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Cessation of Public Water Fluoridation Would Increase Tooth Decay

Physician's Weekly

The researchers found that dental caries prevalence and total number of decayed teeth were estimated to increase by 7.5 percentage points and by 25.4 million cases in the base-case scenario of eliminating fluoridation, with a loss of 2.9 million QALYs at a cost of $9.8 billion over five years.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. One is in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Our World in Data COVID graphs.