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Articles from the March 1, 2022 edition


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  • Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer Makes the Case to Mandate by Wealth Rather than Vaccine Status

    Alyssa Erdley, News with Attitude|Mar 1, 2022

    February 25, 2022 - At her weekly press briefing on Thursday, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health for the County of Los Angeles made the case that wealth, rather than vaccine status, appeared to be a causal factor regarding Covid-19 case rates, hospitalizations, and deaths. In a series of three stunning slides, Ferrer showed that unvaccinated wealthy people were less likely to catch Covid, get hospitalized, or die compared to fully vaccinated poor people. An unvaccinated...

  • More Vaccinated Than Unvaccinated Proportionately Caught Covid Last Week According to LA County Health Department Data

    Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff|Mar 1, 2022
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    February 24, 2022 - Data from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health show that last week the vaccinated were 6.3% more likely to catch Covid-19 than the unvaccinated. This is at least the second week in which numbers dipped the wrong direction for proponents of the idea that it is the unvaccinated who are the main transmitters of the virus. Here are the raw numbers: Total fully vaccinated population: 7,185,622 (71.8% of the county population) Total number of new infections week...

  • Should I Just Keep Working? Social Security and Medicare are too Confusing

    Rusty Gleer, Association of Mature American Citizens|Mar 1, 2022

    Ask Rusty – I'm Confused About Taking Medicare and Social Security Dear Rusty: I just turned 64 and now get stuff about Medicare and Medigap and so on. I really don't know how to retire when it's time. What should I do? What am I looking for? Am I eligible for anything as of now? I'm so confused about all this that I don't even know if I can retire when it's time. Maybe I should just continue working so I don't have to try to figure this out. Signed: Confused Dear Confused: Deciding when to r...