Turkey started testing early, with rapid results.  They did case-finding and quarantines, and they used hydroxychloroquine as soon as someone got sick. Mortality in a premier hospital in Turkey for Covid-19 is under 1%.  Mortality in New York hospitals for Covid-19 cases has been reported here and here as 20%.   The BBC goes into depth…

The following discussion comes straight from consumerlab, which is a subscription service.  This is the best information I have found for producing a washable, highly effective mask that can protect both the user and everyone else nearby–Meryl Here is their August 2020 update. Question: How can I make a mask that is as good as…

I think most people have already figured out you can’t trust the mass media on the subject of the chloroquine drugs and Covid-19… let’s avoid the question of which subjects can they be trusted with?   I thought you could trust medical journals to a degree, but even they, whose editors are physicians, have been…

I hope you have noticed that while the mass media have spent 2 months railing about the dangers of hydroxychloroquine and how it may kill you, they have had a hard time finding doctors to issue the alarm on-camera.  Practicing doctors usually know that the risks of HCQ are no greater than the risk of…

Why Is Protecting COVID-19 Origin Narrative so Important? STORY AT-A-GLANCE ·       The manufactured anthrax crisis of 2001 initiated the PATRIOT Act, one of the most severe compromises of our personal freedoms up to that point. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to take away even more freedoms ·       It appears influential virologists are protecting…

A big news story came out today regarding the results of a Lancet study of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in hospitalized Covid-19 patients.  The first author is, naturally, from Harvard. What the authors found were considerably higher rates of arrhythmia and death in the patients who received a chloroquine drug, with even worse outcomes if…

 US CDC proved efficacy of chloroquine for SARS 15 years ago. Virol J. 2005; 2: 69. Chloroquine is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread Published online 2005 Aug 22. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-2-69 Martin J Vincent,1 Eric Bergeron,2 Suzanne Benjannet,2 Bobbie R Erickson,1 Pierre E Rollin,1 Thomas G Ksiazek,1 Nabil G Seidah,2 and Stuart T Nichol1 PMCID: PMC1232869 PMID: 16115318 1Special Pathogens Brach, Division of Viral…

From CNN: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be backing away from a theory he and President Donald Trump were pushing that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China… Yet he still wants to “punish” China.  What a blustering fellow he is, drunk on power, ignorant of facts (as are we all)…

I have worked with investigative reporter Sam Husseini to help with background information on biodefense, biological warfare, lab escapes. Sam was featured in this 1 hour documentary about gain of function research, biolabs, and the origin of SARS-CoV-2. He provides a profound and detailed discussion of these subjects in this extremely worthwhile film, made by…

I have not written much about testing since the early days of this crisis, because there is almost no reliable information.  The Infectious Diseases Society of America issued recommendations about testing two days ago, yet the authors admit that their advice is almost evidence-free. So, this is all I can say reliably at this time. 1.  A fabulous…

A spectacular Washington Post article of May 4 connected the lack of protective respirators (aka N95 masks) with Emergent BioSolutions (the anthrax vaccine manufacturer). Emergent received incredible insider contracts from the current Assistant DHHS Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Robert Kadlec, who early in life attended the Air Force Academy and DOD medical school,…

Here’s the thing.  For the first week of clinical illness, disease is primarily in the respiratory tract, and viral titers are rising.  After a week, you start making detectable antibodies, and usually viral titers decline. But other processes are at work making you sick, especially an inappropriate immune response. And you are still dealing with…

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/widely-used-surgical-masks-are-putting-health-care-workers-at-serious-risk/ With medical supplies in high demand, federal authorities say health workers can wear surgical masks for protection while treating COVID-19 patients—but growing evidence suggests the practice is putting workers in jeopardy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said lower-grade surgical masks are “an acceptable alternative” to N95 masks unless workers are performing an intubation…

https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/murder-most-foul-perps-behind-covid-19 … But here we are. As our new reality sinks in, as we adjust to lockdowns and home schooling and long lines at grocery stores, as we look for ways to protect ourselves and our families—and as some grieve for lost loved ones—most of us are also seeking answers. Why does this virus cause…

My state has had 1156 positive COVID cases, 0.1% of the population, and 30 new cases in the last day.   Twenty-two percent of cases have been in healthcare workers.  New cases peaked in early April.  My county has had only 10 diagnosed cases, though we don’t know how many people who have second homes here,…

Below you can go to the ClinicalTrials.gov site for the NAIAD Remdesivir trial (ACTT) that Fauci claimed created a new “standard of care” for COVID-19.  The same Fauci who claimed to be a purist about hydroxychloroquine, demanding well designed randomized clinical trials before using it, has done the unthinkable in medicine: changed the goalposts, twice,…

The UK has had a surge in diagnosed cases and deaths over the past few weeks.  Its lockdown started late compared to the rest of western Europe. The initial strategy was to protect the most vulnerable and allow the rest of the country to develop herd immunity.  Some say that is still part of the…

http://www.aidsorigins.com/covid-19-and-origins-aids-debate Ed Hooper took a very deep dive into the origin of AIDS in his highly lauded book, The River. How did HIV jump species from monkey to man?  While blamed by some on the consumption of bush meat, Hooper suggested that the use of monkey kidneys to manufacture live polio vaccines, in the Belgian…