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She is a reminder that the paranoia about COVID is grossly disproportionate to the risks associated with COVID. When the Black Death arrived in Avignon, France, a courageous doctor named Guy de Chauliac stayed to care for the sick even as many of his fellow physicians fled the city. He wrote that the plague “was so contagious...that one man caught it from another not just when living nearby but simply by looking at him.... Father would not visit son, nor son, father; charity was dead, and hope prostrate.” The death rate for bubonic plague rose to 50%. The mortality rate...

A doctor in South Miami, Florida said she is refusing to treat any unvaccinated patients in person because it is "not fair" on others, Newsweek reported. Dr. Linda Marraccini said she decided to implement the policy, which will go into effect on September 15, because she has other patients who are immunocompromised or in chemotherapy and does not want to expose them to the virus in her clinic. "It's not fair for people who are unvaccinated to harm other people," Marraccini, who continued to see all of her patients in person during the pandemic, told Newsweek. The doctor insisted she...