Does the national mask mandate make you feel safe? Candidate Joe Biden’s promised plan to control the COVID-19 pandemic featured everybody wearing a mask for 100 days. Former CDC director Robert Redfield said it might take only 4, 6, or 8 weeks (up to 56 days), and later up to 12 weeks (84 days). Now […]
Cases are declining; millions are getting vaccinated. Can you think of something besides COVID yet? New COVID-19 infections have fallen 45% in the U.S. and 30% globally in the past 3 weeks, according to the Daily Mail (see graphic). Hospitalizations have fallen 26% since they peaked on Jan 12. This decline can’t be attributed to […]
What will you do if you get COVID while waiting in line for the vaccine, or even after? If you are in Mexico City, you will be treated with ivermectin. As of Dec 29, this long-established drug has been used in COVID-positive patients, and soon thereafter death rates started to plummet, as the graphic shows. […]
In a letter to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and its Arizona State Chapter ask him to take a proactive stance on early or prophylactic treatment for COVID-19 with ivermectin in vulnerable populations, including prison inmates and staff. “The medical community is mobilizing to administer vaccines as quickly […]
The National Institutes (NIH) has issued a new statement on the use of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Previously, it recommended against this treatment, but now states that its Panel “has determined that there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of […]
The trucks are rolling, bringing pallets of COVID-19 vaccine to distribution centers. If you are in the 1A allocation group, you’ll be the first to get the vaccine. Should you take some precautions? A nurse apparently fainted on live television while touting the vaccine that she had just received. Fortunately, people close by eased her […]
Even if you are a golfer and live in Hawaii, you should have your vitamin D level checked. It is astonishing how many people are deficient—even before the COVID lockdowns. A Dec 11 article in Internal Medicine News is titled: “Vitamin D deficiency in COVID-19 quadrupled death rate.” A study by Dr. Dieter De Smet […]
In an Action Alert to its members, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) warns that the so-called No Surprises Act is really an insurance company protection bill. “Poised to be rushed through in the final days of the lame duck Congress, [it] is a surprise attack on patients’ access to independent physicians.” The […]
If you are in the first allocation group, you might be lining up for your COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) after a 9-hour advisory committee meeting on Dec 10. The Moderna vaccine may follow soon. Committee members […]
I hope a loved one is not incarcerated, but all of us need to be concerned about prison health, for humanitarian reasons and also because prisons are breeding grounds for contagious diseases. The Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 is expected to arrive in hundreds of sites next week under an Emergency use Authorization (EUA) from the […]