Category Archives: Coronavirus

Are you ready to give up on the vaccines? Despite brisk uptake of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines starting in early 2021, there were more U.S. COVID-19 deaths in 2021 than in the first year of the pandemic, 2020. Are you gonna blame the un-vax’d, like Biden, Fauci, and CNN? Right now we’re seeing the highest “case rates” we’ve ever seen, despite 62% of the population being fully vaccinated.

We just need a more people vax’d, right? We’ll have herd immunity when 75% of us are vax’d, right?

Vermont is 78% vax’d. Look at their cases:

But that’s only one example. In Ontario, Canada, over 90 per cent of Ontarians aged 12 years and older have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 88.2 per cent have received two doses. Yet here are their cases:

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Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Less Effective Against Omicron Compared to Delta Variant, and Effectiveness Wanes Quickly. So Vax More Often…!

Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron or Delta variants following a two-dose or booster BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccination series: A Danish cohort study

This study found negative vaccine effectiveness four months after vaccination. So they increase your odds of getting sick?!

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Mississippi hospital fires doctor, anti-vaccine leader for treating COVID patients with ivermectin.

The founder of an anti-vaccine mandate group of Mississippi physicians said he was fired from his job at Yazoo City hospital emergency room on Friday. Dr. John Witcher, an emergency physician working at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, said in a video his firing came after taking three patients off FDA-approved COVID-19 medication and replacing it with ivermectin. Baptist Memorial says he was working as an independent physician and was not a hospital employee.

Here’s the coverage at MedPage Today.

They say Dr Witcher was working as an emergency physician in the emergency room. In my part of the world, it would be highly unusual for an ER physician to stop an active order for remdesivir ordered by another physician. Once the decision is made to admit the patient to the hospital, care is turned over to another physician and the emergency doc is out of the picture. I don’t think we have the full story here.

Remdesivir is a Gilead drug. Pfizer makes it for them.

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Opinion: How have we gotten here? Mass Formation Psychosis, explained

I received the following comment recently from a reader in Africa, on a column I wrote a while back regarding natural immunity. It captures the essence of my daily inner dialogue.  

“Arguments from privileged countries. We in Africa have little access to vaccines, boosters, etc. The question we should be asking is, how is Africa managing? You people have already caused mayhem over Omicron. Our good doctors from South Africa have told us not to panic, but the rest of the world is in the highest panic mode yet … your countries’ have over 70% vaccinated, boosted etc. You should be at peace … you will die of fear.” 

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There are four basic conditions which need to be met in order for a society to be vulnerable to mass hypnosis. The first of which is a lack of societal bonding. It is easily argued that members of Western society struggled with loneliness long before the pandemic, and then with the ongoing lockdowns, isolation, and general fear of one another, this lack of community has continued to a dangerous degree.  

The second condition is met when the majority of people view their lives as being without purpose or meaning. A recent poll of young people in the UK revealed that 89 percent of those aged 16-29, “believe that their lives have no meaning or purpose.” Desmet also cites studies showing that half of all adults believe that their jobs are completely meaningless and are basically “sleepwalking” through their day.  

Free floating anxiety is the third condition for the rise of mass formation. A quick count of the number of anxiety/depression medications prescribed each year, confirms that there is no arguing the crushing levels of anxiety prevalent in our communities. 

And the fourth condition is high levels of frustration and aggression, with no discernible cause. If you spend any time driving or on social media these days, you will experience the open hostility present in the world today. 

An alternate opinion at Forbes:

What Is Mass Formation Psychosis? Robert Malone Makes Unfounded Covid-19 Vaccine Claims On Joe Rogan Show

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Steve Parker, M.D.

If you believe the current political/media/globalist propaganda on COVID-19, this three-hour interview may change your mind. I don’t know how you can see the interview without opening a Spotify account and downloading their app. After that, search for The Joe Rogan Experience podcast then search for Dr Robert Malone. The interview was in Dec 2021. You can speed up the interview so it doesn’t take three hours. I listened at 1.5 x speed.

Herein, Dr Malone recommends against vaccination if you’ve already had COVID-19 because that that would increase your risk of an adverse effect from the vaccine. Which you don’t need anyway because the immunity you develop from being sick with COVID is better than the immune response to the vaccine.

Steve Parker, M.D.

Oral preventatives during disease surges:

• Vitamin D (cholecalciferol)1,000-2,000 IU/day. (Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin recommend, in general, 4,000 IU daily, perhaps year-round, or whatever combination of food, supplementation, and sunlight gets your blood level of 25-hydroxy vitamin D to to 50 ng/mL.)
• Aspirin 81-325 mg/day
• Vitamin C 500 mg/day
• Elemental zinc 10-50 mg/day
• Melatonin 1.5-6 mg/day at night or bedtime

The doses vary, depending on body weight, age, tolerance to the drug. Generally, the higher doses are for younger and heavier folks. If one gets plentiful sunlight exposure, the oral vitamin D may not be needed.

Other strategies during disease surges (or always?):

• Regular exercise
• Lose excess weight, especially if obese (BMI over 30)
• Maintain normal blood sugars (if diabetic, keep HgbA1c under 6.5%)
• Avoid close, prolonged contact with coughing and sneezing people, especially in enclosed spaces
• Frequent hand-washing if exposed to public doorknobs, elevator buttons, or other potentially contaminated surfaces, or if around sick (coughing and/or sneezing) people
• Avoid sick people who are coughing and sneezing
• Eat healthful food

Did you notice I haven’t mentioned masks? I’m not a big believer. Do I wear an N-95 mask when I’m seeing a COVID-19 patient at the hospital? You bet. And the mask was fit-tested. Is that testing available to the general public? Not that I’m aware.

Do I have great data to support all these strategies? No, but some. Are they recommended by the CDC or NIH (Nat’l Institutes of Health)? I don’t know or care. I’ve lost faith in them. I’m afraid they’ve been bought and paid for by Big Pharma (and others?).

I don’t know about your personal health and medical history. I’m not your doctor. If you’re considering any of these recommendations, consult your personal physician before implementation.

I was motivated to write this post by the failures and risks of the rushed vaccines. Vaccination might be helpful if you are sickly, over 65, or have underlying conditions such as diabetes, active cancer, a poor immune system, obesity (especially BMI over 35), or some other co-morbidities. I see both very healthy, vigorous 65-year-olds, and sickly 65-year-olds. Which one are you? If you’re over 80, you may have nothing to lose by vaccinating. Average U.S. life expectancy is 79 years, less for men, longer for women.

Steve Parker, M.D.

Update on Jan 9, 2022:

From Dr Robert Malone in his substack Dec 31, 2021:

“So, yes back to my thoughts on Omicron – please keep taking that vitamin D3 and get your levels tested, if you haven’t already.  Use a formulation that combines the D3 with Vitamins A and K. Please keep up with the zinc, vitamin C and magnesium.  Work on weight control, glycemic control and please exercise!  All are important.”

No scientific references provided. He’s smarter than me.

I can’t say I’d heard about it until recently. AAPS in November published an inflammatory article about the CARES act. Some excerpts:

Creating a “National Pandemic Emergency” provided justification for such sweeping actions that override individual physician medical decision-making and patients’ rights. The CARES Act provides incentives for hospitals to use treatments dictated solely by the federal government under the auspices of the NIH. These “bounties” must paid back if not “earned” by making the COVID-19 diagnosis and following the COVID-19 protocol.

The hospital payments include:

• A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
• Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
• Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
• A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
• Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
• More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
• A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.

CMS implemented “value-based” payment programs that track data such as how many workers at a healthcare facility receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Now we see why many hospitals implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates. They are paid more.

Because of obfuscation with medical coding and legal jargon, we cannot be certain of the actual amount each hospital receives per COVID-19 patient. But Attorney Thomas Renz and CMS whistleblowers have calculated a total payment of at least $100,000 per patient.

You can read the CARES act for yourself.

For more scintillating reading, see Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.

By no means do I agree with everything written and implied in the AAPS article. For instance, at my hospital we do everything we can to avoid intubation, and do it only if we think the patient is about to die in the next few minutes or couple hours if not intubated. If we thought intubation was futile, we wouldn’t do it.

From one source:

The in-hospital mortality rate of intubated COVID-19 patients worldwide ranges from approximately 8% to 67%, but in the US, it is between 23 and 67%. There is substantial variability in the disease process, such that some patients rapidly deteriorate and die of severe respiratory failure or multiple organ failure within 1 to 2 weeks after intubation, while others recover, despite requiring mechanical ventilation.

The same source found the mortality rate of intubated COVID-19 patients within the two weeks after intubation at their hospitals was 45%. Unfortunately, the report doesn’t say what percentage of the initial survivors eventually died of COVID-19 anyway. That’s important information. The study at hand was done in New York early in the pandemic in 2020. I’d like to think we’re better at treating the disease now, 21 months later.

An Italian study, also done early in the pandemic in 2020, found that 43% of ICU (intensive care unit) COVID-19 intubated patients died in the hospital. If 57% survived intubation, that’s far from futile care.

If you find significantly different death rates in published studies, please share with a link in the Comments. I didn’t do an extensive search.

As far as I know, none of my hospitalist colleagues have ever been pressured to list COVID-19 as the cause of death when that was not actually the cause of death. Our death certificates are filed by us directly online with the State of Arizona.

What is very fishy about this illness is the degree to which hospital administrators, politicians, bureaucrats, and others have dictated how most physicians have to treat the illness and muzzled or attempted to muzzle dissident voices, disregarding the underlying science. In forty years of medical practice, I’ve never seen anything else like it.

Highly suspicious.

Steve Parker, M.D.

School District in New York Sends out Email Warning Parents of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Students Grades K-12

In prep for COVID-19 vaccine reactions?

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Hospital backs down, allows patient to receive ivermectin rather than pay $10K a day in fines

Unfortunately, it may be too late for ivermectin to do much good for that patient.

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Global Percentage of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among the Tested Population and Individuals With Confirmed COVID-19 Diagnosis

Four out of 10 COVID-19 “cases” have no symptoms. I’m uncomfortable calling you a “case” of illness if you never have any signs or symptoms of being sick. The article authors are concerned that asymptomatic “cases” can and will spread infection and make others sick.

COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, was first reported in December 2019.¹ Globally, as of January 28, 2021, there have been 100 455 529 confirmed cases, including 2 166 440 deaths.² The disease course of COVID-19 ranges from asymptomatic to mild respiratory infections to pneumonia and even to acute respiratory distress syndrome.³ Patients with no symptoms at screening point were defined as having asymptomatic infections, which included infected people who have not yet developed symptoms but go on to develop symptoms later (presymptomatic infections), and those who are infected but never develop any symptoms (true asymptomatic or covert infections).^4,5 Owing to the absence of symptoms, these patients would not seek medical care and could not be detected by temperature screening. Presymptomatic transmission will also make temperature screening less effective.⁶ Only extensive testing and close contact tracing could lead to identification of more asymptomatic infections.⁷

Unlike SARS [sudden adult respiratory syndrome], which had little known transmission from asymptomatic patients, evidence showed that asymptomatic patients were a potential source of transmission of COVID-19.^3,6 A previous study⁸ showed that the upper respiratory viral loads in asymptomatic patients were comparable to those in symptomatic patients. Meanwhile, the highest viral load in throat swabs at the time of symptom onset indicated that infectiousness peaked on or before symptom onset.⁹ Moreover, studies showed that asymptomatic infections might have contributed to transmission among households, nursing facilities, and clusters.^10–13 As the pandemic has been contained in many countries and regions, travel restrictions have been lifted and public places have reopened. Asymptomatic infections should be considered a source of COVID-19 infections that play an important role in the spread of the virus within community as public life gradually returns to normal. The management of asymptomatic carriers was essential for preventing cluster outbreaks and transmission within a community.

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You WILL NOT hear this from the mainstream media:

Dr. Chris Martenson Interview – COVID Mass Psychosis & Government Lies Are Creating An Authoritarian Future

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LOL. “Do as I say, not as I do.”

NYC COVID inspector booted from bar for failing to show own proof of vaccination

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Two major airline CEOs question the need for masks on planes

Did they feel safe questioning the official narrative since both CEOs are retiring soon?

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CDC: Most “fully vaccinated” are declining Covid booster, so far

Are they declining because of lack of efficacy or fear of side effects, or both? Sometimes it’s good to know you are not alone.

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Early Remdesivir to Prevent Progression to Severe Covid-19 in Outpatients

Among nonhospitalized patients who were at high risk for Covid-19 progression, a 3-day course of remdesivir had an acceptable safety profile and resulted in an 87% lower risk of hospitalization or death than placebo. 

I’d have more faith in this study if it weren’t funded by the maker of remdesivir, Gilead Sciences.

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Pfizer/BionNtech Vaccine Booster and Mortality Due to Covid-19

Participants who received a booster at least 5 months after a second dose of BNT162b2 had 90% lower mortality due to Covid-19 than participants who did not receive a booster.

This study was done in Israel in August and September 2021, when the delta variant was rampant.

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Joe Rogan interviews Dr Peter McCullough

THE JOE ROGAN & DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH INTERVIEW, EXPLAINED by ZDoggMD

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Omicron variant causes 70% less hospitalizations than Delta:

Multiple studies published this week have suggested Omicron is far less dangerous than Delta, with a UK Health Security Agency report from Thursday saying the mutant strain is 70 per cent less likely to cause hospitalization than Delta, and 45 per cent less likely to require an emergency room visit.

Dr Robert Malone predicts that the Omicron variant will help end the pandemic because so many people will develop immunity by being mildly infected.

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Steve Parker, M.D.

The oral drug is for those with documented COVID-19 infection who are at risk for severe COVID-19, meaning those at risk for hospitalization and death. It’s not for those already in the hospital. The drug allegedly reduces hospitalization and death by ~90%. Potential users are aged 12 years and up. Pediatric patients must weigh at least 88 lb or 40 kg.

Paxlovid is a combination of nirmatrelvir (two 150 mg tablets) and ritonavir (100 mg tablet) by mouth twice daily for five days. The drug prevents viral replication.

Fierce Pharma says Paxlovid costs $529 per course.

The most common side effects seem to be altered taste, diarrhea, high blood pressure, and achy muscles (myalgias).

The drug should be taken within five days of symptom onset.

Prescribers should be aware of potential drug interactions, and there are many common drugs that cannot be used with Paxlovid. Use with caution, if at all, in those with liver or kidney disease. Patients with moderate kidney disease may need a dose reduction.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: Click for Paxlovid’s fact sheet for healthcare providers. Click for Pfizer’s Paxlovid website.

From Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise:

In the hospital where I work, most COVID-19 patients get vitamin D (cholecalciferol) 1,000-2,000 IU daily, hoping it will help fight the virus infection. Vitamin D is cheap and we haven’t seen any adverse effects from it.

It seems pretty clear that folks with deficiency of vitamin D who then develop COVID-19, have worse than usual outcomes. The only way to know if you have a deficiency is to get a blood level test. I recommend to my loved ones that they take supplemental cholecalciferol during surges of COVID-19 unless they’re certain they’re getting enough sunlight to generate vitamin D, or have a normal blood level. (I’m not recommending that to you; I’m not your doctor.) The dose is 1,000 or 2,000 IU daily, depending on body weight and other factors. I have seen a few people, usually little old ladies, develop hypercalcemia (high blood calcium) if they take that much vitamin D plus a calcium supplement, and that can be a problem.

Here’s the abstract of a recent literature review article in Nutrition:

“Molecular studies have demonstrated the importance of the exacerbated immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, called the cytokine storm, in more severe COVID-19. The pathophysiology is complex and involves several homeostatic factors; among them, a deficit of vitamin D draws attention because of its high frequency in the population. Some evidence suggests that people with low serum vitamin D levels have worse outcomes, often requiring intensive care. This review analyzed the studies available in the global literature addressing the benefits of vitamin D in COVID-19, relating serum levels to the severity of the disease, and indicating vitamin D as a possible prophylactic and therapy in infection.”

Read the article’s introduction for a list of vitamin D’s role in fighting infection.

The authors conclude:

“To our knowledge, there is still no robust evidence of the prophylactic and therapeutic role of vitamin D in COVID-19, and more clinical trials are needed to prove its efficacy against infection. Considering that its pharmacologic safety profile is well known, it is prudent to keep its mean serum concentration > 30 ng/mL in people with COVID-19 and the susceptible population.”

Another recent study in Nutrition compared the prevalence of COVID-19 with the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in 20 European countries. They found no association one way or the other:

“Our analysis concludes that available data on the prevalence of Vit D deficiency among the European population do not allow for concluding that it constitutes a strong risk factor in the COVID-19 epidemic. However, these findings are not in line with outcomes of similar research works published recently.”

In some of the countries in the study, over 50% of the adult population was deficient in vitamin D.

Bottom line for me: Vitamin D supplementation doesn’t seem to hold as much promise in suppressing COVID-19 as I thought it would.

Steve Parker, M.D.

From Steve Kirsch:

Recently, I received news that top researchers at multiple highly respected institutions (including Harvard) who had earlier been publicly promoting the vaccine have now changed their minds and are privately refusing to get the booster.

How is that possible? Did we finally convince them with the data? Most of my truthteller friends have been censored and/or deplatformed. So what is causing these people to shift their views so quickly?

“Our best convincer is the vaccine itself”

The credit for the attitude shift goes our best convincer: the vaccine itself.

These researchers are seeing first hand how dangerous the vaccine is because they are involved in studies in hospitalized and/or outpatients and they see the numbers first hand.

Unfortunately, I’m not hearing that where I live, yet. But I don’t talk to a lot of folks.

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I heard about this from Dr Robert Malone:

Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed the world’s first risk prediction model for healthcare providers to forecast an individual patient’s likelihood of testing positive for COVID-19 as well as their outcomes from the disease.

According to a new study published in CHEST, the risk prediction model shows the relevance of age, race, gender, socioeconomic status, vaccination history and current medications in COVID-19 risk. The risk calculator is a new tool to aid healthcare providers in predicting patient risk and tailoring decision-making about care. It is intended to help providers prioritize COVID-19 testing but is not designed for use by asymptomatic individuals who are merely curious about their risk.

https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/first-of-kind-covid-19-risk-calculator-helps-predict-likelihood-of-testing-positive-and-potential-disease-outcomes/

I was interested to read that: “Patients actively taking the nonprescription sleep aid melatonin, the beta-blocker carvedilol or the antidepressant paroxetine are less likely to test positive than patients not taking these drugs.”

Click for the COVID-19 risk calculator.

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Veteran actor fired for refusing Covid-19 vaccine sues ABC

A veteran actor is suing ABC for religious discrimination after he was fired from America’s longest-running soap opera for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Ingo Rademacher, 50, who starred as Jasper Jacks on General Hospital for 25 years before his dismissal last month, has accused the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company (ABC) of refusing to accept his exemption request for “sincerely held religious objections to the Covid-19 shots.”

Rademacher is represented by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – the son of assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former US president John F. Kennedy – along with attorneys John W. Howard and Scott J. Street. The actor’s lawsuit claims ABC “subjected him to half an hour of cross-examination about his religious beliefs and then denied his exemption request, without explanation.”

The lawsuit blasts the network’s decision as “blatantly unlawful” and argued that ABC does not “have the authority to force a medical treatment on its employees against their will,” and would have to offer religious exemption even if it did.

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There Comes a Time When There Is No Alternative to Fighting for Your Life and Liberty

From Paul Craig Roberts:

“Fauci’s one man control through NIH, the Gates Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust gives him control over 57 percent of worldwide medical research, thus solidifying his personal control over the Covid narrative. Fauci and his acolytes at NIH receive six figure annual royalty payments on products they helped develop and ushered through the FDA approval process, including the Covid vaccine, and this is on top of Fauci’s taxpayer-funded salary, the highest in the US federal government. The CDC itself, allegedly a taxpayer-funded regulatory agency, owns and profits from 57 vaccine patents and spends 41% of its annual $12 billion budget buying and distributing vaccines. NIH owns hundreds of vaccine patents and profits from the sale of products it regulates. Try to comprehend the conflict of interest in this fact: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives 45% of its budget from Big Pharma.”

“Little wonder that Fauci engineered the creation of Covid with research grants, and the virus somehow was released in the interest of Big Pharma vaccine profits. The conservatives protect Fauci by blaming China, the country where Fauci shifted the research funding from the University of North Carolina.”

Steve Parker, M.D.