– US President Joe Biden mocks masking – US First Lady reports 2nd infection, is on Paxlovid – CVS ended Medicaid/Medicare access to Paxlovid – FDA: updated booster “not intended for everyone” – Whoopi Goldberg has a third infection – CDC data: over 38 million US adults have/had long covid – New Zealand: rise in cases – UK to resume covid tracking – Scotland wastewater at highest point in 12 months – Nearly 1 in 2 phones in hospitals harbor covid – Novavax’s new vaccine data looks really good – Great advice on supporting friends with long covid – Difficult news from new long covid studies – With 2/3 of all countries withholding covid data, WHO now reporting monthly – US: 7th week rising hospitalizations, 2nd month of rising cases, covid ER visits at winter levels
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...[the] entire Cochrane “meta-analysis” debacle is a textbook example of Confirmation Bias: “the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.”
What Tom Jefferson is specifically guilty of is the Observer-expectancy effect: “interpreting results incorrectly because of the tendency to look for information that conforms to their hypothesis, and overlook information that argues against it.” Jefferson cherry-picked studies to try and prove his conclusions, as he was tasked by his funder, the neo-Confederate billionaire & child labor fetishist Jeffrey Tucker.
This weeks 2 important studies on Long COVID, which include ~340k COVID patients vs ~7M controls out to 2 yrs:
- Organ dysfunction persists in 33%, 2) Levels of disability from Long COVID exceed those of cancer & heart disease