My quick review of Watch the Water: A few people wrote to me on social media and asked me what I thought about the recently released documentary, Watch the Water. I hadn’t seen it or even heard of it, so couldn’t offer anything substantial. Then I started seeing posts about “snake venom” on Twitter and […]
COVID vaccines, transmission, death & public health policy: The CDC recently published a study as part of its MMWR to assess how well the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters impacted case numbers, deaths, and incident rate ratios (IRR) during the pre-Delta time period, Delta emergence (June ’21), Delta dominance (July-Nov’21) and during the emergence of Omicron […]
By Dr. Eeks A recent CDC study looked at COVID-19 cases as related to COVID vaccination status and recovery from previous infection in the states of California and New York between the period of May’21-Nov-21. Four cohorts of adults over the age of 18 were considered in the analysis: Unvaccinated with no previous COVID-19 […]
COVID Calculator: Predict your chance of hospitalization or death. Researchers in Israel developed a COVID calculator to predict anyone’s chance of getting hospitalized with COVID-19 or dying from it once infected. Dr. Ariel Israel MD PhD et al created the calculator, the basis for which is published as a preprint study here. In my […]
COVID’s effect on sperm: By: Dr. Eeks A recent study in Belgium looked at the sperm of 121 men, average age of 34, who had recovered from a validated COVID infection. The goal of the study was to determine COVID’s effect on sperm, if any, since the receptors COVID binds to (ACE-2 receptors) are […]
By: Eeks Prental exposure to COVID and Neurodevelopment Issues: A preprint study (not yet peer-reviewed) shows that prenatal exposure to COVID-19 may lead to neurodevelopment issues in the baby. Obviously wait till this is peer-reviewed before you run with it, but it’s still interesting research to consider. What happens when there is prenatal exposure to […]
What we can do to improve our health during a pandemic and beyond: My top health tips This is not medical or public health advice. This is information only, though things that I myself do. By Dr. Eeks A lot of the news is about things we can’t do during the pandemic. There are […]
COVID in Deer? WHAT?!? Just another thing to worry about? Kind of. Researchers have recently discovered that COVID-19 can “jump” from the human species to white-tailed deer. Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi was one of the researchers studying this phenomenon and joined me on my Causes or Cures podcast to explain what this means for the pandemic. […]
Gum for COVID-19 might be a thing one day. A study titled “Debulking SARS-CoV-2 in saliva using angiotensin converting enzyme 2 in chewing gum to decrease oral virus transmission and infection” recently came out in the journal Molecular Therapy. It is a very complicated study to read and unless you have a good understanding of […]
Waterford, Ireland has the highest vaccination rate in Ireland but also has the highest case rate. Why? 99.5% of people over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated and 96.6% of people over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated. In general, Ireland is experiencing an increase in cases and may enforce stricter restrictions […]
Natural Immunity…Shh! Don’t Say Those Words! by: Dr. Eeks This morning I flipped through a couple of my Epidemiology books from public health school, trying to figure out why “natural immunity” became taboo. I always just assumed that herd immunity included both natural immunity and if there was a vaccine available, vaccine-induced immunity. […]
Vaccine passports are a bad idea. I’ve thought a lot about this, read papers, heard people out and ultimately concluded that when it comes to vaccine passports, the negative outweighs the positive. I was going to do a long blog post on the subject, but then something better manifested: a podcast interview with Dr. Dimitry […]
What’s in the COVID-19 Vaccines? By Dr. Eeks This is a question I get a lot. I also see it on social media quite a bit. A lot of people say the ingredients haven’t been made public, and no one really knows what’s in the COVID-19 vaccines. One, that’s not true, and two, that belief […]