(2023-01-26) Zvi M Covid12623 Case Count Crash

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 01/26/23: Case Count Crash. Executive Summary: Cases down by 27%. Former FDA head calls for CDC to be CDC, former CDC head returns fire. Jury duty? School? Covid positive? No problem, come on down.

The Numbers

I am going to mostly buy it, and say that once again the seasonal peak has been reached. Things should improve from here.

Deaths also declined, which gives weight to the reporting hypothesis. They should start declining in earnest soon.

Physical World Modeling

Simplified Booster

FDA is proposing an annual Covid booster shot matched to current strains. If ‘current’ can actually be current, then this seems like a plausible best we can do in practice

There is also mention of moving to a single-dose initial vaccine, which isn’t explained and which leaves me confused on what they are thinking there

If the public health system is to regain our trust, it needs to address the systemic issue that is still causing systemic pushing of prevention measures onto children at virtually zero risk from Covid-19.

In Other Covid News

We really don’t care about Covid at this point. For example, it does not get you out of appearing for jury duty.

As I can confirm as a parent, The New York City Department of Education’s new Covid strategy for classroom infections is We Don’t Talk About Covid.

Remember

In case anyone did not know this already or needs a reference for it: No, we are not hiding year-delayed huge vaccine side effects, this is all Obvious Nonsense

Delenda Est Battle: Former CDC Head vs. Former FDA Head

Scott Gottlieb suggests fixing the CDC by focusing it and its culture on its core mission of disease control and transferring its other operations to other agencies, and outsourcing things like creating tests to private vendors. Seems like a great start

Former CDC head Tom Frieden responds on reforming the CDC. He’s against it.

needs to change – an obsession with anything that can be called a ‘safety’ issue being brought under the banner of an agency no longer focused on its actual very important mission.

this by Frieden is a fully general argument that everything everywhere is the purview of the CDC, because socio-economic status impacts health outcomes, which impact disease outcomes.

*What about the actual reform efforts of the current CDC head?

US public health chief Rochelle Walensky continued reconfiguring her agency*

I notice this is all about creating new offices and hiring new people. There is no sign of anything that the CDC is planning to stop doing. This is not about focus and getting away from the wrong things.

China

Other Medical and Research News

New paper says: Consolidated ‘health systems’ of doctors and hospitals slightly raise quality of care and patient satisfaction. They raise costs quite a lot. In most places customer satisfaction would take into account the price

A fentanyl vaccine has been developed. Great news

The hope is that this will become available freely to those who want it, and many addicts or those at risk accept the offer.

Will there be much voluntary uptake? My guess is there would be, if the vaccine was offered freely and anonymously

The bigger worry is if this tool is available, to what extent will it not stay voluntary? 2023-01-18-RussoWhatShouldWeDoWithTheNewFentanylVaccine