could solve alarm fatigue in hospitals. We’ve analyzed the unusual associations the technology discovered in medicine. We believe it will usher the real era of the Art of Medicine. Dr. Meskó even embarked on a journey to better understand the language of A.I.
So of course, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to explore the contribution of A.I. in this public health crisis. We came across promising endeavours involving such algorithms from mining for insights through...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 14, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine digital health coronavirus covid covid19 Source Type: blogs
U.S.-China Tech Battle Threatens Pandemic Containment and More
Daniel J. Ikenson andHuan ZhuReuters reports that the Trump administration is planning to tighten export controls “to prevent China from obtaining advanced U.S. technology for commercial purposes and then diverting it to military use.” That sounds unobjectionable. After all, one purpose of U.S. export control laws is to ensure that dual‐use items—articles that have both commercial and military applic ations—are exported for commercial use only, unless explicitly licensed for military use. But closer scrutiny of the fine print is needed to assess whether the expected national security benefits of these new rule...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson, Huan Zhu Source Type: blogs
