Medicine's Double Standard...Testing Causes Crisis While Testing Excuses the Real Crisis

 

Resources / References:

Increasing Awareness and Uptake of Influenza Immunization

http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/PublicHealth/MicrobialThreats/Nowak.pdf

Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0810696

No Wonder No One Trusts Us

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2645148

Cancer Screening, Overdiagnosis, and Regulatory Capture

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2626156

Breast Cancer Screening, Incidence, and Mortality Across US Counties

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2363025

Melanoma Diagnoses Rise While Mortality Stays Fairly Flat, Raising Concerns About Overdiagnosis

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764237

Trends in Infectious Disease Mortality in the United States During the 20th Century

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/768249

LATEST ON CORONAVIRUS: TIMELINE OF EVENTS SINCE THE START OF THE OUTBREAK IN CHINA

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-latest-timeline-events-wuhan-china-outbreak-1485062

Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of Hospitalized Elderly Patients Associated with Rhinovirus Compared with Influenza Virus Respiratory Tract Infection

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343795/

New Oxford study suggests millions of people may have already built up coronavirus immunity

https://theweek.com/speedreads/904584/new-oxford-study-suggests-millions-people-may-have-already-built-coronavirus-immunity

Coronavirus UK: Shock Oxford study suggesting ‘50% already infected’ slammed by experts

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1260301/coronavirus-uk-oxford-university-science-study-covid-19-infection-half-of-uk

99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says?fbclid=IwAR3EliCNUQR0QtOKskt3dv1CRyCW0rbLYGdx2FFzWhYumnQ79VxvYwiOsb8

Zinc, Diarrhea, and Pneumonia

https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/zinc-diarrhea-and-pneumonia-57ZzqhTpFV

Population-level effects of suppressing fever 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906934/

A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care

https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx

National Center for Health Statistics

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/index.htm

Vaccine Timeline

https://www.immunize.org/timeline/

Graph from CDC—1st Picture—(that has since been removed) showing the steep decline in pneumonia/influenza cases around the beginning of the COVID19 cases here in the US—CDC Data here:

https://www.cdc.gov/…/weeklyarchives201…/data/NCHSData12.csv

Longitudinal active sampling for respiratory viral infections across age groups.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30770641?fbclid=IwAR0i2GFGa0tFd26ZlsFfMTGw5vM1XKfDVsrROyvIQmtZLMltnaaS6wFuUn4

A July spike in fatal medication errors: a possible effect of new medical residents.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20512532