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Direct from the trenches advice: Get your flu shot. It is the nicest thing you can do for your local physicians, and yourself.

Civil servant risks career to assure vaccine safety. Confidence in vaccines may rise after this news

Today's players for a COVID vaccine. Before taking an attenuated live vaccine, you might want to re-visit the discussion Salk and Sabin had regarding the polio vaccine.

This is a fascinating innovation.

Last week, I published a letter in the local paper, The Pine Cone, referring to this list of front line healthcare providers who have died from COVID-19. We have 20+% of world deaths from COVID and only 4 % of the world population. What are these professionals lives worth and how will we continue to deliver care in their absence? Check out Adeline Fagan MD, dead from COVID during her second year of OB-GYN residency. Do what you can: wear your mask and stay home when you can.

Physicians are on the front line of environmental medicine. Particulate air pollution is no respecter of political party. We are all affected. We must all act. Cultural burning, forest management....all needed. Local measures are important, but most of the affected area is under federal disaster management and leadership must ultimately come from Federal Government.

This is an important model illustrating the effect of the rate of vote counting on November's election results. Trump wins when in person votes are counted the first night, and Biden wins a week later after the mail in ballots are counted. You can imagine how that will play out. Better we know now before the they try to use the delayed result to political advantage.

For those who live in California, here are the new COVID testing guidelines.

The American Association of Medical Colleges statement in support of Dr. Fauci.

The consumer facing front men of pharma stop at no ethical barrier to make a profit. The penalties paid a staggering, but just the cost of doing business. There must be a better way.

Useful information on hand sanitizer.

This is a six minute Stanford video that explains the antigen and antibody tests for COVID-19.

Kaiser is a reliable source of information, and here is a recent poll on the impact of the pandemic.