Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19


Provisional Death Counts for COVID-19 ‹View Table of Contents NOTICE: THIS WEBSITE WAS ARCHIVED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2023.Datasets linked on this page are available on data.cdc.gov. Please note that these datasets will no longer be updated after September 27, 2023. Provisional data is available on CDC WONDER (wonder.cdc.gov). Data are updated weekly, and users can query […]

COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.


A key lesson of the pandemic. By Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean The Intelligencer On April 8, 2020, the Chinese government lifted its lockdown of Wuhan. It had lasted 76 days — two and a half months during which no one was allowed to leave this industrial city of 11 million people, or even leave their homes. Until […]

Long covid—an update for primary care


BMJ 2022; 378 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-072117 (Published 22 September 2022)Cite this as: BMJ 2022;378:e072117 Trisha Greenhalgh, Manoj Sivan, Brendan Delaney, Rachael Evans, Ruairidh Milne, What you need to know This article updates and extends a previous BMJ Practice Pointer published in August 2020 when almost no peer reviewed research or evidence based guidance on the condition was available.1 In this update we outline how clinicians might […]

Clinical and Demographic Factors Associated With COVID-19, Severe COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults A Secondary Cross-Protocol Analysis of 4 Randomized Clinical Trials


Deborah A. Theodore, MD1; Angela R. Branche, MD2; Lily Zhang, PhD3; et alDaniel S. Graciaa, MD4; Madhu Choudhary, MD5; Timothy J. Hatlen, MD6; Raadhiya Osman, PhD7; Tara M. Babu, MD8; Samuel T. Robinson, PhD3; Peter B. Gilbert, PhD3,9;  Dean Follmann, PhD10;  Holly Janes, PhD3,9; James G. Kublin, MD3; Lindsey R. Baden, MD11; Paul Goepfert, MD12; Glenda E. Gray, MBBCh13,14; Beatriz Grinsztejn, MD, PhD15; Karen L. Kotloff, MD16,17; Cynthia L. Gay, MD18; Brett Leav, MD19; Jacqueline Miller, MD19; Ian Hirsch, PhD20; Jerald Sadoff, MD21; Lisa M. Dunkle, MD22; Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD17; Lawrence Corey, MD3,23; Ann R. Falsey, MD2; Hana M. El Sahly, MD24,25; Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk, MD1; Yunda Huang, PhD3,26; for the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(7):e2323349. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.23349 Key Points Question  What clinical and demographic factors are associated with rates of COVID-19, severe COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 infection? Findings  In this secondary analysis of […]

CDC confirms COVID-19 vaccine prevents death in only 1 out of 1 million


Sanchari Ghosh August 23, 2023 A common question surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines since its inception has been about its capability to prevent hospitalization and death. In all these years, there has been no official confirmation about the same, but recently the CDC put forward some data that claims that “per million doses in 12-17-year-olds over 6 […]

Spectrum of Fibrotic Lung Diseases


Marlies Wijsenbeek, M.D., and Vincent Cottin, M.D.  New England Journal of Medicine 2023 Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases encompass a large number of conditions, with a wide range of causes, clinical manifestations, and imaging and pathological features, as well as variable outcomes. Despite the intrinsic heterogeneity of this group of diseases, in most of them, the […]

An overview of human proteins and genes involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection


Zohreh Jahanafrooz,a,⁎ Zhishan Chen,b Jiandong Bao,c Hongzhi Li,d Loren Lipworth,b and Xingyi Guob,e,⁎Gene. 2022 Jan 15; 808: 145963. Published online 2021 Sep 14. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2021.145963 PMCID: PMC8437745PMID: 34530086 Graphical abstract A summarized view of recent findings of host proteins interacting with SARS-CoV-2 and genes containing associated variants with COVID-19 susceptibility and severity. The left side of the figure (A) shows host protein interactors (blue wrote) for […]

COVID Vaccines Causally Linked to Increased Mortality, Resulting in 17 Million Deaths: Scientific Report


Data suggest COVID-19 vaccines haven’t saved lives, but instead, have resulted in 17 million deaths and increased all-cause mortality in 17 countries. By Megan Redshaw, 9/28/2023 The Epoch Times A new scientific report challenges the idea that COVID-19 vaccines have prevented deaths after researchers assessed all-cause mortality in 17 countries and found COVID-19 vaccines did not […]

COVID Surge Turns Into Trickle As Hospital Admissions Wane


SEP 29, 2023 – 07:20 AM Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times  After multiple weeks of increasing COVID-19 hospital admissions, federal data show that the figure is now falling. In the week ending Sept. 16, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data show hospitalizations are down 4.3 percent. The number had been increasing […]

COVID-19 Virus Levels In Wastewater Have Dropped


SEP 22, 2023 – 02:25 PM Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times  Wastewater COVID levels have shown a decline in recent weeks while the number of hospital admissions due to infections have seen an uptick. The levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 infection, has dropped by 5 percent in the two weeks […]