Other countries have been galvanized to confront diet issues. The U.S. has had no such wakeup call. By HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH The same week British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care for Covid-19, two studies came out identifying obesity as...
Gut microbiota composition reflects disease severity and dysfunctional immune responses in patients with COVID-19
By Yun Kit Yeoh, et al. with Commentary by Mark Bricca, ND Below is a paper that explores the relationships between GI microbiota, Covid-19 severity, and long-Covid.Not surprisingly, worse outcomes are associated with more pathogenic GI microbial strains and less...
THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM
First Published by BizNews on September 14, 2021 by PANDA While citizens focus on the latest issue the government directs our attention to, many of us have lost sight of the big picture and grown accustomed to severe limitations on our rights like the proverbial frogs...
The repeated claim that Fauci lied to Congress about ‘gain-of-function’ research
“At a Senate hearing in May, Dr. Fauci said, ‘The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ That was under oath, under testimony. On October 20th, the NIH principal deputy director in writing directly...
Double standards? Dr. Mobeen Syed reviews the hurdles faced by ivermectin and molnupiravir in the COVID pandemic
Dr. Mobeen Syed aka “Dr. Been” has become a sensation on YouTube educating millions on various medical topics during this difficult pandemic including refreshingly sincere lessons on topics such as ivermectin. Most recently the online doc raised concern over...
In Re-Analysis, Ivermectin Benefits Disappeared as Trial Quality Increased
— When studies with a moderate or greater risk of bias were removed, survival benefit vanished by Kristina Fiore share to facebookshare to twittershare to linkedinemail article Some authors of a widely reported meta-analysis of ivermectin studies that was...
China’s Xi calls for COVID-19 vaccine mutual recognition
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday called for mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccines based on the World Health Organization's emergency use list, according to a transcript of his remarks published by the official Xinhua news agency. Speaking to the Group of 20...
Researcher Turned COVID Long-Hauler
— A story of knowledge and recovery by Paul Gardener, MD I'm 65, and I'm fit and well. When COVID struck, I was enjoying life. I was doing lots of running and cycling. I felt I was titanium-plated in some ways. The disease was traveling very rapidly through the U.K. I...
CDC: Prior Infection Won’t Protect You From COVID Hospitalization
— Study shows importance of vaccination to prevent severe disease, even among previously infected by Molly Walker n people hospitalized for COVID-like respiratory illnesses, unvaccinated adults who previously had COVID-19 were over five times more likely to test...
US intel doesn’t expect to determine origins of COVID-19
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Barring an unforeseen breakthrough, intelligence agencies won’t be able to conclude whether COVID-19 spread by animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab, officials said Friday in releasing a fuller version of their review into the origins of...
Who’s open and who isn’t
We’ve been tracking public health rules and Covid-19 border restrictions since early August. And as of our latest update, the world is the most open it’s been.Bloomberg grades cities as “more open,” “moderately open” and “less open” based on local public health...
National Swedish Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccines Not Effective After Six Months
Heavily funded by taxpayers, how durable are the COVID-19 vaccines? With unprecedented legal mandates in countries like America, investigators from Sweden’s Umeå University sought out to determine the actual durability of leading COVID-19 vaccine products....
Who Had Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases?
By Aliza Aufrichtig and Amy Schoenfeld Walker I’m sure you’ll see this; very interesting data. For example: Unvaccinated seniors were the most likely to die from Covid of any group. Still, vaccinated people 80 and older had higher death rates than unvaccinated people...
Vaccine Policy Should Consider the Power of ‘Hybrid Immunity’
By Charlotte Thålin Dr. Thålin is the lead investigator for a study on Covid-19 immunity at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where she is also an internist at Danderyd Hospital. As a physician in a Covid-19 care unit, I celebrate the vaccines as one of...
Dutch Study Tracks Vaccine Effectiveness to Stop COVID-19 Household Contact Transmission
A recent study in the Netherlands, led by scientists from the Center for Infectious Disease Control and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), sought to estimate vaccine effectiveness against onward viral transmission by comparing...