Context Check: Is Water Fluoridation Safe?
What is the impact of water-based fluoride and its concentration in our water system, especially on children's IQ? Looking at studies and reporting.
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Study finds all N95 masks effective for reducing an ill person's danger to others, especially duckbill masks
"All masks and respirators significantly reduced exhaled viral load, without fit tests or training. A duckbill N95 reduced exhaled viral load by 98% (95% CI: 97%–99%), and significantly outperformed a KN95 (p < 0.001) as well as cloth and surgical masks. Cloth masks outperformed a surgical mask (p = 0.027) and the tested KN95 (p = 0.014)."
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COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
"Cases are low right now for one simple reason: most people have recently had COVID. If not during the massive winter JN.1 surge, which infected an estimated 100 million people, then in the previous variant-soup wave of late summer 2023."
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UK scientists find link between proteins related to blood clots and long Covid
Biomarker discovery indicates that sufferers from brain fog and fatigue post-virus could be treated with anticoagulants
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Covid could do for ventilation what cholera did for cleaner water systems
Could better ventilation have prevented covid from becoming a pandemic that killed millions of people?
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The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it
The National Institutes of Health hasn’t signed up a single patient to test any potential treatments — despite a clear mandate from Congress to study them. And the few trials it is planning have already drawn a firestorm of criticism
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Diabetes risk rises after COVID, massive study finds
Even mild SARS-CoV-2 infections can amplify a person’s chance of developing diabetes, especially for those already susceptible to the disease.
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Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system.
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Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Repeat COVID is riskier than first infection, study finds
The findings were drawn from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) data collected from March 1, 2020 through April 6, 2022 on 443,588 patients with one SARS-CoV-2 infection, 40,947 with two or more infections, and 5.3 million noninfected individuals.