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How Drug Industry Is Countering Diminishing Vaccine Uptake Analysis by  Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE As lockdowns have kept people at home and out of medical facilities, infant vaccination rates have dropped. This may be why they’ve started promoting baseless claims suggesting common childhood vaccinations might prevent COVID-19 deaths Despite lack of proof, media claims the TB vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and oral polio vaccines might protect against COVID-19 A Singaporean study finds common colds caused by frequently encountered betacoronaviruses might make you more resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and that the resulting immunity might last as long as 17 years If you’ve beat a common cold caused by a OC43 or HKU1 betacoronavirus in the past, you may have a 50/50 chance of having defensive T-cells that can recognize and help defend against SARS-CoV-2 Other studies have also discovered that many appear to have prior resistance to SARS-CoV-2. One ...

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             I hope that everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed some sunshine-get that vitamin D now and help your immune system, never been more important! We had plenty of rain too, which should bring up the May flowers. In this Spring time of year, I think it’s important to realize how life continues and rebuilds itself. This goes for our bodies and immune systems as well. If you are not doing well or feel tired and just not yourself, this means the body is not healing correctly and needs help. Like the flowers and the grass need rain and sunshine, our bodies need nutrients and the digestive ability to absorb them. This is what we do at Natural Health.             I’m sending along an article on where the most likely place is to contract this virus business. The article is good and actually uses some common sense thinking to...

Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted List of authors. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.,  H. Clifford Lane, M.D.,  and Robert R. Redfield, M.D. he latest threat to global health is the ongoing outbreak of the respiratory disease that was recently given the name Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). Covid-19 was recognized in December 2019. 1  It was rapidly shown to be caused by a novel coronavirus that is structurally related to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). As in two preceding instances of emergence of coronavirus disease in the past 18 years 2  — SARS (2002 and 2003) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) (2012 to the present) — the Covid-19 outbreak has posed critical challenges for the public health, research, and medical communities. In their  Journal  article, Li and colleagues 3  provide a detailed clinical and epidemiologic description of the first 425 cases reported in the epicenter of the outbreak: the ...