All in Health Care
Last-minute switcheroos are common in the Canada drug importation proposals: who can forget the outcry from progressives when in early January 2017, Cory Booker and several other Democrats voted against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ amendment (co-sponsored with Sen. Amy Klobuchar) to the lame-duck budget resolution that would have “establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to lower prescription drug prices for Americans by importing drugs from Canada.”
By Tatiana Prophet
The SARS-CoV-2 virus attaches to a type of cell receptor that is found almost everywhere in the body, including white and red blood cells. So it would seem obvious why people have such widely differing symptoms. This is not just a respiratory disease.
The body’s ACE2 receptors are the locks that the virus’s iconic spike protein “key” penetrates. And these “locks” are found in the lungs, kidneys, gut and brain. This is why preventing cell entry is so important – and by many accounts, is not as complicated as we’ve been led to believe. This is why keeping the body environment hostile to the virus is easing the fears of many who seek healthy food, clean air, exercise and an alkaline bodily environment.
By Tatiana Prophet
LOS ANGELES — For the second time this year, beaches in the sprawling Los Angeles County show warning signs in blinking lights: “do not gather.” Swing sets are taped up high above parents’ heads. Outdoor dining is banned. Public schools are clearing out their teachers, who had been conducting zoom classes from their classrooms to the children at home. (And yet, unexpectedly, the L.A. County Parks and Recreation web site hasn’t updated its “Trails Closed” alerts since Sept. 9.)
Governor Newsom’s tweet above states that regions in the state that fall below 15 percent ICU capacity will impose stay-at-home orders for three weeks. Los Angeles County has had the brunt of cases, hospitalizations and deaths all year. But it’s being lumped together with other counties inland where existing ICU beds have filled up rapidly. So then why isn’t he telling us about the more than 2,500 beds that are currently not staffed, but are waiting to be brought online in L.A. County?
Photo: Jemarius Jachin Harbor, Jr., born at 21 weeks gestation in December 2019 at Emory University Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., is the youngest preemie ever to be born. His mother, Jessica McPherson, had lost her previous two pregnancies at 22 weeks. She told Fox 5 Atlanta: “We looked at each other in the eye and I told him just give it a try. I just want you to try as long as you try that’s all that matters to me, don’t just up and say that you can’t do it. Just ‘cause you haven’t done it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”
By TATIANA PROPHET
Every year in the United States, between 7,000 and 15,000 fetuses are aborted late in their development (21 weeks or more). More than half are healthy.
Wait, this can’t be true – right? Only 1 percent of all abortions are after 21 weeks. With total annual abortions hovering over or under 1 million, that 1 percent is actually a lot of procedures.
By abortion advocates’ own admission, the number of late-term abortions per year is roughly 15,000.
Further, according to the same study, most late-term abortions are elective.
“The body of research on women who have dealt with fetal anomalies or life endangerment … describes … pregnancy wantedness and tragic circumstances,” wrote Professor Diana Greene Foster in 2013. “But data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”
By TATIANA PROPHET
A healthy society should not only have one voice. - Dr. Li Wenliang, reluctant whistleblower, who died of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, after warning his fellow doctors to be alert in their facilities, on a private chat system. Someone leaked his comments and he was reprimanded publicly by police.
NOVEMBER 9, 2015 RALPH BARIC, AN INFECTIOUS-DISEASE RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a chimeric virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine. The team included four scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one from the Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens in Wuhan, China, one from Zurich and two from Harvard.
By Anna Maria Berry-Jester and Rachel Bluth
Just weeks into the federal government’s efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, a new California case has exposed weaknesses in the testing procedures that could be masking more widespread reach of the disease.
A woman in Solano County, California, who hadn’t traveled abroad or had contact with another known patient with the illness was diagnosed with the virus Wednesday, raising concerns that cases are going undetected because of the federal government’s narrow testing protocols.
The patient sought care at a local hospital before being transferred to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento because of the severity of her case, according to a letter hospital officials sent to members of the campus community. Suspecting coronavirus, doctors at UC Davis asked public health officials about testing for COVID-19, the name given to the illness believed to have originated in Wuhan, China.
