Australian Scientists have shown that an anti-parasitic drug already available around the world can kill the virus within 48 hours. Scientists from Monash University in Melbourne showed that a single dose of the drug, Ivermectin, could stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture –…
By Del Bigtree As the U.S. shutdown continues, Americans are divided. Is the panic surrounding death rates justified, or is it blown out of proportion? The only way to answer this question is to dig into the real numbers. [do_widget id=text-16] Visit Del Bigtree at…
By Mac Slavo This is irony at its finest. The United States attorney general used Twitter to tell the public to NOT use face masks to protect against the coronavirus because they don’t work, they only work for health care workers. Now, the Centers for…
Common bisphenol A (BPA) substitutes can affect the developing fetus and cause hypertension in later life, suggests a rodent study accepted for presentation at ENDO 2020, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting. The research will be published in a special supplemental section of the Journal of…
By Mac Slavo A new Oxford study said that millions of people in the United Kingdom (and, therefore, in other countries) have likely already gotten the coronavirus, recovered from it, and are immune. But the mainstream media doesn’t want this information to get out, and…
By Peter Tocci It’s surreal. Very close to the day the UK was locked down, UK health authorities re-classified COVID-19: “As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.” However, policy has not…
By Neenah Payne Note: Register for the Free Coronavirus Virtual Series: March 30-April 1 Two radically different views of the threat COVID-19 poses to America and the world are increasingly playing out now. Which view the US government adopts will have major implications for health,…
By Tyler Durden One week after the FDA granted emergency approval to a point-of-care test purporting to produce results in under 45 minutes, the agency has granted “emergency use authorization” to Abbott Labs so the company can bring to market a rapid-response test for COVID-19…
Op-Ed by Rosanne Lindsay Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin Here we are on March 28th with people around the world falling in line to sacrifice their freedom to assemble…
By John Vibes A 101-year-old COVID-19 coronavirus patient in Italy was discharged from the hospital this week. Surviving this illness at his age is quite an accomplishment, but this is not his first pandemic. The patient, who the hospital identified only as “Mr. P” was…
By Emma Fiala All across the United States people are spending a lot more time in their homes and will be there for the foreseeable future. As such, many people are looking for new activities to occupy their time, including ways of staying fit. Thankfully…
By Anthony McLennan An Italian 3D printer company has devised a method to turn snorkeling masks into ventilators, which will be of huge benefit to coronavirus patients. The coronavirus affects people’s respiratory systems and there is already a worldwide shortage of ventilators. But in this…
Feeling like all your life stressors are impacting your physical and mental wellbeing? You’re not alone. The American Psychological Association reports that nearly half of adults lie awake at night due to stress. Even more alarming is that 77% regularly experience physical symptoms of stress…
By Jon Miltimore Our World in Data, an online publication based at the University of Oxford, announced on Tuesday that it had stopped relying on World Health Organization (WHO) data for its models, citing errors and other factors. The group’s founder, Max Roser, said researchers…
By Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev RN (emeritus), MS, CNS Looks like hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin might be a godsend to end this COVID-19 pandemic after world-renown French immunologist Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, reported a 100% cure in 40 of 40 patients. Let’s pray it’s so, but despite…
Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming, antibiotics have saved millions of lives from fatal infections world-wide. However, with time bacteria have developed mechanisms to escape the effects of antibiotics – they have become resistant. With fewer antibiotics available to treat…
In a new study of patients with severe COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) hospitalized on ventilators, researchers found that lying face down was better for the lungs. The research letter was published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Lung…
By Anthony McLennan Outlets selling legal marijuana in the United States have shown huge increases in sales as the coronavirus spreads rapidly across the country. According to the cannabis data company Headset, sales in states where the purchase of marijuana is legal – including California,…
By Peter Tocci Introduction What do coronavirus and money/currency have in common? As with so many things in this psychological operation we call society, it matters not what they are, but what people believe they are and their corresponding behavior. With things like U.S. states…
The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health, CDC, UCLA and Princeton University scientists The New England Journal of Medicine. The scientists found…
