This New COVID Variant Is the Most Unpredictable One Yet


Authors: David Axe Published Apr. 03, 2022 10:47PM ET  After spreading across Asia and Europe, the BA.2 subvariant of the novel coronavirus is now dominant in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Right now, U.S. COVID cases are at a six-month low. But what happens next in the U.S. and nearby countries is hard to predict. Looking to Europe […]

Covid infection associated with a greater likelihood of Type 2 diabetes, according to review of patient records


Authors: Lenny Bernstein – March 21, 2022 The Washington Post People who had covid-19 were at greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes within a year than those who managed to avoid the coronavirus, according to a large review of patient records released Monday. The finding is true even for people who had less severe or asymptomatic […]

Arthritis drug reduces mortality in severe COVID-19, huge clinical trial finds


For hospitalized patients already taking other proven COVID-19 drugs, pill further reduces chance of death Authors: KAI KUPFERSCHMIDT 3 MAR 2022 1:20 PM Baricitinib, an oral drug that dampens an overactive immune system and is commonly used by people with rheumatoid arthritis, reduced hospitalized COVID-19 patients’ risk of dying by 13%, investigators of the world’s […]

Mystery of the missing workers? Long COVID a big piece of the puzzle


Authors: Michael E. Kanell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Feb 19, 2022 She suffered cardiac arrest twice and was in the hospital for three months, then came home to more than a year of kidney problems and intermittent brain fog, tingling in her hands, numbness in her right foot and a need for oxygen after even modest […]

Long COVID Could Be Linked to the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the Vagus Nerve


Authors: EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES FEBRUARY 11, 2022 New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, April 23-26) suggests that many of the symptoms connected to post-COVID syndrome (PCC, also known as long COVID) could be linked to the effect of the […]

Speech Therapist: 364% Surge In Baby And Toddler Referrals Thanks To Mask Wearing


A speech therapist says that mask wearing during the pandemic has caused a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers. Authors: by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, SUNDAY, JAN 30, 2022 – 03:50 PM Jaclyn Theek told WPBF News that before the pandemic, only 5 per cent of patients were babies and […]

New York Times Admits Unvaxxed People Have ‘Lower Rates of Infection And Hospitalization’ Of COVID-19 Than The Vaxxed.


Authors: Natalie Winters A January 19th update posted to the outlet’s COVID-19 live blog explains how unvaccinated individuals who previously contracted the virus “had lower rates of infection and hospitalization than those protected by vaccines alone”: During the week beginning May 30, 2021, vaccinated people who had not experienced Covid had the lowest risk of coronavirus infection […]

Early Omicron Breakthroughs Show MRNA Vaccines’ Weakness


Authors: Antony Sguazzin Copyright © Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Booster shots with messenger RNA vaccines such as those made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE failed to block omicron in a study of some of the first documented breakthrough cases caused by the highly contagious variant. Seven German visitors to Cape Town experienced symptomatic Covid-19 infections […]

New data show those who recovered from Covid-19 were less likely than vaccinated to get infected during Delta wave


Authors: Andrew Joseph  Jan. 19, 2022 New data released Wednesday showed that both vaccination and prior infection offered strong protection against infection and hospitalization from Covid-19 during the Delta wave — and that case and hospitalization rates were actually lower among people who had recovered from Covid-19 than among those who had been vaccinated. The […]

Colchicine could cut COVID-19 deaths – Israeli scientist


Authors: By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Published: DECEMBER 14, 2021 17:37 An ancient Greek drug derived from the saffron plant could improve the treatment of people with severe COVID-19 and reduce the COVID mortality rate by as much as 50%, according to a report published earlier this month in the European Journal of Internal Medicine by an Israeli researcher from the Hebrew University of […]