A large clinical trial in Canada has confirmed what medical experts say about treating Covid-19 with ivermectin: It doesn’t work. At all. “In the largest trial yet analyzing the effectiveness of ivermectin on treating the coronavirus, … researchers found that Covid-19 patients at r[...]
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Oklahoma house calls
Excerpted from E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes, by James Patterson and Matt Everson (get it here), at p. 246: “We get a lot of calls to deal with emergency situations in the rural parts of Oklahoma, where a lot of people live off the grid, without TV or ru[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 4:16 pm § in Health
New BA.2 variant “serious threat” to seniors boosted over 5 months ago
With the BA.2 Omicron subvariant “picking up steam in the United States,” about 28 million seniors risk severe illness because they’re unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, or it’s over 5 months since they got a booster shot, CNN reported on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 (read stor[...]
March 13th, 2022 - 6:17 pm § in Health
What’s next for Covid-19?
“Things seem to be looking up,” CNN says (here). “Vaccines still do a good job of keeping people alive and out of the hospital. There’s increasing access to tests and treatments.” Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are down (but still significant), and the health [...]
What, exactly, are they protesting?
I certainly get the feeling it wasn’t just Covid-19 mandates, but something bigger. In a column last week, Seattle Times writer Danny Westneat pointed out that even though all Washington mask mandates will end two days from now (on March 12), the protests against mask mandates go on, and on, a[...]
Anti-masker calls security guard a “Nazi” for doing his job
Ricky Schroder (bio here) is a minor celebrity, so not-famous I never heard of him until he called a security guard a “Nazi” for doing his job (no mask, no entry). The Twittersphere isn’t being kind to him (see tweets here). I’m not, either. He’s a jerk. This video sh[...]
Where Covid-19 almost certainly came from
There may never be a definitive answer, but genome-tracking scientists have zeroed in on a specific stall at the Wuhan live-animal market (diagram below), and all but ruled out the “lab leak” theory. Read here the complicated story of how they trailed Covid-19 to where it jumped from ani[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 8:07 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Idaho’s GOP legislature threatens LGBQT kids with life in prison for getting sex-change surgery
Idaho Republicans passed a bill on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, “to make it a crime punishable by life in prison for a parent to seek out gender-affirming health care for their transgender child,” NBC News reported (here). Homosexuality and transsexuality are natural phenomenon, but Republica[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 9:20 pm § in Health
Most Americans believe Covid-19 is nearly over, but is it?
You really can’t answer “yes,” because Covid-19 hasn’t gone away, and isn’t likely to. But most experts, “with some reservations,” think “in the US and much of Europe, the most destructive waves of Covid-19 are” behind us. (See article here.) In [...]
The ugly side of Ron DeSantis
This bully who picks on kids for wearing masks wants to be President. No way. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]