— This past week in healthcare investigations by Kristina Fiore The Nonprofit at the Center of the COVID Origin Debate Vanity Fair's Katherine Eban details the evolution of the EcoHealth Alliance, the American non-profit with extensive ties to the Wuhan Institute...
Despite 2 Revoked Licenses, Doc Still Prescribing Ivermectin Via Telehealth
— With 2 licenses remaining, Kathleen Ann Cullen writes scripts through America's Frontline Doctors by Kristina Fiore A viral video about a hospitalized patient taking ivermectin for COVID-19 revealed the name of a doctor who provided the drug via an America's...
What You Need to Know About That ‘Johns Hopkins’ Lockdown Study
— "All of this adds up to a very weird review paper" by Kristina Fiore A paper being touted as the "Johns Hopkins study" that suggested lockdowns didn't reduce COVID deaths has serious flaws and is being misinterpreted, experts said. Fox News has charged that...
FDA Advisors Face Difficult Decision on COVID Vaccine for Youngest Kids
— "We wouldn't say yes on the promise that three doses [will be] of value" by Kristina Fiore The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is facing a very difficult decision. Members are being asked to consider whether a three-dose...
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...
Myocarditis VAERS Analysis Sparks Social Media Uproar
— Doctors worry misinterpretation will fuel misinformation campaigns by Kristina Fiore Researchers are getting pushback over a medRxiv preprint that relied heavily on Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data to characterize myocarditis...
ADE Is Still Not a Problem With COVID Vaccines
— Recent paper "not aligned with reality" by Kristina Fiore Conspiracy theories about antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) with COVID-19 vaccines are swirling yet again, apparently due to a letter to the editor and a controversial talk by a physician at a school board...
No, Most COVID Infections Are Not Occurring in Vaccinated People
— Provincetown statistic being misinterpreted by Kristina Fiore Misinformation and misunderstanding about vaccine efficacy have abounded recently, potentially sparked by what seemed to be worrying data out of Provincetown, Massachusetts, reported last week by the CDC....
Awaited Ivermectin Review Is Out
By Kristina Fiore Findings are positive, but critics still want a randomized controlled trial Proponents of ivermectin for COVID-19 have long been talking about an expected review and meta-analysis led by Andrew Hill, PhD, of the University of Liverpool. These results...