COVID-19 treatments
Beijing girl’s painful experience of taking her COVID-positive father to the emergency room
On December 17, the daughter of a COVID patient cried and complained about the process of trying to get help for her sick father. She took her father to three hospitals in one day in an attempt to get treatment; Chaoyang Hospital, Huaxin Hospital, and Minhang Hospital, and sadly, her ...
‘The sweet-tasting vaccine’: China promotes inhaler vaccine against COVID
According to the Global Times, a booster vaccine against COVID-19, that is inhaled, was being distributed in Shanghai on Wednesday, October 26. A person with the surname Shen told the Global Times, "The whole process is very convenient. It also tastes a little bit sweet." The Global Times also reported that ...
Winter Olympics: 498 COVID positive cases and 23 Uyghur netizens detained
Since the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, 118 COVID positive cases have been identified in the "closed-loop" for eight days in a row, rising to a total of 498 cases. Also, during the Winter Olympics, 23 Uyghur netizens were detained for commenting on Uyghur athletes whom ...
Sinovac: Two residents found no antibodies after booster shots
According to Radio Free Asia, two residents of Beijing and Puyang, Henan Province, who just received their third dose of the vaccine, recently went to the hospital to test for antibodies to the new coronavirus, and the test reports showed that both of them were negative, meaning they had no ...
FDA temporarily bans the use of monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID
The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) decided to prohibit the use of monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID patients, arguing that they are not effective against the variant called Omicron. The decision was poorly received by Governor Ron DeSantis, one of the main promoters of these drugs. "Because data show these treatments ...
Hospitals stop prioritizing COVID-19 treatment based on race
A Missouri religious not-for-profit healthcare network will cease treating coronavirus (COVID-19) patients from a different race preferentially. St Louis-headquartered SSM Health will stop prioritizing non-white COVID-19 individuals who present at any of its 23 locations across the Midwest region. "Early versions of risk calculators across the nation appropriately included race and gender ...
‘Vaccine during pregnancy’: Scottish fertility clinics withdraw services for unvaccinated women
During the early phases of the COVID lockdown, Scotland put a hold on IVF treatment for all women. As a result of "ongoing uncertainty" around the COVID-19 variant Omicron, fertility treatment for women who have not fully vaccinated has been put on hold. Unvaccinated women are not considered entirely protected until they ...
New Biden plan requires health insurers to cover 8 free COVID at-home tests per person per month as of Jan. 15
As part of the overall strategy to make COVID tests available for millions of Americans, private health insurers will have to provide up eight at-home COVID tests per month per person starting Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. Likewise, the Biden administration expects to make 500 million tests available for Americans in ...
Former President Donald Trump says that ‘people should be able to choose how they want to govern their own health’
The US death toll from COVID-19 during President Joe Biden's first ten months in office has surpassed the recorded death toll during President Donald Trump's last 12 months in office, when a vaccine against the virus was not still available, according to Joe Biden's first 10 months coronavirus death toll ...
People over 60 years old and medical workers are approved by the Israeli government for the fourth dose
On Monday, the Israeli government began allowing anyone over the age of 60, as well as healthcare personnel who had not received a booster injection in at least four months, the opportunity to acquire a fourth shot of the vaccine. As the Omicron variety raises infection rates worldwide, this project places ...
New York says COVID-19 treatments are in short supply, non-white people prioritized
New York will prioritize non-White, Hispanic, and Latino people in distributing COVID-19 treatments due to the short supply. Last week, the New York Department of Health released a plan to distribute antiviral and monoclonal antibody treatment products, including Paxlovid from Pfizer and molnupiravir from Merck.Due to the low supply, the department ...
Sen. Rubio says ‘the real crisis is irrational hysteria’ referring to Covid-19 surge
On Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., referred to "irrational hysteria" about the increase in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant. Rubio's comments came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more than 75,900 new COVID-19 cases in Florida on the same day. "Record numbers testing ...
Paxlovid, first at-home Pfizer pills for the coronavirus, is expected to arrive in Israel soon
For people older than 12, Israel has ordered 100,000 units of Paxlovid, a Pfizer antiviral COVID 19 pill. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett agreed to the deal over the phone with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who is in charge of the company. Pfizer says the drug pill, named Paxlovid, cuts the ...
FDA panel endorses Merck’s first COVID-19 pill
On Tuesday, Nov. 30, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that a panel closely endorses Merck's first tightly monitored COVID-19 pill. The FDA voted 13-10 that the advantages of an antiviral medicine called "molnupiravir" exceed the hazards of using it during pregnancy, such as the possibility of birth abnormalities.This announcement ...
New COVID treatment shows early success in preventing severe illness in patients
A novel medication is showing promise in keeping vulnerable Sydney residents infected with COVID-19 (Chinese Communist Party Virus or CCP Virus) from dying or needing to be hospitalized. Doctors are reporting early successes with sotrovimab on patients with a higher risk of developing severe COVID symptoms as the expected rush of ...
Congressmen ask Biden not to ration the anti-COVID treatment for Florida
After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis successfully offered anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment to the people of his state, it was rationed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Biden administration. For their part, Florida Republican lawmakers on Sept. 17 demanded that the Biden-Harris administration reverse its decision to ration coronavirus ...
Ohio judge orders hospital to use ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment
An Ohio judge on Monday, August 30, ruled in favor of the use of ivermectin in treating a COVID-19 patient, a therapy that so far had not been approved by federal health agencies for combatting the virus. The order of the controversial drug was made last week by Judge Gregory Howard ...
Vaccinated individuals may affect unvaccinated pregnant women, said OBGYN doctor
In an interview with the Gateway Pundit, doctor Shelley Cole, a board-certified OBGYN and Medical Director for America’s Front Line Doctors talked of her concern over the potential threats vaccines for CCP Virus may pose to pregnant people. “Concern started when we saw that individuals who were not vaccinated, who were ...
News study: Hydroxychloroquine and zinc effective treating COVID-19, increased survival rate by almost 3 times
The controversial medicine hydroxychloroquine, which former President Donald Trump promoted, helped very ill coronavirus patients live longer, a new study shows. According to the observational study published on medRxiv, the antimalarial medicine hydroxychloroquine, combined with zinc, could enhance the coronavirus survival rate by about 200 percent in ventilated patients with a ...
Without such advanced science, the ancient Chinese overcame a plague with a magic cure
The 5000-year-old ancient Chinese civilization tells us the story of a famous imperial chef who retired with enormous wealth and went to live in his hometown, where he opened a tavern that all the people loved to eat at. After some time, a plague broke out throughout the county. The Imperial ...
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