With essentials in short supply, finding needed item could be a hardship. What's not in short supply is COVID boosters—and possible mandates to get them. The promise that vaccines would end the pandemic has proven false.
As Americans diligently work to flatten the pandemic spread curve, the recent federal advisory committee authorizing COVID vaccines for toddlers and infants as young as six months old has many parents relieved that their babies can be vaccinated.
With fears of COVID-19 subsiding, I hope life is returning to a normalcy. Even as the disease is not gone, officialdom may be poised to impose a new round of masking and lockdowns to fight off an emerging threat: monkeypox.
Just as fears of COVID-19 are easing, new anxieties are arising about war with Russia. Are you prepared? Americans must not assume that the war is just "over there" and like COVID should prepare over here.
There may be less news about COVID because of the war in Ukraine, but can you let your guard down? As the fastmoving Omicron storm has passed, on its heels BA.2, a new variant, already choking Europe.
Will this pandemic ever end? The Omicron variant is on the march. Everyone may eventually get it, perhaps without any symptoms. The graph below shows the rising incidence of COVID in both vaccinated and unvaccinated in Iceland.
Now that Omicron has appeared on the scene, and mask mandates are being reinstituted, are you bringing back your old masks? Many expect instant and all-day protection from the N95 mask. Read on for more information.
The chart that I posted previously, which showed that all-cause mortality is twice as high in persons receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, as opposed to the unvaccinated, got more than a million hits. And a storm of criticism.
Big Bird is advertising shots for tots, and many are facing unemployment just after Christmas because of shot mandates as workplace mandates go into effect and workers either vaccinate or produce a weekly negative test result. So why wait?
Are you one of the "hesitant" Americans facing the vaccine deadline? You could believe Dr. Fauci, the AMA, Pfizer, Joe Biden, CNN, and the countless others who say the vaccine is "safe and effective," so just do it.
Sadly, people who have been double-jabbed still don't feel safe. They may be shunning family members and long-time friends who have chosen not to be injected, even relatives and friends who had gotten COVID and had recovered.
On Oct 26, 2021, a panel of experts recommended 17 to zero that FDA authorize the Pfizer vaccine at one-third dose, for 5-to-12-year-olds. Will you be rushing your child to the nearest vaccine center? Or worrying about mandates?
As we head into what is traditionally known as the busiest travel season of the year, travelers everywhere are deciding whether to postpone their holiday trip plans, as they confront the messaging, mandates, and medical science.
Scientific research demands complete reporting, control groups, follow up and further testing within larger control groups to detect a difference, COVID, with its high communicability rate and power over global economies has denied us these opportunities.
For many Anti-Vaxxers, COVID couldn't happen to them. The sad truth is that COVID is more dangerous than expected. Horror stories of Anti-vaxxers arriving in the ER hoping to be spared the ravages of the disease only to die.
If you are not already in the half of Americans who are fully vaccinated, President Biden’s speech on mandates gives the vaccination decision a new urgency as the vaccination campaign gives way to direct orders.
Breathless headlines featuring "the Virus” are beginning to fade into an undercurrent of Covid fear as stories about a more pervasive and ultimately more lethal virus: a growing disregard for others and devaluation of life.
The FDA is adding a new warning for the Johnson & Johnson COVID jab because of 100 preliminary reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) after the administration of 12.8 million doses. Of these reports, 95 were serious and required hospitalization.
If your faith forbids sterilization, or your respect for human rights forbids involuntary sterilization, then patients should consider the risk of infertility from COVID jabs. With all the possible residual COVID medical issues, sterilization has become a waiting game.
Many young Americans and their parents believe that a college degree will open doors to a successful future. So, when the letter arrives saying you must get this injection or you are barred from our campus, they rush to comply.
Many patients tell us their doctors are pressuring them to get the COVID jab. The American Medical Association (AMA) claims that 96 percent of doctors are themselves fully vaccinated. Let's pause and delve deeper into the numbers.
After listening to the June 23, 2021, emergency meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) concerning reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) after the COVID jabs, especially the second one, here are my takeaways.
Are you one of the millions of American students (or their parents) facing the choice of taking the COVID shot or being barred from school? The 800 reported cases of heart inflammation, give a new urgency to the question.
Are you immune to COVID? If you are, you probably don’t know. However, you do know if you’ve had your vaccine or not, which has become the most important act everyone can do to move the needle to post-pandemic.
As the vaccine push is on, residual medical uncertainties have continued to be part of the national conversation most importantly, for those who are or are hoping to become pregnant in the immediate future, should they be vaccinated?
More than 202million Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine and as all adults will soon be eligible and with all the conflicting information people are asking, "Which one should I take?"
Masks. Surgical, two-layer, three ply disposables with protection filtration or cloth. As the need to mask up remains present knowing the materials included in the manufacture of the any mask could be as important as the mask itself.
After more than a year, SARS-CoV-2 is still killing people. The long-term damage of this silent, diabolical enemy are just becoming known and medical professionals are learning more about how it does its lethal damage.
Candidate Joe Biden’s promised plan to control the COVID-19 pandemic featured everybody wearing a mask for 100 days. Former CDC director Robert Redfield said it might take only four, six, or eight weeks and later up to 12 weeks.
New COVID-19 infections have fallen 45% in the U.S. and 30% globally in the past three weeks, according to the Daily Mail, millions are getting vaccinated, hospitalizations have fallen 26% since they peaked in mid-January.
What will you do if you get COVID while waiting in line for the vaccine, or even after? If you are in Mexico City, you will be treated with ivermectin where studies show a considerable drop in positive cases.
Doctors and public health authorities are still pushing flu shots, fearing a "twindemic," but should you pause for thought? Some quip that COVID-19 is a great killer, having wiped out deaths from influenza, heart disease, and cancer.
Vaccines are coming out at warp speed, but is the virus faster? It was feared that a new strain of COVID was loose on a mink farm in Denmark, so a million mink were killed, destroying an industry.
Students of history feel that we are living in a time comparable to 1848 (the Spring of Nations) in Europe, 1917 in Russia, 1933 in Germany—or the times of the French Revolution, the American Revolution, or the U.S. Civil War.
Millions of vaccines are being distributed, Moderna is confident it can produce 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, enough for two doses to 75 percent of the U.S. population. But obviously not everyone can be vaccinated at once.
The trucks are rolling, bringing pallets of COVID-19 vaccine to distribution centers. For those in the 1A allocation group, you'll be the first for vaccination. A wave of concern has followed. What precautions should individuals take?
Prison health, for humanitarian reasons and because prisons are breeding grounds for contagious diseases, should be high on the list of distribution for the vaccine even as the incarcerated are seen as the most expendable members of society.
Now that we have a randomized controlled trial (RCT) about masks, will it change what you do? After being rejected by three major journals, an RCT completed by 4,862 participants has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
How safe will you be if you get the Moderna "95%-effective" vaccine? Pfizer and Moderna have announced impressive-sounding effectiveness figures for their revolutionary vaccines, and Americans may think "95% effective" translates to complete protection if you encounter the virus.
Most Americans are aware of the predicted second wave of COVID-19 cases. It's the Grinch that is stealing Christmas. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is predicting up to 282,000 deaths by Dec 5, 2020.
Pfizer, with its recent announcement has generated much excitement about the 90 percent effectiveness reported for the COVID-19 vaccine—which is far better than expected. Only three vaccines in 10 years have been more than 50 percent effective.
Are you looking forward to Thanksgiving with your family? Or awaiting Dr. Anthony Fauci's permission? With most traditional events geared to usher in the holiday season cancelled Americans are forced to make decisions on any upcoming family gatherings.
Some say, perhaps in jest, that COVID-19 will vanish on Nov. 4, at least if the correct candidate wins. Each candidate has presented a plan to combat the coronavirus, but what will the election's outcome determine?
Professors from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, along with more than 200,000 medical practitioners, scientists, and citizens have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, stating that to continue current COVID-19 policies until a vaccine is developed will "cause irreparable damage."
For those who are old enough, you may remember Grandma telling you to play outside and get fresh air and sunshine. Fresh air dilutes and dries out germs, and the ultraviolet light in sunshine kills them.
Six months into the pandemic, there is hardly a sole on earth who isn't in Coronavirus overload. What's more, we don't know what to believe! This is my attempt to intelligently discuss corona-phobias, facts, fiction, and feelings.
President of Doctors for Disasters Preparedness, Dr. Jane Orient, M.D., remains a strong advocate of the drug hydroxychloroquine in the fight against the Coronavirus, despite the various labels the drug has been given and its mainstream stigma.
Every school year, children catch illnesses at school, and so do teachers and parents. Occasionally an outbreak causes schools to close for a time, say during a flu epidemic that is causing a lot of absenteeism.
Dr. Jane Orient, the President of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, explains the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is withholding the vital anti-viral drug, Hydroxychloroquine, in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus by blocking the distribution.
As Covid-19 cases surge across the United States citizens are supposed to follow "evidence-based medicine" these days, but there is no firm evidence to support the masking and "social distancing" mandates being imposed throughout the land.
Today, as COVID-19 surges in border states, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) calls on governors to consider the approach used for HIV/AIDS instead of more lockdowns and issued the following statement.
As people begin to emerge from house arrest, there is much fear about a resurgence of cases of COVID-19. People wonder how to protect themselves, and some are going to a lot of trouble to disinfect packages and groceries.
If the country re-opens for business, there will be more cases of COVID-19 reported, and more deaths. And the more tests we do, the more cases we will find. If we remain locked down the expectations are the same.
The Coronavirus has been a cruel enemy, invisible, free to invade unchecked, with a strength any general would admire, unabated by traditional military might, the pandemic handicapped the world's economies and challenged every available medical resource.
Will the FDA Find Courage in the Age of CoViD-19? While on lockdown to maintain our sanity many of us have turned to movies. I beg you not to rent Pandemic, Contagion, or 28 Days Later.
As the coronavirus becomes embedded in our psyche with a new revelation countering previous knowledge each day, knowing a few do's and don't may be just what the doctor ordered to collectively calm nerves and gain insight.
COVID-19 has been, in all probability, active for six months in Wuhan, China, before any global disease investigation team mobilized to confirm the onset of the new coronavirus, which becomes day one for the issuance of interim procedural guidelines.
In today's brave new world, imagine receiving a letter from the school principal about your only child: Your son will not be home tonight, but your daughter will be home in a few days.
With confirmed cases of the Corona-virus worldwide now reaching 90,000, three thousand new cases in two days, and the United States finally seeing confirmed cases and unfortunately deaths, the biblical reference to a worldwide plague, hasn't escaped media.
As the death toll and cases of 2019- nCoV (aka novel coronavirus) infection rises, our curiosity increases as to the epidemic’s when, why, where, and how. Is the new virus naturally occurring, animal to human transmission, a bio-weapon?
Candidate Joe Biden’s promised plan to control the COVID-19 pandemic featured everybody wearing a mask for 100 days. Former CDC director Robert Redfield said it might take only four, six, or eight weeks and later up to 12 weeks.
Just a few short years ago, GBOD Hospitality, helmed by brothers Raymond and Patrick Davoudi, debuted Mezé Greek Fusion in the heart of downtown San Diego bringing a fabulous new flare to the city's famed Gaslamp Quarter.
Judge Aaron Persky, who sentenced the Stanford convicted rapist to six months including time served, has stopped hearing felony cases due to the public outrage over his leniency in what has been deemed a travesty of justice.
Café Society, from Lionsgate and Amazon Studios, presents the newest film from quintessential New York director Woody Allen, who charms with a less neurotic and inviting bi-coastal look on The Golden Age, family, romance, love, choice and circumstance.
On April 6, the first official press conference of the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival, which will take place from 22 to 29 April, was held at the Moscow hotel "standard" where Jury and Films were announced.
White Boy Rick, from Columbia Pictures Corporation, presents the story of Rick Wershe, Jr., a 15-year-old drug dealer in 1980's, burned-out, addicted Detroit, recruited by the FBI who used him and then denied knowing him.
