Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug being investigated for repurposing against SARS-CoV-2. Ivermectin showed in-vitro activity against SARS-COV-2 at high concentrations. This meta-analysis investigated ivermectin in 24 randomized clinical trials (3328 patients) identified through systematic searches of PUBMED, EMBASE, MedRxiv and trial registries. Ivermectin was associated with reduced inflammatory markers (C-Reactive Protein, d-dimer and ferritin) and…
Tag: Epidemiology
AIER reports “The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing”
Feeling outgunned, outnumbered, overpowered, smothered, and censored? Many people who oppose Covid lockdowns and all their associated restrictions feel this way. It’s hard not to. You can hardly post on social media without triggering warnings, corrections, and sometimes outright blocks. Bans are part of the mix too, the complete deplatforming of people merely because they want their…
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports “Electromagnetic fields, 5G and health: what about the precautionary principle?”
New fifth generation (5G) telecommunications systems, now being rolled out globally, have become the subject of a fierce controversy. Some health protection agencies and their scientific advisory committees have concluded that there is no conclusive scientific evidence of harm. Several recent reviews by independent scientists, however, suggest that there is significant uncertainty on this question,…
Nakim reports “The uncovering of the vaccination data in Israel reveals a frightening picture “
Our reanalyses of these data explain why during the massive vaccination project initiated mid-December 2020 during a confinement, daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases failed to decrease as they do during confinements, and, more importantly, why numbers of serious, critical and death cases increased during that period that covered at least one month. From mid-December to…
Wall Street Journal reports “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April”
Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news. Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the…
Business Insider reports “A Johns Hopkins professor predicts the US will reach herd immunity by April, but many experts aren’t so optimistic”
The US’s daily coronavirus cases have declined 65% in the last month — a record drop in the course of the nation’s outbreak. New cases reached an all-time high of 312,000 on January 8. Since then, they’ve fallen to a weekly average of around 73,000 per day. Dr. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at…
IPAK reports “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on August 23, 2020, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 , on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.” For a nation tormented by restrictive public health…
Gateway Pundit reports “CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds…State, Local Governments Must Act”
100 Percent Fed Up reports – Throughout the election, Donald Trump was battered by CCP Virus statistics in order to hurt the American economy and his political campaign. We know that it was shamelessly wielded as a political weapon to prevent President Trump and his supporters from rallying as Antifa and Black Lives Matter burned progressive poor…
Nature Medicine reports “Is presymptomatic spread a major contributor to COVID-19 transmission?”
Recent reports have shown COVID-19 transmission prior to disease onset, raising concerns that people who appear healthy maybe major contributors to the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studieshave directly determined the proportion of transmission eventsthat occur before symptom onset, but a recent modeling studyby He et al. inferred that 44% of secondary cases were infectedduring presymptomatic stages…
WGN9 reports “COVID-19 may eventually be no worse than childhood cold, study finds”
COVID-19 is known to cause life-threatening, and sometimes fatal, outcomes today. But in the future, contracting the virus may be akin to coming down with a common childhood cold. Using data from other human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-1, researchers from Emory University and Pennsylvania State University have determined that, eventually, COVID-19 will resemble other common childhood…