Early in the pandemic, more than a year ago, subscribers to our newsletter Independent Healing learned about research showing that your blood type affects your risk to contract the coronavirus.
Now, a new study confirms those findings and explains why people with blood type A are more susceptible to the virus.[1]
A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School and Emory University analyzed how the coronavirus interacts with respiratory cells in A, B, and O blood types.… Read More
We’ve known almost since the beginning of the pandemic that people with certain chronic conditions are hit hard by coronavirus. If they get infected, they are much more likely to get a severe case and die.
A new study reveals specifically which conditions are most dangerous.
Researchers at Tufts University discovered that two-thirds of hospitalized coronavirus patients have at least one of four chronic ailments.… Read More
Teachers across the country who have returned to in-person instruction have noted one overarching frustration: Mask requirements, while necessary, sometimes make it difficult for students to hear what’s being taught.
Luckily, one teacher reached out to a friend, acoustic researcher Ryan Corey, about the problem. He realized that this is a common issue. Many of us have trouble being heard while speaking through a mask.… Read More
The lungs of people who have tested positive for coronavirus are often densely scarred—even if they didn’t have any symptoms.
That’s the disturbing warning from Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall. She is a trauma surgeon at Texas Tech University.[i]
“Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smokers’ lungs we’ve ever seen,” she said.[ii]
All patients who’ve had COVID-19 symptoms show a severe chest X-ray, Dr.… Read More
Which public places are riskiest during the pandemic?
That’s the question researchers at Stanford University set out to answer with a new computer model.[1]
They analyzed cellphone data from 98 million Americans living in 10 major cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
The data showed where people went in the course of a day, how much time they spent there, and how crowded the places were.… Read More
The CDC tells us that if we stand at least 6 feet away from other people we will be able to avoid catching coronavirus.
Here are the exact words from CDC guidelines…
“To practice social or physical distancing, stay at least 6 feet (about two arms’ length) from other people who are not from your household.”
But this oft-repeated 6-foot rule is nonsense, according to new research that documents cases of people who caught the virus while staying well outside that distance.… Read More