Category: PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION

New Study Finds Evidence of ‘Long-Term’ Natural Immunity to COVID-19

People who recovered from COVID-19 still had protection a year later, according to a new study. Recovery from COVID-19 often grants a form of protection known as natural immunity. Studies have consistently shown that severe COVID-19 induces natural immunity, but researchers in the Netherlands sought to see if people who did not require hospital care…


Higher Percentage of Excess Mortality Among Younger Canadians Since Pandemic, but Cause Not Mainly COVID-19

While it has been mostly older people with comorbidities who have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, it has been younger Canadians who have experienced the highest percentage of excess mortality, according to data from Statistics Canada. Excess mortality takes place when more people die during a given period than normally expected…


Gene Changes Caused by Severe COVID-19 Infection Can Make Brain Age Faster, Study Says

Changes in the gene activity inside the brains of severe COVID-19 patients are “strikingly similar” to those seen in people of old age, a new study suggests. Published this week in Nature Aging, the study focused on genes that are expressed in the frontal cortex, a region in the brain critically responsible for cognition. Age-related…


FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn’t Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a drug called ivermectin does not work against COVID-19 but links to studies that show it does, an Epoch Times review has found. The FDA’s website states, “Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.” But half of the studies to which the FDA…


Suppressing Repurposed Drugs ‘Cost Millions of Lives’: Founder of COVID Treatment Fund

The executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, Steve Kirsch, has been working to make early COVID drug treatments available to the public, despite being assailed by the medical establishment for speaking out about the dangers of the COVID vaccines. During the pandemic, he founded the COVID-19 Treatment Fund to raise money to test…


NIH Recommends Against Using Diabetes Drug to Treat COVID-19

A U.S. panel is advising against using a medicine typically used against diabetes to treat COVID-19, despite multiple studies finding the medicine can be effective against the new illness. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel on Dec. 1 announced it was recommending that patients not receive metformin, the antidiabetic drug, unless…


Vaccinated People Make Up Majority of COVID-19 Mortalities: CDC Data

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that vaccinated and boosted people made up most of the COVID-19 deaths in August. Of the total 6,512 deaths recorded in August 2022, 58.6 percent of the deaths were attributed to vaccinated or boosted people, and seem to be a sign of a growing…


Vaccinated People Make Up Majority of COVID-19 Deaths: CDC Data

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that vaccinated and boosted people made up most of the COVID-19 deaths in August. Of the total 6,512 deaths recorded in August 2022, 58.6 percent of the deaths were attributed to vaccinated or boosted people, and seem to be a sign of a growing…


FDA Was Excited by Response to ‘Edgy’ Ivermectin Twitter Post, Documents Show

Top U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials were excited by the response to the agency’s controversial ivermectin Twitter post, internal emails show. The Aug. 21, 2021, post is now at the center of a court case. The post said: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” It linked…


COVID-19 Deaths Among Children and Youth Are Extremely Rare: Study

COVID-19 deaths among people under 20 are extremely rare, with most fatalities occurring in children with specific underlying conditions, a study found. The researchers found that deaths in England due to COVID-19 are very low in children and young people (CYP), even with the emergence of new variants. Most deaths occurred in individuals with underlying…