Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
There’s a good deal of confusion out there about “natural” immunity and COVID. Here are the facts. first, there’s no such thing as “artificial” immunity. ALL immunity is natural…whether one is infected by COVID or gets a vaccination, the body has … Continue reading COVID, Science, and “Natural” Immunity
Read More...Two years (almost) to the day and we’re still talking about &^%$(*# COVID… OK, here’s the latest. DATA 73 million confirmed cases in the U.S. 876 thousand COVID-related deaths. that’s 12 deaths per thousand cases. that, dear reader, is a … Continue reading COVID update
Read More...Yesterday NCCI and several state bureaus and research organizations put on an excellent webinar on COVID’s’ impact on Workers’Compensation. The analysis covered 2020 data from 45 states. The full report is available here. Quick takes In 2020 about 80,000 COVID … Continue reading COVID, Comp, Claims and Costs
Read More...Some good news on the COVID front – well, good compared to the $%*#%Storm we’ve had for two years. First, the good news is tempered by reality – Omicron is incredibly transmissible. It feels like you could catch the damn … Continue reading Good news on the COVID front
Read More...Oh ^&%$*&^%^. Here it comes again. “IT” is the umpteenth wave/surge of COVID, a marvel of evolutionary adaptation. IT has also killed 800,000 of our sisters, brothers, daughters, sons, parents and grandparents, friends and neighbors, co-workers and colleagues. IT is … Continue reading COVID update
Read More...Three-quarters of a million of our friends, family, neighbors and coworkers have died of COVID. That is a mind-blowing number, made personal because all of us know of someone who died of the disease or has a family member that … Continue reading COVID conversations, curiosities and cures
Read More...Hospitals in Idaho, Alaska, Alabama, Montana and other states are rationing care – a painful decision necessitated by unvaccinated patients suffering from severe COVID infections overwhelming available facilities. In Idaho, the State Department of Health and Welfare now “allows hospitals … Continue reading COVID, care rationing, and consequences thereof
Read More...Didn’t happen. That’s the result of a just-published study conducted by Olesya Fomenko PhD, one of WCRI’s talented researchers. Not only were there no delays during the first half of 2020, when the pandemic was raging – but there was … Continue reading Well, I got that one wrong…COVID-related treatment delays
Read More...I haven’t seen any proof that it isn’t…and, well, if one believes the Left is a secret cabal of demons chasing kids, it sure looks like it could be. Two very interesting data points. First, residents of counties that voted … Continue reading Is the anti-COVID vaccine movement a secret Leftist plot to reduce conservative power?
Read More...Ok, time for a brief fact-check on some of the nonsense circulating out there. Some sources are claiming the CDC “changed testing thresholds to “virtually eliminate” COVID-19 cases among vaccinated individuals.” That’s flat-out wrong. The reality is the CDC changed its … Continue reading COVID nonsense
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