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How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfectionsContinual reinfection was not the "new normal" Biden advertised. How did we get here?

Opinion | Anthony Fauci Fesses UpIt turns out the six-feet social-distancing rule had no scientific basis.

Legal infrastructure for pandemic response: lessons not learnt in the USMichelle Mello and colleagues argue that state legal reforms have generally exacerbated rather than improved weaknesses in US emergency powers revealed by covid-19, jeopardizing future responses Covid-19 related mortality in the US was higher than in every western European country.1 Compared with its closest neighbour, Canada, also a federated country with a decentralised health system, the US fared far worse.2 With over 1.1 million dead at the end of 2023,3 leaders and academics have begun a painful postmortem. What went wrong, and what can be done to make authorities in the US better equipped for the next pandemic? In this article, part of a BMJ series examining US covid-19 lessons (http://bmj.com/collections/us-covid-series), we focus on the role of legal infrastructure, including both the law itself and the capacity to wield it effectively.45 A web of federal, state, and local laws determines what officials can do to respond to emergencies. These laws are helpful only to the extent that officials are willing and able to use them effectively. From almost the beginning of the pandemic, criticism was levelled at the White House and some state governors for failing to implement or maintain essential interventions to combat covid-19. Even where legal powers were wielded, trouble arose. Governmental powers proved too fragmented and limited in some respects, making it difficult to erect a nationwide net of community mitigation measures such as stay-at-home orders; school and business closures; mask, vaccination, and testing requirements; and restrictions on gatherings. Many Americans, however, saw the powers as too expansive in other respects, objecting to protracted health orders that impinged on religious freedom and other personal liberties.6 Both problems need fixing, but this lesson is only half learnt. Political forces have pushed reform efforts strongly in one direction—weakening public health legal powers—with potentially …

N95 Masks vs. KN95 Masks: Which Face Coverings Should We Be Wearing Right Now?We review new 2024 top-rated N95 and KN95 masks which doctors say are the best face masks for Covid-19, the JN.1 Variant and measles when traveling.

People mock what they do not understand

The man who discovered that unwashed hands could kill -- and was ridiculed for itIgnaz Semmelweis discovered the wonders of handwashing during an experiment at a Vienna hospital for poor pregnant women, but his research wasn't accepted until years after his death.

SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics - Nature Reviews MicrobiologyA better understanding of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is essential to inform public health measures. In this Review, Puhach, Meyer and Eckerle explore insights into what influences SARS-CoV-2 shedding, how this drives transmission and the tools available to measure this and determine infectiousness.

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