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May 7, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 56 Comments

“Plandemic” and Judy Mikovits are COVID-19 conspiracy-theory quackery

Copying this from Facebook last night …

You will soon encounter this recurring antivax / Deep State conspiracy scammer Judy Mikovits, who’s now in a conspiracy movie “Plandemic,” including attacking her long-ago boss Anthony Fauci. The movie ads and promo clips going around are credible-looking well-produced videos full of BS. Don’t fall for it.

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Filed Under: Coronavirus Tagged With: conspiracy theories, coronavirus, covid-19, evidence based medicine, mikovits, quacks, science 56 Comments

May 4, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 17 Comments

The problem with “herd immunity” as a COVID-19 strategy

Caution: This post is not a prediction. It’s just a tutorial about the concept of herd immunity, with an eye to why it’s probably not an approach the US wants to take in solving the complex problems we’ve gotten ourselves into with COVID-19.

Click this graphic to go see a six second animation of these images, created in 2017 by Reddit user TheOtherEdmund. You many need to watch a few times. Get a feel for the differences in what happens in the different blocks, and come back to discuss:


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Filed Under: Coronavirus, Health policy Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, herd immunity 17 Comments

March 27, 2020 By e-Patient Dave 3 Comments

What to do if you’re sick

Summary: This post contains advice from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention), the most credible source I know, for people who can’t yet get the care we’d normally get from our healthcare system. Most predictions say there will be a lot of us in that situation soon if the system gets overwhelmed, and it’s always best to become informed before a crisis hits and you’re stressed.


A friend in the industry wrote this morning:

“I just talked to my daughter and she has fever and coughing and is very weak and nauseated and she can’t find anybody to test her. The labs said she has to have an order first. Her boyfriend works at [a chain store] and they had him working until recently. He came down with the symptoms first.  I told her to call around to doctors until she can find one that’ll write an order for her.”

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Filed Under: Coronavirus, e-patient resources, patient engagement Tagged With: coronavirus, covd-19 3 Comments

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