by lbdsgnr | Sep 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Disease, Flu, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Patient Care, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Justice Department Approves Pharmaceutical Monopoly to Manufacture Anti-COVID Antibodies James Katz MD The COVID-19 related collapse of the hospitals in Queens, New York, is burnt into the minds of Americans. Who would be the next...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Aug 16, 2020 | Activism, COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Policy, Preventative Medicine, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
On January 24th, Singapore became the first country to mandate mask wearing for all citizens. In February, The CDC and WHO advised “masks do not benefit average citizens.” April 24, the CDC advised wearing a mask to “protect other people.” In June, that changed to...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Aug 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Events, Infectious Disease, Medications, Pandemic, Patient Care, Policy, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
In April, I wrote an essay 21st Century Medicine Attacks COVID-19 at Lightspeed, describing how the full weight of modern biotechnology is be brought to bear on this pandemic. In less than 60 days, the COVID-19 spike protein had been identified as the best vaccine...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Jul 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Policy, Preventative Medicine, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
Corona virus can emerge from the lungs as tiny invisible particles (aerosols) when breathing, or as large visible droplets when coughing. The aerosols can float for 1-4 hours, and will migrate across a closed room. The larger, heavier droplets from coughing (or...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Jun 8, 2020 | Cholesterol, COVID-19, Health Supplements, Heart Health, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
The longer we study vitamin D, the more benefits we find. Below is a chart of diseases affected by Vitamin D (the degree of influence is decidedly optimistic.) Does Vitamin D Reduce the Risks of COVID-19? In a study of nine countries published online, those with low...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | May 18, 2020 | Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Fitness Gear, Infectious Disease, Lyme Disease, Outdoors, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health
Just When You Thought you Could Go Outside — It’s Lyme Disease Season Again! Beware this nearly invisible menace. While Lyme disease cases are rising in the general civilian population, they are falling in active military units. What does the military know that your...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Apr 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Disease, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through the United States like Jaws tore through swimmers in the waters off the Amityville Beaches. Pres. Trump, like the Amityville Mayor, is standing safely on the beach, while encouraging others to go in the water (and then changing...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Apr 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Disease, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Patient Care, Policy, Public Health
I remember the astonishing diversity of life in a drop of lake water I first viewed under a microscope sixty years ago. Now we use cryogenic electron microscopes, DNA sequencers, protein splicers, and supercomputers to create computer simulations of life down to...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Apr 8, 2020 | Activism, COVID-19, Disease, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
The poet Milton, who, crippled by age, stated his regret he could not do more to serve God, “They also serve who only stand and wait.” You can protect everyone in your community if you would just stay home. During the next two weeks, a biologic wave will sweep across...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Apr 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Flu, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Patient Care, Policy, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, Testing
George Fu Gao, head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was recently interviewed by Science magazine. Dr. Gao was educated at Oxford and Harvard. He rarely speaks publicly. He is one of the few scientists to have access to the actual Chinese...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2
Gloves Reduce Getting COVID-19 on Your Hands And Wearing Masks Help to Prevent Touching Your Face Let’s Clear Up the Mask Issue COVID-19 can survive on surfaces for 3-5 days. You get it on your fingers from doorknobs, tabletops, shared computers, handshakes,...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Feb 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Disease, Flu, Infectious Disease, Pandemic, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, Seasonal
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread all over China and multiple countries around the world. The History Last December, ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, based on an influx of sick patients at his office, warned fellow doctors in Wuhan, China, to take respiratory...
