https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/ Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city.” I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes. It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city….

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200709-The-Publics-Role-in-COVID-19-Vaccination.pdf An interesting cast of characters signed off on these guidelines for convincing the public to accept entirely new, questionable vaccines. The group includes Drs. Greg Poland, who led the fight to impose universal flu vaccine recommendations (and many state mandates) and Luciana Borio, a physician, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Vice…

Deaths/day over the past week:  992.   Hospitalizations related to Covid are at an all-time high at 61,964–Nov 10 was the first time the hospitalization peak in April was surpassed. Understanding who is dying is not easy.  New York state, where Governor Cuomo was one of 6 governors to demand nursing homes take back Covid-infected patients,…

While we cannot rely on the Covid statistics that are being provided, still, new numbers for cases and deaths in military servicemembers were released yesterday that are worth a mention.   Total cumulative diagnosed cases in active and reserve servicemembers “nears 59,000.”  Yet only nine servicemembers have died:  3 National Guard, 5 Reservists and 1 on…

But wear a mask, wash yor hands and socially distance.    https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/going-out/voting-tips.html “Voters have the right to vote, regardless of whether they are sick or in quarantine. Voters who are sick or in quarantine should take steps to protect poll workers and other voters. This includes wearing a mask, staying at least 6 feet away…

Now Reuters discusses a study by the UK medical authorities showing T cell immunity exists in those who had asymptomatic or minor cases of Covid for at least 6 months, and echoes the fact that reinfection is very rare: LONDON (Reuters) – A small but key UK study has found that “cellular immunity” to the…

Time Magazine has hosted 22 thinkers doing short pieces on the Great Reset.  The thinkers include the head of the IMF (who wants to apply green stress tests to her loans), Harry and Meghan (calling out misinformation) and disgraced ex-PM Tony Blair (calling for global cooperation).  Sadly, it’s no joke.

 1. Robert F Kennedy Jr. wraps up everything in 18 minutes–the best speech I have ever heard https://www.instagram.com/p/CGtCdRJn-IN/ 2.  Vandana Shiva tells Joe Mercola the background to the current state of things, how Indian farmers successfully fought back, gives us perspective and hope https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/10/18/vandana-shiva-oneness-versus-the-1.aspx 3.  James Corbett explains the Great Reset, which is the rebranding…

Here’s the one hour video:  https://www.facebook.com/13341879933/videos/1054051221691661/ Ronnie Cummins and Alexis Baden-Mayer of the Organic Consumers Association were wonderful to speak with about Covid-19, its murky origins, and the murky response.  Both the Organic Consumers Association and I are trying to get out critical information to the public on all aspects of coronavirus and the pandemic. …

In my state of Maine, 61% of deaths occurred in long-term care facilities. In our next-door neighbor New Hampshire, 81% of deaths occurred in these facilities. On April 21, 2020 the United States reached the maximum number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19:   59, 780.  Only a tiny number of hospitals were overwhelmed, and by the…

 From ABC News: As of Thursday’s latest data, there have been 3,400 deaths from COVID-19 in South Carolina. Officials said that many of those had one or more other conditions: 60.4 percent had cardiovascular disease 34.6 percent had diabetes 30.9 percent had a neurologic or intellectual disability 22.7 percent had COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) 21.2…

Has Fauci ever said he was sorry? Admitted he was wrong? Apologized for wasting many of our billions on his illusory HIV vaccines? Said maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology?   Just a reminder, below, of how he faked a remdesivir trial.  I won’t even start on how…

First, what CDC claims: https://twitter.com/CDCFlu/status/1311687532426522624 During the 2019-2020 flu season, #fluvaccine helped prevent [Notice, they carefully avoid saying “prevented”–Nass] 6,300 flu deaths, or the equivalent of saving about 17 lives per day over the course of a year. Learn more about the burden of influenza and the effects of annual #flu vaccination: https://bit.ly/3jkHH6j 2019-2020 Tables…

Scientist’s Working Group on Chemical and Biologic Weapons  Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation  February 17, 2014  Introduction: The danger to world or regional public health from the escape from microbiology laboratories of pathogens capable of causing pandemics, or Potentially Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) has been the subject of considerable discussion1,2,3,4 including mathematical modeling of the…

 https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/Marik-Covid-Protocol-Summary.pdf Critical Care Covid Management Protocol, updated Sept. 28 by Marik et al. HCQ was omitted, I am told, to avoid controversy.  These are effective treatments also.

UPDATE:  According to Eric Schneider, MD in the July 25 NEJM, page 300, “The most recent congressional rescue package features $25 billion for testing.” So, in the absence of regulation, if you wanted to make a quick killing, all that was needed was to develop a Covid test and offer it in the US between…

March              3           (daily average February 29-March 7) April.         1376           (daily average March 31-April 7) May            1823          (daily average April 30-May 7) June              788          (daily average May 3-June 7) July  …

I have been meaning to update the information on Covid-19 testing, since it has been such a confusing subject. This post will only cover antibody (aka serology) tests.  And most of the post will be direct quotes from the FDA and CDC websites, because you would probably not believe me if I simply paraphrased the…

The NY POST got some fascinating quotes from the Senior Scientific Advisor in Tony Fauci’s office, David Morens.  Morens recently coauthored an article with Fauci (which I discussed here) in which the two of them instructed us that we need to learn to live more harmoniously with nature, or “we will increasingly provoke new disease emergences.” …

https://twitter.com/HcqCorona/status/1311988691049553920 Ronnie Jackson, MD, the former White House physician who cared for both Obama and Trump, was just interviewed on Fox News.  He is running for Congress in Texas.  He basically recommended the Zelenko or Raoult protocol for President and Melania Trump, noting that all the drugs were safe.  Above is the video.  Jackson is…

From Fierce Pharma: AstraZeneca was humming right along with its partnered COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford before a sudden trial hold threw its plans into disarray. So what does that uncertainty mean for AstraZeneca’s expectant manufacturing partners on the shot? For at least one, it could be no issue at all.  Despite a…

Prehospital Management of Covid-19 Zelenko Protocol Dr. Vladimir Zelenko Twitter: @zev_dr Treatment Plan for Patients with symptoms of Covid-19 Fundamental Principles  Treat patients based on clinical suspicion as soon as possible, preferably within the first 5 days of symptoms.  Perform PCR testing, but do not withhold treatment pending results.   Risk Stratify Patient  Low risk patient…

Did you know…this past week major media outlets reported four new serious concerns about the Covid-19 vaccine trials? •NY Times 9/22: Two vaccine experts identify a major flaw in the Covid-19 vaccine trials. The trials are focusing on whether the vaccines prevent mild disease, not moderate or severe disease which are the major concerns. (1)…

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Today I told another patient that in fact, there was no need to be so worried about the pandemic.  Used early, hydroxychloroquine worked very effectively as a treatment. And again the first thing I heard was, “Isn’t that the drug Trump talked about?” Why does what Trump said seem more germane to people than the…

17th September 2020 https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2020/09/the-irrational-fear-of-a-cheap-effective-drug/  Words are very powerful. They can incite hatred and violence. They can provide reassurance and hope.  They can incite fear and dread. We have not heard many reassuring and hopeful ones this year, but maybe that is about to change. The truth is coming to light, and that is perhaps the…

The presentation is here, and my section starts at minute 48. Lawyers for 9/11 Truth has today sent a petition to Congress asking them to reopen the case

Peter Breggin and his wife Ginger have amassed a library of materials on many aspects of Covid.  They were among the first to notice the questionable origin of the virus, and collected academic papers showing how aspects of the current Coronavirus had been created in labs around the world, often with funding from the US…

The CDC has just released information, in its MMWR Weekly Report, on the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine in March and April in the US. Approximately 500,000 prescriptions dispensed by retail pharmacies were “new,” or dispensed to persons who had not received a previous prescription of the medication in the prior 12 months. These are presumed to…

For those who are worried about the “harms” caused by hydroxychloroquine—have you taken it? Prescribed it for a family member with Covid?  Prescribed it for probably 200+ patients over 2 decades?  Studied the literature? Well, I have done all of these.  Here are 3 recent studies discounting the drug’s cardiac toxicity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022073620305288 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.20155531v2 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297520300998    …

The CDC informed the world several days ago that 94% of Americans who died from Covid-19 had other medical conditions.  When many people said, ‘Aha! That means the pandemic is mainly killing those who are already ill,” the mass media and fact-checkers went to work to debunk them. USA Today quickly claimed that people were…

The article below I wrote 8 years ago, but it has relevance to today.  I describe some of the tricks that were pulled when a pandemic vaccine was rushed into use in 2009, and how the agencies that rushed it covered their tracks over the next several years–Meryl Saturday, August 4, 2012 Rewriting the history…

Verbatim 8/31/20 from the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons: Many are afraid to take hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID as they have been told it could kill them because of its effect on the heart. Are you worried about this?  It is a fact that HCQ, azithromycin (Z-Pak™), and other drugs can prolong the QT…

I wrote this article in August, eleven years ago. The take-home lesson is that everyone having anything to do with a pandemic vaccine or drug program has had their product liability waived… as long as they don’t know there are product defects.  This incentivizes manufacturers to avoid testing products and fails to penalize them for…

From today’s Washington Post: “Belgium had one of the world’s worst [actually the worst recorded–Nass] per capita death rates this spring, with most of the mortality occurring in nursing homes. Now, even though cases have nearly quintupled compared to their lowest point in late June, Belgian hospitals remain calm. Very few cases are appearing in…

This protocol was developed by Dr. Paul Marik and additional colleagues over the past few months, and their results were published last week.  They report a mortality rate of 5.1% in hospitalized Covid patients using the protocol, which notably does include zinc.  Compared to other, historical data from hospitalized Covid patients, this is a 75%…

Deaths and hospitalization rates are the two measures available to the US public to best assess Covid extent and severity. Hospitalization rates are definitely down; see CDC’s graph below.  Mortality rates have held steady at 1000/day for the whole of the past month. I have no data on how treatment patterns have changed over time…

I have been criticized by USAToday and 6 other fact-checking sites over the past few days (since Plandem!c 2:  Indoctornation came out). In the film, I say I believe the coronavirus came from a lab.  The fact-checkers:  a) claim scientific consensus that the virus had a natural origin. But there is no consensus. For example,…

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, write that “the FDA’s actions regarding [hydroxychloroquine] HCQ may be directly costing…

If you were trying to watch the documentary Plandemic 2: Indoctornation after someone sent you a link on Facebook, you probably found it impossible. According to Forbes, Users who attempted to share the link were met with a warning message stating the URL to the video goes against Facebook’s community guidelines because it contained “COVID-19…

Today’s Science Magazine  describes how the NIH is seeking information on the specific SARS-Coronaviruses held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.  NIH had funded the Wuhan lab using the ‘non-profit’ EcoHealth Alliance (EHA,whose CEO Peter Daszac earned $400,000 yearly).  The complete role of EcoHealth Alliance has yet to be…

According to the AAP, 86 American children have died from Covid-19 through July 30, 2020. (UPDATE Aug 16:  186 was a mistake) According to the CDC in its latest year reporting on flu deaths,  “During the 2018–2019 season, 136 deaths in children with laboratory–confirmed influenza virus infection were reported in the United States. However, influenza-associated pediatric deaths are likely…

From the August 9, 2020 Washington Post: So, when you start screening asymptomatic people who you think may have been exposed, you find lots of positives.  They are then called cases.  But they were not sick.  Did they spread the infection farther?   If they did not spread it farther, then we can all stop…

Covid has brought out the finest in government mismanagement.  Now it is being applied to schools.Does anyone believe the notion that students will be safer attending school two and a half days a week, instead of five? Who dreamed this up? Do they think if your child inhales 1/2 as much virus, or uses the…

There is a lot of published evidence that surgical masks, which are equivalent to dust masks, and are basically the same as the cloth masks we are now wearing, provide little or no protection to the wearer against respiratory viruses.Current dogma is that they are supposed to protect others from your exhaled viruses and secretions….

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/510700-why-doctors-and-researchers-need-access-to-hydroxychloroquine BY PETER A. MCCULLOUGH, M.D., OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —  08/07/20 10:30 AM  THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  On July 6, a team of doctors from Henry Ford Hospital, supported by physicians from Baylor University Medical Center, submitted an urgent request to the Food and Drug Administration…

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html Below is entirely copied from the CDC website: From June 20 (MMWR week 25) – July 11 (MMWR week 28), overall weekly hospitalization rates increased for three consecutive weeks. Data for the weeks ending July 18 and July 25 (MMWR weeks 29 and 30) currently show a decline; however, those data are likely to…

On July 29, Ohio’s Pharmacy Board announced that beginning the following day, neither chloroquine drug could be dispensed to prevent or treat Covid-19. Prescriptions would require a diagnosis and those for Covid would be rejected.  Not only that, if a prescriber happened to have obtained the drug and wished to provide it to to a patient,…

Below is a Wall Street Journal article I am reposting in full–Nass https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politics-of-hydroxychloroquine-11594831408 OPINION | COMMENTARY The Politics of Hydroxychloroquine Trump touted it, so Biden denounces it. The FDA has suspended a permit for its use. Let doctors decide. By Allysia Finley July 15, 2020 12:43 pm ET Hubert Humphrey began his career as a…

The CDC provides updated US death data on 7/24/20 “involving Covid” (2nd column) @ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm Deaths in the US have been FLAT or DECREASING over the last five weeks. Why aren’t you hearing this? Because the media want to instill panic so they talk about rising cases (many asymptomatic, based on often inaccurate lab tests).  We…

The following is the text of Professor Harvey Risch’s opinion piece in yesterday’s issue of Newsweek. As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within…

Writing in the New England Journal, Dr. Fauci and his deputy, Clifford Lane tell us that despite “appropriate treatment with Remdesivir and dexamethasone, far too many people with Covid-19 will die.”  And if Fauci keeps preventing the use of cheap, available and effective treatments, he will be correct. See “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to…

Curious about the scientific evidence regarding masking?  It turns out, according to two Oxford professors of Evidence-Based Medicine who reviewed the world literature on this subject, that no reliable scientific evidence supports the use of masks.  No reliable evidence says they don’t work, either.  The “science” does not help us understand their pros and cons.  …

This entire post is a copy of the website in the title.  I was in a hurry when I posted it and did not make that clear.  https://c19study.com/ @CovidAnalysis     Share   Tweet         PrEP100%   PEP100%   Early100%   Late61%   All75%     65 studies (39 peer reviewed)  COVID deaths:  660,803 Global HCQ studies….

Back in March, I considered COVID-19 an extremely serious threat to all, and wrote detailed guidance on how people could protect themselves, here and here.   While I believe that my advice was prudent given what was known at the time, I now believe the current threat of COVID-19 is being exaggerated by the media and public figures, to…

What could be worse than giving potentially lethal doses of hydroxychloroquine to Hospitalized Covid-19 patients? The REMAP-Covid study is using the same HCQ dose as the Recovery trial for 6 days.  But it is even worse for the following reasons: You have to be close to death, either on a ventilator or in shock, on…

The Trump administration arranged on March 28 for 30-60 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine and certain (unapproved, unlicensed) chloroquine tablets to be donated by manufacturers to the National Strategic Stockpile (NSS) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).  The official who signed the EUA is the FDA’s Chief Scientist, Denise M. Hinton.  Denise Hinton is a nurse with a master’s degree,…

The Solidarity Trial is a WHO-led conglomeration of many national trials of treatments for Covid-19. In March alone, the WHO collected $108 million from donors to cover costs of Solidairy clinical trials. Per the WHO: As of 3 June 2020, more than 3500 patients have been recruited in 35 countries, with over 400 hospitals actively recruiting patients. Overall, over 100 countries…

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…

Prof Stuart Newman believes genetic engineering may have been involved at some point in the virus’s history Another expert on biotechnology has attacked the evidence being used to quash suggestions that SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that causes COVID-19, might have been genetically engineered. Professor Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York…

Great detailed pieces from Newsweek, which has been delving into the US government’s financial support for “gain of function” (which means increasing the virulence of a pathogen) research in Wuhan, China, which might have contributed to the formation of SARS-CoV-2. They were posted April 27, and 29.  From the latest story: The NIH research consisted…

Dr. Petrovsky, of Flinders University, Australia, was asked his opinion on the origin of SAR-2 and wrote the following:  “An extremely important but still unanswered question is what was the source of COVID-19 virus. While COVID-19 has close similarities to SARS and other bat viruses no natural virus matching to COVID-19 has been found in…

(Reuters Health) – Patients may continue to shed the SARS-CoV-2 virus for up to six weeks after symptoms emerge, a small study of recovered COVID-19 patients suggests.  One third tested positive 4 weeks after start of symptoms… so when can you go back to work after getting COVID? Dr. Zhang and colleagues summarized their experience…

Dr. Oz interviewed him here.

From FierceBiotech: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to grant Gilead Sciences’ experimental COVID-19 drug remdesivir a special, speedy approval, despite it failing to show any definitive clinical signs that it works. The report, from Japanese news site Kyodo, could make Japan the first country in the world to approve the med, which was…

Excellent discussion of what we know, don’t know, and may be assuming incorrectly–by Marc Lipsitch, PhD, professor at Harvard School of Public Health. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-immunity.html

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/did-this-virus-come-from-a-lab-maybe-not–but-it-exposes-the-threat-of-a-biowarfare-arms-race/ Dangerous pathogens are captured in the wild and made deadlier in government biowarfare labs. Did that happen here? SAM HUSSEINI There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild are sometimes studied in labs — and sometimes made more dangerous. That possibility,…

Mortality rates and spread We have had 5 weeks of quarantine.  I earlier pointed out that there is an average 4 week lag between exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and death (or recovery) for those with a significant Covid-19 illness.  So, if the quarantine was going to work as planned, we should now be able to see…

There are so many questions.  But so few answers.  So little to go on.  No workable Plan B in sight. When to reopen the economy?   When to send children back to school?   Will there be a second wave, or even a third wave, as occurred with the 1918 swine flu pandemic? Those questions demand answers,…

Dr. Tony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) does well.  According to the NY Times, “He is among the most highly paid federal employees, earning about $400,000 a year, more than the vice president or the chief justice of the United States.” Based on reporting by the Associated Press and British…

It turns out that hydroxychloroquine has been tested in a couple of hundred clinical trials–BEFORE Covid-19 appeared–for an extraordinarily wide range of medical conditions.  Just to give you a feel for the range of illnesses the drug was tried on (I stopped making a list when I got to 30), they include obesity, the prevention of…

I was interviewed by Dennis Bernstein along with independent journalist Sam Husseini tonight on KPFA (Pacifica)’s Flashpoints show.  I did my best to create some flashpoints over the failures of preparedness by the responsible federal agencies, and the enduring threat to the planet from biological “defense” research. https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=332258

I am going out on a limb here, since genetics has evolved quite a bit in the decades since I studied it.  I would appreciate readers to comment on arguments pro and con the natural evolution theory of SARS-CoV-2. While SARS-Cov-2 might have evolved naturally, from bats, pangolins and civets, I have trouble seeing that…

It is all too easy to find mistakes, misstatements and omissions made by public health officials around the Coronavirus pandemic.  Consider the fluent but facile Dr. Fauci.  Have you ever heard him say that the institute he directs has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on coronavirus research?  Has he tried to help Americans understand any…

SARS-CoV (the first SARS virus) and its cousin SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing our current pandemic) are classified by the US government as Select Agents, organisms that pose a significant threat to humans, and could be used for bioterrorism.  The current Select Agent program came into being after the 2001 anthrax letters event. The Department of Health…

In September 2018, the White House announced its improved National Biodefense Strategy, as required by Congress.  Below I have excerpted its Goals, Objectives and Conclusions, listed on pages 6-8 of the Strategy.  As you can see, despite the claimed quest for a biodefense capability, the US government has failed miserably in accomplishing any and all of…