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COVID vaccines, transmission, death & public health policy

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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 […]

COVID Calculator: Predict Your Chance of Hospitalization or Death

COVID Calculator

  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 […]

Prenatal Exposure to COVID and Neurodevelopment Issues

Prenatal Exposure to COVID

By: Eeks Prental exposure to COVID and Neurodevelopment Issues: A preprint study (not yet peer-reviewed) shows that prenatal exposure to COVID-19  may lead to neurodevelopment issues in the baby.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 […]

Top Health Tips: For a Pandemic and Beyond

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  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.  By Dr. Eeks  A lot of the news is about things we can’t do during the pandemic. There are mandates, closings, passports, restrictions and lockdowns […]

COVID in Deer: An Interview with Dr. Kuchipudi

COVID and Deer

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 ?

Gum for COVID-19

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 […]

Natural Immunity…Shh! Don’t Say Those Words

Natural Immunity

  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. […]

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