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63. The Only Covid-19 Book Worth Reading

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Vaccines and Social Distancing in Public Health

Carter mesher is at the bottom of it all, together with richard hatchet. Mesher writes the plan as the c d c plan, with some help from c d c people. Never puts his name on it, and it becomes the official american pendemic plan. I think medical ethics has completely lost its way,. Is it so obviously unethical to say, pay volunteers a lot of money to be part of trials to speed up vaccines that will save hundreds of thousands of lives? And it's incredibly frustrating to me that medical ethesists have carved out such a crazy polarized position that there's no room for w cost an benefits any more. These issues need rethought around disease

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