The CDC is exploring a link between Pfizer’s new bivalent COVID vaccine and stroke risk. The CDC has a real-time data monitoring system for adverse events, and this has shown a POTENTIAL link between the vaccine and strokes in people over the age of 65. Specifically, out of 500,000 Medicare beneficiaries, 130 patients suffered a stroke...Read More
Many of you have asked me about Long Covid, which clinically is now called Post COVID-19 condition (PCC). It refers to those individuals with continued symptoms, with fatigue being the most common, lasting more than 12 weeks after developing Covid-19. Researchers have determined that there is dysfunction in the mitochondria which are the “power houses” or energy producing organelles...Read More
There is yet another subvariant of the omicron strain called BA.4.6. It should be noted that the Greek letters previously used for COVID such as alpha and delta will no longer be used as everything will now be a subvariant of the omicron. Now the subvariants are mutating into more subvariants. It’s getting hard to keep up....Read More
A new vaccine from Novavax has been approved for COVID boosters. Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which use mRNA (genetic material), this is a more traditional vaccine that just uses a protein like other traditional vaccines such as tetanus. For those with concerns about mRNA vaccines this provides an alternative. Even though it is...Read More
The new COVID vaccine is out which contains the original Wuhan strain (which is what the original Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J vaccines including the two boosters contained) as well as the two variants of the Omicron strain called BA.4 and BA.5. It is called a “bivalent vaccine” because of containing those two different strains. In...Read More
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