Category: Contributing Columnist

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – More than a year ago, a theory was being proffered that the virus that causes COVID-19 was developed in a lab in Wuhan, China, as part of so-called gain-of-function research.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Given the CDC’s sudden change in its mask recommendations, even though they were further subject to local regulations; as well as continuing revelations as to the origin of SARS-CoV-2, public confidence in the official COVID narrative is waning.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While a major military conflict is now occurring in Israel, there is also another sort of conflict playing out, involving the Israeli government’s approach to controlling COVID-19.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BCG stands for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, and was originally deployed as a vaccine against tuberculosis.  13 years in development (1908-1921), the vaccine is credited to French bacteriologists Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The CDC describes “Long COVID” as:  “[A] range of symptoms that can last weeks or months after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 or can appear weeks after infection.

(HealthNewsDiget.com) – Here we go again with more items on COVID-19 that you may not have seen in the mainstream media. Of course, cancel culture existed in the field of medicine long before that term originated.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – You are probably familiar with the notion that Vitamin D is necessary for the proper functioning of the immune system.  This article will expand on that concept, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – We report again on the continuing saga.  What will ever flatten the curve on the constant flow of developments in the strange world of COVID-19?  In March, 2020, did you think that we’d still be talking about it now?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In this piece, we apply a little demographics and psychographics to healthcare, with an eye on how this may have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – This column has posted several articles on the pandemic, including four “Quick Takes” pieces that focus on a few newsworthy items in each essay.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While there surely are other topics in healthcare to cover, the media’s nonstop emphasis on scaring us with horror stories, changing narratives, and moving goalposts makes it difficult to stray too far from the COVID-19 beat.  Here then, are a few more quick takes….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In an era when Dr. Seuss is canceled, and clueless social media executives, along with other feckless corporate titans, seek to impose Nazi/Stalinist type censorship, it is no surprise that we need to be coy with drug names.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – At present, there are around 74 million children (age 17 and under) in this country.  Using the CDC’s one in 54 statistic, this means that nearly 1.4 million of them are afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It is becoming apparent that a bigger story than the COVID-19 pandemic per se is our collective reaction to it.  The first official reaction was for everyone to maintain social distancing, followed quickly by the need to mask up.

Yet more quick takes, continuing on from last week.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – 1.     Questionable “science” from the CDC on double-masking-Much of the media is breathlessly reporting that people should consider double-masking to create more protection against the variants of SARS-CoV-2 now appearing.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – We pick up where we left off last November.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is astonishing.  To be sure, there is an ongoing controversy of how many of these deaths were due to (from) COVID-19 or reflect people who died, happening to also have a COVID-19 infection.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to the book of Ecclesiastes, “There is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).  Perhaps that’s why it is generally useful to look at history to gain further understanding of current matters.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to the CDC, “Infection control prevents or stops the spread of infections in healthcare settings.”

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – One of the most confounding things to come out of our COVID pandemic is the matter of efficacy of rigorous lockdowns.  Taiwan (especially) and New Zealand are raised up as exemplars of how strict governmental control can achieve extremely low levels of infection.