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The nation’s health faces a dual threat — one anticipated, the other, self-inflicted.
Covid-19 has not gone away; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that infections are showing signs of a late summer wave. The new strain, EG.5, spreads easily and is more resistant to neutralizing antibodies but does not, to date, seem to be more virulent.

AI being used to discover new drugs and faster, more accurate medical diagnoses are guaranteed clickbait. These goals may be the stuff of dreams, but make no mistake, AI is already here.

Paraphrasing a line miscredited to Einstein: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”

Six months ago, I wrote in Forbes how the Fed’s Inflation fight would harm Biotech. With the FDIC takeover of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) using the receiver, Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara the judgment has proven to be correct.

A looming and avoidable Covid-19 crisis is on the horizon as detailed by Dr. Steve Brozak in a piece breaking today for Forbes. The pandemic emergency declaration is to end May 11 with only “placeholder” healthcare directors in charge.

In May 2020, Dr. Rick Bright, former director of BARDA, warned Congress that, without ramped up coronavirus pandemic preparedness, we would face the darkest winter in modern history. His warnings were spot on, however there has been precious little follow through and that will be a problem in 2023.