Tag: PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION

Doctor Disciplined Over COVID Restrictions Criticism Tells Review Board She Was Upholding Oath

An Ontario physician who’s been critical on social media of the pandemic’s management, and cautioned by her professional college for doing so, pleaded her case in front of a review board on Oct. 12, saying her advocacy was part of upholding her oath. “For the past two years, my voice hasn’t been heard and ulterior…


In the Name of Science: How Modern Medicine Reduced the Art of Healing

“[The doctors] just see the disease, not me as a person,” a diabetic patient lamented to Dr. Rajeev Kurapati, Medical Director of Integrative Oncology at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky. The patient, alias Walter, had been in the hospital for a few weeks from complications of diabetes, including kidney failure, infections in his lower limbs, and…


Doctors Warn Pfizer COVID Treatment Paxlovid Can Interact With Common Medications

The COVID-19 drug Paxlovid can have dangerous interactions with common medications used to treat cardiovascular disease, including certain statins, warned doctors in a new review paper. A paper published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows the combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, or Pfizer’s Paxlovid, can interact with a number of…


Federal Health Minister Contemplates School COVID-19 Vaccination to Drive Uptake

The federal government is not satisfied with COVID-19 booster vaccination uptake and is contemplating going mobile to bring the shots to people, including into schools, according to Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. “These vaccines have to be easily accessible, families don’t have a lot of time, so do we go into schools, into long term…


EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Military to Keep Vaccine Mandate for ‘Core Functions,’ Drop It for Others: Leaked Directive

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is planning to keep its vaccine mandate in place for positions requiring high readiness and deployments and drop it for others, according to a draft directive obtained by The Epoch Times. “Following a review of the current public health situation, notably the evolution of the virus and increased CAF vaccination…


COVID VAERS Inconsistencies: Backlogged Data, Causal Data, Data Removal

Dr. Jessica Rose is a Canadian molecular biologist. She was also trained in biostatistics during her PhD and hated it. But since the vaccine rollouts over two years ago, she has been analyzing statistics every day. “I really still loathe statistics,” Rose said, yet that hasn’t stopped her from analyzing the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event…


CDC Makes Sweeping Overhaul to Key COVID-19 Metric

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday made another sweeping change to one of its pandemic-era responses. The federal health agency dropped its country-by-country COVID-19 travel health notices that it began issuing when COVID-19 started spreading in the United States in early 2020. Fewer countries are testing for the virus or…


Vaccine Mandates Caused Loss of Trust in Feds, Says Internal Polling

Internal polling conducted days before Ottawa announced it would suspend the vaccine mandates suggested they were unpopular and caused a loss of “trust” in the federal government. Vaccine mandates “represented overreach on the part of the federal government and unfairly infringed upon those who made the personal choice to not get vaccinated for Covid-19,” respondents…


Doctors: Exercise Is Essential to Cardiovascular Health

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has left most people indoors, and many find it hard to maintain their workout routines. According to a survey by the Hong Kong College of Cardiology, 80 percent of cardiovascular disease patients did not exercise sufficiently. In comparison, 30 percent of adults have reduced their exercise frequency since the pandemic. President…


Doctors: Lack of Exercise During Pandemic Worsened Cardiovascular Health

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has left most people indoors, and many find it hard to maintain their workout routines. According to a survey by the Hong Kong College of Cardiology, 80 percent of cardiovascular disease patients did not exercise sufficiently. In comparison, 30 percent of adults have reduced their exercise frequency since the pandemic. President…