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John Lantos
Dec 12, 20222 min read
Caution about COVID vaccines for kids
Five separable but interrelated issues should inform policies about COVID vaccines for kids. First, what is the goal? Vaccine doesn’t...
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John Lantos
Dec 8, 20225 min read
Nights of Plague and Lessons of History
Orhan Pamuk’s novel Nights of Plague feels ripped from the headlines. A deadly infectious disease that started in China is threatening...
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John Lantos
Nov 28, 20223 min read
UK Appeals Court Supports Ableism
Ms. Heidi Crowter has Down Syndrome. So does her son Aiden. She thinks that her and her son’s lives are are worth living. She thinks...
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John Lantos
Nov 13, 20222 min read
Florida’s Anti-Vax Policy
The Florida Department of Health recently recommended that COVID vaccine not be given to males between the ages of 18-39. They claimed...
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John Lantos
Nov 2, 20223 min read
The SARS-CoV-2 Lab-Leak Theory and the Dog That Did Not Bark
In a Sherlock Holmes story, a racehorse disappears on the night before a big race. Holmes is called in to investigate. He focuses not...
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John Lantos
Oct 26, 20222 min read
Converging Crises for Kids
Two ominous trends, and two ends of the illness severity spectrum, portend trouble for kids who need health care and the doctors who take...
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John Lantos
Oct 11, 20223 min read
COVID, Colonoscopies, and Certainty
OK, just “follow the science.” What the hell does that mean? Philosophers of science know that scientific knowledge is value-laden. We...
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John Lantos
Sep 25, 20223 min read
Protecting children from ignorance
The FDA has issued a new draft guidance regarding research in children. An accompanying press release states that we must protect...
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John Lantos
Sep 20, 20223 min read
End of Life Care for Children in Groningen
Filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard’s obituary focused on his astounding creativity. It also noted that his death followed assisted suicide. His...
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John Lantos
Sep 4, 20223 min read
Teach us to outgrow guidelines
In 1998, Norway, like many countries, adopted a national policy to guide decisions about life-sustaining treatment for extremely...
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John Lantos
Aug 30, 20222 min read
When to let babies die
When is a premature baby so premature that we should consider them non-viable? When we do not intubate them and provide intensive care....
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John Lantos
Aug 17, 20223 min read
Bombing bookstores and killing writers
“Some people get statues, others get holes.” – Salman Rushdie David Foster Wallace tells a story about an atheist and a believer sitting...
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