Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com On the weekend we heard the sad news of a perfectly healthy Florida doctor, Dr. Gregory Michael becoming sick and dying within 15 days of receiving the Pfizer’s Covid- 19 vaccination, with his wife confirming his healthy status prior to this event. Heidi Neckelmann stipulated
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz A WHO-commissioned meta-analysis of Ivermectin shows that using this generic medicine in hospitals leads to a 83% reduction in covid mortality (95% CI 65%-92%). The WHO is understood to be waiting for the results this month from three trials before issuing a recommendation.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff aier.org Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research centres on developing new epidemiological and statistical methods for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance. 1. Public health is about
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Our letter to the NZ Herald regarding the recent story on our NZ Journal of Primary Health Care (https://www.publish.csiro.au/hc/Fulltext/HC20132). Vaccine caution We recently wrote a scientific article in a leading medical journal which featured prominently in a
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Covid Plan B was ‘fact-checked’ as “misleading” for publishing on Facebook our article which used the existing conventional standard of statistical interpretation to find that a Danish study on mask wearing meant there was no significant benefit to wearing a mask against Covid-19. This
Israel kicked off its Corona COVID-19 inoculation campaign with a bang in the last week of December 2020, ratcheting it up to an incredible 150,000 inoculations per day. This dizzy pace has carried on unabated for the last three weeks, with almost two million members of the public already
Richard Prebble’s Covid exposé “Richard Prebble: What the Government did not want you to know about its Covid response” was very revealing. It was surprising that an article on the Government’s response to the Covid crisis was actually printed by the NZ Herald. I applaud the NZ Herald
Janet M. Gibson Grinnell College Amusement and pleasant surprises – and the laughter they can trigger – add texture to the fabric of daily life. Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But laughter, in response to funny events, actually takes a lot of work, because it activates many
ACT Party “The Government must reconsider waiting for Medsafe approval before making COVID vaccines available, in light of the new more contagious COVID strain sweeping the world,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “We’ve got used to feeling a bit invincible as an island nation on a pandemic planet, this
Amanda Salis University of Sydney If you – or someone you care about – are embarking on post-holiday weight loss, understanding the body’s physiological responses to excess kilojoule intake could give you the edge for a successful New Year’s resolution. Weight loss is never easy, but the first days to
Melanie Gregg Danielle Defries University of Winnipeg Before the holidays ruin your wellness plan and make you turn as green as the Grinch, try these 10 ways to help you stay on track and keep your festive spirit. Often we feel if we can’t stick to our regular routine,
Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com Back in July, Yale University began a critical study on COVID vaccines. But there was an interesting twist to Yale’s study: scientists weren’t looking at the actual vaccine candidates; instead, they were studying how to most effectively convince people to
I’m not a member of the firearms-owning cohort, but having just read this document: I certainly sympathise with their concerns about law enforcement’s rapidly escalating demonisation of their community. New, or renewed, firearms-license applicant’s now have a compulsory requirement to name their ‘health practitioner.’ Their practitioners are
An interesting article popped up in the local Queenstown weekly paper this week. Titled “Drug Warnings“, I expected to read about people getting busted for selling drugs in the town and I wasn’t disappointed. Apparently a major bust has gone down which targeted bad guys from Whangarei and Queenstown,
When the mapping of the human genome was declared complete nearly 20 years ago, pundits hailed it as the dawn of a brave new era of genetic medicine. Well, it took a while, but those breathless claims seem to finally be coming to fruition. The most well-known – and controversial – manifestation
