Better late than never, doctors are slowly starting to realize that in order to truly give a fuck about public health, they’re gonna need to get political.

Why the fuck did paramedics assume a 20-year-old person died of natural causes, and why the fuck did the medical examiner release her still-living body directly to a funeral home????

she had to be one or more of the following:

• she was fat
• she was black
• she was visibly disabled

But yeah, okay, let’s reopen and go back to “normal.”

“Over the 4 days of infection before the typical time of symptom onset (day 5), the probability of a false-negative result in an infected person decreases from 100% (95% CI, 100% to 100%) on day 1 to 67% (CI, 27% to 94%) on day 4. On the day of symptom onset, the median false-negative rate was 38% (CI, 18% to 65%). This decreased to 20% (CI, 12% to 30%) on day 8 (3 days after symptom onset) then began to increase again, from 21% (CI, 13% to 31%) on day 9 to 66% (CI, 54% to 77%) on day 21.“

“In this study there were 3,398 patients, 16 mentioned regret or detransition.

12 attribute this to social pressure, and only 3 de-transitioned with no intention to transition again.

That’s 3 people from a sample of 3,398 trans people.”

...meanwhile, weight loss with a less than 5% long term success rate, is often a requirement for HRT, and it’s the most common recommended “treatment” from everything to broken fingers to sinus infections for fat people.

It’s almost like medical gate keeping has nothing to do with patient care and everything to do with the status quo and bigotry.

Promising research (controlled and uncontrolled) has found a potential cure for FIP, but Gilead put profits over patients and is focusing on Getting approval of chemically-similar remdesivir instead.

The FIP treatment has inspired an underground market for cat guardians, who spend thousands of dollars buying unverified vials from China.

“Insurance companies in Texas typically pay between $100 and $300 for drive-thru COVID-19 tests, said Jamie Dudensing, CEO of the Texas Association of Health Plans. But the association’s members have seen hundreds of out-of-network COVID-19 test charges come in far higher, some in the thousands of dollars.“

The difference between democrats and republicans is... not much, actually.

HIPAA only protects certain types of patients.

“The current shows of solidarity from medical societies, universities, and their leaders signal their virtues and help spread the message — for any remaining doubters in our halls — that, yes, Black lives matter. Yet, part of me feels like these signals ring hollow. How are we supposed to believe our institutions’ claims to be opposed to racism when we have had to force their hand at every turn?

All of this takes place against the backdrop of a medical education system that is ridden with structures that promulgate bias, especially against Black students. Research has found evidence of gender and racial bias both in the grading of students’ performance in clinical rotations and in the word choices used in written performance evaluations...”

This is criminal and worth a read.

Another reminder that Trump is a Nazi.