Notices by Jorge Caballero, MD (datadrivenmd@fedified.com)

There is no such thing as "good" click bait headli—

We were planning a vacation to the Grand Canyon, but canceled our plans due to a family rule: we only spend money in states where every member of the family has equal access to healthcare

#AbortionIsHealthcare

Abortion is healthcare. Healthcare is a human right.

Just so we're all on the same page: it is *illegal* for insurance companies to deny coverage of the new COVID-19 booster. Furthermore, CVS, Walgreens, and eTrueNorth are *contractually obligated* to provide free COVID-19 testing and vaccines to uninsured persons. It's all right here:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html

I'll never forget how, in July-ish 2020 a (different) NYT reporter publicly admonished me on Twitter for suggesting that her article was misinforming the public by arguing that COVID reinfections were improbable. I pushed back w/ evidence showing COVID reinfections were already taking place but that the CDC wasn't tracking on the data. She doubled-down. A few months later, I was proven right. She won some kind of journalism prize for her COVID stuff. Anywho, better late than never, NYT ⤵️

And for the record, there's no real debate among reasonable experts: multiple COVID infections are bad. To the extent that there's *any* reasonable disagreement among experts it's over a very narrow range of extreme badness— from more likely to suffer permanent damage to vital organs (lungs, heart, kidneys, brain) ➡️ more likely to end up dead. I wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that "you'll be perfectly fine" is part of the debate because it most definitely is not.

The great thing about being the self-appointed "paper of record" is that you get to write your own revisionist history that completely ignores the role your editors and reporters played in minimizing the threat of COVID— time, and time, and time, and time again

We're in another techbro hype cycle, aren't we? #AI

Speaking as an anesthesiologist that's spent more time in labor and delivery than most non-obstetricians will spend in their lifetimes, I cannot stress this enough: innocent people will die if mifepristone is outlawed. And it won't be in a few weeks or months— it will happen within hours. Judges should not be practicing medicine. Full stop.

Expect a lot of down rounds in the coming weeks and months as the surviving VCs take advantage of panicked entrepreneurs to extract ridiculous concessions from founders. Expect a flurry of sub-unicorn acquisitions, underwhelming IPOs, SPACs that are DOA— VCs at "founder-friendly" firms will bully their portfolio companies to exit in a last-ditch attempt to remain solvent.

#SVB fallout

The winners are the VCs that are taking pitch meetings and operating as normal. The losers are the VCs demanding a bailout. Don't let the latter group make taxpayers the losers, again.

#SVB

If I were in Congress, I'd try to get myself on every Sunday Morning show to point out that Trump's deregulation directly contributed to 2 train derailments and the failure of the 16th largest bank in the country. And that his minions in Congress are trying to make the American economy collapse just like #SVB collapsed: by dolling out money to billionaires instead of paying the bills.

❌ Eli Lilly lowers the cost of insulin in U.S.
✅ Eli Lilly reluctantly complies with Democratic law that caps out-of-pocket cost of insulin

Eli Lilly is a global corporation that actively participates and defends its role in the insulin oligopoly. Eli Lilly isn't capping the cost of jack squat. Eli Lilly was forced to stop exploiting patients－ that's the story, and the headline. Do better, editors.