The COVID Advisor

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, diagnostic tests of any kind were challenging to find, and their use was generally limited to people showing active signs of infection. The tests had to be administered in a medical facility, and the results could take a week to obtain. Later, a rapid form of the test using nasal cells or saliva could detect the presence of antibodies or antigens within 30 minutes, but the test still had to be administered in a lab or doctor’s office. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  (CDC) have approved several Covid tests for home use, although some still require analysis by an outside laboratory. One of the main selling points of these tests is privacy. If a person needs to know their current status, an at-home test eliminates the need to schedule a doctor’s appointment or stand in line at a busy testing center. At-home Covid tests are becoming more widely available, and it helps to know how...

Status update 2:52pm Jun 27 I stopped the drugs other than fluvoxamine and the vitamins. I’m back to normal. I was “sick” for a total of 3 days with COVID. Never lost taste or smell. No long haul symptoms. I’ve always said that the only thing we really needed to do to respond to COVID was tell people: If you are sick, stay home As soon as you realize you have COVID, start on an early treatment protocol like the one listed below. Nothing else was needed. In fact, I’d argue that everything we did including vaccination, masking, lockdowns, mandates, remdesivir, standardized hospital protocols, and more was counter-productive; it just made things worse. Introduction I came down with COVID on Friday, June 24, 2022. My wife had COVID (she got it from a golfing partner) and I didn’t wait long enough before interacting with her. I am double vaccinated because in March 2021, I believed...