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Another coronavirus lockdown would hurt these patients and providers
Featured in Fox News, Kaiser Health News and Powerline | Sally C. Pipes
August 10, 2020

As they try to get the coronavirus‘ spread under control, states must resist the urge to impose blanket stay-at-home orders. Such draconian measures can cause people to postpone important medical care unrelated to COVID-19. The health costs of this foregone care are substantial – and could end up outweighing the benefits of another shutdown.


Deaths Are An Incomplete Measure Of Covid-19’S Impact
American Council on Science and Health | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Josh Bloom
August 10, 2020

Covid-19 is far more than a transient respiratory infection. Although it shares some pulmonary symptoms with influenza, for example severe pneumonia and a fever, once flu is gone, it’s gone and rarely leaves permanent damage. Not so with Covid-19.  For example, “post-Covid pulmonary fibrosis” leaves permanent damage in the lungs, presumably resulting from blood clotting in the lungs. And it doesn’t stop there.
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