By Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Senior Investigative Reporter at Trial Site News | I'm a fire-in-the-belly muckraker who abhors the role of money-fueled corruption in government and medicine. My job: Expose it. Twenty people who were harmed by Covid-19 vaccines came to...
BY ERIN PRATER A new COVID strain started to create waves among virus trackers this week, outpacing nearly all other variants of interest scientists are tracking in the U.S. this autumn. The Omicron spawn, which scientists have named BF.7—short for...
For over two years, the virologist posed as a fact checker and biosafety expert on China, without disclosure of grants involving risky gain of function studies. By Paul D. Thacker Shortly after people began dying from the COVID-19 virus in early 2020, virologist...
A prototype N95 face mask with a sensor built into the breath valve appears to be highly sensitive to virus proteins in early-stage tests By Clare Wilson A face mask with an integrated virus sensor could detect tiny amounts of the coronavirus after a 10-minute...
With no efficacy or safety data, the agency is enthusiastically promoting a fifth COVID shot BY ALEX GUTENTAG The Tablet headline says it loud and clear. Michael Lerner n Aug. 31, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration authorized bivalent boosters reformulated to...
By Ezra Klein, Opinion Columnist We need better technologies to enable a better politics. But we need better politics to create better technologies. Maybe, just maybe, we’re on the verge of getting both. On Monday, President Biden announced that Dr. Renee...
He also called former President Donald Trump “totally irresponsible“ in his handling of classified documents, and hedged on whether he was fully committed to seeking reelection. By DAVID COHEN and ADAM CANCRYN President Joe Biden said “the pandemic is over” in...
Analyses based on locations and viral sequencing of early cases suggest pandemic started in Wuhan’s Huanan market, with two separate jumps from animals to humans. Originally published July 26, 2022 in Scripps Research The COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,...
Is this what normal now looks like? By Jacob Stern This is where we are. Steady state unless a more dangerous variant appears. On a plateau.Almost 3000 deaths a month. That's the bad news and the good news. Good because deaths are way down.And we've become...
UCSF Medical Grand Rounds with Department Chair Dr. Bob Wachter Recommended: Two veteran experts (interviewer is Bob Wachter, UCSF chief of medicine) on mistakes and good moves on COVID virology, immune response and evasion, boosters, long COVID, treatment,...
ROBERT REDFIELD: DICHRON INTERVIEW By Paul D. Thacker Shortly after the pandemic started in early 2020, many people began to ask, “Where is the CDC? Why are they not leading on this?” Criticisms of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have persisted...
The Lancet’s paper said it is ‘feasible’ that Sars-Cov-2 emerged from a natural spillover or a lab incident, but elements provoke backlash By Sarah Newey This report seems dubious. What is remarkable is that The Lancet published it.The Wuhan lab leak theory is far...
Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard. By Ed Yong On March 25, 2020, Hannah Davis was texting with two friends when she realized that she couldn’t understand one of their...
Research now tells us that COVID doesn’t discriminate when it comes to heart problems. This and other studies are showing heart problems persisting for up to a year or more with even mild Covid. This demonstrates just how serious Covid infections remain.Michael...
I got the Covid bluesHazmat outfit to read the newsI gots that damn viral bluesMystifying perspiring invisible shitBlowing through the wind like Yesterday’s news bluesI can’t think breathe or snoozeI gots the rumble rumble chest-rattly Bubble gut blues I’ve...