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Rick Lesaar

 

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What Color is Your COVID?

March 07, 2022 by Rick Lesaar

What color you believe COVID is depends on where you live and what you know. For some people, perception is reality, but for some companies, leveraging that perception with an intent to deceive or defraud is illegal.

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March 07, 2022 /Rick Lesaar
virus, coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, USA, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Algeria, Brazil, Mexico, Rusia, Naväge, FTC, batch2
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Rebuilding Far Beyond Just Public Health

September 03, 2020 by Rick Lesaar

In the US, the COVID-19 crisis has shown that we need to rebuild not just public health and medicine, but the larger social fabric of which they’re a part. The scope of such an undertaking is enormous and the complexity increased by the many interconnections among institutions, attitudes, laws, and practices. Here’s an idea of how to think about this challenge.

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September 03, 2020 /Rick Lesaar
COVID-19, social fabric, public health, medicine, identity, leadership, Rick Lesaar, batch2
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Every Health Professional Now Has a Second Job

June 10, 2020 by Rick Lesaar

Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, debunking conspiracy theories and teaching us all to think more critically has become a 2nd job for all health professionals. Here are 6 yardsticks we can all use to parse the lies and find the truth.

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June 10, 2020 /Rick Lesaar
Trump, lies, critical thinking, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, conspiracy theories, truth, qui bono, burden of proof, Occam's razor, law of parsimony, Rick Lesaar, batch2
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