Posted March 27, 2020
Due to it being an enveloped virus (meaning its single-strand RNA is enveloped in a bubble of lipid or fatty molecules), COVID-19 (as all other coronaviruses) is highly susceptible to soap and disinfectants, which is good news. Some disinfectants are more effective than others, however, which is the focus of this article. Read more.
Archives for March 2020
Tell Congress: Remember the Farmers We Rely on to Feed Us!
Posted March 27, 2020
As Congress rushed to pass a $2-trillion stimulus package to address the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, 37 members of Congress spoke up to point out that some very important people had been forgotten: the farmers we expect to continue feeding us! Read more.
12 Doctors and Scientists Express Doubts and Concerns over the Draconian Response to COVID-19
Posted March 27, 2020
Twelve medical experts express doubts and concerns over the official narrative for the Coronavirus. Their concerns include: the fact that destruction of the economy will cause more deaths than the coronavirus, the fact that there are no scientific standards for testing for the presence of the virus, the fact that most deaths are only in the elderly population, the fact that children are prevented from developing immunity by closing schools, the fact that more people die from traditional flu than COVID-19, and the fact that, in Italy, a lockdown failed to slow the spread of the disease. This includes video statements from two doctors in Germany that, are well worth watching even though you may have to read the English translation at the bottom of the screen. Read more.
What We Can Learn From A Pandemic “Tabletop Exercise”?
Posted March 27, 2020
We are living in unfamiliar times. We are frightened by the highly infectious coronavirus CoV-2019 or COVID-19, and our hearts go out to those who have been directly affected. We are in a global “lockdown,” “sheltering in place,” against an invisible but potentially deadly enemy. Our world has changed rapidly and dramatically since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Read more.
A Brief History of Chloroquine
Posted March 27, 2020
On March 16, 2020, US President Donald Trump announced during a press conference that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have shown “encouraging early results [against the coronavirus],” and that “we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.” The statement was later clarified by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, MD, who said that chloroquine was “already approved for the treatment of malaria, as well as an arthritis condition. That’s a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at, as to whether an expanded use approach to that could be done to actually see if that benefits patients. And again, we want to do that in the setting of a clinical trial, a large pragmatic clinical trial to actually gather that information and answer the question that needs to be answered. Read more.
Breaking News: COVID-19 patients getting vitamin C therapy in N.Y. hospitals
Posted March 27, 2020
We are now rapidly approaching half a million confirmed cases of COVID-19, globally. Doctors and health experts – around the world – are scrambling to find effective treatments that will help people suffering from the respiratory disease caused by the COVID-19 infection. Diving headfirst into a flurry of clinical trials and experimental drugs are medical teams in New York, one of the hardest hit areas in the U.S. Read more.
The Plan to Vaccinate Every American — National Registry to Record Everyone’s Vaccination Status
Posted March 27, 2020
Today, the nationwide federally funded Electronic Health Records system captures the details of every visit you make to a doctor’s office, hospital, pharmacy, laboratory or other medical facility; every medical diagnosis you get; every drug you have been prescribed and every vaccine you accept or refuse. Read more.
A Bill We Helped Write Might Hold Key for COVID-19
Posted March 27, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has medical professionals scrambling to see what treatments they can offer patients. The latest estimates are that a vaccine is at least a year away. The World Health Organization has identified one drug that may offer some hope: an experimental drug called Remdesivir. The drug was effective against viral infections in the laboratory and in animal experiments but failed in an Ebola trial. It is currently being tested on the coronavirus in China and the US, among other places. Read more.
Last Chance to Protect Homeopathy
Posted March 27, 2020
We must oppose the FDA’s actions against homeopathic medicines now. Action Alert! For many months now, we’ve been telling you about the FDA’s latest actions with regard to homeopathic medicines. These actions upend decades of successful regulation of these important products that have been used safely for centuries. The wording of the FDA’s draft guidance threatens all homeopathic medicines and gives the FDA the ability to go after any homeopathic drug it wants to. Read more.
Natural Treatments for Pandemic Now
Posted March 27, 2020
Intravenous (IV) vitamin C is already being used as a treatment for COVID-19 in China, with clinical trials underway. The US government must do the same. Action Alert! Read more.