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‘Lockdowns Are a Big Mistake:’ World Health Organization and Other Experts Now ADMIT Global Economic Shutdowns for COVID-19 Are WRONG

AHA Publisher — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:00:04 +0000

Sara Middleton via NaturalHealth365 – In a reversal few saw coming but most understand, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally condemned the global economic shutdowns. Far from saving people’s lives, these shutdowns have in their estimation caused “irreparable damage” to citizens of the world – especially the most vulnerable among us – and have sparked a concerning upward trend of poverty and mental health issues. The concern is so widespread and severe that epidemiologists from Stanford University, Oxford University, and Harvard University have put together a petition calling to finally end the unethical madness of COVID lockdowns. WHO ADMITS: COVID lockdowns made “poor people an awful lot poorer” and may double the rates of malnutrition In an interview with British media outlet The Spectator, Dr. David Nabarro of the WHO admitted that “we…do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of [the novel coronavirus pandemic].” Are you surprised, Governor Newsom and Governor Cuomo?! According to Dr. Nabarro, an unavoidable consequence of the lockdown has been “making poor people an awful lot poorer….It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.” He cites economic devastation in regions like the Caribbean as examples of the profound mess lockdowns and travel restrictions have caused. Mental health consequences of these ill-advised and protracted shutdowns cannot be ignored, either. For example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in August that there were “considerably elevated adverse mental health conditions associated with COVID-19,” with fully 40% of American adults struggling with worsening mental health, increased thoughts of suicide, and increased use of drugs and alcohol. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified,” Dr. Nabarro continued in The Spectator, “is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.” And as battered as the WHO’s reputation may be, their concerns are fully supported by a growing collection of international experts from the fields of epidemiology, finance, public health, psychiatry, and more. “The Great Barrington Declaration” makes these key points about ending the economic shutdowns … can we call on our local and national leaders to pay attention? Spearheaded by Ivy league professors, a petition called the Great Barrington Declaration is making its rounds and currently features over 40,000 signatures. It calls to end the current lockdown policies which “are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” Here are a few key points from the petition: The lockdowns are contributing to “worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health,” among other issues – the effects of which will be felt for years to come COVID-19 is less dangerous for children than the seasonal flu (which the CDC isn’t even surveilling right now, according to their website); it follows that keeping kids out of school is considered a “grave injustice” Indeed, continuing the lockdown for everyone is unconscionable – extracurricular activities, schools, restaurants, and businesses should be open and “those who are not vulnerable” (that is, anyone who is not old or chronically ill) should be “immediately” allowed to “resume life as normal“ Lastly, say what you will about “herd immunity,” but an important point should not be lost here: this cohort of the world’s leading epidemiologists and physicians admit that building of coronavirus immunity throughout the population is “notdependent” on a vaccine. Therefore, holding the world hostage until a vaccine is available is simply not the way to minimize deaths and social harm. Time will tell when world leaders will finally pay attention and heed these dire warnings. Sources for this article include: Infectioncontroltoday.com, CDC.gov, GBDeclaration.org, News.com.au, CDC.gov To read the original article click here. For more articles from NaturalHealth365 click here.

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Florida Medical School Dean: COVID-19 Affects Some Blood Types More Than Others

AHA Publisher — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:00:49 +0000

Lorie Johnson via CBN News – The state of Florida has seen the most dramatic rise in coronavirus cases. Recently, CBN News spoke to a doctor there who says the death rate remains low. He also explained why the virus affects some people more harshly than others. Doctors say when a person becomes infected with COVID-19 their blood type can make a big difference in how sick they get. “This is kind of a curious thing, but if you have A+ blood type you probably have about a thirty percent greater chance of ending up in the hospital than if your blood type is O,” Dr. Charles Lockwood, dean of the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa told CBN News. Young people tend to avoid hospitalization, too, and that’s largely who’s testing positive, causing the death rate to plummet. “From at one point, about five percent to about 1 point. As of today, 1.5 percent in the state and in Tampa, in Hillsborough County, it’s actually below one percent. It’s .09 percent. So that’s one of the lowest case fatality rates on the planet, quite literally,” Lockwood noted. School children carry the lowest risk of both acquiring the infection and becoming very ill. “For the most part I think schools should reopen,” Lockwood explained. “There are some areas of the state where I might not be quite as enthusiastic, but for the most part I think we are going to be OK.” Florida hospitals reportedly made it past the peak. “We know that emergency room visits for COVID-like illnesses and influenza-like illnesses are dropping, and that’s the first sign that things may be improving,” Lockwood said. Doctors now rely on treatments they didn’t have before, such as Remdesivir and the affordable Dexamethasone, both scientifically proven to work and readily available. To read the original article click here. For more articles from CBN News click here.

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‘Cardiac Arrests up 800 Percent’: 600+ Doctors Warn Lockdowns Doing Much More Damage Than COVID

AHA Publisher — Fri, 22 May 2020 07:00:54 +0000

Paul Strand via CBN News – A new grassroots organization of doctors is telling the nation it needs a second opinion about the way to handle this pandemic medically and mentally. During a media call, several of these doctors spoke of horrible medical results for people because of excessive panic over the coronavirus. They also told of harm done to ill or injured people because the medical world has been largely cut off to them while almost all resources have been redirected to deal exclusively with COVID-19. Dr. Simone Gold is an emergency room physician documenting these harms as she’s contacted fellow medical professionals across the country and helped form this new group A Doctor A Day. For Fear of the Virus, ‘They’re Actually Hurting Themselves’ “People are not getting their health care,” Gold shared. “We’re so worried about the fact that patients believe that they are going to get sick if they show up for medical tests. But they’re actually hurting themselves.” They’re avoiding hospitals even during emergencies. “There are all these patients out there not showing up to emergency departments,” Gold stated, saying where she works, “The volume in the emergency department is incredibly low. Maybe 60 percent of what it usually is. And this is across the nation. Everybody’s had the same experience, excluding the New York metropolitan area.” “Actually, it’s quite empty,” she reported, saying of her own hospital, “I got a letter just this last week that we are firing 50 percent of our technicians.” Layoffs have been widespread in hospitals across the country since the pandemic hit. They’re Telling Trump Real World Examples of People Hurt More than 600 of these physicians involved with A Doctor A Day have sent a letter to President Trump, asking his coronavirus task force to keep in mind the full implications of a shutdown. In that letter, they warn millions of Americans are endangered by much of the medical world being cut off from them or by them cutting themselves off from it. The letter says, “These include 150,000 Americans per month who would have had a new cancer detected through a routine screening that hasn’t happened, millions who have missed routine dental care to fix problems strongly linked to heart disease/death, and preventable cases of stroke, heart attack, and child abuse. Suicide hotline phone calls have increased 600%.” The letter includes actual cases from the doctors’ own practices: “Patient A.F. has chronic but previously stable health conditions. Her elective hip replacement was delayed, which caused her to become sedentary, resulting in a pulmonary embolism in April.” “Patient R.T. is an elderly nursing home patient, who had a small stroke in early March but was expected to make a nearly complete recovery. Since the shutdown, he has had no physical or speech therapy, and no visitors. He has lost weight, and is deteriorating rather than making progress.” Flattening the Curve Made Sense, but Not Much Has Since In the media call, Gold spoke of the goal America was originally given when everyone was told they must “flatten the curve.” That goal was making sure hospitals weren’t overwhelmed by potentially millions of people dangerously ill from the coronavirus. She agreed with that goal when it was first voiced, saying, “I always was concerned if we’d have enough ventilators and ICU staff. That was always what I knew to be the potential problem. So I was encouraged when people said that we were going to try to slow things down for that particular reason. That makes medical sense. Everything that has followed since that does not make scientific sense and is flat-out detrimental to society.” “I cannot say strongly enough that the healthcare system not only is not overwhelmed, it is underwhelmed,” Gold insisted. “I can tell you of scores of nurses who’ve been laid off and scores of technicians who’ve been laid off. And in my specialty, emergency physicians have cut their hours by 35 percent. I’ve never seen anything like this in my career. My point is: the curve has been flattened.” “The reality is that we are way past the time where being locked down makes any scientific or medical sense,” said Dr. Jeff Barke, a primary care physician in Newport Beach, California. Herd Immunity Seriously Hampered He talked up the idea of herd immunity and addressed what he sees as the danger and illogic of keeping children and young people locked up. “We are taking the healthiest folks – the youngest, the strongest: our children – and we are in effect protecting the healthiest herd from being exposed and allowing them to get herd immunity,” Barke argued. “We’re seeing over and over, especially with the statistics on children, that children are almost completely spared from the ravages of this virus.” Santa Monica pediatrician Robert Hamilton added to the point, saying, “COVID-19 has actually been a relatively benign infection for children. In one study of about 150,000 people, only 1.7 percent of them were in the age category between zero and 18 years of age.” He pointed out those few young people infected were for the most part asymptomatic, meaning the small number who were sickened were, as he put it, “a tiny minority of a tiny minority.” Pediatrician Assures Children Won’t ‘Infect All of Us & Kill Us All’ But the fact that most children will by asymptomatic has caused the fear that if schools open up again and most of the students get infected, they’ll unknowingly carry the virus to the people who could be hurt or even killed by it. Or, as Hamilton paraphrased those who worry about such a thing, “’Oh my gosh, children are the ones who are going to infect all of us and kill us all!’” Hamilton said of that, “There was a recent study following a child who turned positive in the French Alps. He was exposed to over a hundred people. None of them turned positive.” The pediatrician also cited a study done in Iceland that shows basically the same results. He suggested these studies say of infected children, “They are not what I call ‘the bubonic plague rodents’ that we sometimes look at them as.’ Children are not actually the cause of the problem…they’re not the super-spreaders that people sometimes think.” So he argues for schools opening sooner rather than later. Care Put Off Can Cause Many Medical Crises This new group A Doctor A Day is also pointing out how halting most so-called “non-essential” surgeries and treatments during the pandemic can cause multiple medical crises. Gold explained, “There are problems pushing off what’s called ‘an elective surgery.’ That’s a very gray area. Things go from ‘elective’ to ‘urgent’ rapidly.” Dr. Steven Giannotta echoed what Gold said, speaking of the crucial surgeries done by him and his associates at a hospital at the University of Southern California: surgeries for cancer, brain aneurysms, brain tumors, heart and liver transplants, and stroke care. “When the lockdown came, we dutifully reduced our capacity to approximately 30 percent of normal,” Giannotta reported. “All of those patients who were in the pipeline to have their cancer treated or their brain aneurysm treated or their spinal condition treated were all put on hold.” And that put many of those patients at increased risk. On the flip side, the care Giannotta was not willing to see cut back involves stroke victims. But many of those people just aren’t showing up to get examined and get care. “Which means people are sitting at home with potential symptoms of stroke and are, for whatever reason, refusing to access the healthcare system,” Giannotta explained. Media’s Made Being COVID Positive Feel More Dangerous Than It Is He put much of the blame for that on news coverage, saying, “We’ve allowed the media to try to stigmatize COVID positivity.” Many people are already afraid they’ll get the virus at a medical office or in a hospital, and Giannotta charged media link getting the COVID virus to death: “They’ve stigmatized now our healthcare system and people are afraid to access the healthcare system for fear of becoming COVID positive, as if that is the worst possible outcome.” But he pointed out the odds for most people dying from COVID-19 are actually statistically very low, “Whereas all of our patients with care for their brain tumors being delayed and along with our stroke victims, who are unfortunately suffering strokes because they won’t access the healthcare system, are being very severely impacted by these lockdown tactics.” They’re Hurting Their Heart for Fear of the Virus Hurting Them Speaking of heart conditions, Gold added, “Why are we not concerned patients are not showing up at their cardiologist’s when it’s well-known if you don’t go to the cardiologist’s regularly, your heart disease will worsen? Why are we not concerned about the stroke patients that are having strokes at home, not getting treated or dying?” “Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States,” cardiologist Gabe Vorobiof at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles pointed out. Speaking of those suffering from heart conditions, he reported they’re not keeping their doctors’ appointments or going to hospitals because “there are a huge number of patients that are simply terrified of what the media is putting out and they’re terrified of contracting this infection.” The results of that are deadly. “In-home cardiac arrests in the New York area are up 800 percent,” Vorobiof shared. “The majority of those cardiac arrest patients were not revived.” In other words, they died. “Ambulatory cardiology practices have seen about a 60 percent decline in patient volumes since late March. We’ve seen across-the-board reductions in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarctions (heart attacks),” Vorobiof reported, saying the same is true of those suffering strokes. “We’ve also seen reduction of patient visits for valve disease and transcatheter valve replacement. Procedures are way down.” Lockdowns & Pandemic-Panic Making Many Mental Problems Worse Gold introduced psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald, saying, “He’s had patients commit suicide because of depression and picking up drug use again.” McDonald runs a practice in West Los Angeles for children, adolescents, and other young people. He said during the lockdown, “I have had probably a 50 percent decline in patient visits due to patients being scared of coming to the office. These are children, adolescents, and young adults. They’re worried that if they get the coronavirus infection, they’ll die. And that’s what they’re hearing in the media and that’s what their parents are telling them.” He added, “And this is not isolated. I’ve had many patients call me recently in a state of panic. They don’t know what to do. They’re drinking again. They’re thinking of jumping off a bridge. They’re really suffering and there’s very little I can do. I have nowhere to send them because there are no resources available. Often they won’t even come into the office.” ‘A Pandemic of Hysteria’ “This, in my view, is a pandemic of hysteria and emotional overwhelm,” McDonald stated. “It’s not a medical pandemic. But the downstream consequences medically are very, very severe.” “There’s an emotional and social toll that this is taking on children, being in lockdown for this period of time,” said pediatrician Hamilton, backing up McDonald. “Issues of depression, suicide threats, that sense of futility, despair, fear, paranoia really, are taking ahold in our younger people, particularly older kids, junior high and high school ages.” Psychiatrist McDonald added, “I’ve had to increase my frequency and dosage of benzodiazepines, which is the valium and Xanax family of drugs, which are highly addictive, in order to treat overwhelming increases of panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms, and generalized anxiety.” He added, “I hate using these drugs; I’m very conservative in my prescribing them. But I don’t have any choice because patients have no other resources. A lot of my patients have had substance abuse issues. They have nowhere to go. All of the AA meetings, 12-Step programs, outpatient and inpatient substance abuse programs — they’re done....

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