Covid 19 Part XXX-113,332 ROI(2,282 deaths) 81,251 NI (1,384 deaths) (05/01) Read OP

An Excellent Q&A out from two extremely reliable sources of information. I have found both excellent over the last 11 months. They are often well ahead of the curve in information and quite often you see stuff they have spoken about only show up in mainstream media weeks or months after. I find it so much more balanced and less hysterical then the mainstream media that appears to really confuse and scare people.

In terms of their bias, their priority is to educate, it is not comparable to the bias of mainstream media or politicians or even our authorities who all have an angle with the information they are promoting. These are people well educated in the medical profession who are trying to educate people and help weed out alot of the misinformation and misguided opinions people maintain on the pandemic.

Just some backround on the speakers:

Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com
He is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and Assistant Prof. at Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Dr. Seheult is Quadruple Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

John Campbell, RN, BSc, MSc, PGC.Pharm, PhD is a health educator and analyst that has spent over three decades teaching students in the United Kingdom, Asia, Africa, and online with an extensive video library. Dr. Campbell also has also published textbooks on Physiology and Pathophysiology.



Questions discussed in this interview:

0:00 Introductions
1:44 Lessons we can learn as a society so far from this pandemic?
5:13 How do you decide what COVID 19 information sources are credible?
11:04 Role of pre-print research (non published or peer-reviewed) during a pandemic?
18:07 How can trust be maintained (or restored) in federal organizations like the CDC, FDA in the USA, and NICE in the UK?
22:33 Any new promising treatments besides steroids and remdesivir, and are doctors giving vitamin D to inpatients?
28:00 Thoughts on Ivermectin?
34:40 How will SARS-CoV-2 mutations impact the vaccine, testing, and treatments?
40:26 Thoughts on COVID vaccines authorized so far: safety and efficacy
47:46 Why not just rely on your immune system to fight off COVID-19 instead of a vaccine?
50:37 Thoughts on “long haulers” or Post-COVID syndrome? Have we seen this with other viruses?
57:37 “Background” side effects vs vaccine or intervention side effects
1:00:48 “Predictions” regarding COVID-19 in 2021
1:08:51 If the fatality rate of COVID-19 was higher, would overall infections be lower?
1:13:44 Your personal routine for a healthy lifestyle and staying safe from coronavirus?
1:20:12 What dose of vitamin D do you take and do you take it all year?
1:25:05 Some consequences of time spent indoors (ventilation, vitamin D)
1:26:07 Vitamin D and skin color and archeology findings
1:28:03 Should other supplements be taken with vitamin D?
1:31:25 Lessons to learn from COVID-19 testing and where should it go?


My Notes:

- countries too reactive, not proactive
- Huge issue with misinformation and people poorly educated on the situation. People not following science. This is part of the reason for these YouTube informative channels, to educate
- Poor communication equally led to poor compliance and people not realising how bad/serious it actually is
- Problem with narrative journalism (a lot of people get their information form here). Science papers are where you learn to appraise a topic.
- Make sure there is reference to the source information being discussed. Dr John and Medcram always provide the source of the information they discuss. “Don’t believe people” - these sources are filtering expert opinion
- When mistakes are made it’s important to make quick adjustments. A lot of people think when authorities change stance on something it’s bad, but it actually shows they are changing with the science which is good. (Eg Masks not needed to evidence that showed mask really help during the pandemic)
- They aren’t overly concerned with recent mutation with regards to efficacy of vaccines
- Not concerned about allergy reactions to vaccines - more dangerous eating peanuts ! 1/70 kids in uk have allergy to peanuts
- Some people will still come down with COVID after vaccine because it’s 95% effective so 5% can still get infected (good info to debunk conspiracy’s against vaccine)
- In terms of allergies and people getting infected after vaccine look at the numbers and put it into context. (A tendency for some to be hyperbolic and treat one story or event as representing a wider trend)
- Media has a tendency to report on bad news innacurately. 1-100,000 get allergic reaction to vaccine but 1/3000 get reaction to penicillin but media isn’t reporting on that! Beware taking everything in media as fact!!!
- A lot of people incorrectly see this as black or white “you either die or you don’t” but it’s not that simple. Long COVID is potentially bad. We may only understand Long term issues over coming years
- Optimistic that maybe from March spread should level out. VIT D (more sun) will play a role along with more ventilation
- Vaccines will play more of a role at end of year, not so much for first few months
- Increased transmissibility making old lockdown measures less effective
- Will there be another pandemic? Yes, just a matter of when. We got lucky with COVID that it has a relatively low mortality rate, hopefully lessons learned
- If people accept that globally governments have been slow to act and been not quick at responding they should Ask themselves what can they do to improve their own immune systems
- Techniques to improve immune system. What are the doctors doing to try to reduce change of bad dose ? Vit D , hydrotherapy etc
- Fever is actually good
- Vit d deficiency can reduce effectiveness of immune system ( as can smoking etc)
- Importance of VIT D (for those who dismiss its relevance)
- Lessons on testing - massive issues because insisting on top quality tests which ruled out other strategies (mass testing regularly). Short sighted but not a definitive alternative