CDC Withholding Safety Data on COVID Bivalent Shots and Heart Inflammation
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is refusing to release information it has collected on cases of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane around the heart) following administration of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 bivalent shot. The bivalent shot has been replaced this year with a new […]
Sleep Crisis Affects Mental Health of Students in U.S.
At least 50 percent of middle school students and 75 percent of high school students in the United States are not getting enough hours of sleep on a daily basis, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 Commenting on children not getting enough sleep, Oleg Tarkovsky, director of Behavioral Health Services […]
Private Equity Buyouts of Health Care Facilities Comes With Cost to Patients
The rising trend in burnout of health care workers in recent years has presented an opportunity for private equity corporations in the United States to invest in the health care market at record high rates.1 For several decades, multibillion-dollar corporate giants have been gaining control of many sectors of American society, including the food industry […]
U.S. Suicide Rate in 2022 Highest Ever Recorded, COVID Lockdowns Played a Role
Some 49,500 people committed suicide last year in the United States. This is the highest number for self-inflicted deaths ever recorded in the country.1 The phenomenon has been attributed to increasing rates of depression, limited access to mental health services and increasing gun sales that saw suicide by gun reach an all-time high last year.2 […]
U.S. Colleges, Companies Reinstate COVID Mask and Vaccine Mandates
Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. government declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency in May 2023, some colleges and companies in the United States have announced they will be reinstating mandates to force people to wear masks and get COVID shots as a condition of getting a college education […]
More Young People Dying of Heart Attacks
Opinion | Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more young people in the United States are dying of heart attacks. That’s the headline of a recent article by Maura Hohman in TODAY magazine.1 Citing a study by doctors at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, California published in the Journal of Medical Virology2 in September 2022, Hohman writes: […]