Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lHpnmk_J1vU

The FDA and Flowers Foods, Inc. are recalling 3,000 loaves of Nature’s Own Honey Wheat bread with a “Best if used by” of 12/26/2021.  The product has undeclared milk.  If those with a milk allergy consume this bread, they could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction. This bread was sold in: Arizona; Colorado; New Mexico, Wyoming; the cities of Blythe, Brawley, Calexico, Calipatra, El Centro, Needles, and Westmoreland, California; the city of Laughlin, Nevada; and to one wholesale distributor in California that is serving Mexico.  If you or a family member has a milk allergy, return this bread to the place of purchase for a refund.  For more information, call Flowers’ Consumer Relations at 1-866-245-8921 or contact them online at flowersfoods.com/contact/consumers.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/flowers-foods-issues-voluntary-recall-limited-quantity-natures-own-honey-wheat-bread-sold-six-states

#flowersfoods #bread #milk #allergy #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lHpnmk_J1vU

The FDA and Flowers Foods, Inc. are recalling 3,000 loaves of Nature’s Own Honey Wheat bread with a “Best if used by” of 12/26/2021.  The product has undeclared milk.  If those with a milk allergy consume this bread, they could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction. This bread was sold in: Arizona; Colorado; New Mexico, Wyoming; the cities of Blythe, Brawley, Calexico, Calipatra, El Centro, Needles, and Westmoreland, California; the city of Laughlin, Nevada; and to one wholesale distributor in California that is serving Mexico.  If you or a family member has a milk allergy, return this bread to the place of purchase for a refund.  For more information, call Flowers’ Consumer Relations at 1-866-245-8921 or contact them online at flowersfoods.com/contact/consumers.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/flowers-foods-issues-voluntary-recall-limited-quantity-natures-own-honey-wheat-bread-sold-six-states

#flowersfoods #bread #milk #allergy #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/zPHpvCcq1YQ

The CPSC and Northern Lights Enterprises are recalling Alaura Two-Tone Jar Candles.  These candle jars may shatter crack, or split apart while the candle is burning and create laceration, fire, and burn hazards.  Apparently the candle jars are not fabricated with thermal-resistant glass.  About 139,500 of these candle jars were sold nationwide at Costco Warehouse stores and online at costco.com.  Immediately stop burning these candles and return them to any Costco Warehouse store for a full refund.  If you are unable to return the candle to a Costco store, contact Northern Lights by email at [email protected] to verify you have cut the candle wicks by photo and to receive a full refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Northern-Lights-Recalls-Alaura-Two-Tone%20Jar-Candles-Due-to-Laceration-and-Fire-Hazards-Sold-Exclusively-at-Costco-Recall-Alert

#costco #candlejar #shatter #laceration #burn #fire #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/zPHpvCcq1YQ

The CPSC and Northern Lights Enterprises are recalling Alaura Two-Tone Jar Candles.  These candle jars may shatter crack, or split apart while the candle is burning and create laceration, fire, and burn hazards.  Apparently the candle jars are not fabricated with thermal-resistant glass.  About 139,500 of these candle jars were sold nationwide at Costco Warehouse stores and online at costco.com.  Immediately stop burning these candles and return them to any Costco Warehouse store for a full refund.  If you are unable to return the candle to a Costco store, contact Northern Lights by email at [email protected] to verify you have cut the candle wicks by photo and to receive a full refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Northern-Lights-Recalls-Alaura-Two-Tone%20Jar-Candles-Due-to-Laceration-and-Fire-Hazards-Sold-Exclusively-at-Costco-Recall-Alert

#costco #candlejar #shatter #laceration #burn #fire #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/enTHktTzXlA

The CPSC and Karmas Far are recalling Karmas Far 3-in-1 baby bath tub chair and toddler booster seats.  These bath seats do not meet federal safety standards for stability or leg openings, then may tip over when in use, and they create a drowning hazard for infants.  About 900 of these baby bath seats were sold online at walmart.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, wish.com, and bosonshop.com.  If you have one of these, immediately stop using it to bathe your infant.  Contact Karmas Far at 1-909-372-6955 and they’ll accept collect calls or via email at [email protected] for receive a postpaid shipping label, upon their receipt of your product, a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Karmas-Far-Recalls-Infant-Bath-Seats-Due-to-Drowning-Hazard-Recall-Alert

#karmafar #bathingseat #instability #drowning #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/enTHktTzXlA

The CPSC and Karmas Far are recalling Karmas Far 3-in-1 baby bath tub chair and toddler booster seats.  These bath seats do not meet federal safety standards for stability or leg openings, then may tip over when in use, and they create a drowning hazard for infants.  About 900 of these baby bath seats were sold online at walmart.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, wish.com, and bosonshop.com.  If you have one of these, immediately stop using it to bathe your infant.  Contact Karmas Far at 1-909-372-6955 and they’ll accept collect calls or via email at [email protected] for receive a postpaid shipping label, upon their receipt of your product, a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Karmas-Far-Recalls-Infant-Bath-Seats-Due-to-Drowning-Hazard-Recall-Alert

#karmafar #bathingseat #instability #drowning #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/czAdC2EQ59w

The legendary Brit prime minister Winston Churchill once remarked that Americans always do the right thing…after they’ve tried everything else.  That quote is so relevant to our continuing, wrongheaded mismanagement of CoVid.  

When the pandemic was originally raging in the winter of 2020-21, many refused to wear masks, distance, avoid indoor crowds, and flocked to outdoor super-spreader events.  As the result, CoVid patients filled our hospitals, we ran out of ventilators, and we needed refrigerator trucks to warehouse our dead parents and grandparents when undertakers, cemeteries, and cremation  facilities were overwhelmed.  We shut down our economy and operated our businesses and schools using high tech remote communications. 

Things improved this past winter and spring with the availability of 3 CoVid vaccines.  Older and sicker adults got vaccinated followed by teens and most recently younger children.  Then too, more people but not all began using appropriate masking and modified their indoor activities and outdoor gatherings.  Mass transit use resumed. 

Things were looking good through the summer.  Plans were made to reopen  schools, offices, indoor dining, theaters, and indoor sports events.

Then over the summer the more transmissible Delta variant arrived from from India. It could cause asymptomatic infection even in the vaccinated, and those infected silently spread it.  Indoor venues began to require proof of vaccination and masks, but some faked the vax cards and refused masking. 

Then studies began to show that immune protection against Delta CoVid dropped dangerously low by 5 to 6 months after  vaccination. A booster campaign began and is ongoing.   This month the super-transmissible Omicron variant arrived from South Africa, and it seems to require even higher levels of antibodies for neutralization necessitating boosters for all 

Cases are again raging, and hospitals are again filling.  Omicron isn’t helping, but it is likely not the main cause.  The cause is the false assumption that we still have vaccine protective immunity and our failure to do something about it. 

 Only about 60% of Americans are vaccinated, and we lag behind most other Western nations. The vast majority of us now have waning immunity and only 30% have been boosted.  Despite our diminishing protection,  indoor activities and outdoor mass events with sloppy or negligible masking continue.  Don’t be surprised if lockdowns, remote schooling, and virtual work again become necessary.  

Now is the time for all Americans to finally heed Winston Churchill.

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/czAdC2EQ59w

The legendary Brit prime minister Winston Churchill once remarked that Americans always do the right thing…after they’ve tried everything else.  That quote is so relevant to our continuing, wrongheaded mismanagement of CoVid.  

When the pandemic was originally raging in the winter of 2020-21, many refused to wear masks, distance, avoid indoor crowds, and flocked to outdoor super-spreader events.  As the result, CoVid patients filled our hospitals, we ran out of ventilators, and we needed refrigerator trucks to warehouse our dead parents and grandparents when undertakers, cemeteries, and cremation  facilities were overwhelmed.  We shut down our economy and operated our businesses and schools using high tech remote communications. 

Things improved this past winter and spring with the availability of 3 CoVid vaccines.  Older and sicker adults got vaccinated followed by teens and most recently younger children.  Then too, more people but not all began using appropriate masking and modified their indoor activities and outdoor gatherings.  Mass transit use resumed. 

Things were looking good through the summer.  Plans were made to reopen  schools, offices, indoor dining, theaters, and indoor sports events.

Then over the summer the more transmissible Delta variant arrived from from India. It could cause asymptomatic infection even in the vaccinated, and those infected silently spread it.  Indoor venues began to require proof of vaccination and masks, but some faked the vax cards and refused masking. 

Then studies began to show that immune protection against Delta CoVid dropped dangerously low by 5 to 6 months after  vaccination. A booster campaign began and is ongoing.   This month the super-transmissible Omicron variant arrived from South Africa, and it seems to require even higher levels of antibodies for neutralization necessitating boosters for all 

Cases are again raging, and hospitals are again filling.  Omicron isn’t helping, but it is likely not the main cause.  The cause is the false assumption that we still have vaccine protective immunity and our failure to do something about it. 

 Only about 60% of Americans are vaccinated, and we lag behind most other Western nations. The vast majority of us now have waning immunity and only 30% have been boosted.  Despite our diminishing protection,  indoor activities and outdoor mass events with sloppy or negligible masking continue.  Don’t be surprised if lockdowns, remote schooling, and virtual work again become necessary.  

Now is the time for all Americans to finally heed Winston Churchill.  Isn’t it obvious that we’ve tried everything else, and it’s high time we did the right things. 

Everyone should have 3 shots, including the boosters, of the very effective Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.  Those eligible for additional boosters as 4th or maybe 5th shots must get them. Everyone should wear 4 or 5 layer N95 or FDA certified KN95 masks indoors, on mass transit, and outdoors around others.  Indoor dining should stop, and outdoor dining huts must be ventilated and distanced with public health guidelines standardizing their construction. Indoor  theater and  indoor sports events should be postponed until CoVid cases stop rising. 

We’ve tried everything else and now we must do the right thing.  That means everyone must be vaccinated and we must have strict enforcement of masking, distancing, and ventilation.  Look…  personal choices stop when your choices expose others to a deadly disease and endanger the community.  

We will need timely changes to public health recommendations and crystal clear CDC recommendations.  Short of these changes, this life-threatening pandemic will never end, and the virus will imprison us because of our own stubbornness and avoidance of public health necessities.  The 800,000 Americans we’ve already lost will be joined by millions more.

If you haven’t yet figured it out, we’re fighting a war, and every American is on the front line.  Do your part!   Uncle Sam and we all need you.  

#CoVid #delta #omicron #vaccination #masking #immunity

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/SZG20jo_yII

You’ve heard about it on TV and radio, and the headlines trumpet something like “Pfizer says its CoVid pill is near 90% effective.” Well….. let’s take a closer look at the available data

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is combination therapy including a novel protease inhibitor nirmatrelvir or PF-07321332 and an antiviral cytochrome inhibitor Ritonavir.  When these two drugs in separate pills are taken every 12 hours for 5 days beginning within the first days after symptom onset, they prevent hospitalizations and deaths for high-risk persons by 89%.  High risk would be older patients and those with complicating medical problems such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This according to a new analysis of 2200 participants.  An earlier study showed the Paxlovid drug combo to be 70% effective for those in a standard risk category.

This is exciting news, but there is a sketchy side.  First, all the information we see, hear, and read only comes from Pfizer press releases not from their actual submission to the FDA for the Emergency Use Authorization.  As a medical journalist with NIH research experience, I want to see the actual data.

Then there is what we don’t know about the Pfizer CoVid pill.  What will suppressing rather than preventing CoVid do regarding long CoVid?  Will the pill prevent the lingering symptoms of fatigue, fogginess, and chronic aching?  Will Paxlovid prevent CoVid from damaging your vital organs including your lungs with chronic scarring and slow suffocation, your heart with myocarditis and congestive heart failure, your brain with encephalitis, your kidneys with renal failure, your liver with cirrhosis, and your pancreas with diabetes. 

The better strategy is to avoid contracting the many variants of CoVid in the first place by maintaining immunity against CoVid by vaccination and timely boosting, by strategic and sometimes double masking, and by avoiding virus aerosols indoors and in dense crowds.

https://bit.ly/321lkyS

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2021/12/08/pfizers-new-covid-19-drug-paxlovid/

#CoVid #pfizer #proteaseinhibitor #paxlovid #bigpharma

CoVid, pfizer, proteaseinhibitor, paxlovid, bigpharma

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/SZG20jo_yII

You’ve heard about it on TV and radio, and the headlines trumpet something like “Pfizer says its CoVid pill is near 90% effective.” Well….. let’s take a closer look at the available data

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is combination therapy including a novel protease inhibitor nirmatrelvir or PF-07321332 and an antiviral cytochrome inhibitor Ritonavir.  When these two drugs in separate pills are taken every 12 hours for 5 days beginning within the first days after symptom onset, they prevent hospitalizations and deaths for high-risk persons by 89%.  High risk would be older patients and those with complicating medical problems such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This according to a new analysis of 2200 participants.  An earlier study showed the Paxlovid drug combo to be 70% effective for those in a standard risk category.

This is exciting news, but there is a sketchy side.  First, all the information we see, hear, and read only comes from Pfizer press releases not from their actual submission to the FDA for the Emergency Use Authorization.  As a medical journalist with NIH research experience, I want to see the actual data.

Then there is what we don’t know about the Pfizer CoVid pill.  What will suppressing rather than preventing CoVid do regarding long CoVid?  Will the pill prevent the lingering symptoms of fatigue, fogginess, and chronic aching?  Will Paxlovid prevent CoVid from damaging your vital organs including your lungs with chronic scarring and slow suffocation, your heart with myocarditis and congestive heart failure, your brain with encephalitis, your kidneys with renal failure, your liver with cirrhosis, and your pancreas with diabetes. 

The better strategy is to avoid contracting the many variants of CoVid in the first place by maintaining immunity against CoVid by vaccination and timely boosting, by strategic and sometimes double masking, and by avoiding virus aerosols indoors and in dense crowds.

https://bit.ly/321lkyS

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2021/12/08/pfizers-new-covid-19-drug-paxlovid/

#CoVid #pfizer #proteaseinhibitor #paxlovid #bigpharma

CoVid, pfizer, proteaseinhibitor, paxlovid, bigpharma