July 15, 2021 New Orleans Think about it. Nationally, healthcare facilities were a primary pandemic hot zone. Mortality in some states, take Louisiana for example, in these facilities were one-third of the total deaths. It’s not too hard to remember that hospitals were running out of beds and ventilators. We all held our …
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Long-Term Care is Broken
July 7, 2021 New Orleans Yes, the headline in an opinion editorial in Scientific American couldn’t have been clearer in its look at nursing home and similar care in the USA, saying “Long-Term Care is Broken.” In the shadow of the pandemic, it’s almost impossible to disagree, but what is being done about it …
Mandatory Vaccinations?
July 6, 2021 New Orleans President Biden has said that we are around the corner on the pandemic. Lordy, we all hope so, but given what we have all been through it’s hard to ignore discordant voices and the hard facts in front of us. Some people close to the public health community are …