SmartMEDInfo Blog
SmartMEDInfo Blog by Moira Dolan, MD
Update: Boosting viral resistance naturally
As the pandemic wears on, concerns have shifted from ‘hiding out’ to ‘how to thrive’ in a world of viral transmission. Indeed, the natural history of viruses new to the human population is to hit hard at first, then taper rapidly. From the...
To Mask Or Not To Mask?
In a study of 100 confirmed CoVID cases in Taiwan, 2,761 close contacts were traced, in which 22 secondary cases were found. That makes for an overall secondary case rate of 0.7%. (Journal of the American Medical Association, May 2020) When a clos...
Healthy Skepticism
What if you accepted every ‘diagnosis’ made by an auto mechanic? What if you never read a food label, or totally ignored ratings and reviews on amazon? Surely you’d be paying for some repairs you don’t need, eating stuff you should avoid, ...
CoVID Immunity Much More Common: New Antibody Studies
A much lower CoVID death rate is warranted, based on antibody testing to SARS-CoV-2 in California. Positive antibody tests indicate that those persons’ bodies had met the virus, and their immune systems appropriately mounted a response by genera...
Cashing In On CoVID, Part 2: Follow the Money to Gilead’s Remdesivir
©Moira Dolan, MD May 8, 2020 The timeline of the news about Gilead Science’s drug remdesivir portrays an unprecedented rush to endorse an unproven drug. The statistics for benefit are frail indeed, and the potential for adverse drug effe...
Cashing In On CoVID, Part 1: Pretending Psychiatric Drugs Treat Disease
©Moira Dolan, MD May 1, 2020 The mental health industry is not going to be left out of the money grab on the wave of this pandemic. Along with vaccine manufacturers and antiviral drug promoters, psychotropic drug makers are leveraging th...
CoVID antibody testing
April 24, 2020 © Moira Dolan MD FDA allows marketing of it, but has “not formally approved” testing for antibodies to the virus causing CoVID. That is because no one has validated the test. The manufacturer Cellex, Inc. is the only one to ...
CoVID Death Toll Numbers Trick – Masking The Truth
4/17/2020 ©Moira Dolan, MD New York is playing the same numbers game that China pulled, when their alleged CoVID death numbers spiked in mid-February. New York’s health department reported coronavirus deaths took a jump overnight. On Tuesday...
Playing with Statistics
4/14/2020 ©Moira Dolan, MD Is CoVID claiming some victims that, in a typical year, would have fallen ill with the flu, leading to a so-called “CoVID divergence”? The CDC reported that positive tests for influenza virus were down 6.9% in th...
Counting CoVID19, masks, testing, and treatment updates
4/7/2020 ©Moira Dolan MD There seems to be only one thing that specialists from around the world can agree upon, and that is that we don’t yet have a good idea of the true risk of illness, much less death from this new virus. Countin...
