What if you have a positive PCR test or have been within 6 ft of someone who has? Should you be forced into quarantine? If you are spreading a deadly virus around every time you speak or breathe, you are a threat to public health. But if a swab has simply retrieved some fragments of […]
Sherif Z. Zaafran, M.D., President, Texas Medical Board Dear Dr. Zaafran, Thank you for clarifying that “the Texas Medical Board has never prohibited the use of hydroxychloroquine [HCQ] alone, or in conjunction with other drugs, for the treatment of COVID-19.” It is important for physicians to have confidence that they can treat patients—during a pandemic […]
Volume 76, no. 9 September 2020 Chinese Communist ruler Xi Jinping told the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the new coronavirus is a “devil” and that China is confident of winning the battle against it (tinyurl.com/y4dhwxkq). Also, “the epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide” (tinyurl.com/yxbplwnx). Weapons against […]
There is much discussion about the CDC’s count, grouped by ICD-10 code, of “Conditions Contributing to Deaths where COVID-19 was listed on the death certificate.” What does it mean that only a fraction listed COVID-19 as the only condition contributing to death? It is true that most death certificates have additional conditions listed. Also, there […]
By Sheila Page, DO Following the initial 15 days to “flatten the curve”, as COVID 19 was progressively sweeping the nation, the restrictions on most of the American public were not lifted as expected. People desperately wanted to be able to save their businesses from ruin, allow their children to play sports again, and walk […]
Many are afraid to take hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID as they have been told it could kill them because of its effect on the heart. Are you worried about this? It is a fact that HCQ, azithromycin (Z-Pak™), and other drugs can prolong the QT interval on the electrocardiogram (ECG)—see image below. This could make […]
If you are old enough, you remember Grandma telling you to play outside and get fresh air and sunshine. Fresh air dilutes and dries out germs, and the ultraviolet light in sunshine kills them. We now see this advice in technical jargon in the respected American Journal of Medicine: “reduce self-reinoculation.” Authors write: “It is […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Planet of the Humans, a Michael Moore vehicle, came and went with little fanfare. Perhaps it was the message that our feeble attempts at halting climate change were just that: feeble and useless. Solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and the like were criticized as mere “band-aids” and corporate […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requested by Mayo Clinic for use of plasma from patients who recovered from COVID-19 to treat hospitalized patients. “The tipping point for the agency appeared to be that ‘optimal’ patients who were treated with ‘convalescent plasma at the highest [antibody] titers’ showed […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. The FDA denied August 10 the urgent request for emergency approval for COVID-19 outpatient preventive and early treatment use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) filed July 1 by Dr. John McKinnon’s team at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, supported by Dr. Peter McCullough’s cardiology team in Dallas. Approximately 48,000 more Americans have […]