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Dec. 1, 2024

1. Testing and masking policies in hospitals.
2. Persistent spike proteins in the brains long after infections (prions ??).
3. 100 million work hours lost to long COVID in Australia.
4. Avian flu infecting farm workers.
5. long COVID in children -- Up to 7.2% of children in one study and up to 20% of young children in another study.
6. EPA is citing more stringent guidelines for improving indoor ventilation.
   

Nov. 1, 2024

1. The incidence of long COVID in children and Marine service members (14 to 20% and 25%, respectively).
2. CNS damage from COVID-19 giving the virus a survival advantage.
3. Safer access to healthcare by immunocompromised patients.
4. US workforce losing workers to chronic disability.
5. Up to a third of healthcare workers in London, UK report having symptoms of long COVID.
6. Long COVID affects judgement decisions (executive function) in almost 60% of patients with persistent brain fog, memory problems and cognitive difficulties.
7. Risky driving is increasing and driving up auto insurance. A higher incidence of risky driving in patients with a COVID-19 history.
8. Abnormal MRI findings of the brain in patients with long COVID.
9. SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) has been found in Bison, Elk and other captive wildlife species.
10. Vaccines protect against myocarditis, arrhythmias and transient ischemic attacks
11. Links between flu and heart disease.
12. Marburg virus in Germany.
13. The prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
  

Sept. 1, 2024

1. The importance of having a safe healthcare environment for high-risk patients and how this relates to the Americans with Disability Act.
2. The survival of SARS-CoV-2 once it becomes airborne.
3. How the virus is mutating to allow it to target the brain.
4. The current surge of Whooping Cough and COVID in Kentucky.
5. Data from the American Automobile Association showing that Americans are becoming more risky drivers.
6. Masks work, blocking 98% of exhaled viruses.
7. The toll of long COVID on the U.S. and Australian workforce.
8. COVID-19 and the Olympics.
9. Bird flu affecting egg prices and food inflation.
  

Aug. 1, 2024

1. Vaccinations are needed to halt the epidemic of Long COVID.
2. The six-foot rule is not enough.
3. The recent U.S. Supreme Court Chevron decision and the weakening of agency oversight.
4. Masks work on airplanes.
5. SARS-CoV-2 in backyard animals (mice, rabbits, bats, raccoons, not just in dogs and cats.
6. SARS-CoV-2 damage to the brain.
7. UK is in a worse state to deal with the pandemic than before COVID.
8. Admission testing in hospitals and masks are effective in preventing hospital acquired COVID.
9. Antibiotic resistance hospital acquired infections are on the rise.
10. H5N1 bird flu continues to infect farm workers.
11. COVID-19 leads to long-term changes in the immune system.
12. SARS-CoV-2 reinfections are likely as severe as the first infection.
  

July 1, 2024

1. Artificial Intelligence in the Prevention of Healthcare Violence.
2. Origins of COVID-19.
3. Risks and Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccines.
4. COVID-19 Update - The United Kingdom's response.
5. Human cases of the Bird Flu (H5N1).
6. Whooping cough (pertussis) cases are increasing.
7. More evidence that N95 masks are effective.
8. Are some people immune to SARS-CoV-2?
9. Hospital Nursing Staffing and COVID-19 deaths.
     

June 1, 2024

1. Masks work, an important reanalysis of the current literature.
2. Impacts of Long COVID on Behavioral Health.
3. Avian (Bird) flu jumping to humans.
4. Long COVID and viral persistence.
5. Life expectancy is dropping.
6. Outbreaks of Pertussis, another disease which is preventable by vaccines.
7. Taylor Swift Concert, a COVID superspreader??
8. COVID-19 causing persistent damage to the brain, including the frontal lobes.
9. Have public health interventions saved lives?
10. Only 20% of nursing facilities are meeting CMS Staffing Requirements.
 

May 1, 2024

1. Long COVID effects on personality.
2. NIH Director - Long COVID and viral persistence.
3. Surgical infections caused by patient's bacteria.
4. Long COVID POTS in young athletes.
5. Excess mortality and Long COVID.
6. Avian Flu (H5N1) in milk.
7. Breast Cancer screening updated to start at age 40.
8. Few and rare harms from COVID-19 Vaccines. 
 

Apr. 1, 2024

1. Potential highly fatal COVID virus grown in a lab in China.
2. Long COVID in Scotland.
3. Reemergence of infections after COVID.
4. Impact of the COVID-19 and the CDC on patients with kidney disease.
5. Privatization of the US Healthcare System.
6. Measles cases are rising.
7. The political divide regarding vaccinations in the United States.
8. Memory damage and cognitive effects from COVID-19.
9. Sources of Forever Chemicals.
10. The risks of COVID-19 when attending sporting and cultural events.
11. WHO states SARS-CoV-2 is airborne
12. Long COVID a growing threat.
     

Mar. 1, 2024

1. Is importing Drugs From Canada a good strategy?
2. CDC Relaxation of COVID-19 guidelines.
3. Importance of Source Control.
4. Strategies to reduce risk of catching COVID during a healthcare visit.
5. Why people conceal infections.
6. US failed to protect workers.
7. Public Helath in crisis.
8. Ivermection now being 'repurposed' for cancer.
9. Long COVID in hosital employees.
10. Mild COVID-19 and cognitive difficulties in healthcare workers.
11. 15% of UK's adult population report memory and concentration issues.
12. 1 in 4 American Adults with long COVID
13. 30% of young Swedish adults with brain fog.
14. Impact of long COVID on behavioral health.  
    

Feb. 1, 2024

1. The fallacy of Enhanced Barrier Precautions.
2. Vaccinations of many diseases are at a dangerous tipping point.
3. Efficacy of Vaccines in preventing long COVID.
4. Vaccination of children for COVID-19 is associated with less hospitalizations and severe disease.
5. The wide variety of organ damage responsible for long COVID. Including:
-- Gut, Heart, Brain and Immune System.
6. Asymptomatic COVID-19 produces a weak immune response.
7. Severe Cognitive Slowing seen with long COVID.
8. How artificial Intelligence is adding medical diagnosis.
9. Impact that private equity firms have on hospital cost and quality and hospital investments outside of healthcare.   
 

Jan. 1, 2024

1. The importance of viral dosage in determining risk of transmission.
2. Vaccinations reduce the risk of long COVID in children.
3. The impact of private equity ownership of hospitals on patient outcomes (hint: it is not good).
4. Epidemiology of COVID-19 in infants.
5. U.K. Nurses ask for masks and respirators and COVID-19 cases rise.
6. Air filtration can remove airborne SARS-CoV-2.
7. SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of cancer.  
  

Dec. 1, 2023

1. Clean Air -- Charleston Airport needs improvement.
2. CDC draft recommendations place immunocompromised at risk with new proposed recommendations.
3. CDC draft recommendations place our response to the next pandemic at risk.
4. New data that COVID-19 makes one susceptible to RSV Infections.
5. Surgeon Generals make calls for healthier buildings.
6. Imprinting and the COVID-19 vaccine.
7. “Robust available data support the use of face masks in community settings.”
8. At least 14% of Americans have long COVID.
9. New long COVID test has 80% accuracy.
  

Nov. 1, 2023

1. Patient Advocates are Critical for Maintaining Primary Care Culture of Safety
2. Deepfake Videos -- "AI and the Reduction of Patient Violence" and "The Dangers of AI in Healthcare."
3. CDC Proposed Regulations to Prevent Spread of Airborne Pathogens and the Americans With Disability Act.
4. Clean Air Webinar
5. Asymptomatic COVID-19 infections Cause Brain Damage in Dogs.
6. The Impact of COVID-19 on Immunocompromised Patients.
7. Can COVID-19 Infections Make Dengue Fever More Severe?
 

Oct. 1, 2023

1. COVID-19 Closing Schools.
2. Organized Disinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy.
3. Tripledemic of RSA, Influenza and COVID.
4. CDC HICPAC is Under fire for Proposing Relaxed Standards.
5. Immunocompromised patients not being protected by the healthcare system.
6. Vaccination after developing long COVID may decrease symptoms.
7. Post Hospitalized COVID patients have Multi-Organ damage.
8. Brain damage post CVID-19
9. Dosage of exposure is important in risk of infection
10. Biomarker for long COVID is described. 
 

Sept. 1, 2023

1. Flying blind as COVID rates increase.
2. Workers call for better COVID control standards.
3. Call for universal healthcare masking.
4. Long covid can linger for two years.
5. MRI scan abnormalities in COVID positive patients.
6. Immune dysfunction in severe COVID-19.
7. Barbenheimer COVID Outbreak.
8. Pediatric Cannabis dangers.
9. KFF health misinformation poll.
 

Aug. 1, 2023

1. Post Pandemic Strategies, Inadequate at Best.
2. Medical Security for all Americans.
3. Outbreak Prevention and Mitigation in Ukraine.
4. School Ventilation Cuts Cases by 82%.
5. Long COVID Impacting Doctors.
6. Maternal Mortality.
7. United States Labor Shortage.
8. Real Time Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Air.
9. CDC's New Mask Guidelines.
10. Household Spread of SARS-CoV-2.
11. Dublin Deer Positive For COVID.
12. Transmission of COVID in Deer.
13. Bronny James' Heart Condition.
    

July 1, 2023

1. One in six unvaccinated individuals report the effects of Long COVID after 2 years from infection.
2. Vaccinations cut your risk of Long COVID by almost half.
3. Discontinuation of Universal COVID-19 Admission Testing in the United Kingdom resulted in an increase in Hospital Acquired COVID-19.
4. Long COVID's impact on Healthcare Workers.
5. U.S. Hospitals pushing millions into debt.
6. HCA hospitals accused of pushing patients into hospice.
7. Growing support for universal masking in healthare settings.
8. A rise in MRSA in healthcare settings may be associated with relaxation of isolation guidelines.  
 

June 1, 2023

1. Frontline Worker Safety.
2. Medical Misinformation and Disinformation.
3. COVID Mortality Much Worse Than Influenza.
4. Long COVID in Children.
5. CDC Sets Ventilation Guidance.
6. School Transmission Mitigation in Switzerland.
7. Will The Next Boster Just Target XBB?
8. SARS CoV-2 Immunological Imprinting.
9. Long COVID Changes Our Immune System.
10. Long COVID in Sweden.
11. Neurobiology of Long COVID.
   

May 1, 2023

1. Origins of COVID-19
2. Russian Disinformation Bots
3. COVID-19, Long COVID & Labor Shortages
4. Decreasing Life Expectancy
5. ChatGPT beats Doctors on Quality and Empathy.
6. CDC To Stop Tracking Community Levels of COVID-19
7. Was a CDC Meeting a COVID-19 Spreading Event ??
8. Why are Doctors and Nurses Quitting?
9. More evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Immunodysfunction.
10. Surface Spread of SARS-CoV-2.
11. SARS-CoV-2 Placental Changes and Brain Injury in Neonates.  
    

Apr. 1, 2023

1. COVID & the Fed Raising Interest Rates.
2. Masking misinformation & the Cochrane Study.
3. Long Term Immune Damage from COVID.
4. H5N1 Bird Flu.
5. Decreasing Life Expectancy in the United States.
6. Presidential Preference Tied to USA Life Expectancy.
7. Hospitals Have Huge Losses in Investments Not Patient Treatment.
8. Six Month Booster Needed in Elderly & Immunocompromised.
9. Long COVID and healthcare workers.
10. Indoor CO2 Levels and Respiratory Pathogens.   
   

Mar. 1, 2023

1. Mpox (Monkeypox).
2. Efficacy of masks.
3. Heart attacks in the young.
4. CNS damage and MRI changes from COVID-19.
5. Severe fatigue and persistent symptoms at 3 months after COVID-19.
6. Worsening of asthma post COVID-19.
7. Decreased access to healthcare with long ER wait times.
8. Private equity firms hiring fewer ER doctors.
9. Mortality and economic impact of COVID-19 and benefits of the vaccine.
10. Ivermectin fails another clinical trial.
11. Newborns born to symptomatic COVID-19 mothers have a higher incidence of neurological problems.
12. Upgrading PPE for staff cut hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections.
13. Antidepressants can enhance antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
     

Feb. 1, 2023

1. COVID-19 & Vaccine Immune Imprinting.
2. Post COVID Immune Compromise & Dysfunction.
3. Herd Immunity.
4. Bird Flu Mutating and Spreading Among Mammals.
5. CEO & Worker COVID Safety.
6. Outcomes with Long COVID.
7. Bivalent Vaccine Authorization by FDA.
8. COVID Deaths are Undercounted.
9. Post Infection Vaccination Reduces Chances of Long COVID.
10. Long COVID a $.7 Trillion Dollar Economic Impact.
11. Elevated Risks of Myocarditis and Heart Attacks after COVID-19.
12. American Work Absenteeism at an All Time High.  
   

Jan. 1, 2023

1. Immune Theft.
2. Vaccine Imprinting.
3. Swedish Missinformation.
4. COVID-19 CNS damage.
5. XBB Variant.
6. COVID in Boston.
7. Role of Children in Spreading Omicron Infections.
8. Masks In the Prevention of Respiratory Infections.
9. COVID-19 Infections in Health Care Staff in the United Kingdom.
10. Republicans Vaccines and Deaths.
11. Use of Portable CO2 Monitors for Air Quality
12. Long COVID - Tom Frieden.
     

Dec. 1, 2022

1. Immune Theft, Immune Debt, Herd Immunity.
2. Hospitalizations Filling With RSV.
3. New Bivalent Booster.
4. Polio Vaccinations.
5. Immune Imprinting.
6. Triple Threat: Seasonal Flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
7. The Importance of Aerosolization.
8. Replication of BA.2 in the Human Forebrain.
9. A Third of COVID Patients Develop Long COVID.
10. Excess All-Cause Mortality.
11. Immune Dysfunction after COVID-19.
12. N95 Masks 
      

Nov. 1, 2022

1. The lives and finances which can be saved with increasing vaccinations.
2. Misinformation in Sweden and how children do transmit and spread COVID-19.
3. Risks of COVID-19 in children.
4. The new boosters may not be better than the old booster, but still augments immunity.
5. 20% of individuals are still infectious 12 days after isolation.
6. Evidence of a lab leak origin for COVID-19 is mounting.
7. COVID-19 death rates for Republicans are higher than Democrats.
8. The cost of CT Scans can vary by 40 fold depending upon the health plan.
9. Yankee Candles are not smelling as good, and it may not be the candle's fault.
  

Oct. 1, 2022

1. New variants (BF.7, BA.2.75 and BA.4.6) may surge in the Fall
2. New hybrid COVID boosters are here.
3. Indoor air safety and aerosolization.
4. Soap deactivates SARS-CoV-2.
5. Long COVID a preventable tragedy.
6. Lancet Commission on SARS-CoV-2.
7. Lack of Data in the United States.
8. Kentucky hospital Staff Shortages.
9. Aggressive hospital collection tactics.  
10. Frontline Worker Safety in the Age of COVID-19, Online CME and CEU Course.    
   

Sept. 1, 2022

1. Possible Community Spread of Polio.
2. Massachusetts School System's Success with Masking.
3. Hybrid SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and How This Depends Upon the Variant Which Caused the Infection.
4. The Failure of the United States Healthcare System.
5. It Is Too Soon to Relax Public Health Measures.
6. Pre-Event Testing Rapid Testing Cuts COVID Spread by Almost Half.
   

Aug. 1, 2022

1. Kentucky COVID-19 deaths as a function of vaccine status and age.
2. Reorganization of the United States COVID-19 Response.
3. The TSA and American Airlines in Los Angeles have large number of workers out with COVID-19.
3. Aggression Towards Health Care Providers.
4. Progress in Adverse Event Rates in U.S. Hospitals.
5. A longer isolation period than 5 days is needed for those infected with COVID-19.
6. Monkeypox is mutating 12 times faster than expected.
7. New York declares monkeypox an 'imminent threat to public health'. 
  

Jul. 1, 2022

1. Resources on Long COVID.
2. Normalization of Deviance.
3. Pandemic Defeat.
4. Hospitals in North Carolina Record Profits.
5. BA.4 and BA.5 Variants Escape Immunity and Have Increased Infectivity.
6. Stalled Gains in Patient Safety Over the Last 10 Years.
7. Deadly Assaults on US Medical Workers Are Increasing.
8. Monkey pox is on the rise.
      

Jun. 1, 2022

1. Rare rebound of COVID after Paxlovid treatment.
2. Viral load and shedding is lower in vaccinated individuals, but for Omicron one also has to be boosted.
3. Another study showing vaccines are safe in pregnancy.
4. Hospital errors and antibiotic resistant organisms have worsened during the pandemic.
5. Studies found Omicron as severe as other variants.
6. One in 4 Medicare patients harmed in hospitals, nearly half preventable.
7. Rapid MRSA and S aureus decolonization is beneficial for emergency hip surgery
8. Risk of C. Diff in a family is greater if a member has been recently hospitalized.
9.  New resources on Long-Covid
  

May 1, 2022

1. Infectivity and virulence of the BA.2 and BA.2.12.1 Variants.
2. Mask mandates and public transportation.
3. Animal hosts of human disease.
4. Efficacy of fourth vaccine.
5. COVID-19 misinformation.
6. New Sublineages evade natural and vaccine immunity.
7. CDC delaying disclosure of COVID-19 animal spillover.
8. Sweden's disastrous record.
9. Pandemic burnout and not following public health advice.   
   

Apr. 1, 2022

1. The BA.2 Variant Increasing in the United States.
2. Masks in Schools.
3. Excess COVID-19 Deaths.
4. Frequent Cognitive Effects with Long COVID.
5. Animal Hosts Places Nail in Herd Immunity Coffin.
6. Research Misconduct.
7. Low Rate of Reinfections in Children.
8. CDC Guidelines Regarding N95 Masks.
     

Mar. 1, 2022

1. School Safety and COVID-19 Mitigation in Massachusetts.
2. Disinformation.
3. How to Improve the USA's COVID-19 Response
4. The H78Y Omicron Mutation, a Worrisome Subvariant.
5. Omicron Virus in White-Tailed Deer.
6. Staff Shortages With a Focus on Kentucky.
7. Waning of Vaccine Boosters.   
   

Feb. 1, 2022

1. The FDA is NOT trying to kill Republicans with the withdrawal of several monoclonal antibody products.
2. Updated information on the BA.2 Variant (Stealth Omicron)
3. Herd Immunity Not Possible with Animal Hosts.
4. An increase in infectivity is worse than an increase in lethality, since it's damage increases exponentially.
5. COVID-19 costing Kentucky almost 1 Billion Dollars in hospital costs so far.
6. Long COVID is common in ICU patients and is not going away.
7. Record U.S. Hospitalizations with Omicron, Deaths lagging but approaching Delta Peak.
8. CDC Guidance on Isolation & Quarantine
9. We are losing the race against other superbugs.   
  

Jan. 1, 2022

1. The urgent need for a National Public Healthcare System and a Coronavirus Task Force.
2. Younger people being infected with Omicron at higher rates.
3. Kentucky's nursing shortage.
4. Strategies for COVID-19 control from around the world.
5. What does not kill you, mutates and tries again.
6. Omicron poses significant risks to the unvaccinated.
7. The new antiviral pills.
8. Israel studying if a fourth vaccine dose is needed.
9. Wisconsin hospitals being overrun with COVID-19 patients.
10. Pro Trump counties have higher COVID-19 death rates, misinformation is to blame.
   

Dec. 1, 2021

1. Disinformation.
2. Urgent Need for Boosters.
3. Omicron Variant.
4. Animal Hosts.
5. Cardiac Manifestations In The Young.
6. Ethics of COVID-19.
7. Gauteng Province, South Africa.
8. Natural Immunity.
9. COVID-19 Stillbirths.
10. SARS-CoV-2 Hospital Acquired Infections.
11. Puerto Rico's Non-Politicized COVID-19 Campaign.   
  

Nov. 1, 2021

1. The need for boosters and what has been approved.
2. Vaccinations in children and the use of school CO2 monitors.
3. The necessity of vaccinations and how the unvaccinated are filling hospitals causing others to forgo needed care.
4. Vaccinations reduce viral spread.
5. The utility of UV-C upper room air sanitization.
6. Vaccines create greater immunity than COVID-19 infections.
7. COVID-19 increases the mortality of heart attacks.
8. We need to upgrade our masks to N95.  
  

Oct. 1, 2021

1. One third of patients with COVID-19 have symptoms 3 to 6 months out.
2. Large randomized trial -- masks work
3. Nine vaccinated nursing home residents die after workers go unvaccinated.
4. US vaccine efforts derail.
5. Outbreak in China lockdowns and testing of a cities entire population with just a few cases.
6. Test shortage in USA
7. Unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die than vaccinated.
8. Supply chain shortage.
9. Gain of function research
10. The Mu Variant.
11. Boosters.
  

Sept. 1, 2021

1. Vaccination status may be a factor in triage.
2. Boosters may be needed at 5 months.
3. China decimated Delta, cases now at zero.
4. New variant in South Africa, C.1.2 may evade vaccines.
5. US Surgeon General urges masks, increased ventilation and regular testing in schools.
6. Childhood Vaccinations.
7. Prior infection plus vaccination, provides the greatest protection.
8. Lambda Variant, Mutations, Opening Schools and more.   
     

Aug. 1, 2021

1. The VA's Fourth Mission - Can this be The Foundation for a National Public Health System?
2. The Lambda Variant in Peru.
3. The Delta Variant.
4. Vaccine Infection Breakthrough.
5. Are Booster Shots for the Elderly Needed?
6. VA Mandates Vaccines for Employees.
7. Everyone, even the Vaccinated, Needs to Wear A Mask.
8. Pfizer Vaccine 39% Effective with Delta Strain.
9. 120,000 Children Have Lost a Caregiver.
10. One in Five Americans Believe Microchips are in COVID Vaccines.
11. Patients Older than 60 who Have Been Vaccinated More Than 5 Months Ago are at Highest Risk for Breakthrough Infections.  
   

July 1, 2021

1. Delta Variant spreading fast in the United States.
2. Are restrictions being relaxed too soon.
4. Mandatory vaccinations of hospital employees.
3. Long COVID.
5. India in crisis.
6. Facial masks.
7. Wuhan lab.
8. Nearly all Kentuckians who tested positive for COVID-19 were not vaccinated.
9. COVID-19 is here to stay. True herd immunity remains ellusive.
10. Lessons Learned from Around the World -- Conference Presentations from the countries of Australia, Singapore, United States, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and Kenya.   
     

June 1, 2021

1. CDC: Major Mechanism of Spread for COVID-19 Is Aerosolization.
2. KY Nursing Home Outbreak Involving a Dangerous Variant.
3. CDC Unmasks Those Vaccinated.
4. Excess Deaths Indicate Over 900,000 COVID Deaths in the United States.
5. India a Cautionary Tale.
6. Wuhan Lab Leak a Credible Possibility.
7. Reinfections with The Brazilian Variant.
8. Vaccine Immunity Superior to Natural Immunity.
9. Higher Antibody Response with Vaccines.  
  

May 1, 2021

1. Aerosolization of the Virus
2. Dangers of School Sports.
3. Common COVID-19 Myths.
4. Johnson & Johnson Vaccine.
5. It should be mandatory for Healthcare Professionals to be vaccinated.
6. Challenges imposed by COVID-19 Variants.
7. Grief and Loss with COVID-19.
8. What we learned from an outbreak in a highly vaccinated Kentucky nursing home.
9. Antivaxxers and Misinformation.
 
Plus, information on Health Watch USA's & Massachusetts Nurses Association upcoming International Conference on COVID-19. Keynote presentation by Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Deputy Secretary of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. For more information go to www.healthconference.org
   

Apr. 1, 2021

1. COVID-19 Variants.
2. Stronger Protections for Frontline Workers.
3. Aerosolization of SARS-CoV-2.
4. Variant Outbreak in Kentucky Nursing Homes.
5. CMS Nursing Home Visitation Guidance.
6. Scientists and Nurses Express Concern Over Airborne Spread of SARS-CoV-2.
7. More than 2,900 Healthcare Workers Die Each Year.
8. Elimination Vs. Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2. 
  

Mar. 1, 2021

1. Safe Opening of Schools.
2. New COVID-19 Viral Variants.
3. Unsafe Public Behaviors & Antimaskers.
4. Benefits and Risks of Vaccination.
5. The Need for Universal Reporting of All Dangerous Pathogens.
6. White House Disbands Coronavirus Taskforce.
7. Top Scientists: Droplet Precautions Abound, But Few Prevent Aerosolization. Crisis Stop-gap Measures Still Being Practiced.
8. CDC Documents Spread of COVID-19 in Schools.
9. Almost 3000 Healthcare Workers Died This Year of COVID-19.
10. Elimination of SARS-CoV-2 is the Best Strategy.
   

Feb. 1, 2021

1. Coronavirus Variants - More Deadly, More Contagious.
2. Problematic Vaccine Rollout.
3. COVID-19 HAI metric next to useless.
4. Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics - We need to use more.
5. COVID-19 HAI's in England. Up to 25% of total in hospitals.
6. Flying blind in the USA, lack of genomic testing.
7. Brazilian variant crushes the city of Mansus, after it had already reached herd immunity.
8. Natural infection provides some immunity for at least 5 months.
9. Post-COVID lungs are worse than smokers' lungs.
 

Jan. 1, 2021

1. The Australian Experience With COVID-19.
2. A Role for Disinfection.
3. Vaccines & Virus Mutations.
4. Herd Immunity.
5. India Slowed Down COVID With Masks.
6. COVID a Heart Disease? Ask Keyontae Johnson.
7. Many on Both Sides of the Aisle Advocate for Wearing Masks.
8. Health Departments Are Stretched to the Limit -- In Kentucky's Lincoln Trail Health Dept. Staffing Fell 49% Over a Decade.
    

Dec. 1, 2020

1. COVID-19 Will Transform Our life & Healthcare
2. Distortion of Science
3. Opening Schools Safely - Mass, Teachers Association. and Mass. Facilities Admin. Association.
4. Healthcare Workers Not Being Protected - Presumptive Disability
5. Vaccine Consideratinos.
6. Roman Catholic Pandemic Preparedness Response.
7. SCOTUS Strikes Down Church Mandates.
8. Danish Mink SARS-CoV-2 Mutation.
9. Masks work in Kansas.
10. The Need for the Public To Embrace Public Health Strategies.
  

Nov. 1, 2020

1. The False Narrative of Herd Immunity.
2. Concerns with the Vaccine Approval Process.
3. Monoclonal Antibodies.
4. The virus is Airborne, the dangers of indoors.
5. Increased COVID-19 Risks for Healthcare Workers and Grocery Store Workers.
6. MRSA carriage is higher in hospital staff.
7. First case of reinfection in the United States.
8. Universal mask usage could save 130,000 lives.
9. Nearly 300,000 excess total deaths (more than expected) as of Oct 3, 2020.
10. Cloth face masks rarely cause problems in those who wear them.
   

Oct. 1, 2020

1. Kentucky Nursing Homes with Fewer Nurses have More COVID-19 Deaths.
2. A Doctor Charged $10,984 for An Antibody Test.
3. Coronavirus Effects the Heart.
4. Israel Goes Back into Lockdown.
5. College Athletes Have MRI Findings of Heart Involvement with COVID-19.
6. Halloween Recommendations.
7. COVID-19 Primary Heart Disease.
8. COVID-19 Misinformation.
9. It's Airborne & The Need for Healthy Buildings.
  

Sept. 1, 2020

1. COVID-19 and the Kentucky Derby.
2. Hydroxychloroquine Works in Monkeys not Humans.
3. Flu Season a Dud or Devastation?
4. Comorbidities Used As An Excuse for COVID-19 Deaths.
5. Saliva & Pool Testing.
6. 200,000 Excess Deaths.
7. Chloroquine Linked to Serious Psychiatric Side Effects.
8. COVID-19 Reinfections are Starting To Be Reported.
9. Myocarditis is Too Common in COVID-19 Positive College Athletes.
10. Anti-maskers Date Back to 1918.
11. Health Watch USA Continuing Medical & Nursing Education for COVID-19.
12. 2020 International COVID-19 Conference Videos.
   

Aug. 1, 2020

1.  Hydroxychloroquine does not work.  
2.  COVID-19 causing heart damage, concerns voiced about lasting damage.
3.  Fabricated tests at Georgia Hospital to reduce cover rates.
4,  Infections are underestimated.
5.  Children and the Coronavirus.
6.  Plastic visors did  not work
7.  HCA profits jump after getting Federal money.
8.  Need for a National Reporting System.
9.  Experience in Other Countries.  
10. Opening of Schools.
11. Hydroxychloroquine Works in Monkeys NOT Humans.
    

July 15, 2020 - COVID-19 Through the Eyes of the Frontline -- Conference Presentations. 

1.  The Perfect Storm, The History of the Ineffective Disease Policy - Kevin Kavanagh, MD, MS.
2.  Netherlands from the Front Lines - Christina Vondenbrouke-Grauls, MD.
3.  Singapore from the Front Lines - Matthias Maiwald, MD.
4.  Spain from the Front Lines - Jesus Rodrigues-Bano, MD.
5.  United States from the Front Lines - Elaine Bernard, PhD
6.  Closing Remarks - Kevin Kavanagh, MD, MS.
 

July 1, 2020

1.  WHO new mask guidelines.
2.  Physical distancing, face masks and eye protection.
3.  Post COVID-19 Sequella -- Lasting Disability.
4.  Do NOT Gargle with Bleach.
5.  Review of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2.
6.  Hydroxychloroquine No Benefit.
7.  Coronavirus is Mutating.
8.  Feds Mandating Open Notes.
9.  Wealthiest Hospitals Got BIllions in Bailouts.
10. Death Rates from COVID-19 in the USA is likely 25% higher than Estimated.
11.  FDA revokes emergency HCQ order.
12.  Over 94,267 healthcare workers have contracted COVID-19.
13.  Florida Data Chief is Sidelined.
14.  Airborne Lifetime of Small Droplets.
15.  Surgical Masks are Placing Healthcare Workers at Risk.
16.  Cloth Masks Can Stop Up To 90% of Droplets.
17.  New Modeling Shows if Over 80% of the Public Wears a Mask The Epidemic May Burn Out.
   

June 1, 2020

1. Should the Public Wear Masks.
2. What Republican Governors & Leaders Are Saying about Face Masks.
3. Rich Hospitals Poor Safety Plans Leading Up To COVID-19.
4. COVID-19 and Obesity.
5. False Narrative of Herd Immunity.
6. US Pandemic Toll Passes 100,000.
7. 66,000 Healthcare Workers Have Contracted COVID-19.
8. The USA Compared to South Korea.
9. COVID 19 Data Integrity Questions in Florida and Georgia.
10. Loud Speech produces droplets of the COVID-19 virus.
11. The Public Wearing Cloth Masks May Help to Stop the Epidemic.
12. Health Watch USA and Mass. Nurses Association Announces COVID-19 Conference -- Seeing "Through the Eyes of the Frontline: COVID-19".
    

May 1, 2020

Resources in the Newsletter:
1. New Estimates from Yale School of Public Health has the total COVID-19 deaths at over 100,000.
2. Another failed trial for Hydroxychloroquine. It may even make COVID-19 worse.
3. New Polling shows 80% feel eating in dine-in restaurants is a bad idea and over 90% feel large groups attending sporting events is a bad idea.
   
Also, links and resources to major opeds and articles dealing with the Danger of Churches, The False Narrative of Herd Immunity and Hospitals with Over a Billion Dollars in Net Assets Receiving Bailout Checks. Health Watch USA Totals for April: Eight articles & OpEds, three News Articles and 19 Radio Segments.
     

April 1, 2020

1. The United States Has Squandered Resources To Fight COVID-19
2. U.S. COVID-19 Response: Denial and Dysfunction
3. Nursing Homes -- Islands of Isolation
4. Churches The Deadliest Place in the COVID-19 Epidemic.
5. Numerous Health Watch USA(sm) Radio Sound Tracks and Articles Regarding COVID-19
6. Untimely Reporting of Outbreak Data in The United States.
7. The Need for Universal Healthcare
8. The Importance of Patient Engagement.
  

Mar. 1, 2020

1. Is the US any better than China in Infectious Disease Transparency (PACCARB Public Comment).
2. Do we have adequate infectious disease policy in nursing homes (PACCARB Public Comment).
3. OpEd Coronavirus biggest challenge our healthcare system is facing.
4. Infection Preventionists will be front line in the Coronavirus epidemic.
5. Kentucky considering a law to allow doctors not to see patients if they have religious or other conflicts.
6. CMS Cracking down on healthcare facility accrediting organizations.
7. Association between RN staffing and hospital mortality.
8. "Pence Will Control All Coronavirus Messaging From Health Officials"
9. Is your hospital being penalized by Medicare?
    

Feb. 1, 2020

1. Director Steve Burrows Discusses the HBO Documentary "Bleed Out".
2. Mobil Telephone Interruptions and Medication Errors.
3. Drug Resistant Bacteria in Nursing Homes.
4. Dr. Joycelyn Elders on Vaccinations.
5. The Importance of Infection Preventionists.
6. Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Airplane Sewage.
7. MRSA in Pigs.
8. CDC Invests in Innovation in Combating Antibiotic Resistance.
9. Risks of Quinolone Antibiotics.
10. WHO Warns New Antibiotic Pipeline is Running Dry.
11. Antibiotics Prescribed More During Telemedicine Visits.
12. Pharma Cutting Back on Overselling of Antibiotics.
13. CDC responds to HW USA's request for UDI Patient Information.
14. Maternal Mortality in the United States.
15. FDA Approval May Becoming More Lax.
16. Marijuana and the Risks for Lung Cancer.
17. Surprise Billing, A moral Test for Physicians.
18. Insulin Price Hikes are Killing Kentuckians.
   

Jan. 1, 2020

1. Health Watch USAsm 2019 Patient Advocacy Report
2. Keynote Speakers for 2020 Conference -- Oct. 26. Lexington, KY
3. Infection Preventionists Are Underutilized and Underappreciated.
4. HW USA Action Letters Regarding the Retension of the Universal Device Indicator on Implanted Medical Devices.
5. Rapid MRSA Test.
6. How drug companies over-rely on China.
7. White House Relaxes Nursing Home Regulations.
8. U.S. Health Care Ranked Worse in the Developed World.
   
  

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