By Lionel Lee, DO, FACOEP “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” The Constitution plainly and clearly states the importance of allowing every American, including physicians, to speak freely without concern for censorship. By now, most […]
Volume 76, no. 8 August 2020 It is certain that the COVID-19 pandemic will end, just as all previous, mostly worse pandemics did (https://tinyurl.com/r4xhshy). A disease from which more than 99.5% recover cannot wipe out the human species. The SARS-CoV-2 virus may vanish, like SARS-CoV-1. Or there may be recurrent waves, as with the 1918 […]
The excoriation of Attorney General Barr at the congressional hearing was as low as politicians could go on the lack of humanity and civility scale. The Barr hearing was more like a Roman circus than a search for answers to important national issues. If this is what congress calls performing their duty under the Constitution, […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends, Earlier this week courageous physicians stood on the steps of the US Supreme Court to tell the world about the consequences of government bureaucrats blocking their ability to care for their patients during a pandemic. To say that what they had to say resonated with Americans would be a severe […]
I hope you have a doctor who knows you, cares about you, and will answer your questions. A doctor who is employed or has contracts with managed care is not really YOUR doctor, and constantly has to worry about what happened to Dr. Simone Gold, as reported by Tucker Carlson on July 30. After holding […]
20,000 more Americans have died while the FDA has delayed since July 1 a new emergency use approval for outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19. On July, 1 Henry Ford Hospital physicians and researchers in Detroit filed an urgent request to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn for a new outpatient Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) […]
This week the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons submitted additional evidence to a federal court for why interference with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) should end by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), in AAPS v. FDA, No. 1:20-cv-00493-RJJ-SJB (W.D. Mich.). “As confirmed by another recent study of […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD The COVID-19 lockdown has its benefits: a chapter a day of the unabridged version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, a study in fear and redefined “normal” values, among many other lessons. Lately I’ve seen face coverings stenciled with “I can’t breathe.” The beauty of the statement is its […]
Every school year, children catch illnesses at school, and so do teachers and parents. Occasionally an outbreak causes schools to close for a time, say during a flu epidemic that is causing a lot of absenteeism. But never before have all schools been closed for months—even though COVID-19 has the unusual feature that children seldom either […]
By Paul M. Kempen, MD, PhD Today I took an in-depth look at the actual numbers of all recorded Covid deaths to date and from the period of Feb 1 through July 11, 2020, available and online from the CDC regarding Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts by Sex, Age, and State at https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku. Sure, every […]