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[...]the veil was lifted from my eyes, and I awoke to the harsh realities of our medical future

[...]the veil was lifted from my eyes, and I awoke to the harsh realities of our medical future

If 1 begin these reflections on Taylor Mead, who died at the age of eighty-eight on May 8, 2013, with brief mention of two underexplored periods in the artist's life-his years in the late Beat scene in Venice and his European period of self-imposed exile from New York in the mid-'60s-it is to suggest that we have yet to account for the breadth, diversity, and wide-ranging importance of more than five decades of work by the disarmingly affable man considered the first superstar of underground film and the "doyen of underground performance. Rice's movie, shot on outdated 16-mm film stock that lent the black-and-white images a wistful look, was both a document of the last remnants of San Francisco's North Beach Beat scene and a lyrical portrayal of Mead's joyful embodiment of flexibility and spontaneity

[...]a third of all people who experience heart attacks have no chest symptoms

From smallpox to polio to measles to hepatitis, modern history has shown us again and again that vaccines are one of the best medical tools we have to eradicate disease and to protect the most vulnerable populations. But recommending a vaccine strongly and mandating its use are two different things. There is simply no convincing evidence that forcing healthcare workers to be vaccinated under threat of losing their jobs cuts down on the risks of patients getting severely ill from, or dying from, the flu

This isn't to say that mandatory vaccines don't have their place, just that mandates should be reserved for situations where a vaccine can play a major role in fighting back a clear public health risk. In the case of seasonal flu, neither the risk of the disease nor the benefit of the vaccine is big enough to warrant forcing health care workers to receive it. Measles, another highly contagious and deadly virus, is another point of reference: Vaccination of health care workers is recommended by the CDC but not mandatory. The chances of a health care worker carrying measles isn't high enough to warrant mandatory vaccine. Instead, mandates are targeted on the most vulnerable population: children. According to the World Health Organization, increased measles vaccination resulted in a three-fourths drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2010, when 85 percent of the world's children received one dose of the vaccine by age one, up from 72 percent in 2000

According to the World Health Organization, increased measles vaccination resulted in a three-fourths drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2010, when 85 percent of the world's children received one dose of the vaccine by age 1, up from 72 percent in 2000

According to the World Health Organization, increased measles vaccination resulted in a three-fourths drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2010, when 85 percent of the world's children received one dose of the vaccine by age 1, up from 72 percent in 2000

According to the World Health Organization, increased measles vaccination resulted in a three-fourths drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2010, when 85% of the world's children received one dose of the vaccine by age 1, up from 72% in 2000