Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. In a large-scale retrospective analysis of 2,541 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2, 2020 across the system’s six hospitals, the study found 13% of those treated…
Category: Research Studies
RcReader reports “Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy”
Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles. https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy
New England Journal of Medicine reports “widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or…
Penn State reports “Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported”
Now, a new study from Penn State estimates that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as fast as originally believed The implication is that death rates are much lower than initially believed. https://news.psu.edu/story/623797/2020/06/22/research/initial-covid-19-infection-rate-may-be-80-times-greater-originally
The Scientist reports on “Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate” in 2015
Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The…
The Conservative Woman reports “The Marx Brothers do science”
With a destructive lockdown ongoing, and the worst deaths per million in the world after Belgium, the UK needs far better than [hydroxychloroquine] clinical trials run by the Marx Brothers. Wake up, Oxford, and rediscover your empirical inheritance. With a trail of deadly failure behind us, taking an objective look at what others have already…
The Telegraph reports “There is no scientific evidence to support the disastrous two-metre rule”
Poor quality research is being used to justify a policy with enormous consequences for us all The two-metre rule, however, is also seriously impacting schools, pubs, restaurants and our ability to go about our daily lives. The Government is reviewing the policy, but what evidence is there that keeping our distance makes any difference to…
MSN reports “Lancet Formally Retracts Fake Hydroxychloroquine Study Used By Media To Attack Trump”
“Today, three of the authors of the paper, ‘Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis”, have retracted their study,” The Lancet said in a retraction statement Thursday. “We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused,”…
Oral Health Group reports “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review”
Yesterday’s Scientific Dogma is Today’s Discarded Fable This article will describe how the findings of such studies lead to a rethinking of the benefits of wearing a mask during the practice of dentistry. It will begin by describing new concepts relating to infection control especially personal protective equipment (PPE).
Forbes reports “The Hideous Truth of Testing Vaccines on Humans”
Sixty years ago, a monstrous hepatitis experiment was performed on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School that raises serious ethical questions about vaccine challenge trials for Covid-19. https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2020/06/12/willowbrook-scandal-hepatitis-experiments-hideous-truths-of-testing-vaccines-on-humans/#5a33fe61279c