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From an article in 2017: "...researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that nearly a third of those approved from 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues years after the medications were made widely available to patients.".. "It took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for these safety concerns to come to light, the study found, and issues were more common among psychiatric drugs, biologic drugs, drugs that were granted "accelerated approval"

Note that some COVID tests in use currently do not have full FDA approval because they are based on contrived genetic sequences. Tests without approval will be removed from the market by the end of the year. For some reason, I am unable to access a list of which tests have full approval and which do not. From https://www.cdc.gov//07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-P. "After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...Continue reading

There are many people who still believe that the case fatality rate is as high as the beginning of the pandemic when it has actually decreased nearly 10-fold over time. There are many reasons for this such as using steroids, avoiding early ventilator use, and better protection of long term care residents. So far, there is no rise from the Delta variant and hopefully it stays that way.

The direct link to the CDC study is https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm

I heard about this happening to independent thinking doctors in other countries. I did not know this would happen in the U.S..... https://www.fsmb.org//fsmb-spreading-covid-19-vaccine-mis/

From the beginning of the pandemic, A.R.T. (Autonomic Response Testing) has indicated disturbances of all of the major meridians. For me, this indicates an immunodeficiency pattern, which I've only seen this in one other viral infection. I've been waiting for mainstream medicine to report on this and I just found this mentioned anecdotally in the 2nd half of this article from CNN. It is specifically this pattern that worries me that the majority of the consequences of the pandemic will occur in the future just like the virus mentioned in the article. Any good treatments or vaccines will have to address the long term and short term effects of the infection. -Dave Ou, MD , Atlanta, GA

This letter from the prestigious British Medical Journal cites studies showing that flu shots can increase the chances of getting other respiratory viruses such as rhinoviruses and coronaviruses. It cites many other concerns regarding the need for studies about the effects of flu shots.

Indiana University School of Medicine did a survey on COVID "long haulers" and produced a list of the top 50 symptoms, most of which are not mentioned by the CDC and therefore not known to doctors and the general public. Examples include brain fog, insomnia, anxiety, dizziness, joint pain, hair loss, sadness, irritability, back pain, and reflux. https://precisionhealth.iu.edu//lambert-covid-symptom-stud

For over a decade, I have been working with complex illnesses such as those caused by Lyme and mold. Even now, they remain controversial in the mainstream medical community because there is not a complete scientific understanding of them. Testing and treatment of these conditions remain less than ideal. The most useful tool for me in analyzing these conditions is A.R.T. (Autonomic Response Testing by Dr. Klinghardt). It helps me to sort out what is affecting the patient s...itting in from of me and what treatments will be most useful. I can avoid the trial and error process of figuring out what treatments will be most effective. I have been able to use A.R.T. to analyze the effects of COVID-19 in nearly 150 cases. The helps to sort out what is true and false from the mainstream and social media and scientific "experts." I am seeing many similarities between Lyme and COVID: 1) Like the controversy over the existence of Chronic Lyme, some believe COVID-19 is a hoax. Neither are hoaxes. 2) Lyme causes a variety of different symptoms which makes it hard to diagnose. COVID also has a variety of different symptoms and the list is constantly growing. 3) Lyme has an acute and chronic phase. I am beginning to see a similar pattern with COVID. It may take a period of years to see what all of the long term chronic effects are. For me, the potential long term effects are what worries me the most. 4) Most Chronic Lyme patients have been told by their doctors that Lyme can't cause their symptoms. It has been reported that many COVID "long haulers" are being told the same thing. 5) In Lyme, symptoms can come and go. I'm seeing the same with COVID 6) With Lyme, some people get mild symptoms and others get debilitating symptoms. This depends on the person's terrain. I see the same with COVID. 7) With Chronic Lyme, many do not recall an acute phase such as a Bullseye's rash. Their first symptoms come later in the chronic phase. A.R.T. suggests this to be a possibility with COVID. 8) Testing for Chronic Lyme is not 100% accurate. Nor is COVID testing. Some labs are better at detecting Lyme antibodies than other labs. In some Chronic Lyme cases, they can't make antibodies at all. Utlimately, many cases of Lyme are missed by testing. Because of my frustration with Lyme testing, I learned A.R.T. It is my preferred tool for assessing the presence of Lyme. The same applies to COVID. 9) A positive antibody test for Lyme does not mean one is immune from Lyme. A.R.T. suggests the same for COVID. 10) After one gets Lyme, one can get it again. Ditto for COVID 11) It is best to prevent getting Lyme in the first place. It is not a good idea to get "herd immunity" from Lyme. I believe the same applies to COVID.

Anecdotally, A.R.T. (Autonomic Response Testing) has shown that 29 of my patients have been reinfected. One on hydroxychloroquine for lupus has been infected a total of 4 times. About 6 have been infected 3 times. Overall, about 1/3 of my patients who got COVID have gotten it again. I can't tell if it is due to reactivation or a different strain, but I've definitely seen the latter in several cases. --Dave Ou, MD

In previous posts, I have described the damage caused by COVID-19 from an energetic standpoint. More and more articles are coming out about people who still have symptoms months after their initial infection and I continue to see this in many of my patients. In this article from the article, they quote a Dutch study in which 85% of people considered themselves to be healthy prior to infection. After infection, only 6% considered themselves healthy one month later. While most people are worried about the short term effects of the virus, I am worried that we do not know all of the long term effects.

As the number of patients who have been infected with COVID rises in my practice, I am definitely seeing what appears to be a post-viral syndrome for many. Many of them report persistent fatigue, brain fog, headache, GI disturbances, mood disorders, insomnia, rashes, and/or pain. This Washington Post article quotes a survey (which may not reflect the general population) that only 20% of patients were symptom free 50 days after infection. In my more recent analysis with Au...tonomic Response Testing (A.R.T.) as developed by Dr. Klinghardt, I'm finding that from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the 12 major meridians plus the Du and Ren meridians are dysfunctional. I've never seen this pattern of all the meridians being out of balance in any other pathology that I've seen in my career. This also appears to make the body more sensitive to pre-existing toxins and infections in their bodies. This would explain why so many of my patients have had setbacks in their progress after infection. Strangely, I have also seen many who have no symptoms after infection. I have been scrambling trying to develop new methods to address the numerous downstream disturbances created by this infection. --Dave Ou, MD - Atlanta, GA See more

The current wait time to see Dr. Ou is down to 2 months since a large part of his practice is unable to travel to see him due to the current pandemic. We screen all patients for coronavirus with A.R.T. prior to their arrival to protect our staff and patients. So if you've wanted to see Dr. Ou but did not want to wait and are able to travel to see him, you can soon become a patient by visiting www.bridgestohealthatl.com/contact.html

Having worked with Chronic Lyme Disease for over 10 years, I am very used to the idea that conventional testing can be very inaccurate. This was one of the main reasons that I learned Autonomic Response Testing (A.R.T.) as developed by Dr. Klinghardt. Now that I have used A.R.T. to evaluate scores of people with novel coronavirus, I have learned to view COVID results with the same skepticism as Lyme results. However unlike Lyme testing, at least mainstream science and the CDC recognize the limitations of COVID testing.

In my last post, I discussed how many of my patients who have recovered from mold and Lyme have reported return of symptoms which had cleared. In this article from the Miami Herald, hundreds of thousands of "regular" people have reported persistent symptoms lasting over 6 weeks. Scientists don't understand why, but I can share what I see energetically from the standpoint of Autonomic Response Testing (A.R.T.) Unlike any infection I've ever seen, I have noticed that multip...le chakras become unbalanced. One of the jobs of the chakras is to deliver Qi, or vital force, to the meridians. When there is a lack of vital force in the meridians, damaged organs become unable to repair themselves. This also manifests as impaired communication between organs and the autonomic nervous system, which is one of the hallmarks of the Cell Danger Response. In my opinion and experience, this unique pattern of injury on multiple levels can only be effectively dealt with by treatments that address both the physical and energetic levels. This means that any drugs, vitamins, herbs, cleansing, detox etc will only have a limited effect. The same limitations apply to yoga, meditation. gemstones, etc. --Dave Ou, MD

There's a lot of emphasis on testing for COVID-19. A question that few people ask is how accurate are they? I've seen poor correlation between PCR testing and Autonomic Reponse Testing (A.R.T.) Data published earlier this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine show that on the day symptoms appear, the median false negative rate was 38%. That means that only 62% cases were detected. On the 3rd day of symptoms, only 80% of cases were detected.... 2 weeks after symptoms start, only 34% of cases were detected. A full 66% tested negative. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495

Having treated dozens of patients with COVID 19 (according to A.R.T. by Dr. Klinghardt), I have noted some observations among my patients who have previously recovered from Lyme, co-infections, mold, and other toxins. First, about half had no symptoms. After the acute infection cleared, many of them have reported the return of symptoms that had previously improved such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, hormonal, GI, and autoimmune symptoms. It is as if the infectio...n can set many patients back by months and sometimes years. It appears to increase the Cell Danger Response (CDR by Dr. Naviaux) which is based on A.R.T. indicating more tissues losing communication with the central nervous system. From an energetic standpoint, I'm seeing numerous disturbances in the meridians, chakras, and aura that I've never seen from any other infection. See more

In my 20+ years of practice in medicine, I can hardly recall any of my patients dying from the flu. I have asked several colleagues over the years and they could not either. In this article by a Harvard physician, she and her colleagues also noted that they could only recall a few flu deaths in their careers. LIke myself, they questioned the the CDC's and mainstream media's assertion that 50,000 Americans die from the flu each year. I concluded long ago along with this author that the so-called number of flu deaths are "wildly inflated statistical estimates." In fact, if you look closely at the statistics from the CDC, the number they give is actually the number of pneumonia deaths per year of which flu deaths are a percentage of that total number.