Risk management for COVID varies with political orientation
You can see where you stand relative to the whole population
Though I try in this newsletter to focus on medical and scientific issues on all aspects of the COVID pandemic, sometimes I see things related to political orientation of Americans that merit attention.
Here is what the New York Times said today:
“But trying to eliminate Covid risk, and allowing the virus to distort daily life, has costs, too. That’s why much of Europe, which is hardly a bastion of Trumpism, has stopped trying to minimize caseloads.
The American focus on Covid’s dangers, by contrast, has caused disruption and isolation that feed educational losses, mental health troubles, drug overdoses, violent crime and vehicle crashes. These damages have fallen disproportionately on low-income, Black and Latino Americans, exacerbating inequality in ways that would seem to violate liberal values.”
I found these comments an accurate reflection of what is going on.
And here are two data figures that tell us what is going on in the US relative to political orientation.
I suspect that most readers of this Pandemic Blunder Newsletter mostly fit into non-liberal categories. I believe all of the medical and scientific data, information and analyses that I have been presenting support these non-liberal categories. To sum up: Virtually everthing the government and public health establishment have done to manage the pandemic have been a failure. There were smarter alternatives that were rejected from the beginning, including use of safe, cheap generic medicines. Now it appears that the government is blocking use of non mRNA vaccines. Early home treatment should have been a priority from the very beginning and, if used, could have prevented nearly all COVID deaths.
If you have not yet read my book Pandemic Blunder, I urge you to do so, because you will learn the details of how the pandemic was grossly mismanaged from the very beginning. It was the first book to demonstrate how awful Fauci was in pushing all the wrong actions. It is filled with important data and websites with good data.
Here is news about one such non-mRNA COVID vacine:
Nuvaxovid is the first protein subunit Covid vaccine authorized in Canada, which public health experts hope could convince some who are scared of mRNA vaccines to get the jab.
In January, Canada agreed to purchase 52 million doses of Nuvaxovid, with the option to purchase 24 million more doses, Novavax announced.
Nuvaxovid was 90.4% effective at preventing Covid infection and 100% effective at preventing serious symptoms during clinical trials, according to a study published December 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Trials showed few severe side effects, the most common reactions being headache, nausea, muscle pain and joint stiffness, Novavax said.
Canada’s health department, which cleared the vaccine for people aged 18 and up, recommended two doses be administered 21 days apart, though provinces and territories will determine patients’ vaccination schedules.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/02/17/canada-authorizes-novavaxs-non-mrna-covid-vaccine-for-use-in-adults/?sh=a47ff2731b72
But others are being used in some countries; one that was developed at a university in Texas.
And causes car accidents… I have heard this before but there is no explanation. What exactly causes the car accidents - heart attacks?