Operation Quack Hack, the federal government’s initiative to clamp down on fake coronavirus medications and cures, has exposed a health underground in America brimming with distrust not only of mainstream medicine but the government itself. It’s a Tea Party for COVID-times. Its members are angry at government warning letters that many perceive as an infringement on…
Category: Public Health Reform
New York Times reports “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.”
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively…
The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns
New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven’t determined the spread. Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy….
CNN reports “Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be ‘colossally stupid'”
Vaccine experts are warning the federal government against rushing out a coronavirus vaccine before testing has shown it’s both safe and effective. Decades of history show why they’re right. Their concern that the FDA may be moving too quickly heightened when FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn told the Financial Times that his agency could consider…
Reason reports “CDC Data Confirm That Young People Face a Negligible Risk of Dying From COVID-19”
The latest data on COVID-19 cases and fatalities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that young people face a negligible risk of dying from the disease, while people 65 and older face a much higher risk. Patients 65 or older account for about 16 percent of confirmed cases but four-fifths of COVID-19 deaths….
CNN reports “Experts call for independent commission separate from FDA to review Covid-19 vaccines”
Citing criticism of government agencies and increasing public distrust of vaccines, several prominent physicians and experts are calling for the creation of an independent commission to review data from coronavirus vaccine trials before a vaccine is allowed on the market. The US Food and Drug Administration regulates vaccines, and its OK is all that’s needed…
Forbes reports “CDC: ‘No Evidence-Based Data’ That State-Level Quarantines Prevent Coronavirus”
U.S. Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that the agency doesn’t have “evidence-based data” of the effectiveness of the quarantine measures announced Wednesday by New York, Connecticut and New Jersey on travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/06/25/cdc-no-evidence-based-data-that-state-level-quarantines-prevent-coronavirus/#7138f48e5e1c
People reports “CDC Report Finds that 1 in 4 Young Adults Considered Suicide Due to Coronavirus Pandemic”
“Mental health conditions are disproportionately affecting specific populations,” said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The coronavirus pandemic has taken a serious toll on the mental health struggles of Americans, particularly young adults. According to a recent survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, out of more than 5,000 respondents who were contacted in late June,…
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…
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reports “COVID – What have we learned?”
We have learned that people who are asymptomatic can, cannot, can, cannot, can, cannot, can… spread the virus. That the accuracy of PCR antigen testing is brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless. That false positive tests are impossible, common, impossible, common, impossible, common. That facemasks are useless, necessary, useless, necessary, useless… absolutely necessary. COVID –…