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, […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which according to its website is “recognized as the nation’s premiere health promotion, prevention and preparedness agency,” is playing a leading role in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, editor-in-chief Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., analyzes […]
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 […]
For decades, physicians have been taught—and have told patients—that antimicrobials do not help viral diseases. But when studying the response of COVID-19 to the antimicrobial agents chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), Lee Merritt, M.D., writes, in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: “Like Rip Van Winkle, I suddenly awoke, after […]
San Francisco juries have awarded up to $1 billion to persons claiming their cancer resulted from exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup™. In the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Paul Driessen, J.D., examines the evidence and the legal process in this case study of litigation that […]
A COVID-19 vaccine is said to be close, and the Administration is detailing plans to distribute it “free” (no out-of-pocket cost). Do you want to be first in line? The first question to ask about a vaccine—or any medical intervention—is this: Is it necessary? Vaccines exist for smallpox, rabies, anthrax, typhoid, and yellow fever. But […]
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 […]
If you are waiting for “a vaccine” so you can go back to normal living, what does the pause in testing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine mean to you? If you own stock in AstraZeneca, the value of your shares dropped 8 percent on the news that one of the test subjects became paralyzed, while the […]
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 […]