South Dakota: the Land of the Free. Celebrate what makes America great, and experience the Great Faces and Great Places of South Dakota. This is a bit of old news from September. Both South and North Dakota have emerged as the nations hot spots for Covid infections even though sparsely populated per square mile and […]

I get commentary (in my emails) from xpostfactoid who writes on healthcare issues and also does a yeoman’s function not found elsewhere  in reconciling ACA signups, the differences between the penalty-mandate vs no penalty-mandate, Medicaid signups by state in both expansion and non-expansion states, and lately the impact on Medicaid due to the Covid-19 pandemic. […]

"I guarantee you…" pic.twitter.com/HRjKjtrziV — Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) November 23, 2020

The good mayor of El Paso is at wit’s end. He is worrying himself into the grave. The City’s hospitals and morgues are overflowing. Seems that the people have to work to eat, and, if they work, they get the virus and get sick, and, too many die. Damned capitalism is as deadly as the […]

Coronavirus dashboard for November 20: North Dakota “leads” the world Total US infections: 11,715,316* Average last 7 days: 165,029/day (new record high = 1 out of every 2000 Americans infected per day!) Total US deaths: 252,535 Average last 7 days: 1,335/day Source: COVID Tracking Project *confirmed cases only: I suspect the total number is on […]

As you must know by now, I read the healthcare articles. One of my favored spots is MedPage Today where I pick up the less technical information on what is going on in healthcare. November 22. 1963 is the day President John Kennedy was assassinated. My whereabouts was sitting in a high school study hall […]

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia is the most common kind of leukemia in adults. Current therapy is extremely unpleasant and often (usually) fails. There is a very large number of clinical trials of new therapies mostly immunotherapies. They are based on the fact that CLL cells are B-cells which express CD20. One such trial is NCT03759184 Human […]

Coronavirus Dashboard for November 16: raging out of control Total US infections: 11,036,935* Average last 7 days: 148,725/day (new record high) Total US deaths: 246,214 Average last 7 days: 1,103/day Source: COVID Tracking Project *confirmed cases only: I suspect the total number is on the order of 16 million, or close to 5% of the […]

This update from XPOSTFACTOID showed up in my inbox. If Roberts and Kavanaugh continue on the same path they have started out on initially, it appears the case brought about by Texas may fail. Briefly, here are some points made. November 10, 2020 in oral argument; California v. Texas  Roberts appears equally skeptical about this argument […]

Coronavirus dashboard for November 9: Wow (and not in a good way)   US total infections: 9,968,155* US average last 7 days: 108,737 US total deaths: 237,570 US average last 7 days: 939 *I suspect that the real number is about 16 million, or about 5% of the total US population Source: COVID Tracking Project […]