As Americans, even one who is as carefully shielded as the President of the United States, continue to be infected with COVID-19, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following statement: “Early treatment of COVID-19, before it progresses to the stage of respiratory failure and damage to multiple organs, is critical to prevent […]
Some say, perhaps in jest, that COVID-19 will vanish on Nov. 4, at least if the correct candidate wins. But what will the election’s outcome determine? Some issues to consider: Vaccines: President Trump has signed a contract for the delivery of 100 million doses, provided incentives for “warp speed” development, and has promised no-cost administration […]
If you watched Tucker Carlson take on the mask controversy, you might feel confused. Carlson quoted the CDC study that showed that 85 percent of people who had a positive PCR test for COVID-19 had been wearing a mask “always” (71 percent) or “often” (14 percent). But what you are supposed to conclude from the […]
Some are making the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice a kind of referendum on the Affordable Care Act, featuring people who have costly medical conditions and fear losing their ACA plan. A key selling point of ACA was the promise that you could keep your doctor and your health plan if you liked—even though […]
When you first put your mask on, does it smell bad? (You get used to it after a while.) The human body is a chemical factory and must constantly remove toxic products—some from food or the environment, some from your own metabolism. As we learned from the space program, you make a huge number of […]
On Aug 18, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) asked the Food and Drug Administration to “provide any studies and data that informed the FDA’s apparent determination that giving HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] or CQ [chloroquine] to infected outpatients within seven days from the onset of symptoms, under a doctor’s […]
I hope that if you get sick, your doctor doesn’t refuse to treat you for COVID-19, saying that he is following the FDA. The FDA has stated that “There are currently no drugs or biological products approved or licensed for the treatment of COVID-19 in the United States.” This is quite true. The approval process […]
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), one of the world’s most respected medical journals, has weighed in on a Presidential candidate for the first time in its 208-year history. It is also only the fifth time that all of its editors, now 34 of them, have signed an editorial, according to the Washington Post. […]
Around the world, millions of people are shut up in their homes, either out of fear or because of government mandates that have been extended with no end in sight. But now professors from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, along with more than 200,000 medical practitioners, scientists, and citizens have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, stating […]
Did you feel frustrated watching the vice-presidential candidates’ debate? According to Sen. Kamala Harris, more than 200,000 premature American deaths are Trump’s fault. According to Vice-President Pence, China is to blame. Biden has a Plan. (More lockdowns? Not clear.) Trump touts rapid development of treatments and vaccines by American scientists and industry. There are many […]