NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional...
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This is Your Security Force
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2020 | Blog
They don't give a liquid shit about you or your family. I posted a note in this space a week or so ago from my sister begging people to stop hoarding (that is, stockpiling more than they need) the highest quality N95 masks that healthcare workers need desperately. But...
Doctors In Italy: We No Longer Help Those Over 60
by Steven Woskow | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog
This is why people that work in U.S. health care are trying so hard to keep the number of cases down. When medical systems become overwhelmed, they have to make heartbreaking decisions about who lives and who dies. "As his department receives coronavirus patients who...
Please Don’t Hoard N95 Masks! Hospitals Need Them Desperately.
by Scott Horton | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
This is a note just posted by my sister, a nurse at a hospital in Austin: I know everyone has heard the healthcare workers cry for getting safe PPE. But I don't think I've really read anything that explains exactly why. My last shift at the hospital, I was asked to...
Don’t Bailout The Share Buyback Queens
by Steven Woskow | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
From Wolf Richter at Wolf Street. The Trump administration is considering a $850-billion stimulus package (bailout) for corporate America. This includes a bailout for the airline industry - the same airline industry that spent the past few years spending cash and...
As Coronavirus Explodes in Italy, Doctors Are Forced to Choose Who Gets Care
by Scott Horton | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
From The Atlantic via Defense One: Two weeks ago, Italy had 322 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. At that point, doctors in the country’s hospitals could lavish significant attention on each stricken patient. One week ago, Italy had 2,502 cases of the virus, which...
The Good News
by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog
The WSJ says that China and South Korea seem to have already peaked in their Corona virus outbreaks. It seems it never did break out in Shanghai. But apparently only due to totalitarian travel restrictions and Orwellian surveillance. Update: Oh shit. The bad news:...
Here’s to Health, Moderately
by Will Grigg | Mar 3, 2020 | Article Clippings, Everything Will
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: ICE Using AI to ID Targets, Breaking Down Trump’s WEF Speech
Greenland on the table, NATO on edge, and an algorithm deciding who gets a knock at the door. We dive into President Trump’s Davos remarks claiming the U.S. will pursue Greenland, then trace the fallout across European capitals as Denmark draws a hard line on...
Parallax Views Podcast: The Government Murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
J. G. Michael invited me on his podcast to talk about the U.S. immigration agents' recent murders of two American citizens in Minneapolis.
They Warned Us
It’s hard to enjoy the writings of Franz Kafka, though in some of his story telling we find a reflection of the contemporary or perhaps a dirty glass panel into the past. In his book, The Trial, we experience a bureaucracy of inhumanity through the eyes of an unnamed...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Is Pam Bondi Miriam Adelson’s Tool to Censor Americans?
A letter about the Nobel Peace Prize. A claim that America needs “complete and total control of Greenland.” And a war that almost started, then didn’t. We follow the thread from ego-driven spectacle to real-world consequences, unpacking how image-making can bend...
Lose/Lose Situation
I discuss Minneapolis ICE situation and we finish up the last of 3 presidential debates from 1992
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