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Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.
The narrative that has emerged from the conclusions of these limited studies could inadvertently cause some populations to avoid medical follow-up and form an inaccurate view of healthcare practices.
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism.
In the case of COVID-19, we know that diabetes, hypertension, and obesity all are significant comorbidities.
To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.
Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.
Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.
At the time of writing, New Zealand had reported just three new cases of COVID-19 in nine days.
Much of the prognostication about the future’s outlines, especially the more dire forecasts, assume that we will change, or be changed, greatly. But will we?
Given a choice between closing the mall to everyone or opening it and refusing entry to a few with an alert on their app, which is better?
The current crisis has highlighted the risks associated with untamed uncertainty, as well as those associated with under- or overestimating the impact of measures intended to combat COVID-19.
If we can overcome the taboos surrounding HCTs, they can become a game changer in combating the coronavirus and limiting its ruinous effects on countless lives.