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"Unlike close relatives, SARS-CoV-2 can readily attack human cells at multiple points, with the lungs and the throat being the main targets. Once inside the body, the virus makes use of a diverse arsenal of dangerous molecules.

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    If we consider the water used in producing our foods, California is a net-importer and the Mid-West a net exporter.

So many articles, so little time. Let us get right to it. Could there be a genetic component to COVID-19’s ill effects?

“It’s hardly news that our E.M.R.

Lost in the discussion of the need for more ventilators in the face of COVID-19 is the consideration of what those ventilators supply, oxygen.

How’s it going at home, sheltering in place? Even with structuring our day, making sure we get dressed, and searching for a new binge-worthy stream, it seems tedious. We are not alone with that dilemma, now or historically. 

It is with great sadness that I note that on April 6, 2020, the American Council on Science and Health lost a longtime member of its Board of Scientific Advisors, Dr. S. Fred Singer. ACSH’s Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and Dr.

COVID-19 continues to dominate my reading. While we cannot control the underlying sources and drivers of a pandemic, we can control our response. The literature, mainstream and professional, is beginning to reflect on our response.

“Two critical mutations in the bat coronavirus set us on the path to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first modified the structure of the spike-like structures that protrude from the virus.