All of us are affected by the constraints on normal life—especially parents of school-aged children. From the graph below, it looks as though the pandemic is over. It shows the number of daily new “cases”—that is, the number of positive PCR tests. This number will never be zero, and will surely increase as the government […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ Constitution Day passed us by without the celebration it richly deserved. Limiting the powers of the federal government is at the core of our Constitution. Ten years ago, the Affordable Care Act tested the limits of federal powers. The barely-noticed federal takeover of student loans, the mandated […]
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 […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The exciting medical lesson that we should learn is that viral diseases are treatable. The political lessons are that the government takeover of healthcare persists long after the 15-days-to-flatten-the-curve emergency is over, and that the medical technocracy is disastrous to both health and freedom. It is blocking the use of […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. – https://vivelifecenter.com/ The COVID death rate in the United States is one of the highest in the world, even with our advanced medical care delivery and resources. Many less affluent countries have death rates 20 times lower than the U.S., even with fewer hospitals, doctors, nurses and high tech equipment. […]
Figure Reprinted from The American Journal of Medicine DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.07.003, McCullough P, et al Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection 2020, with permission from Elsevier. View original article/figure at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934320306732 If you get COVID-19, you don’t want to be admitted to hospital. The death rate for patients sick enough […]
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 […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ What a great country we are! Where else do we have immigrants from around the world who stood in line for years or risked their lives to be part of the U.S. and also mobs of people who want to overthrow the government that brought the world […]
Volume 76, no. 9 September 2020 Chinese Communist ruler Xi Jinping told the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) that the new coronavirus is a “devil” and that China is confident of winning the battle against it (tinyurl.com/y4dhwxkq). Also, “the epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide” (tinyurl.com/yxbplwnx). Weapons against […]
In a brief filed Sep 1 in its case demanding that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) release the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) for public use, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) writes: “[Defendants] care more about their power over the HCQ Stockpile than the lives being lost […]