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 […]
If you take a loved one to a hospital for COVID, should you say a final good-by? The majority of people do get discharged, perhaps after weeks of isolation, often with chronic organ damage. But we are hearing heart-breaking stories from around the U.S. about patients who were denied early treatment, eventually admitted, and died, […]
The most important Senate hearing of the year—or maybe ever—occurred on Nov 19. It’s about the urgent need for early home treatment for COVID-19. An abbreviated video is here: https://youtu.be/T_uaf7qavmw. The complete hearing is here: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/early-outpatient-treatment-an-essential-part-of-a-covid-19-solution. To empower physicians, clinics, facilities, and health systems to reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, the following actions are immediately needed: 1) The October 9, 2020 […]
After being rejected by three major journals, an RCT completed by 4,862 participants has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The volunteers were adults spending more than 3 hours per day outside the home without occupational mask use. All were instructed to follow social-distancing and other public health measures, and those in the […]
I’m sure you are aware of the second wave of COVID-19 cases. It’s the Grinch that is stealing Christmas. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is predicting up to 282,000 deaths by Dec 5. The standard nationwide U.S. policy of no treatment until patient is in hospital—promoted by public health authorities and reinforced by recent […]
Do you hope politicians will keep their promises—or that they won’t? Joe Biden has promised to “transition” us out of oil and other “fossil fuels” by 2050—and into the “clean, renewable” energy shown in green on the graph below. We will no longer need oil by 2050—if we no longer need food, medicine, or transportation […]