Stifling Physician Voices, Politicized Journalism, German Kids Study, Policy Solutions

In this episode we dive into some emails Dr. Z received about hospital COVID policies and medical education (and how our leaders are screwing up), the problem with mandates in healthcare, and strongly negative feedback for us from a critical care nurse on the front lines about our vaccine messaging. In the news, we react to NPR’s piece saying Trump voters more likely to die of COVID, what is the nature of “misinformation” on both sides of the political spectrum, the challenges of quantitative journalism, the German study on kids and COVID risk, Pfizer omicron booster press release and surrogate endpoints, and Vinay’s policy proposals to make the COVID mess better.

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• Check out our new Substack collaboration, "Sensible Medicine" here.
• Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast.
• Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast.
• More on Vinay.
• More on Zubin.

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