Web 57DHYAFZZFLZKB August 10 2026 We Spend Billions for Cures. Why Don’t They Get to Patients?

We Spend Billions to Discover Cures. Why Don’t They Get to Patients?

We have decades of research on PM Two point Five harm to Human Health.

Why are PM Two point Five monitors set up by governments not located

Hyperlocally near indoor residential wood burning so the monitors could be used

As evidence of the source of the air pollution so the wood burning could be shut down?

It takes Seventeen Years on average for a vaccine to reach patients suffering from Vaccine preventable afflictions

 I believe in handing out PM Two point Five monitors to any near neighbor of an indoor residential

Wood burner whose appliance creates air pollution which enters the yard and infiltrates

The home of the near neighbor, sickening the near neighbor or shortening their life.

Instead, when PM Two point Five monitors are only put by governments at schools

And libraries far from residential neighborhoods where pollution originates

So data gathered is near useless in identifying the source of the pollution.

The Why of this mis-location of PurpleAir monitors is not covered in this particular song.

The Why of delay in giving vaccines for an average of seventeen years is explained in this song.

Almost every doctor has a tragic story that sticks with them.

A teenager with a congenital heart defect and a weakened immune system

got a flu vaccine each year. One year, a stretch of medical visits and hospitalizations

crowded out that routine care, and the vaccine got missed. The child caught the Flu, and he died.

This wasn’t a failure of medical discovery. It was a failure of medical delivery.

 Flu vaccines have been around for many decades. There is a whole field that studies

 how to turn research into practice. How to get the right vaccine into the right child,

the right antibiotic to the right patient, the right asthma plan into the right household.

It’s always gotten short shrift because it is not glamorous. No one wins the Nobel Prize

for figuring out how to remind a hospital to give a child a flu shot. The United States

spends more than Five Trillion Dollars a year on health care. It funds the most productive

 biomedical discovery engine in the world. But the most effective

treatment in the world does nothing for the patient who does not receive it.

The collection of sciences that focus on how care is delivered, whom it failed,

how disease is prevented and what actually improves it is sometimes called

health solutions science and it includes health services research. The lead federal agency

 for health solutions science, received less than One percent of that money

Three Hundred Forty Five Million Dollars to figure out how to make care safer and

ensure those treatments get to the patients who need them. The gambling bet made

embedded in that ratio is that discovery is the hard part and delivery takes care of itself.

And yet by one famous estimate, it takes Seventeen years for research evidence to make its

 way into everyday practice. This spring, half of people with metastatic lung cancer receive

 no treatment at all, decades into the era of therapies that can extend their lives.

Now, even that One percent is being dismantled. It’s still there on paper. But because of

mass layoffs and departures, it has lost roughly Seventy Five percent of its staff

and has awarded no new grants since April Two Thousand Twenty Five.

The op ed writer says One child’s death, however tragic, cannot tell us whether prioritizing

vaccinating children in the hospital saves lives at scale, or how hospitals could reliably do it.

But this op ed writer makes the case that steps should be taken by hospitals to track

Whether a vaccine needs to be administered in time to save a life

I disagree that more studies should be done and instead thinks more steps to safeguard

Patients should be built into the health records system of hospitals as advised already.

I disagree that more PurpleAir PM Two Point five monitors should be installed

In schools and libraries far away from indoor residential wood burning

I think more PurpleAir Two point Five monitors should be distributed

To near neighbors of indoor residential wood burners so that pollution

That enters the yards of near neighbors can be stopped when that monitor

Data is downloaded from publicly available PurpleAir maps and used as evidence

That is based on real time production of  predictable and preventable health problems.

PurpleAir, the most effective low cost PM Two point Five detector in the United States

Already used alongside thousands of dollars valued Environmental Protection Agency

PM Two point Five monitors on United States EPA Maps of Smoke and Fire

Is not being used hyper locally to detect the source of air pollution

From indoor residential wood burning and not used to shut those indoor

Residential wood burning appliances one appliance at a time if necessary.

Lack of a mechanism for shutting down predictable preventable air pollution

Is the failure. Decades of research linking wood burning to disease and early death is a given.