Podcast appearances and mentions of Alex Azar

The truth about measles & MMR - why are 93% still getting the vax?Alex Azar, Trump's HHS, "don't do a pandemic in an election year"Can Democrats (and Mitch McConnell) block Trump's cabinet appointments?  What is Trump's plan besides recess appointments?Putin's "Brain" on what Russia wants out of UkraineWere the Trump "prophets" right after all?Disney animator in one of the most vile cases of pedophile rape and prostitution everTOPICS by TIMECODES(2:00) Trump's WarpSpeed HHS: "don't do a pandemic in an election year"Measles — are death stats real?  Deaths go down as jab compliance goes downTrump's WarpSpeed HHS Secretary say  "if you're going to do a pandemic, don't it in an election year" and he tells some of the BIGGEST lies yet invented about that "pandemic"Death by doctor - it's much bigger than just the depopulation TrumpShots(44:40) LIVE comments(54:58) Zelensky suspends election - again, Putin's "Brain" tells us what Russia wants from Ukraine (and why he doesn't think there will be peaceZelensky suspends elections "until we win"Putin's philosopher, advisor, "Brain" says what Russia wants in Ukraine and it's not what you've heard media sayMore than one long range missile was fired into Russia.  Both sides have a very different story about what happened nextExpect more escalation on multiple fronts, Ukraine, China, Middle East(1:16:47) LIVE comments(1:19:32) "Russian Nostradamus", "Brazilian Nostradamus", QAnon, the "Trump prophets"Did the Trump prophets get it right?"Who's sitting on the throne? Go up and look at the presidency seat in heaven and see who's there. It ain't Biden, it's Trump"Some take a victory lap, others apologizeHow is MAGA reacting?(1:55:08) LIVE comments(1:56:53) Trump's plan for getting controversial nominees throughWill McConnell & Democrats block appointments?Recess appointmentsFederal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998WWE co-founder and former WWE CEO for Dept of Ed.  Is the promise to end Dept of Ed just professional wrestling?More appointments announced(2:22:10) Listener emails —Vax mandate lawsuitGladys "Bin Chicken"Horrific motorcycle accident made worse by hospital bureaucracyFBI's "encrypted phone" with a secret backdoorToronto's fight over December as "Christian Heritage Month"WATCH Coca Cola's hated AI Christmas commercial and Jaguar's weird, disgusting, and puzzling commercialHeritage Foundation's plan to destroy Free Speech(2:54:16) Disney/Pixar animator in one of the most vile cases of pedophile rape and prostitution everIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

The truth about measles & MMR - why are 93% still getting the vax?Alex Azar, Trump's HHS, "don't do a pandemic in an election year"Can Democrats (and Mitch McConnell) block Trump's cabinet appointments?  What is Trump's plan besides recess appointments?Putin's "Brain" on what Russia wants out of UkraineWere the Trump "prophets" right after all?Disney animator in one of the most vile cases of pedophile rape and prostitution everTOPICS by TIMECODES(2:00) Trump's WarpSpeed HHS: "don't do a pandemic in an election year"Measles — are death stats real?  Deaths go down as jab compliance goes downTrump's WarpSpeed HHS Secretary say  "if you're going to do a pandemic, don't it in an election year" and he tells some of the BIGGEST lies yet invented about that "pandemic"Death by doctor - it's much bigger than just the depopulation TrumpShots(44:40) LIVE comments (54:58) Zelensky suspends election - again, Putin's "Brain" tells us what Russia wants from Ukraine (and why he doesn't think there will be peaceZelensky suspends elections "until we win"Putin's philosopher, advisor, "Brain" says what Russia wants in Ukraine and it's not what you've heard media sayMore than one long range missile was fired into Russia.  Both sides have a very different story about what happened nextExpect more escalation on multiple fronts, Ukraine, China, Middle East(1:16:47) LIVE comments (1:19:32) "Russian Nostradamus", "Brazilian Nostradamus", QAnon, the "Trump prophets"Did the Trump prophets get it right?"Who's sitting on the throne? Go up and look at the presidency seat in heaven and see who's there. It ain't Biden, it's Trump"Some take a victory lap, others apologizeHow is MAGA reacting?(1:55:08) LIVE comments (1:56:53) Trump's plan for getting controversial nominees throughWill McConnell & Democrats block appointments?Recess appointmentsFederal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998WWE co-founder and former WWE CEO for Dept of Ed.  Is the promise to end Dept of Ed just professional wrestling?More appointments announced(2:22:10) Listener emails —Vax mandate lawsuitGladys "Bin Chicken"Horrific motorcycle accident made worse by hospital bureaucracyFBI's "encrypted phone" with a secret backdoorToronto's fight over December as "Christian Heritage Month"WATCH Coca Cola's hated AI Christmas commercial and Jaguar's weird, disgusting, and puzzling commercialHeritage Foundation's plan to destroy Free Speech(2:54:16) Disney/Pixar animator in one of the most vile cases of pedophile rape and prostitution everIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

As healthcare leaders continue to contend with workforce shortages, technological shifts, and fragile financials it can be hard to predict what the future looks like for their organizations and the transformation that needs to happen to improve healthcare for all. In this episode, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites the 24th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar to discuss what "transformation" actually means, what conditions need to be in place to mitigate financial loss, and what leaders can do to advance towards industry-wide transformation. Links: Our Value-based Care playlist Around the nation: CMS hints at more prior authorization rules Our Strategy playlist Truly personalized care is possible. Here's how to make it a reality. [Webinar, May 14] Bespoke care, part 1: What it is and how it's transforming care delivery A transcript of this episode as well as more information and resources can be found on radioadvisory.advisory.com.

Jonathan Howard is a neurologist and psychiatrist who practices at NYU-Bellevue and posts frequently on Science Based Medicine.Transcript, unedited, with links to audioEric Topol (00:05):Well, hello, Eric Topol with Ground Truths and I'm really pleased to have the chance to talk with Jonathan Howard today, who is a neurologist and psychiatrist at NYU at Bellevue and has written quite an amazing book published a few months months ago called We Want Them Infected, so welcome Jonathan.Jonathan Howard (00:27):Hey, thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it.Eric Topol (00:30):Yeah, I mean, there's so much to talk about because we're still in the throes of the pandemic with this current wave at least by wastewater levels and no reason to think it isn't by infections at least the second largest in the pandemic course. I guess I want to start off first with you being into the neuropsychiatric world. How did you become, obviously caring for patients with Covid, but how did you decide to become a Covidologist?Jonathan Howard (00:59):Well, I developed a strong interest in the anti-vaccine movement of all things about a decade ago when a doctor who I trained with here at NYU in Bellevue morphed into one of the country's biggest anti-vaccine doctors a woman by the name of Dr. Kelly Brogan. I knew her well and we were friends; She was smart and after she left NYU in Bellevue, she became one of the country's most outspoken anti-vaccine doctors and really started leaving off the wall things that germ theory didn't exist, that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. When Covid struck, she felt that SARS-CoV-2 was not killing people because she doesn't believe any virus kills people and so I became very fascinated about how smart people can believe strange, incorrect things and I dedicated myself to learning everything that I could about the anti-vaccine movement. In 2018, I wrote a book chapter on the anti-vaccine movement with law professor Dorit Reiss.(02:01):And so when the pandemic came around, I was really prepared for all of their arguments, but I got two very important things wrong. I thought the anti-vaccine movement would shrink. I was wrong about that and I was also really caught off guard by the fact that a lot of mainstream physicians started to parrot pandemic anti-vaccine talking points. So all of the stuff that I'd heard about measles and the HPV vaccine, these are benign viruses, the vaccines weren't tested, blah, blah, blah. I started hearing from professors at Stanford, Harvard, UCSF, Johns Hopkins, all about Covid and the Covid vaccine.Eric Topol (02:40):Yeah, we're going to get to some of the leading institutions and individuals within them and how they were part of this, and surprisingly too, of course. Before we do that in the title of your book, We Want Them Infected, it seems to bring in particularly the Great Barrington Declaration that is just protect the vulnerable elderly and don't worry about the rest. Can you restate that declaration and whether that's a core part of what you were writing about?Jonathan Howard (03:21):Yeah, the title of the book is to be taken literally. It comes from a quote by Dr. Paul Alexander, who was an epidemiologist in the Trump administration and he said in July 4th, 2020, before anyone had been vaccinated, infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle age with no conditions, et cetera, have zero to little risk so we want to use them to develop herd, we want them infected. This was formalized in the Great Barrington Declaration, which was written by three doctors, our epidemiologist, none of whom cared for Covid patients, Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford, Martin Kulldorf who at the time was at Harvard, and Sunetra Gupta who is at Oxford. If I could state their plan in the most generous terms, it would be the following that Covid is much more dangerous for certain people, but we can relatively easily identify older people and people with underlying conditions.(04:19):It's much more benign for a healthy 10-year-old, for example and their idea was that you could separate these two groups, the vulnerable and the not vulnerable. If the not vulnerable people were allowed to catch the virus develop natural immunity that would create herd immunity. They said that this would occur in three to six months and in that time, once herd immunity had been achieved, the vulnerable people who have been in theory sheltering at home are in otherwise safe places could reenter society. So it was really the best of both worlds because lives would be saved and schools would be open, the economy would be open. It sounded very good on paper, kind of like my idea of stopping crime by locking up all the bad guys. What could go wrong? It was a very short document. It took about maybe an hour to write.(05:17):I imagine there were some nefarious forces behind it. One of the main instigators of it was a man by the name of Jeffrey Tucker, who sounds like a cartoon villain and he worked at the, I forget, is the American Enterprise Research Institute. It was some right-wing think tank and he is a literally pro child labor. He wrote an article in 2016 called Let the Kids Work, which suggested that children drop out of school to work at Walmart and Chick-fil-A I'm not making that up and he's overtly pro child smoking. He feels that children, teenagers should smoke because it's cool and then they can quit in their twenties before there are any bad harms from it. Needless to say, the Great Barrington's premises that one infection led to permanent immunity didn't really work out so well, but they were very influential. They had already met with President Trump in August of 2020 and the day after their Great Barrington Declaration was signed, they were invited to the White House. This was October 5th, 2020 to meet with Secretary Human Health and Secretary Services, Alex Azar, and they are advisors to Ron DeSantis. They became mini celebrities over the course of the pandemic and it was a very pro infectious movement. As I said, the title of the book, We Want Them Infected, and they did.Eric Topol (06:42):Right. In fact, I debated Martin Kulldorf, one of the three principals of the Great Barrington Declaration. It was interesting because if you go back to that debate we brought out, at least I tried to highlight the many flaws in this. You've mentioned at least one major flaw, which was to this virus. There's not a long-term immunity built by infections. It's just, as we say with vaccines the immunity for neutralizing antibody production and protection from infections and severe Covid is limited duration for four to six months, and at least for the antibodies and maybe the T-cell immunity is longer, but that doesn't necessarily kick in and quickly. So that was one major flaw, but there are many others, so maybe you could just take that apart further. For example, I like your analogy to lock up all the bad guys, but compartmentalizing people is not so easy in life and I think this is a significant concern of the idea that is, while you indicated there may be some merits if things went as planned, but what else was a flaw of that argument or proposition?Jonathan Howard (08:11):So yeah, this could be a 10-hour conversation and I think importantly, we don't have to speak hypothetically here. A lot of defenders of the Great Barrington Declaration will say, oh, we never tried it, but they promised that herd immunity would arrive in three to six months after lockdowns ended. So we don't have to speak theoretically about what would've happened had we done it. Lockdowns ended a while ago and we don't have herd immunity. They were very clear on this. Dr. Kulldorf tweeted in December 2020 that if we use focus protection, the pandemic will be over in three to six months. So, what could have gone wrong if about 250 million unvaccinated Americans contracted Covid simultaneously in October and November of 2020? A lot of things, as we said, they dichotomized people into vulnerable and not vulnerable, but of course it exists on this. The only bad outcome they recognized was death.(09:11):They felt that either you died or you had the sniffle for a few days and you emerged unscathed. Separating vulnerable people from not vulnerable people is a lot easier than it sounds and I think by way of comparison, look at the mRNA vaccine trials. You can read their protocols and the protocols for these trials were 300-400 pages of dense policies and procedures. The Great Barrington Declaration, if you go to their frequently asked questions section, they made some suggestions, which sound great, like older people should have food delivered at home during times of high transmission, but setting up a national or even statewide food delivery program, that's a lot harder than it sounds. When asked about that later, Dr. Bhattacharya has said they could have used DoorDash, for example. So it was just very clear that no serious thought went into this because it was really an unactionable thing.(10:21):It's not as if public health officials had billions of dollars at their disposal and they weren't many dictators. They couldn't set up home food delivery programs overnight like they suggested and two months after the Great Barrington Declaration was published, vaccines became available so it became obsolete. Not that vaccines have turned out to be the perfect panacea that we had hoped for, unfortunately, but the idea that young people should continue to try to get natural low immunity in favor instead of vaccination became at that point obscene, but they still are anti-vaccine for young people and for children, which I find despicable at this point.Eric Topol (11:07):Right, the data is unequivocal that there's benefit across the board. In fact, just last week in JAMA two senior people at FDA, Peter Marks and Robert Califf published the graphs of how across all ages there was reduction in mortality with the vaccines. That gets us to, as you say now into the vaccine era of Covid and one of the things that the anti-vax community jumped on was when we moved from Delta to Omicron where previous Omicron, there was exceptionally good protection from infections, 95%. It was rare for people to get to have spread with the up-to-date vaccine with the third original strain booster. But with Omicron that fell apart and if infections were breakthroughs were exceedingly common, this led to tremendous fodder for the anti-vax saying the vaccines don't work beyond the false claims that they were, whether they're killing people or gene therapy or microchips or all these other crazy notions. But can you talk to that? Because if you still protect against deaths, Long Covid and hospitalizations, that seems to be pretty important. It's disappointing, and obviously we need ways to prevent infections or otherwise we don't really have an effective exit strategy for the pandemic. This was used and still is used today as a reason that vaccines are worthless if indeed, they're not even dangerous.Jonathan Howard (12:55):The vaccines when they were initially came out, as we all know, were 95% effective, but the vaccines were brand new and the virus was brand new. All of this was less than a year old and what's interesting is, unfortunately, I realized this after I wrote my book, but I published an article about this on Science-Based Medicine where I've been blogging throughout the pandemic. So, if anyone can go there, I wrote an article on October 1st, 2023, called over-hyping vaccines it wasn't pro-vaccine it was pro stop worrying about Covid. So almost all of the doctors that I mentioned in this book vastly overhyped vaccines as soon as they came out saying they were 100% effective against severe disease, that they completely blocked transmission and just really overselling the vaccine saying that they're going to definitely end the pandemic and mocking anyone who disagreed. Now these doctors are saying, oh, there's a lack of trust in the medical community.(13:57):We need to rebuild trust without holding a mirror to their statements. Dr. Bhattacharya, for example, participated in a round table discussion with Governor Ron DeSantis at the very end of July. On August 1st, 2021, Ron DeSantis tweeted out a quote by Dr. Bhattacharya that said, we have protected the vulnerable by vaccinating the older population. We have provided them with enormous protection against severe disease and death. That's why you see, even as the cases have risen in Sweden, blah, blah, blah, we've protected the vulnerable. The number of deaths have not risen proportionally and this was right when the Delta wave was taking off within. This is the one thing that was interesting, this pandemic, because you had people make prediction and within days their predictions were falsified. That was a tragic thing to see, but that's 20,000 Floridians or some number like that died during the Delta wave in Florida. More Floridians died after Dr. Bhattacharya said the vulnerable have been protected than before that. So I think there was a lot of over-hyping in the vaccines, and I get where this came from. We as doctors, we wanted everyone to get the vaccines. We wanted to encourage everyone to get the vaccine. I probably did this myself at some times, but I do think that that was a problem, but the same doctors who are now saying that the vaccines were overhyped and were often guilty of them.Eric Topol (15:35):Right. Well, I mean, I think as you said, we didn't know the virus is going to evolve with this Omicron event with well over 35 new mutations in the spike protein, no less other parts of the virus and then of course, recently we saw another superimposed Omicron event with this BA.2.86 or JN.1 variant. The problem with this of the vaccine takedown, and as you well know because you've been studying this for more than Covid, is that it extended to many other parts of the pandemic, such as masks, such as there's no such thing as Long Covid or it's exceptionally rare and it bleeds through other areas. So could you comment about that? That is the anti-science. It's not just anti-vax.Jonathan Howard (16:30):No, you're absolutely right. I don't talk a lot about Long Covid just because I think a lot of other people do a much better job of that. I have a hard time grasping the numbers myself. You'll read one study, it's one in a thousand, you'll read another study. Oh, 50% of people have Long Covid. My attitude towards Long Covid is I don't know exactly how many people have it, but some people are severely affected by it. We have a lot to learn about it, this is a brand new virus. We are going to be learning about this the rest of our lives, especially the consequences of repeat infections. A baby born today is going to be infected, what? 10 times by the time they go away to college. Who knows what are going to be the consequences of that? What does this mean for autoimmunity?(17:15):So my attitude with Long Covid and the long-term consequences are we just have to be very humble about this and again, all of the doctors who I discussed were very arrogant about this. They were writing in as early as March 2020 that school closures may prevent children from developing herd immunity. They spoke about infections as being beneficial for children, but you're right as well that these doctors cast doubt on all in any measures that were used to stop the virus masks, testing, ventilation, lockdowns. One of their core objections wasn't that they didn't feel that these were ineffective necessarily. They objected to lockdowns precisely because they stopped the spread of the virus, so you can read some articles from Scott Atlas in April 2020. He wrote several articles in the Hill, that publication saying it's time to stop the panic, et cetera. If people were as if panic was a bad reaction to Covid, as morgues were overflowing with dead bodies, panic was the right action. He said that the lockdowns have stopped Covid from spreading and stopped natural immunity from developing, which prevents us from reaching herd immunity. So again, these guys and the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration objected to lockdown saying they just postponed the inevitable, which there may be some truth to that. Probably everyone here has been infected by Covid at least one time, but postponing the inevitable, that's what I go to work every day trying to do.Eric Topol (19:04):And you could say a lot for putting off an infection, of course, as long as possible. And of course, even trying to put it off forever, because as you know very well, as we went on in the pandemic, we learned a lot then there was treatments such as paxlovid and far better treatments that were available for severe Covid, many randomized trials to help prevent deaths for people who were of high risk. The other thing that I guess I can't emphasize enough, and you had a whole chapter in the book, which is about children, kids, they're not so intrinsically protected. They can die, they can be hospitalized and there have been many deaths among them from Covid, even those who don't have coexisting conditions. So maybe you could talk a little bit about that, the flaw in that it's only people of advanced age or immunocompromised and that young people are bulletproof. That doesn't seem to be the case in reviewing all the data throughout the pandemic.Jonathan Howard (20:12):I mean, just to reemphasize the point that you made, that someone who gets Covid today, especially if they're vaccinated and boosted is in much better shape than someone who gets Covid, who got Covid in March or April 2020. The same way I hope someone who gets Covid in the year 2030 is going to be in better shape than we are today. But yes, back to pediatric Covid, the risk to any individual child is very small. So my kids have it, my nieces and nephews had it. I wasn't particularly worried and they fortunately had very mild disease, but there's 73 million children in the United States, and when you multiply a rare event by 73 million children, the numbers began to add up. So far around 2,000 children have died of Covid, which is comparable to what measles used to do before. In the pre pandemic days, hundreds of thousands of children have been hospitalized, and depending on the variant, about a third have needed ICU care.(21:15):And five to 10% have been intubated. Some children have had strokes, some children have had amputations. So it's not as bad, it's not as bad as car deaths. It's not as bad as bullets, but we don't have vaccines for those conditions and the vaccine is not a panacea for children. Some vaccinated children have died, but it's like wearing a seatbelt. You can die in a car crash wearing a seatbelt, but your odds are greatly enhanced if you are wearing a seatbelt, but all of these doctors who in 2020 state to their name, to the idea that we could get rid of Covid by spreading Covid be the purposeful infection of children, were unwilling to recognize that the vaccine can help them. They use many different techniques to minimize the benefits of the vaccine. One was to say that it never demonstrated efficacy against hospitalizations and deaths in randomized controlled trials, which is true in as far as it goes because it is very hard to detect rare events in randomized controlled trials unless you do a study of 200 to 300,000 children as was done with the polio vaccine.(22:36):And they suggested that this should have been done, that we should have re-enrolled hundreds of thousands of children in these trials, which would've taken, I don't know, five, ten years. So that's number one. We now have about 30 observational studies, and they all show the same. And by the way, there were six randomized controlled trials of the vaccine in children involving about 25,000 children. So they're not small trial. As I said, there are about 30 trials from around the world showing that the vaccine observational trials, so observational studies, I should say, showing that the vaccine is not perfect, but it's very good at preventing rare but serious side effects or serious harms of Covid. As you know, there was just a large study out of Penn a couple days ago showing that the vaccine during the Delta in the Omicron wave was extremely effective at preventing children from entering the ICU.(23:36):They also treated rare mild vaccine side effects as a fate worse than death and I mean that very literally, the vaccine in young men can cause myocarditis, which is mild in about 90-95% of people with it. I'm unaware of a single American who has been known to have died from vaccine myocarditis. These doctors made dozens of YouTube videos and editorials and commentaries all saying what a catastrophe vaccine myocarditis was. How dare you minimize vaccine myocarditis. When they also wrote editorials saying, young people should not fear death from Covid, and they spoke about death from Covid as milder than vaccine myocarditis when talking about deaths from Covid, they would say, oh, it's less than suicide. More children drown every year. They would just all sorts of crazy double standards.Eric Topol (24:38):Right. One of the things that's extraordinary in the book, Jonathan, is that you have, it isn't like you're just writing text about it. You have all the quotes, you have all the tweets, you have all the articles. I don't know how you did that. I mean, were you keeping an active list of everything that was, I mean, I liken it to remember during in the Trump administration, there was a guy in CNN, I'm trying to remember his name.Jonathan Howard (25:09):Dale something.Eric Topol (25:10):Dale, yeah. And he had a fact check every day, and he kept track of everything. That was his job full time, but it seemed like you were the only one that has this record of every statement written on the topics that we're discussing. How did you do it?Jonathan Howard (25:35):Well, I did it through the blog at Science-Based Medicine is that I'd been collecting these statements starting in May 2021, and it just grew out of that. And so basically, the book is sort of a reorganization, everything that I've been writing on that blog and I will say that the fact that I have so many direct quotes has made it impossible for these doctors to refute me, because if I'm wrong, then they're right. If they're right, then we'll have herd immunity in three to six months once the lockdowns are lifted, reinfections are very rare. Variants are nothing to worry about and so they have to make that case. What they've tried to do is they've tried to do some revisionist history. So, for example, Dr. Jerome Adams, who was Trump's surgeon general, and turned out to be very reasonable guy, recently posted on Twitter, I'll still call it that, that Scott Atlas wanted to, and he was right, wanted to infect people to achieve herd immunity.(26:49):And Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Vinay Prasad, who's a misinformation oncologist at UCSF, we're a gas. They said, oh no, he didn't want to purposely infect children. We just wanted schools open. The harms of school closures were just so great. So they cast themselves as these very benevolent, we were just looking out for the children. We never wanted them infected. I never said that, I never thought that, but all you have to do is just read their own words. The ones who have responded to me have responded just by childish insults, really just calling me names. I'm a schmuck, I'm a grifter, I'm a B-list Covid influencer. None of them have ever tried to engage with any of the content and all that would require them to do is stand up for their own words, which they won't.Eric Topol (27:46):Alright. Now, we touched on it early in our conversation, but what was one of the surprising things on the one hand there are anti-vaxxers, like RFK Jr. and people, as you mentioned, the person that you knew at NYU who went on, but then there were these surprise people who were at top academic medical centers in the country that went into misinformation campaigns, whether it was deliberate because it was associated with all sorts of attention, or whether it was misinterpretation of data. I don't understand, but can you speculate what's going on there and whether or not the universities involved should have been somehow engaging with these individuals?Jonathan Howard (28:39):Yeah, so it's tough for me to understand their motives. I do think that what made them more dangerous than someone like Kelly Brogan or RFK Jr. By the way, these two worlds, which I kind of treated as separate, they're beginning to merge with people like Joseph Ladapo, for example. So they're not as separate as they once were and Dr. Vinay Prasad has praised RFK Jr. saying he would destroy Dr. Peter Hotez, a hero of vaccines in the debate. I mean, it's crazy, crazy stuff up, but I think the guys who I write about were more dangerous in that they mixed good advice with bad advice. So they would say very sensible things like, yes, you have to protect grandma. Grandma has to get vaccinated with bad advice, that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid for children, for example. They also are very good, eloquent speakers who can speak in scientific jargon and use the language of evidence-based medicine, someone like Kelly Brogan, for example, would say that she uses intuition and higher ways of knowing, and crystals and tarot cards, these guys don't do that.(29:51):If we were to discuss our general approach to medicine, it would be no different than ours, than anyone's. They would say, we try to use science, evidence, data, logic, and reason to reach the best conclusions. So I think that that made them more dangerous. Again, what do I think their motivations were? I think a lot of it is some of these guys are natural born contrarians, which means that they just have to be a little bit different, that when everyone else is saying X, they got to say Y and that served them well in the beginning, in most of their careers and we need people like that In medicine, I would say that Nobel Prize winner, Katalin Kariko, I am probably butchering her name, but the Hungarian woman who developed the mRNA vaccines maybe fits that profile and so we need people like that in medicine.(30:39):I also think they had a hard time admitting air when they drastically underestimated Covid at the start of the pandemic, and all of them did predicting 10,000 people would die predicting that it would be less severe than the flu. They had a hard time saying, oops, I was wrong. Some doctors did that. Famously, Dr. Paul Offit, another vaccine hero, said at the beginning of March, I believe, or early February 2020, that he thought the flu was going to be more dangerous than Covid and when he turned out to be wrong, he said, oops, I was wrong. You might as well make an ass of yourself in front of a million people. But I think these guys couldn't admit air and once they had committed themselves to a policy, the purposeful mass infection of unvaccinated youth, it was hard to backtrack from that. What are you going to say?(31:26):Oops, I was wrong, and young people suffered and died because of what I said. No, I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say the vaccine is more dangerous than the virus so I think it was a lot of that. In terms of what universities should do, they're at a bind because if they speak out against these people, they're experts at weaponizing their delusions of self-persecution. I've been silenced, I've been censored. We need, even though, like I said, they became mini celebrities and met with Trump and DeSantis and advised Governor Glenn Youngkin and they were all over the news. They're huge social media presences. They were everywhere, but where I was in a hospital with Covid patient. So I think that if universities speak out, they run the risk of the Streisand effect. It's called amplifying people inadvertently and allowing them to claim their precious victim status, but if they don't speak out, which they really haven't done, they run the risk of what they're saying is this person carries the aperture. Am I pronouncing that word of our university, that we feel that this person is competent to speak on our behalf which is a problem.Eric Topol (32:38):No, I think we've just seen that, of course, with the three institutions that the presidents were brought in about a whole different matter, and how they didn't necessarily speak out as they could have a totally different matter, of course. This is a real tough one as you've outlined as to whether leaders of university, for example, at Stanford, the faculty did stand up and say, we're not supporting Scott Atlas or this or that. This didn't really happen at other universities that we've touched on at least. So the individuals now going forward here, there's a much bigger story than just Covid, and it's the anti-science, anti-vax movement, which is very dangerous. I think most people who are reasonable reviewing the data would say vaccines are just extraordinary for preserving health, but we're seeing now this movement has gotten legs, it's gotten funding, it's organized, and you're well familiar with Peter Hotez's book who gets through some of that substantiates where this has been with autism and where it's going.(33:59):So one of the problems is that there hasn't been much in the way of any antidote, any aggressive response to basically you have the corrections, the real time, the hall of shame, if you will, of this misinformation to have fact checkers, to get the story straight and perhaps not governmental sponsored because that's also an area of uncertainty of trust in public health, but some type of agency that could take on a corrective effort for the public to know what's fact and what's not. What are your thoughts of how we can get out of this mess?Jonathan Howard (34:46):Oh, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. I think skepticism about the Covid vaccines, we're already seeing this as going to bleed into other vaccines. States are doing everything they can to get rid of what were once considered normal vaccine mandates. So I don't know how we're going to get out of it and I think any government agency designed to combat misinformation would become itself as, first of all, you got to be a little bit careful. We don't know who's going to be running that in 2025, right? I mean, Joseph Ladapo might be in charge of the government industry of misinformation depending on who wins election next. So we got to be careful with handing government that sort of, but I do think that more doctors need to do what I have done, what Dr. Peter Hotez has done, what you've done, what my mentor(35:37):Dr. David Gorski, who runs Science-Based Medicine and Steve Novella have done, which is to just speak out and to call out doctors. When we say, when we hear this misinformation, I think a lot of doctors are what we call shruggy, meaning they sort of shrug it off like, that person's kind of wacky. What are you going to do about it? But I think that we need to not tolerate it. We don't have to give them the victim status by saying, oh, you should be fired, you should be censored, this sort of thing, but just when these doctors make absurd statements by saying that the flu is more dangerous for children than Covid, we need to say no. Over the past three years, Covid has killed 2,000 children. The flu has killed about 300. 2,000 is bigger than 300. If I told you in 2019 virus A kills 2,000 people, virus B kills 300, you would not have a hard time answering that question and if you are trying to tell me now that the virus that killed 200 children is worse than the one that killed 2,000, that's absurd and we just shouldn't tolerate that sort of nonsense. I think that's the attitude that we need to have.Eric Topol (36:51):Yeah, I mean, I think it's very scary where we're headed, and it's ironic because we're seeing vaccine progression to pathogens never seen before, whether it's malaria, obviously, we have RSV vaccines and so many more that are coming. In addition, these same vaccines on the platform, whether it be mRNA and nanoparticles or proteins or whatnot, are being directed now to help amp up the immune response to cancer or to create vaccines that could help achieve tolerance to the immune system, an area that you work in multiple sclerosis and many other neurologic type one diabetes and on and on autoimmune conditions. So if we don't get this right, that if vaccines are trashed, we got some problems going forward.Jonathan Howard (37:46):We shouldn't call those vaccine. That's my suggestion number one. I'm half joking about that. We shouldn't. Sorry to cut you off, but yeah, we do have problems going forward, and like I said, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better and look at the Covid booster vaccination rates. I don't know what they are off the top of my head, but they're in the garbage.Eric Topol (38:08):19% in all Americans and we're one of the few countries that has it widely available for all adults, and only 35% in people 70 years and older, where there's a spike in hospitalizations right now that's comparable to the other waves of BA.2 and BA.5, and it's still rising. So yeah, the booster uptake has been very poor, especially in people at high risk. Absolutely right.Jonathan Howard (38:37):I think people have been influenced by the anti-vaccine movement, even when they don't recognize it. I think it's kind of permeated the culture because people have a very different attitude towards vaccines than they have to almost anything else in their life. I wouldn't say, for example, I don't need to go to the dentist again, because I went in 2020 and 2021 and 2022, I wouldn't say I don't need to go to the gym anymore because I went 10 times last year, for example. We recognize that there are certain things that we have to do for our health that have to be done on a frequent basis, and it's too bad that vaccination doesn't fit that bill. Again, I think one reason for this is that the vaccines were overhyped at the start of the pandemic, or at least in 2021, they were pitched as this panacea. This we're definitely going to solve things, and in retrospect, that was a mistake. We needed to proceed with a little bit more humility just about a brain. This is everyone's first pandemic, right?Eric Topol (39:35):Yeah. I mean, I think the unpredictability of the virus's evolution, which was very slow at first, and then of course it accelerated, was unforeseen and changed the entire profile of the protection forwarded by vaccines. I guess to wrap it up, Jonathan, I want to thank you for all the hard work you did to put this book together and your efforts to try to stand up for the evidence, the science that supports vaccines and the things that we can do to help preserve human health in a pandemic and beyond. I mean, in your practice of medicine that goes well, different and beyond a pathogen in caring for patients with neurologic conditions. I also, I guess would say I'm more hopeful that we will have oral nasal vaccines that do block infections, maybe just for a few months per spray or per inhalation and more durable vaccines that don't only last four to six months if we put our efforts and resources and priorities into it.(40:44):But I'm also worried that, as you say, the V word is a bad word now to many people. So I don't know that we've come up with any solution here outside of your idea of not calling vaccines, but it seems to me we have to be much more direct at dealing with the miss and disinformation movements that have grown so profoundly in the last few years and taking advantage of course of the pandemic fatigue and all the holes in our current tools that obviously there are no things that are fully protected, whether it's a vaccine or N95 mask or you name it. Any last comments about where are you headed? Are you still going to track this or are you had enough of it, or what's your next chapter in your work?Jonathan Howard (41:42):I'm going to still continue to write at Science-Based Medicine on this theme because I think that it's important as doctors that we regulate our own profession and that we hold our public communications to high standards, and I include myself in that. So in my book, I include several really stupid things that I said, and that might be the subject of a future article of dumb things I said, because I did say some dumb things. So I think we have to hold ourselves to a high standard when communicating with the public in a pandemic. So that's what I'm going to continue to do. I'm going to continue to do what I always do at Bellevue psych and NYU treat MS patients around on the inpatient service at Bellevue Hospital wouldn't trade it for the world.Eric Topol (42:29):Well, I want to thank you, and Bellevue is a tough place to work. I know it well, and that in itself says a lot about you. You're a person who I had not met before, only having read your work, but I don't detect one scintilla of hubris. You come across as a genuine person who is really interested in facts and evidence. I want to thank you for all of your work and look forward to future conversation.Jonathan Howard (42:58):Well, thanks for the kind words. I really appreciate it. It means a lot, and I appreciate all you've done on your Twitter feed. Whenever there's a new story. I get it from you first, and so I appreciate it.Eric Topol (43:08):Thanks so much, Jonathan.Commentary on this book's significance by Gregg Gonsalves, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public HealthOne of the untold stories of the COVID pandemic in the US is the role of medical and public health professionals in spreading disinformation, pushing for policies that exacerbate the virus' spread, and drive people away from important interventions, particularly vaccines, which blunt the deadly effects of SARSCOV2. Because of professional courtesy, solidarity or just sheer cowardice, many inside the professions have refused to take on these frauds, egomaniacs, purveyors of sickness and suffering in white coats. Jonathan Howard's book We Want Them Infected, though, names names. In painstaking detail, he builds an indictment of these men and women who have blood on their hands, abusing the trust of millions to peddle lies and falsehoods. This book is one for the ages, making it hard to sweep the complicity of these individuals with the virus under the carpet, leaving a record for the future, a cautionary tale for all of us. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe

3 Takeaways brings you conversations with people who are changing the world.  The world's foremost thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, scientists and other newsmakers share three key insights to help you understand the world in new ways that can benefit your life and career. In this special year-end episode, we present the most powerful and compelling takeaways of 2023. Can you guess which takeaway is from each guest before I tell you who it is? The guests include former Director of the CIA, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CEO of Chevron, former Foreign Minister of Israel and other amazing guests.Top Takeaways of 2023 include: Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar on Previously Unknown Reasons For The Stunning Success of Operation Warp Speed (#174)Former Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami on the Hamas Israel War (#171)Yale Professor Zoe Chance Reveals Smart, Simple Ways To Influence People To Get What You Want (#156)Chevron CEO Mike Wirth On The Race To Meet The World's Energy Needs With Lower Carbon Solutions (#170)Innocence Project Head Christina Swarns on The Horrors Of Our Criminal Justice System And How To Improve It (#176)Former Ford and Boeing CEO Alan Mulally On Love By Design, The Secret Behind Two Remarkable Turnarounds (#152)A Chilling, Mind-Blowing Talk about War In The Age of AI With Pentagon Defense Expert Paul Scharre (#151)Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked With NYU's Adam Alter (#150)Karl Rove Takes A Riveting No-Holds Barred Look At The Frightening State Of American Politics (#168)Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Bill Owens on Our Critical Need To See “The Other Side of The Story” (#157)Former CIA Director David Petraeus on The Russia Ukraine war (#128)The Complex and Bizarre World of Government-Imposed Racial Classification With Law Professor David Bernstein (#130)President and CEO Dan Weiss of NY's Metropolitan Museum On Its Critical Role In Modern Life (#148)The Good Life Unpacked: Discovering What Makes Us Thrive with the Head of Harvard's 80-Year Study Robert Waldinger (#127)

Operation Warp Speed achieved in 7 months what normally takes 8–12 years. Former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, reveals in fascinating detail how it was done — the key people involved, how it was influenced by the Manhattan Project, the government's critical, groundbreaking partnership with the drug industry, and more.

In this special encore episode, KFF Health News' “What the Health?” asks three people who have served as the nation's top health official: What does a day in the life of the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services look like? And how much of their agenda is set by the White House? Taped in June before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former HHS secretaries. Secretary Xavier Becerra and former secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Alex Azar talk candidly about what it takes to run a department with more than 80,000 employees and a budget larger than those of many countries.Click here for a transcript of the episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does a day in the life of the nation's top health official really look like? And how much of their agenda is set by the White House? In this special episode of KFF Health News' “What the Health?” — taped before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado — host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former U.S. secretaries of Health and Human Services. Secretary Xavier Becerra and former secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Alex Azar talk candidly about what it takes to run a department with more than 80,000 employees and a budget larger than those of many countries.Click here for a transcript of the episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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FDA Advisory Board Approves First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill This week an FDA advisory board paved the way for the first over the counter birth control pill, with an unanimous decision 17-0. The FDA must accept the recommendation before the pills are available for sale, which is expected in a few months time. If approved, the progestin-only pill would be manufactured by the company Perrigo, under the brand name Opill. Ira talks with Maggie Koerth, science journalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, about that and more including; Voyager spacecrafts get energy boosts, wild axolotls face extinction, testing airplane waste for COVID-19 and more.   US Declares An End To The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Just over three years ago, Alex Azar, then the Secretary of Health and Human Services, issued a declaration of a national public health emergency as a result of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. That declaration kicked off a cascade of nationwide funding, policies, and restrictions aimed at combating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the three years that followed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates over a million people in the US have died from COVID-19. Yesterday, although the virus is still circulating and people are still getting sick, that emergency declaration finally came to an end, after being renewed over a dozen times. A statement released by the Department of Health and Human Services said “COVID-19 is no longer the disruptive force it once was. Since January 2021, COVID-19 deaths have declined by 95% and hospitalizations are down nearly 91%.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, joins Ira Flatow to talk about where we go from here. Is life back to normal—or is there a new normal? What have we learned from the past three years about responding to future outbreaks?   Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.

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OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES NHS Director says UK paid to create pandemic illusion — hospitals lied about cause of death for money 2:22How Trump & Biden Handed Power to WHO. Two states are suing over Biden's refusal to end Trump's HHS Sec, Alex Azar, declaration of "public health emergency", a new power for HHS added the final day of the Obama administration. It's tag-team professional wrestling 11:00IMPORTANT: Congressman has successfully changed discharge status of soldier, separated for not getting the TrumpShot, to honorable, restoring benefits 21:28Supreme Court investigators can't figure out who leaked the Dobbs decision. Maybe it's because Michael Chertoff ran the investigation 28:18WEF: World Economic FORFEITURE. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. They decided to STEAL everything from us without due process, just like "civil asset forfeiture" 34:37Gore Goes NUCLEAR - 600,000 Hiroshima Bombs a Day!! If your alarmist predications have failed for decades, use bigger numbers and SCREAM LOUDER 36:35Climate Nazis now whine about coffee 48:01WATCH Tony Blair - vaccine passports forever! 53:04Joe Manchin at WEF, pushing attacks on free press and the people's free speech 54:31INTERVIEW Global Bureaucracy Targets "Freedom, Dignity". James Roguski, jamesroguski.substack.com. It's right there in print — removing dignity and freedom, extending the medical martial law permanently and doing it at the global level through WHO. What they're planning and how to stop it 59:06The BF Skinner Amendment - they literally call for removing "freedom and dignity" 1:21:04INTERVIEW Parallel Society to Weather the Storm. Angry Tiger, TheKnightsOfTheShow.com. True grassroots movement, strengthening the individual through community 2:04:21 Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Covid 9/29/22: The Jones Act Waver, published by Zvi on September 29, 2022 on LessWrong. The pandemic is over. Long live the Public Health Emergency. HHS is set to extend the Covid-19 public health emergency by its standing deadline of Oct. 13. If renewed on the deadline of Oct. 13, the next deadline would be Jan. 11, 2023. This would make for the 11th renewal of the PHE since its declaration in January 2020 by former and current HHS secretaries Alex Azar and Xavier Becerra, respectively. The renewal would occur as HHS plans to shift costs of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the commercial market, a process beginning this fall that is expected to take months. Hospitals have advocated for the PHE's extension. There can be no clearer proof of the abuse of an emergency than extending it after publicly declaring that it is over. Executive Summary Covid is over but somehow also still an ‘emergency.' Potential new treatment for Covid doing well in clinical trials. Some people will continue to do way too much prevention for a long time. Let's run the numbers. The Numbers Kansas reported 476 deaths, of which I removed 400 as a presumed backlog. I decided not to remove the 12,098 positive tests in Hawaii, although I am skeptical. Prediction from last week: 330k cases (-9%) and 2,600 deaths (-8%). Result: 316k cases (-11%) and 2,813 deaths (-2%). Prediction for next week: 290k cases (-9%) and 2,750 deaths (-3%). Mildly surprising not to see a larger decline in deaths. I saw claims in my feeds earlier this week that we were seeing increases in cases in New York and other Northeastern states as new strains take over. The numbers don't back that up and we continue to not see anything scary on that front. Predictions Deaths Cases BA.2.75.2 The contrast between how BA.2.75.2 and other recent variants are being covered and noticed, and how previous strains that grew at similar rates were being covered, is striking. This certainly does have a lot of signs of big trouble (paper). Thing is, the paper said that BA.2.75.2 had ‘profound escape' yet it is being outcompeted by a different strain, BF.7, which is a substrain of BA.5. Optimistic Chise thread on the study on Omicron boosters from last time. Bloom Lab thread on another study, showing B-cells more ready for Omicron 6 months out than 1 month out from a shot. New information has updated me towards Omicron boosters being a modestly better deal than expected. Physical World Modeling Japanese Covid treatment drug shows promise in Phase III trial (Reuters). More study evidence that bivalent boosters work just in time for new strains to take over and throw the whole thing into question again. In humans, even, and overcoming worries about ‘original antigenic sin.' While the new shots may or may not be worth the side effects, we continue to get corroborating evidence that they work. The argument that healthy people shouldn't use Paxlovid to ensure a mild case because they won't then develop sufficiently robust immunity. I can't imagine the math possibly working out there, even if the argument is fundamentally sound, and this is essentially gloating that a particular person got infected again while there is a new strain emerging that evades past immunity. CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities. If you call for any other gathering to have universal masking, you are saying it is a more risky setting than health care facilities, that you want to be actively more risk averse than the CDC on this, or that your rule is not about preventing Covid-19. Probably all three. Another note of frustration with the stream of misleading Long Covid studies. Even when done right Long Covid studies have a super hard statistics problem to solve in order to be meaningful. Instead we get the same zombie claims over and over again. Zey...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Covid 9/29/22: The Jones Act Waver, published by Zvi on September 29, 2022 on LessWrong. The pandemic is over. Long live the Public Health Emergency. HHS is set to extend the Covid-19 public health emergency by its standing deadline of Oct. 13. If renewed on the deadline of Oct. 13, the next deadline would be Jan. 11, 2023. This would make for the 11th renewal of the PHE since its declaration in January 2020 by former and current HHS secretaries Alex Azar and Xavier Becerra, respectively. The renewal would occur as HHS plans to shift costs of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the commercial market, a process beginning this fall that is expected to take months. Hospitals have advocated for the PHE's extension. There can be no clearer proof of the abuse of an emergency than extending it after publicly declaring that it is over. Executive Summary Covid is over but somehow also still an ‘emergency.' Potential new treatment for Covid doing well in clinical trials. Some people will continue to do way too much prevention for a long time. Let's run the numbers. The Numbers Kansas reported 476 deaths, of which I removed 400 as a presumed backlog. I decided not to remove the 12,098 positive tests in Hawaii, although I am skeptical. Prediction from last week: 330k cases (-9%) and 2,600 deaths (-8%). Result: 316k cases (-11%) and 2,813 deaths (-2%). Prediction for next week: 290k cases (-9%) and 2,750 deaths (-3%). Mildly surprising not to see a larger decline in deaths. I saw claims in my feeds earlier this week that we were seeing increases in cases in New York and other Northeastern states as new strains take over. The numbers don't back that up and we continue to not see anything scary on that front. Predictions Deaths Cases BA.2.75.2 The contrast between how BA.2.75.2 and other recent variants are being covered and noticed, and how previous strains that grew at similar rates were being covered, is striking. This certainly does have a lot of signs of big trouble (paper). Thing is, the paper said that BA.2.75.2 had ‘profound escape' yet it is being outcompeted by a different strain, BF.7, which is a substrain of BA.5. Optimistic Chise thread on the study on Omicron boosters from last time. Bloom Lab thread on another study, showing B-cells more ready for Omicron 6 months out than 1 month out from a shot. New information has updated me towards Omicron boosters being a modestly better deal than expected. Physical World Modeling Japanese Covid treatment drug shows promise in Phase III trial (Reuters). More study evidence that bivalent boosters work just in time for new strains to take over and throw the whole thing into question again. In humans, even, and overcoming worries about ‘original antigenic sin.' While the new shots may or may not be worth the side effects, we continue to get corroborating evidence that they work. The argument that healthy people shouldn't use Paxlovid to ensure a mild case because they won't then develop sufficiently robust immunity. I can't imagine the math possibly working out there, even if the argument is fundamentally sound, and this is essentially gloating that a particular person got infected again while there is a new strain emerging that evades past immunity. CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities. If you call for any other gathering to have universal masking, you are saying it is a more risky setting than health care facilities, that you want to be actively more risk averse than the CDC on this, or that your rule is not about preventing Covid-19. Probably all three. Another note of frustration with the stream of misleading Long Covid studies. Even when done right Long Covid studies have a super hard statistics problem to solve in order to be meaningful. Instead we get the same zombie claims over and over again. Zey...

This week, Brett is joined by good friend-of-the-pod Alex Azar to talk their favorite matches of the second trimester of 2022. Beaumont deals with losing football and a missing water bottle. The Missing Water Bottle (0:00) Football Blues/AEW Dynamite - 9/14/22 (5:07) True Classic Tees (34:26) Second Trimester 2022 Favorite Matches w/ Alex Azar (38:01) Follow @BrainBusterBoys on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to BrainBusterBoys on YouTube Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media Get 25% OFF @trueclassic with promo code BBB at trueclassictees.com/BBB! #trueclassicpod

This week, Brett is joined by good friend-of-the-pod Alex Azar to talk their favorite matches of the second trimester of 2022. Beaumont deals with losing football and a missing water bottle. The Missing Water Bottle (0:00) Football Blues/AEW Dynamite - 9/14/22 (5:07) True Classic Tees (34:26) Second Trimester 2022 Favorite Matches w/ Alex Azar (38:01) Follow @BrainBusterBoys on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to BrainBusterBoys on YouTube Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media Get 25% OFF @trueclassic with promo code BBB at trueclassictees.com/BBB! #trueclassicpod

John Michael O'Brien was recently appointed as the president and Chief Executive Officer of the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC), one of the key thought-leading organizations in Washington, DC championing biopharmaceutical innovation. Prior to joining NPC, Dr. O'Brien was a senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services' Alex Azar. He has held senior positions at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and in the U.S. Senate as a policy fellow – he has worn just about every hat in DC related to healthcare that can be worn. In this podcast, John O'Brien and Duane discuss the multiple and varied assaults currently being lobbed at the US innovative biopharmaceutical sector. It outlines how the ecosystem, which successfully created highly effective and innovative medicines for patients, could be rendered inert by the many and various ill-conceived pricing proposals currently emanating from Washington, DC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brett is joined by fellow mark Alex Azar as they dig deep into their favorite matches from the first third of the year. Also, the BBBs recap their exciting weekends involving Kentucky Derby escapades and another Impact show. Kentucky Derby Escapades/Impact in Newport, KY/Star Trek and ZWAM Report (2:54) MANSCAPED Ultra Smooth Package (22:59) Brett and Alex Azar Favorite Matches First Trimester 2022 (26:39) Beau Favorite Matches First Trimester 2022 (120:03) Follow @BrainBusterBoys on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to BrainBusterBoys on YouTube Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code BBB at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

Brett is joined by fellow mark Alex Azar as they dig deep into their favorite matches from the first third of the year. Also, the BBBs recap their exciting weekends involving Kentucky Derby escapades and another Impact show. Kentucky Derby Escapades/Impact in Newport, KY/Star Trek and ZWAM Report (2:54) MANSCAPED Ultra Smooth Package (22:59) Brett and Alex Azar Favorite Matches First Trimester 2022 (26:39) Beau Favorite Matches First Trimester 2022 (120:03) Follow @BrainBusterBoys on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to BrainBusterBoys on YouTube Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code BBB at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

Wind back the clock with the BBBs as we serve up an All If You Recall episode, as we review some classic matches with special guests Kevin Rogue, Alex Azar, and High 5 Tom! Impact In Newport/Beaumont Reads Wikipedia (2:38) WWF Summerslam 1992 - British Bulldog vs Bret Hart w/ Kevin Rogue (13:07) MANSCAPED Testicular Cancer Awareness (52:45) NJPW G1 Climax 2014, Night 7 - AJ Styles vs Minoru Suzuki w/ Alex Azar (56:51) ROH Joe vs Kobashi 10/1/2005 - Samoa Joe vs Kenta Kobashi w/ High 5 Tom (89:23) Follow @BrainBusterBoys, @YearOfPod, and @High5Tom on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to BrainBusterBoys on YouTube Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code BBB at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

Wind back the clock with the BBBs as we serve up an All If You Recall episode, as we review some classic matches with special guests Kevin Rogue, Alex Azar, and High 5 Tom! Impact In Newport/Beaumont Reads Wikipedia (2:38) WWF Summerslam 1992 - British Bulldog vs Bret Hart w/ Kevin Rogue (13:07) MANSCAPED Testicular Cancer Awareness (52:45) NJPW G1 Climax 2014, Night 7 - AJ Styles vs Minoru Suzuki w/ Alex Azar (56:51) ROH Joe vs Kobashi 10/1/2005 - Samoa Joe vs Kenta Kobashi w/ High 5 Tom (89:23) Follow @BrainBusterBoys, @YearOfPod, and @High5Tom on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to BrainBusterBoys on YouTube Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code BBB at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

This episode's guest is Alex Azar '88, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2018-2021). Secretary Azar led the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2018 to 2021 during the Trump Administration and was the architect of Operation Warp Speed; he combined his experience in the pharmaceutical industry with his understanding of government programs—having previously served as general counsel and subsequently Deputy Secretary of HHS in the George W. Bush Administration—to lead the largest biomedical development program in history. Under his direction, the United States developed two remarkably safe and effective vaccines within months, embarked on the production of tens of millions of doses, and authorized therapeutics to treat COVID. As a result of his leadership, the Warp Speed team developed a public-private partnership with the biopharmaceutical industry through which hundreds of millions of Americans were vaccinated within one year of the inception of the program. While the policy lessons remain relevant for pandemic response programs, the model can also help guide future public-private partnerships. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

The BBBs return to recap their holidays, talk about the Bengals big win over the Chiefs, and discuss what's to come in January, including a one-month trial partnership with Manscaped. Then, Brett is joined by fellow mark and friend of the show, Alex Azar, as they discuss their favorite matches of 2021 in chronological order. Follow @BrainBusterBoys on Twitter and Instagram Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media

The BBBs return to recap their holidays, talk about the Bengals big win over the Chiefs, and discuss what's to come in January, including a one-month trial partnership with Manscaped. Then, Brett is joined by fellow mark and friend of the show, Alex Azar, as they discuss their favorite matches of 2021 in chronological order. Follow @BrainBusterBoys on Twitter and Instagram Brought to you by Visionaries Global Media

In this episode we share insights into Collaborations for healthcare leadership during the covid-19 pandemic. As part of the Race2Imagine series sponsored by GBSN member Universidad de los Andes School of Management in Colombia, we partnered with fellow network members Miami Herbert Business School in Florida, to facilitate the exchange of impact stories from different perspectives: those of students, faculty and leaders from different institutions, governments, and civil society professionals to share their experience within their local community that addressed challenges related to healthcare, especially in the context of pandemic responses.We hear from two former US Secretaries of Health and Human Services as Donna Shalala interviews Alex Azar about his leadership role in Operation Warp Speed, the public–private partnership initiated by the United States government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

Guiding the Healthcare System: A Q&A with former U.S. HHS Secretaries Alex Azar and Donna Shalala

* Colorado parolee, Mark Janny, was sent back to jail for not adhering to Chritisan practices while on parole. This month a federal court ruled that the government cannot punish you for refusing to pray. * An Indian chef is pushing to cancel the word curry and Amit is irate. Has cancel culture finally gone too far? * Marvel's widely anticipated animated series, “What If…?” premiered on Disney Plus. * The University of Miami controversially hired Alex Azar, Donald Trump's former Secretary of Health and Human Services. Explore the show's: * Website - www.theAIBshow.com * Instagram - www.instagram.com/theaibshow * Facebook - www.facebook.com/theaibshow * YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLfGQJf8T7mBXzKCEfZsgQ

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A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is Eric Chang, a writer for Taiwan News. On April 18th we spoke about China’s April 12th incursion into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, the largest one to date at the time. We also spoke about the longstanding military threat that China poses for Taiwan and the Asia Pacific region, what this means for Taiwan, how Taiwan has responded, the U.S.’s response and why it matters, and how the support and cooperation from neighboring countries is essential to keeping peace in the region.   Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   The difference between a country’s airspace and ADIZ (air defense identification zone) When Taiwan’s ADIZ was set up When China’s ADIZ was set up How China’s air intrusions increased during the last year of Trump’s presidency What prompted China’s April 12th incursion into Taiwan’s ADIZ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent comments about Taiwan The Taiwan Relations Act What the median line is When Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense started to publicly report China’s incursions into Taiwan’s ADIZ How many incursions there have been this year by China to Taiwan’s ADIZ The significance of Alex Azar (24th U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary) and Keith Krach’s (Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment) visits to Taiwan Taiwan’s response to China’s incursions What damage China can do to Taiwan with their fighter planes The strategy/motivation behind China’s incursions The war of attrition Gray zone tactics China’s history of military aggression aimed at Taiwan China’s reaction to Taiwan’s first direct presidential election in 1996 How willing China is to attack Taiwan How concerned people in Taiwan are about the China’s military threat China’s increasing military aggression in the Asia region Taiwan’s defense abilities The new multimission amphibious ships that Taiwan recently launched Asymmetric warfare capabilities and how Taiwan can defend itself U.S. arms sales to Taiwan How the Biden administration has reacted to China’s April 12th incursion How Taiwan can benefit from cooperation and intelligence sharing with neighboring countries in the Asia Pacific region Good sources to learn about Taiwan’s military situation   Related Links:   Eric Chang on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ahbying   Taiwan reports largest incursion yet by Chinese air force: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-reports-largest-incursion-yet-by-chinese-air-force-2021-04-12/   25 Chinese military aircraft intrude into Taiwan’s ADIZ: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4175573?fbclid=IwAR3m993hnw9io6q-IOayFBd2ljslUV4HgENika9nj2hshgFrPlAerfXlw_w   The Taiwan Relations Act: https://www.ait.org.tw/our-relationship/policy-history/key-u-s-foreign-policy-documents-region/taiwan-relations-act/   Biden sends unofficial delegation to Taiwan in ‘personal signal’: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-delegation-idUSKBN2C02MS   U.S.  President Biden and Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 16th meeting in Washington D.C.: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/17/biden-and-japans-suga-project-unity-against-chinas-assertiveness.html   Taiwan’s first direct presidential election in 1996 and China’s missile tests aimed at Taiwan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Taiwanese_presidential_election                                                                                                                              Ian Easton – Project 2049 Institute: https://project2049.net/author/ianeaston/   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls Taiwan ‘country’: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4148761   Taiwan launches new amphibious vessel with anti-ship missiles: https://bit.ly/3no5Xa9   Taiwan’s National Ministry of Defense on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mondefense   Taiwan’s National Ministry of Defense’s real-time updates of military activity around its borders: https://bit.ly/3nnkK4U   Focus Taiwan: https://focustaiwan.tw/

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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the Trump Administration say they will not let 'red tape' slow their effort combat the coronavirus. That is one of the reasons why Sec. Azar and the White House have been defending their recent emergency authorization of convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19. Earlier in the week, the HHS Secretary joined host Jessica Rosenthal to discuss the effectiveness of using the blood of recovered coronavirus patients in those battling the virus and some of the controversies surrounding the authorization of that treatment.  Sec. Azar stood by its effectiveness and denied claims the White House pressured the FDA and other health officials to prematurely okay the use of plasma.  Our interview with the key White House Coronavirus Task Force member was long and we could not include much of it in our original segment.  On the Fox News Rundown you will hear more from HHS Sec. Alex Azar and hear his take on the perception held by some that America is not handling this virus as well as other countries in the world.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#美台中關係 8/9美國衛生部長阿札爾（Alex Azar）代表川普訪問台灣，除前來弔唁前總統李登輝的逝世外，也對台灣防疫成果表示肯定，並加強台美間關於防疫等公衛方面的合作；對此，中國除抗議外，亦表示無須隨川普音樂起舞。從國外媒體看此新聞有幾個面向… #黎巴嫩大爆炸 8/4黎巴嫩首都貝魯特港口發生大爆炸，主因在於2,750噸硝酸氨集中於倉庫，造成至少137人死亡，超過5,000人受傷，將近30萬人無家可歸，初步損失達30億美元。黎巴嫩群眾對於政府的疏失多次走上街頭抗議，而內閣也在事發後將近一週的8/10總辭以示負責… #美防疫紓困案 全球第一大經濟體美國，在國會防疫的紓困案一直談不出結果，因此，川普認為既然沒有結果，就以四項行政命令完成，包括每週發放400元美金給失業者、延緩徵收薪資稅、凍結迫遷令，以及延緩就學貸款的歸還時間；然而，國會認為錢支出的權力隸屬國會而非總統… Himalaya：www.himalaya.com/drliu 劉必榮教授和風談判學院：negotiation.eletang.com.tw

—What happened to the activists in Hong Kong? Yesterday, police arrested 10 people in Hong Kong under a new national security law. The purge has begun with the media owner of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai. His company's senior executive Mark Simon said in a tweet that "Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time.” On that night, 23 year-old activist, Agnes Chow was detained by police. Later a statement was posted on her Facebook, says she was arrested over “clouding with foreign forces,” under the National Security Law. President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen showed a disappointment over the surge in Hong Kong, saying the arrests “further eroding Hong Kong's freedom of the press, rule of the law, human rights and democracy.” This comment came after the meeting with a high-profile US figure visiting Taiwan. —When did this diplomatic relationship start between US and Taiwan? Since 2018, US has embolden the tie between Taiwan by introducing acts such as Taiwan Relations Act and Taiwan Travel Act. Plus, Taiwan is buying military equipments from US over the decade. Yesterday, US health secretary, Alex Azar, has met Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen for the meeting over the response to the COVID-19 crisis while Taiwanese airforce detected unknown fighter jets, allegedly from China, at the Taiwanese side of the border. BBC reported that Azar stated “three overarching themes” for the visit. “The first is to recognise Taiwan as an open and democratic society, executing a highly successful and transparent Covid-19 response,” he said. “The second is to reaffirm Taiwan as a long partner and friend of the United States. “The third is to note that Taiwan deserves to be recognised as a global health leader with an excellent track record of contributing to international health." Despite the successful handling on COVID-19, Taiwan is not a member of WHO. In response to the meeting, President Tsai posted on Twitter. “Working together, we can prove that democracy is the best system to overcome global challenges,” she said. —So, what Abe said, or did not say on Hong Kong? Last month, PM Shizo Abe and Australia PM Scott Morrison held a video meeting on Hong Kong's security. Since then, no comments. Japan's position over China is double standard. On one side, the economy is important when it comes to the tourism and other industries. On the other side, a nationalist population support Shinzo Abe on the security issue. Abe has been passive to China, he will be passive. Japan itself has no intention to involve in the humanitarian problem in Hong Kong. It is about the international politics, rather than the domestic politics. China carrying out political purge in Hong Kong -ABC https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-11/agnes-chow-arrested-hong-kong-china-security-laws/12544476 US angers China with high-profile Taiwan visit - BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53719333 Taiwan–United States relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan–United_States_relations Trade War Vox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwa3vLoeNmQ Chinese Consulate in Houston -PBS News Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-55YTqufAVo Agnes Chow Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agneschowting/

Host JC Scott speaks with Mark Newsom, the principal and founder at Health Evaluations LLC, on one of the executive orders Trump signed on drug pricing that affects prescription drug rebates for public programs. Newsom discusses how prescription drug premiums will certainly increase with the implementation of this rule.What a Post-Rebate System Would Look Like For PBMs: With the removal of rebates for such programs, many players in the system are skeptical about how the shift in power will disturb the establishment of drug prices. Newsom speculates the balance shifting towards consumers sticking to the pricier branded drugs rather than their generic counterparts.The Executive Order Could Still Have Its Meaning Altered: JC and Mark discuss what mysteries await with how Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, moves forward with Trump's order. Newsom also brings up how big changes in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and healthcare would bring risks if not properly tested and ironed out beforehand.Taking a Step Back to See What is and isn't Working: Newsom gives his own take on how the system as whole can fix the issues being presented while also keeping every party happy. From creating sufficient competition without giving one stakeholder too much leverage to how out-of-pocket protection can be implemented, most problems can be solved when everyone is on the board to discuss.You can subscribe to The Pharmacy Benefit on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and all other major platforms.

Mulanda Jimmy Juma shares about how his experience as a displaced person helps inform his work for MCC today in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how our partners there are responding to COVID-19 in camps for displaced people.   Olympian Cindy Klassen joins host Scott Campbell to talk about her Olympic career, her life today and how she views achievement and success.   MCC worker Alex Azar in Jordan ends the episode with the story of how his children filled the streets of Amman with song during quarantine.

The Hake Report, Mon, 5/18/20: I love Eric Trump, and he's right: Democrats (and media) are “milking” the crisis to hurt President Trump (and Americans) — and it'll magically disappear after the election. CNN's Jake Tapper doesn't want to even consider that Democrat Governors (like Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and RINO Larry Hogan of Maryland,) would do that, and of course HHS Sec. Alex Azar is being Politically Correct.  GREAT CALLS: Rick from Hampton, VA, talks about blacks escalating situations, such as Ahmaud Arbery apparently did. James argues with Earl from Michigan awhile — who defends the “Hands Up Don't Shoot” lie and Obama. At the end, KT from Maryland is fed up with cops enforcing the rights-violating rules.  At the very end, James replays Eric Trump, tells about a Christian couple that got sick, and tells a quick story of nasty liberals making rude comments because James wasn't wearing a mask while walking outdoors at a park by himself.  BLOG: https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2020/5/18/eric-trump-dems-milking-crisis-mon-51820  VIDEO: https://youtu.be/vZr8reglygo  Call in! 888-775-3773, live Sunday through Friday 9 AM (Los Angeles) https://thehakereport.com

Secretary Azar reminds Americans that the polio vaccine was not approved when it was tested on hundreds of thousands of school children in the 1950s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The U.S. is in the second week of President Trump's recommendation of 15 days of social distancing to slow the spread of Covid-19. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar discusses why social distancing is vital to mitigating the coronavirus, how private industries have stepped up to help combat the virus and what lessons we can learn from this global pandemic.   Many Governors around the country are telling civilians to 'stay at home' or 'shelter in place.' So, does that mean you can be prosecuted for leaving your home? Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano joins the Fox News Rundown to discuss whether these orders can actually be enforced legally. Don't miss the good news with Tonya J. Powers. Plus, commentary by "The Guy Benson Show" host, Guy Benson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. is in the second week of President Trump's recommendation of 15 days of social distancing to slow the spread of Covid-19. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar discusses why social distancing is vital to mitigating the coronavirus, how private industries have stepped up to help combat the virus and what lessons we can learn from this global pandemic.   Many Governors around the country are telling civilians to 'stay at home' or 'shelter in place.' So, does that mean you can be prosecuted for leaving your home? Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano joins the Fox News Rundown to discuss whether these orders can actually be enforced legally. Don't miss the good news with Tonya J. Powers. Plus, commentary by "The Guy Benson Show" host, Guy Benson.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Steve Bannon, Jack Maxey and Dr. Steven Hatfill discuss the validity of China's reporting on the coronavirus outbreak. Calling in is Senator Tom Cotton who also questions China's relationship with the facts.

Mad Scientists Exposed - discussing corruption in the sciences Tuesdays & Fridays -  6pm EDT, 3pm PDT See more at MadScientists.Exposed & FreedomizerRadio.com ----------------------------------- Replay from 01/30/2018 - Discussing the new HHS Secretary and the new HHS Dept. of Civil Rights in defense of conscientious objection to medical procedures.

President Trump has nominated Alex Azar to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. It's an important job, as the future of Obamacare hangs in the balance and Republicans continue to express their desire to repeal and replace the law. Azar is highly qualified for the post: He served as the number two official at the department—and its chief counsel—during the George W. Bush Administration. He was a law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia. And he's been a senior executive at one of America's largest pharmaceutical companies. Some Democrats have suggested that this private sector experience makes Azar the wrong person to help conquer the opioid crisis and to lower drug costs. But they're wrong. It's precisely his experience inside the industry that helps him to better understand how we can address these pressing concerns. It's no exaggeration to say that few people understand the health care policy environment better than Azar. The Senate is now considering his nomination. Here's to hoping that they move quickly to confirm Azar, so he can get to work as soon as possible.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.