ATLANTA, Ga. (WEYI) – The Centers for Disease Control released information showing how many people who died from COVID-19 had comorbidities or underlying conditions as they are sometimes referred to by doctors. According to the CDC, comorbidity is defined as: ” more than one disease or condition is present in the same person at the same…
Category: Government
Stat News reports “The U.S. government contributed research to a Gilead Remdesivir patent — but didn’t get credit”
Two documents dating back to 2015 shed further light on the role the federal government played in discovering remdesivir and its use in treating coronaviruses — work that has taken on new meaning as the Gilead Sciences (GILD) drug has gained global attention and an emergency use authorization from federal regulators to treat patients with…
Lifesite News reports “Doctors lay out plan to ‘punish’ people who refuse coronavirus vaccine: ‘There is no alternative’”
‘Simply put, getting vaccinated is going to be our patriotic duty,’ and America should consider making it difficult for the unvaccinated to participate in society, three doctors wrote. A coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory, and tax penalties, higher insurance premiums, and denial of many government and private services ought to be considered for those refusing…
Harvard University reports “Risky Drugs: Why The FDA Cannot Be Trusted”
A forthcoming article for the special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), edited by Marc Rodwin and supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, presents evidence that about 90 percent of all new drugs approved by the FDA over the past 30 years are little or no more effective for patients than existing drugs. All…
Market Watch reports “Sweden has developed herd immunity after refusing to lock down, experts claim. Its coronavirus infection rate is falling”
Leading Swedish health experts claim the country has a falling coronavirus infection rate because it was one of the few that didn’t go into lockdown and has rejected the use of masks. Arne Elofsson, a professor in biometrics at Stockholm University, thinks the population has developed a form of immunity: “Strict rules do not work…
AIER report “Madness in Melbourne”
The Premier has imposed a vicious police state without precedent in this country’s history. His name is Dan Andrews (a sweet-sounding name that masks the tyrant he has become), and he tweets out pictures of empty streets to brag about what he has achieved in the name of suppressing a virus. Tacitus’s line about the Roman empire…
The Hill reports “Positive COVID-19 tests hit record low in New York City”
The percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive has reached a record low in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Wednesday, a sign that enough people are being tested and that the city has control of the virus. “This is extraordinary,” de Blasio said during a press conference. “Now we all know every day…
Lifesite reports “Renowned European scientist: COVID-19 was engineered in China lab, effective vaccine ‘unlikely’”
Professor Giuseppe Tritto, an internationally known expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology, says that the China Virus definitely wasn’t a freak of nature that happened to cross the species barrier from bat to man. It will not be possible for the Dr. Fauci’s of the world to dismiss Professor Giuseppe Tritto as a crank. Not only…
Washington Examiner reports “Hydroxychloroquine works in high-risk patients, and saying otherwise is dangerous”
It seems quite possible that the FDA, a third of whose funding comes from drug companies, is under intense pressure from those companies to be extremely conservative in its handling of hydroxychloroquine. If hydroxychloroquine is used widely and comes to be recognized as highly effective, the markets for expensive and patented COVID-19 medications, including intravenous drugs that…
Independent reports “Coronavirus: Some scientists believe herd immunity is closer than originally thought”
In New York, London and Mumbai, there might already be substantial immunity to coronavirus To achieve so-called herd immunity – the point at which the virus can no longer spread because there are not enough vulnerable humans – scientists have suggested that perhaps 70 per cent of a given population must be immune, through vaccination or because they survived…