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COVID and long term heart risks

COVID and Long-Term Heart Risks: How Long is Long?

November 11, 2024 by Dr. Eeks

What is the story behind COVID and long-term heart risks? Oh yes, folks, it’s COVID again. Although it hasn’t really gone away, has it? It’s still here, it’s not as bad, and we’ve gotten used to it. That said, researchers are still in the trenches trying to figure out the after effects of COVID, one …

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Review of Watch the Water

Review of Watch the Water

April 21, 2022 by Dr. Eeks

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 …

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COVID vaccines, transmission, death & public health policy

February 3, 2022 by Dr. Eeks

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 …

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CDC Study on Natural Immunity for COVID

CDC Study: Naturally-Acquired Immunity, Vaccine Immunity & COVID

January 21, 2022 by Dr. Eeks

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 diagnosis …

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COVID Calculator

COVID Calculator: Predict Your Chance of Hospitalization or Death

January 10, 2022 by Dr. Eeks

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 most …

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COVID's Effect on Sperm

COVID’s Effect on Sperm

December 29, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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 found …

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Prenatal Exposure to COVID

Prenatal Exposure to COVID and Neurodevelopment Issues

December 28, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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 …

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top health tips

Top Health Tips: For a Pandemic and Beyond

December 25, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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 mandates, …

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COVID and Deer

COVID in Deer: An Interview with Dr. Kuchipudi

December 17, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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. …

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Gum for COVID-19

Gum for COVID-19 ?

December 2, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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 …

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Waterford Ireland

Waterford Ireland has the Highest Vaccination Rate but Cases High:

November 9, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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 before …

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Natural Immunity

Natural Immunity…Shh! Don’t Say Those Words

October 28, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

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. The two …

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Dr. Eeks

Dr. Eeks runs bloomingwellness.com and writes most of the blogs. She is a public health consultant & contractor, wrote the book Manic Kingdom, and hosts the Causes or Cures Podcast.

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