Fever I believe could be a savior in COVID-19.  Not all get fever when they get COVID-19. But for those who do what I have written below maybe life-saving. Please read it and if I can help in anyway let me know.  130 years ago doctors got the first pill that gave them power to reduce fever when Bayer of Germany synthesized aspirin in 1890.  Since then all have been treating fever first with aspirin then with Tylenol , ibuprofen etc.  Since the time of Hippocrates it had been widely believed that fever was beneficial. Aspirin was new and it magically relieved fever AND pain. A firm conviction(without any specific research basis) soon took hold in doctors nurses and all humans that fever always needs to be reduced. Tylenol/Crocin also a fever and pain reducer was heavily marketed on TV and added to it.  I have always believed reducing fever in infection routinely at the outset is almost always wrong. See my blog post from 2013 on this topic. Only for those with quite serious heart or lun

My mind was wandering in my "sudden death" class...prevention prevention prevention!!..... How did my mom learn about cod liver oil? My mother grew up east of the the Kyber Pass. She was the top student in her class in Kohat in the North West Frontier Province of undivided India.. Where oh where did she learn about that stinky, ugly stuff. I cried and held my nose. Daily! She wouldn't take no for an answer. Momma made me drink COD LIVER OIL. I was daydreaming. Now I was too senior to be kicked out of class, a welcome change indeed from my 8th grade Physics class at St Xaviers, Jaipur. Would it not be better to prevent sudden cardiac death than waste health care $$ on ACLS? ACLS is when EMT's, nurses and doctors work frantically to revive you after you suddenly fall dead. Skill, teamwork and luck improve your odds of being brought back to life successfully. Luck especially. So, if you must, have a witnessed cardiac arrest around a trained provider who has an

Life Span is dropping.  I first said this in 2005.  In November 2019 a study analyzing 50 years worth of mortality data clearly showed increasing death rates in ALL races between 25 to 44 years of age and a decreasing lifespan in America.  Compared to other wealthy nations this decrease began years ago. Some of us just saw it coming before others. I tried to tell the world both in my writing and also spending own money to go to Marin county courthouse in California to fight McDonald’s trans fat settlement in 2005 August.  And then Sonali fell sick September 1, 2005. My whole life was turned upside down and I dropped this whole fight against trans fats and soda. She died in 2012.  Life span in America is dropping. Pop caused obesity and the Trans Fatty Acids hidden in fast food and franchise restaurant food, school and employee cafeteria food and many items in our grocery stores, are a one-two knockout punch. Transfats have been categorically proven to increase hea