Health

It looks like a major development has just occurred in the fight against covid-19.

A ‘Big Data’ project shoved much of the data collected so far on the coronavirus into one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. It crunched the numbers for a week and came out with a very significant finding.

It appears that covid-19 causes an overproduction of bradykinin (creating a “Bradykinin Storm”), the compound that dilates blood vessels and makes them permeable. This leads to leaky blood vessels and results in the build-up of blood in the body’s soft tissues.

The data is in, and it doesn’t look good for men who get sick with covid-19. Severe cases appear to do serious damage to the seminiferous tubules of the testes, which produce and regulate testosterone.

We don’t yet know what the effect, lasting or otherwise, this damage may have on fertility.

But this underscores our longstanding advice: you don’t want to get this virus if you can avoid it.

Several quick, cheap tests for covid-19 are rolling out.

Finally, we should be able to do widespread testing that’s not overly invasive, too expensive, or takes forever to get results.

A recent study shows that covid-19 may not be as “novel” a virus (i.e., never encountered before) as previously thought.

And as a result, 20-50% of the population appears to have a degree of “pre-immunity” to the virus.

Over half a year into the pandemic and yet the US mainstream media continues to badly fail us when it comes to keeping the public well-informed about the coronavirus and what we can do to protect our health.

With millions of students poised to return to school, stressed parents are wondering: How worried should I be about my kid catching covid-19 at school?

Well, we’re beginning to understand the risks. And it differs by age.

Given all that we know after our months of intensively tracking the coronavirus pandemic, what are the best ways to prevent & treat it?

Covid-19 is one of the most “alien” viruses our modern health care system has encountered.

Not because it came from extraterrestrials, but because of all of the various different ways it’s able to wreak havoc on the human body. It’s so novel that we don’t have a good natural analog to compare it to.

What’s it like to actually have covid-19?

On today’s video, Chris interviews Dr. Glenn DeSandre who is still recovering from the virus.

Ever since the outbreak of covid-19 we’ve wondered why the virus hits some people like a ton of bricks while barely inconveniencing others.

Now we think we have a clue.

New data suggests that the specific types of T-cells you have in your immune system determine how severely your body will react to the coronavirus upon infection.