June 20, 2021 ~ CNN ~ John Blake They lost their loved ones to Covid. Then they heard from them again CNN)They never ran out of things to talk about. It was obvious from the start. He was a brawny former Maine lobsterman with a booming baritone. She was a redhead with...
VA Boston Health System Study Indicates One Dose of mRNA-based Vaccine Could Add Full Protection
June 20, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ VA Boston Health System Study Indicates One Dose of mRNA-based Vaccine Could Add Full Protection Recently, TrialSite made a case that growing concerns over mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine safety may be resolved by reducing the total dosage...
State of Goa Pulls Ivermectin from Home Medical Kits on Orders from Union Health Ministry
June 20, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ State of Goa Pulls Ivermectin from Home Medical Kits on Orders from Union Health Ministry TrialSite recently reported that despite apparent success with the national ivermectin protocol in India—such as a dramatic turnaround of cases...
America Heads Toward Majority on Public Health as Socio-Economic Forces Converge with Pandemic
June 20, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ America Heads Toward Majority on Public Health as Socio-Economic Forces Converge with Pandemic Apparently, the pandemic’s driven record enrollment of beneficiaries in Medicaid programs across the 50 states of the U.S.A. The national...
UK-based Meta Analysis Peer Reviewed & Published Suggests Ivermectin A Key Public Health Weapon in the War Against COVID-19
June 19, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ UK-based Meta Analysis Peer Reviewed & Published Suggests Ivermectin A Key Public Health Weapon in the War Against COVID-19 Just published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Therapeutics, Dr. Tess Lawrie, an expert in...
Thailand’s Travel Experiment
June 19, 2021 ~ Bloomberg News ~ By Randy Thanthong-Knight Thailand’s Travel Experiment Vacations to tropical islands in Southeast Asia like Bali and Langkawi became a distant memory during the pandemic. And with a resurgence in Covid-19 in much of the region this...
As the pandemic in the US slows, the fight against ‘long haul’ Covid is on
June 18, 2021 ~ CNN ~ Jen Christensen As the pandemic in the US slows, the fight against 'long haul' Covid is on Dr. Michael Saag normally cares for Covid-19 patients, but early in the pandemic, he became a patient. Now, he has joined the ranks with lingering symptoms...
All-Cause Mortality in COVID-19–Positive and COVID-19–Negative Patients With Cancer
6/18/2021 ~ The ASCO Post ~ By Matthew Stenger All-Cause Mortality in COVID-19–Positive and COVID-19–Negative Patients With Cancer In a large cohort study reported by Sharafeldin et al in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the National COVID Cohort...
Biden administration investing billions in antiviral pills for COVID-19
June 17, 2021 ~ The Hill ~ by Justine Coleman Biden administration investing billions in antiviral pills for COVID-19 The Biden administration plans to invest billions of dollars in antiviral pills to treat COVID-19 and ready the U.S. to combat future viruses that...
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher hospitalisation risk from COVID-19: a retrospective case-control study
June 17, 2021 ~ J Clinical Endocrinology ~ Edward B Jude, et al. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher hospitalisation risk from COVID-19: a retrospective case-control study Link to Full Article: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher hospitalisation...
I-RECOVER Management Protocol for Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS)
June 16, 2021 ~ FLCCC - Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance I-RECOVER Management Protocol for Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS) The Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS) is an often debilitating syndrome characterized by a multitude of symptoms such as prolonged...
They Denied A Lab Leak At Wuhan. They Are Wrong About Other Things.
June 16, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ by Mary Beth Pfeiffer They Denied A Lab Leak At Wuhan. They Are Wrong About Other Things. After months of denial, the U.S. government has acknowledged that the COVID-19 catastrophe may indeed have originated in a leak from a...
Is there a Problem with the Lopez-Medina, Colombia-based Study Implicating Ivermectin? Major Pharma Companies Including Merck Funding the Trial Site during the Study
June 9, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ by Michael Goodkin Is there a Problem with the Lopez-Medina, Colombia-based Study Implicating Ivermectin? Major Pharma Companies Including Merck Funding the Trial Site during the Study Although a great majority of ivermectin-based...
Can the C.D.C. Be Fixed?
June 16, 2021 ~ New York Times ~ Jeneen Interlandi Can the C.D.C. Be Fixed? Covid-19 has shown the glaring weaknesses of the world’s premier public health agency — and just how much work it would take to reform it. In November, an independent team of academics and...
The FDA Is Failing the American People
June 16, 2021 ~ MedPage Today ~ by Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH The FDA Is Failing the American People — The agency's recent decision to approve aducanumab offers FDA's recent approval of a controversial drug -- aducanumab (Aduhelm) -- to treat people living with...