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Category Archives: Health Care
Trump’s Science Denialism
“People don’t seem to understand that public health is a critical element of national security,” said Randall Larsen, a retired Air Force colonel. “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 elections, Health Care, Nancy Goroff, science, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged CDC, defunding, denial, NIH, pandemic, science
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Sowed Discord
Trump‘s lackey boy, Lee Zeldin SpringsAugust 24, 2020 Dear David: The past three and a half years have been a master class in the havoc that can be wrought when a president is constrained by neither truth nor decency. Starting … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, democrats, economy, Ethics, Fair elections, GOP, Health Care, long island, Nancy Goroff, public health, Trump, Trump atrocities, voting by mail, Zeldin
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, healthcare
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COVID-19 – US is only industrialized country without a national policy
By: Norbert Goldfield MD – founder of ‘Ask Nurses and Doctors’ (AND) August 14. ‘Ask Nurses and Doctors’ (AND) notes Negative Covid Tests, Ongoing Anxiety, No Jobs, What Is to be Done? All my symptomatic patients for the … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged anxiety, COVID-19, fatigue, masks, national policy, pandemic
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Notes from a Covid Doc
by Norbert Goldfield MD (August 3rd 2020) Still Working with Patients with After Effects: My COVID experiences this week in part revolve around helping one of my patients now permanently disabled from the after-effects of COVID; large numbers of … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged 2020, Coronavirus, COVID-19, elections
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Irresponsible!
Just in case Lee Zeldin and company forget how irresponsible they are, see our prior post about Zeldin in Tulsa, at the Trump rally, and Zeldin on Airforce One without a mask. And now we are seeing the direct consequence: … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, GOP, Health Care, Trump, Trump atrocities, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID, COVID-19, Herman Cain, pandemic
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Changing her mind on Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/507348-how-i-changed-my-mind-on-medicare-for-all Dr. Li Tso, opinion contributor July 14, 2020 I know most of the arguments against “Medicare for All.” I’ve been making them for most of my professional life as a physician: 1) We don’t need it; our current mix … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Medicaid, medicare, Uncategorized
Tagged medicare for all
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Stepien or Parscale? The Corona virus does not care.
WaPo reports that “Trump replaces campaign manager as polls show him trailing Joe Biden in 2020 race”. President Trump announced on Facebook Wednesday evening that Bill Stepien would become his campaign manager, replacing Brad Parscale,… Recent national and swing-state polls … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, economy, Health Care, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged masks, pandemic, rally, Tulsa
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They Live in this Country. God Help Us.
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged mandating masks, masks, pandemic
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The Scale of Testing Compared to the Scale of the Outbreak
Fox News, Trump (and Zeldin) are blaming the current resurgence of Covid-19 cases on increased testing. So let’s have a look at the data! I highly recommend this website: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing. The following graphs come from this site which has data … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Care, public health, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic, resurgence, testing
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Lee Zeldin’s Record
No matter where you live — Montauk or Manorville, Smithtown or Shirley, Patchogue or Port Jefferson — we all want our communities to thrive. To do that, we need a representative who puts our needs first: safe drinking water and … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, East Hampton, economics, Health Care, immigration/deportation, Medicaid, medicare, Trump, Uncategorized, Zeldin
Tagged record, voting record
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