Biography of dr david brownstein quack
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Are You Sabotaging Your Heart With Statin Drugs?
No, you are not “sabotaging” your heart with statin drugs. Neither are you “wrecking” your heart.
But that title probably got your attention if you are taking a statin drug and thought that it was helping your heart.
This question is prominently displayed on the Health portion of a news website called Newsmax, that somehow interrupted my web surfing today. If you click on the banner, you will get to listen to the words of Dr. David Brownstein, “America’s most popular family physician.”
Dr. Brownstein, in my opinion, should more properly be termed “one of America’s most popular quacks, charlatans and purveyors of misinformation in ord
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Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study
Background: Data for front-line health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 are limited. We sought to assess fara of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the effect of anställda protective utrustning (PPE) on risk.
Methods: We did a prospective, observational cohort study in the UK and the USA of the general community, including front-line health-care workers, using self-reported uppgifter from the COVID Symptom Study smartphone application (app) from March 24 (UK) and March 29 (USA) to April 23, 2020. Participants were voluntary users of the app and at first use provided information on demographic factors (including age, sex, race or ethnic background, height and vikt, and occupation) and medical history, and subsequently reported any COVID-19 symptoms. We used Cox proportional hazards modelling to estimate multivariate-ad
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Tag: David Brownstein
The Brownstein protocol is not a proven treatment for COVID-19
Dr. David Brownstein is a "holistic" physician who practices in Dr. Gorski's neck of the woods. Unfortunately, he just wrote a book promoting an unproven protocol involving vitamins, nebulized hydrogen peroxide and iodine, and intravenous ozone to treat COVID-19. There is no evidence that his protocol works, other than a very poor quality case series.
Does your antivax doctor have another agenda?
Several weeks back, I wrote a piece in praise of Michigan’s Fresh Air Camp’s decision to admit only properly vaccinated children. Predictably, there was a bit of a backlash from people who, despite the obvious benefits, oppose vaccinations. I can’t fault a parent for the decisions they make for their kids. We all work from the gut when it comes to our...