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FDA Allows COVID Booster Shot for Immunocompromised

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 13, 2021 41 Comments

Celebrate with me, fellow immunocompromised people! ...

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Investigation: Medical Education And Research Crumbling Under Racial Identity Politics

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2021 57 Comments

Real Clear Investigations: "The national racial reckoning over reparations and critical race theory is taking over the world of medicine and health care."...

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Surge in Pediatric Respiratory Cases Appear to Stem from RSV Infections, Not COVID-19

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 10, 2021 20 Comments

“More concerned of just RSV overwhelming the hospital more than COVID just in pediatrics.” ...

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Iceland’s Top Epidemiologist: COVID Vaccination Has Not Led to Herd Immunity

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 10, 2021 53 Comments

Switching gears to treatments instead of desperately clinging to vaccines may be the winning approach....

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The Current Pandemic Isn’t the First Caused by a Coronavirus

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 04, 2021 40 Comments

The "Russian Flu" is considered the last great pandemic of the 19th century; yet, today's variants are just common cold viruses....

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China Reports Surge in Delta Variant COVID-19 Cases

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 02, 2021 23 Comments

Communist Party of China cannot dictate its way out of clusters, outbreaks, and cases. ...

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CDC Alerts Labs to Use Tests That Can Differentiate Between COVID and Flu

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 27, 2021 50 Comments

Will there be a "flu season" in 2021? How many positive COVID tests in 2020 were in fact positive influenza tests? ...

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‘Superbug’ Fungus Spreading in D.C. and Dallas Healthcare Facilities

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 23, 2021 14 Comments

"'This is really the first time we’ve started seeing clustering of resistance' in which patients seemed to be getting the infections from each other."...

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CDC Monitoring 200 people in 27 states for Monkeypox

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 22, 2021 11 Comments

Meanwhile, a Beijing vet has died after contracting China's first known case of Monkey B Virus....

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Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Shows 90.4% Overall Efficacy

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 14, 2021 30 Comments

Novavax might give America its fourth COVID-19 vaccine after a trial showed it is 90.4% overall efficient. The vaccine also protects people from moderate and severe COVID-19 in the PREVENT-19 Phase 3 trial.

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Medical School at U. Texas Austin Will Focus on ‘Health Equity’ in Curriculum

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 08, 2021 36 Comments

It has been clear for some time now that the left's implementation of social justice in higher education would eventually come for the hard sciences. At the University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School is now preparing to focus the curriculum on 'health equity.'

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Deadly ‘Black Fungus’ Disease Infects Over 12,000 in India

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 31, 2021 17 Comments

India has been battling a surge in COVID-19 cases recently. Fortunately, the number of new cases has plummeted in recent days. However, the nation is now dealing with an outbreak of a fungal disease with a 50% mortality rate.

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Scientists Debunk COVID Vaccine Magnet Challenge

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 17, 2021 39 Comments

Late last week, I noted a video made the rounds on social media to prove the COVID vaccine was nothing more than a scheme to chip people.

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American Medical Association Rejects “Equality” and “Meritocracy” In Just-Released “Racial Justice” and “Equity” Strategic Plan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2021 60 Comments

It is hard to overstate how radical the AMA becomes under this Strategic Plan. It rejects meritocracy in medical education explicitly embedding Critical Race Theory in that education, and rejects the core legal protection of "equality" substituting the goal of "equity."...

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Journal of American Medical Association Embraces “Structural Racism” Dogma, Succumbing To Critical Race Activism

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2021 47 Comments

I'd like to say that what just happened at the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the canary in the coal mine as to the destruction that critical race theory, in the form of the neo-racist "anti-racism" deception, is wreaking on the sciences.

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Guinea Declares Ebola Epidemic, Reporting First Deaths Since 2016 Outbreak

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 16, 2021 18 Comments

The West African country of Guinea has officially declared that it is dealing with an Ebola epidemic after the deaths of at least three people from the virus.

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World Health Organization Warns of ‘Super Gonorrhea’ and More Pandemics

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 29, 2020 42 Comments

Of all the organizations issuing untrustworthy guidance and confusing recommendations, perhaps the World Health Organization has been the worst. As we end 2020, with the pandemic lockdowns destroying businesses and driving people to despair, WHO officials are ginning-up more fear.

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Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rated ‘Highly Effective,’ Clearing Final Hurdle for FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 17, 2020 29 Comments

The second promising coronavirus vaccine from Moderna has tested 94 percent effective at preventing symptomatic illness and appears to prevent the spread of the virus as well. It looks like all systems are go for FDA "emergency use" approval by the end of the week.

The high efficacy of the Moderna vaccine was noted after two doses given 28 days apart. This is about the same level of effectiveness as the Pfizer vaccine.

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