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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]