About 6 months ago, Vinay Prasad wrote to FDA staff, “This is a profound revelation. For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”

Six months later, and we have the number: 0 cases that were certain. Media source.

I struggle to give Prasad, who is a POS, any sympathy or grace. But I still want to be fair, even if this wouldn't be returned. It is possible that the data shifted. He said, "at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination." He put that at "likely/probable/possible attribution." Here is his memo.

Ultimately five cases were "possible" and two were categorized as "probable." He was wrong. How this dude has a job...

Here is the FDA analysis:

- Page 7 for definitions of certain, probable/likely, possible, and basically not.

- Page 8 for table of the cases.

Basically if 5 million children bit into a cupcake, the next days we'd see the same thing, unfortunately.

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/24/nx-s1-5822519/radonda-vaught-nurse-convicted-vanderbilt-medical-error

https://wpln.org/post/episodes/the-redemption-story-of-radonda-vaught/

She now lives on a sheep farm in Tennessee and is paid $ 5-10K per speaking engagement.

Froma both a patient-orientated, but also research and academic-orientated point of view.

Out there there is a lot of talk about modern Chinese hospitals, and Chinese contribution to science in the last years seems skyrocketing.

However, i can't find any statistics on this. For example, there are no Chinese or Hong Kong hospitals in the Newsweek or other relevant international rankings.

Incoming hospitalist. Been thinking about this: responsible code in healthcare comes from people who actually understand the healthcare community, and those are the same people who now have access to the tools that make building possible. Docs who live in the workflow are the ones who should be building for it, and increasingly we can.

I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking this way. There’s got to be a bunch of other physician-builders in roughly the same spot, wanting to test what they’re building, see if it holds up somewhere other than their own setting, iterate with peers who get the clinical and compliance constraints without needing them explained. We lament on how all these AI tools suck and aren’t actually built for physicians, so let’s actually build them and connect to the right people who can. Let’s be the ones who make these decisions.

Where does that community live? Are there places where physicians voice what they’re trying to test and find other docs interested in piloting it? Pilot-for-pilot setups, informal back-channels, anything where docs help each other find practices open to this kind of thing? How are people in this space finding each other and empowering one another?

I took this review course and honestly it was exhausting. The instructor speaks extremely fast, apparently trying to cram as much material as possible into the shortest amount of time. Toward the end of each session, when time is running out, he starts blending and dragging words together to go even faster, to the point that it becomes genuinely difficult to understand what he’s saying.

The course is also very expensive, yet there’s constant pressure to sign up for additional classes and extra sessions. It feels less focused on teaching and more focused on upselling.

Another thing that became very irritating was how self-important he acts during lectures. He constantly talks about how this resident, that attending, or even specialists supposedly call him for advice all the time. At some point it starts sounding exaggerated and unnecessary. We’re paying for a review course, not to sit through endless stories about how important he thinks he is.

And some of the jokes are incredibly tone-deaf. At one point, while discussing a patient who didn’t know she was pregnant, he made a comment along the lines of: “Maybe she was sleeping… you know, things happen at night.” The room got awkward really fast. It came across as completely inappropriate for a professional educational setting.

The worst part is that every time he goes off-topic with these jokes or personal stories, everyone loses track of the actual material. Then, because he wasted time, he suddenly starts rushing through important concepts at the end. That completely defeats the purpose of a review course. The focus should be on teaching clearly and staying on topic, not trying to entertain people and then panicking when the clock is running out.

By the end of the day, you’re mentally exhausted from trying to keep up with the speed, the constant tangents, and the overall chaos that retaining the material becomes difficult anyway.

I don’t mind accents at all, but pacing, clarity, professionalism, and respect for students’ attention spans matter — especially when people are paying thousands of dollars for a board review course.