Will the huge rollout of COVID tests help end the pandemic—or assure that it will never end? We have had pseudo-epidemics before. In 2006, much of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was shut down, and 1,000 employees were furloughed or quarantined, because whooping cough was thought to be spreading like wildfire based on 142 positive PCR tests. […]
Volume 76, no. 10 October 2020 The worldwide depression and chaos from the response to COVID-19 might be just a dress rehearsal for the global totalitarian technocracy so long envisioned. The “climate crisis” wasn’t generating enough fear to motivate people to change their behavior drastically. It is also easier to persuade people that they could […]
The announcement that President Trump and the First Lady have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 shows that the need for early treatment to prevent serious illness and death from COVID-19 is extremely urgent, states the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS). The number of studies on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has reached 126, with 76 peer-reviewed. The […]
If you watched the Trump/Biden debate, you likely thought it was a slugfest, but were you able to figure out the candidates’ positions? The press might want to ask for clarification, or follow up on these health-related items, with reference to the transcript as well as this listener’s impression. Health insurance Trump: “I got rid […]
All of us are affected by the constraints on normal life—especially parents of school-aged children. From the graph below, it looks as though the pandemic is over. It shows the number of daily new “cases”—that is, the number of positive PCR tests. This number will never be zero, and will surely increase as the government […]
Is your life “on hold” pending a COVID-19 vaccine? Do you want to be first in line, a late adopter, or a skeptic? Do we have to give it to everyone to find out what is in it? Florian Krammer, professor of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has compiled an […]
You may well ask why the U.S. should be a world leader in per-capita COVID-19 deaths. Our morning paper calls passing the 200,000 mark “unfathomable.” A better question: Why is the death rate about 75 percent lower in many countries? The gap seems to be between countries that treat COVID-19 early or prophylactically with hydroxychloroquine […]
As mounting “case” numbers are defining “hot spots” and directing public policy, San Antonio ophthalmologist Kristin S. Held, M.D., president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), calls for a careful analysis of the statistics in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. “The COVID-19 case counts, hospitalization numbers, […]
Because of the “emergency” of COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is relaxing some Medicare rules, regulations, and constraints—temporarily. The crisis has helped to reveal the consequences of the government intrusion into medicine that began with the passage of Medicare, writes Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The exciting medical lesson that we should learn is that viral diseases are treatable. The political lessons are that the government takeover of healthcare persists long after the 15-days-to-flatten-the-curve emergency is over, and that the medical technocracy is disastrous to both health and freedom. It is blocking the use of […]