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| |'''Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted'''
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| [[File:Didier Raoult.jpg|thumb|center| [https://www.science.org/content/article/infamous-paper-popularized-unproven-covid-19-treatment-finally-retracted?utm_campaign=Science&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=Bluesky by Cathleen O’Grady 12/17/24 Science]]]
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| A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment was retracted today,
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| Then-IHU Director Didier Raoult, the paper’s senior author, enthused about the promise of the drug on social media and TV, leading to a wave of hype, including from then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
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| But scientists immediately raised concerns about the paper, noting the sample size of only 36 patients and the unusually short peer review time: The paper was submitted on 16 March 2020 and published 4 days later.
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| =====Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism=====
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| [https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/vaccine-autism-rfk-jr-how-science-proves-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/ By Matthew Herper 2/03/2025 STAT]
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| “If RFK Jr. uses his perch as HHS secretary to discourage parents from getting their children inoculated with the MMR vaccine, severe negative repercussions could result, including measles outbreaks and childhood deaths,” Prasad wrote. “This is not a good policy.”
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| ===== Researchers say flu shot connected to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/2/2107067/-Researchers-say-flu-shot-connected-to-40-reduced-risk-of-Alzheimer-s-disease by Walter Einenkel 2/6/22 DAILY KOS]
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| One of the many tragic turns the politicization of COVID-19 and our country’s response to it has been the deleterious effect it has had on public health consensus. With the rise in privatization, greed, and a withering government response over the decades, the public’s trust in medicine and science as entities above politics and money has dwindled. The novel coronavirus pandemic, as it did with everything else, expedited the trend of deteriorating public trust.
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| =====U.S. life expectancy plunged in 2020, with Black Americans acutely affected.=====
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| [https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/18/world/covid-19-coronavirus#us-life-expectancy-plunged-in-2020-with-black-americans-acutely-affected NY Times 2-18-2021]
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| Thursday’s figures give the first full picture of the pandemic’s effect on American expected life spans, which dropped to 77.8 years from 78.8 years in 2019. It also showed a deepening of racial and ethnic disparities: Life expectancy of the Black population declined by 2.7 years in the first half of 2020, after 20 years of gains. The gap between Black and white Americans, which had been narrowing, is now at six years, the widest since 1998.
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| Still, unlike the drop caused by the extended, complex problem of drug overdoses, this one, driven largely by Covid-19, is not likely to last as long because virus deaths are easing and people are being vaccinated. In 1918, when hundreds of thousands of Americans died in the flu pandemic, life expectancy declined 11.8 years from the previous year, Dr. Arias said, down to 39. Numbers fully rebounded the following year.
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| =====Health Check: why swimming in the sea is good for you=====
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| <embed> https://theconversation.com/health-check-why-swimming-in-the-sea-is-good-for-you-68583 </embed> the Conversation December 25, 2016 3.41pm EST
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| Historically, doctors would recommend their patients go to the seaside to improve various ills. They would actually issue prescriptions detailing exactly how long, how often and under what conditions their patients were to be in the water.
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| Using seawater for medical purposes even has a name: thalassotherapy.
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| To this day, healing and spa resorts by the seaside abound. They are thought of as places where people can not only let go of their troubles but, in some cases, even cure arthritis.
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