Mental Health, Suicidality, and Connectedness Among High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January-June 2021
Sherry Everett Jones, Kathleen A. Ethier, Marci Hertz, Sarah DeGue, Vi Donna Le, Jemekia Thornton, Connie Lim, Patricia J. Dittus, Sindhura Geda Disruptions and consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including school closures, social isolation, family economic hardship, family loss or illness, and reduced access to health care, raise concerns about their effects on the […]
International Health Regulations and Pandemic Treaties – What Is the Deal?
David Bell The World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States, in concert with other international institutions, is proposing and currently negotiating two instruments to address pandemics and widely manage aspects of global public health. Both will significantly expand the international bureaucracy that has grown over the past decade to prepare for, or respond to, […]
Study Finds ‘Positive Correlation’ Between Higher Mask Usage and COVID-19 Deaths
Natalie Winters “Countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage,” found a new study, whose data and analysis instead discovered a “moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths.”
The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favor Lockdowns
Will Jones The World Health Organisation intends to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official pandemic guidance. The revelation comes in a report scheduled to go to the WHO’s World Health Assembly later this month. This is not part of new pandemic treaty and does not require the […]
The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed
Aaron Kheriaty Donald Henderson, who died in 2016, was a giant in the field of epidemiology and public health. He was also a man whose prophetic warnings from 2006 we chose to ignore in March of 2020 … Henderson and his colleagues concluded their review with this overriding principle of good public health: “Experience has […]
Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives, Concludes Meta-analysis
Joakim Book Two years into this experiment, it’s about time to assemble the evidence. Did lockdowns live up to their trotted potential? Did they “save lives” and “stop the spread” and all the other slogans we painfully heard talking heads sputter?
A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-10 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies
David Brownstein et al. At present [July 2020], there is no published cure, treatment, or preventive for COVID-19 except for a recent report on dexamethasone for seriously ill patients. A novel treatment program combining nutritional and oxidative therapies was shown to successfully treat the signs and symptoms of 100% of 107 patients diagnosed with COVID-19. […]
WHO Pandemic Treaty: What It Is, Why It Matters and How to Stop It
Joseph Mercola The World Health Organization has started drafting a global pandemic treaty on pandemic preparedness that would grant it absolute power over global biosecurity, such as the power to implement digital identities/vaccine passports, mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions, standardized medical care and more. The WHO is not qualified to make global health decisions. As just […]
