The majority of Americans believe that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decisions in handling the COVID-19 pandemic have been influenced by politics. On Monday, thousands of emails from Fauci surfaced, revealing how he…
If you’ve seen the signs reading, “Science is real,” heard the phrase, “follow the science,” or been told to “trust in science,” and if these statements have often been used to try to curb your dissent, free thinking, and discussion…
Maybe it will take the perspective of time for people to get away from this awful 24/7 news cycle, amplified by the sordid trash dumps on social media, that makes mountains of molehills and that incites frenzy and public lunacy….
As you may be aware, health-care providers across the country and around the world have reported great success in using Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Azithromycin (the “HCQ cocktail”) to treat COVID-19. According to these physicians and researchers, the key to success…
A Chinese study of pigs, released Monday, has indicated a new strain of H1N1, or swine flu, that has “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus.” Researchers monitored pigs from 2011 to 2018, with the new H1N1 strain,…
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At Thursday’s White House press briefing, President Trump and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn announced that the FDA has approved the “compassionate use” of the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat patients infected with Coronavirus 2019 (“COVID-19”). Under extreme or exigent circumstances,…
Amid the national conversation — a silly, fashionable term except it sounds like the yak-yaks it mostly is — I am reminded of how national leaders used to speak in times of stress. War and total economic ruin, mind, not…
“We know the numerator, but not the denominator.” — Leading medical researcher, name withheld, discussing the statistical effect of the coronavirus 2019 One of the most difficult problems in assessing the current coronavirus 2019 (hereinafter COVID-19) pandemic is sorting through…
