U.S. Facing Severe Shortage of Infectious Disease Physicians
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a focus on the shortage of doctors opting to specialize in infectious disease. According to forecasts by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the United States will face a serious shortage of infectious disease doctors with estimates showing that that by 2035 there will […]
U.K. Coronor Says AstraZeneca’s Covid Vaccine Caused ‘Fit and Healthy’ Young Man to Die from Blood Clot in Brain
A 27-year-old man in England developed a blood clot in the brain and died on Apr. 20, 2021, three weeks after receiving the first dose of AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s experimental viral vectored Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria (also known as AZD1222), and a U.K. coroner determined his death was causally related to the vaccination. Jack Last of Stowmarket […]
Physical Exercise Significantly Lowers Risks for Covid-19 Complications
A new study published last week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that exercise of any amount had a protective effect on risk of hospitalization and death from infection with SARS-CoV-2 and symptoms of Covid-19.1 This retrospective cohort study follows 25 previous studies that also reported strong associations between mortality and hospitalization, and physical […]
Shingles May Be Triggered by Covid Shots
A large retrospective cohort study conducted by researchers in Germany and the University of Virginia compared the incidence of shingles among individuals who did and did not get a Covid-19 shot and found a statistically significant difference providing evidence for an association between Covid vaccinations and increased risk for developing shingles or herpes zoster (HZ). […]
CDC Gives More Than $3 Billion to Local and State Health Departments
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that they are distributing $3.2 billion to state, local, and territorial health departments across the United States in what they describe as an attempt to “strengthen” public health initiatives. CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD said the money will give local agencies critical funding […]
Life-Saving Organ Transplants Denied to Unvaccinated People
The idea that a person in need of a life-saving surgery would be denied that procedure by a doctor or a hospital administrator simply because the individual opted out of getting a COVID-19 shot seems surreal. It sounds unethical at the very least, criminal at worst, and certainly not something that one would imagine could […]