By Carly Severn
June 12, 2024
Source: KQed
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Editor's Note (Shidonna Raven, Chief Editor): It has been reported that several pharmaceutical companies have begun circumventing the physician/doctor prescribing method for a direct to market method, where 'patients'/consumers can buy these prescriptions online directly from platforms established by Big Pharma companies.
For years the pharmaceutical industry has been marketing directly to potential patients regarding their pharmaceutical products including disease identifications and the effects of their products, some of which is required by the FDA and industry marketing laws. Since COVID-19 many Big Pharma, including Eli Lilly and Pfizer, companies have taken the unprecedented approach of direct to consumer - led by COVID-19 controversial vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccines have remained controversial from the on-set and since the race to find a vaccine that lasted just less than a year sending shock waves through the medical community and medical market. The clinical trial procedure approved by the FDA previously lasted 7-15 years to prove the efficacy of a drug for FDA approval. Since the establishment of the FDA the government agency effectiveness, itself, has steadily being eroded moving from a consumer interest focused agency created to protect consumers from mis-leading and harmful foods and drugs, consequently regulating these markets in the interest of the consumer.
Over time the FDA board is full of and ran by medical professionals who receive kickbacks, have conflicts of interest and get paid to fast-track drugs to the market circumventing the market checks put in place by the FDA to protect consumers. COVID-19 literally fast-tracked this process in the midst of world panic in the interest of 'public safety'. While the public at large seemed very concerned about the matter, it was clear that they were not all to convinced with the reports being issued on the news nor the COVID-19 vaccine.
And now pharmaceutical companies have circumvented, the supposed licensed medical professionals and its industry, for direct-to-consumer purchasing. Not that there has not been for years of reports of harmful drugs and treatments causing more harm than good from the very pharmaceutical markets that used these same medical professionals to push the medical products.
The underlying implication is while there was something seriously amiss in the medical industry causing this harm - medical professionals blamed the pharmaceutical companies and the pharmaceutical companies remained fairly hush with both sides subject to lawsuits. These very reports of more medical harm than good pushed the United States from an epidemic/Opioids until it than joined the world in the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we have observed an increase in medical foundations, organizations and other entities producing medical news with some question of conflict of interest. These foundations such as Kaiser are often associated with Big Pharma companies who have an interest in promoting their products.
With a hyper-shortened clinical trial period and direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical purchasing now available what crisis and mal-report increasing consumer suspicion of the medical industry is next?
COVID Keeps Rising in Bay Area Wastewater. What to Know, From New Variants to Symptoms P1 - as reported by Kqed
Are you hearing about people in your circles once again getting COVID-19? It’s not just you.
Levels of COVID-19 in the Bay Area’s wastewater have been rising for the last few weeks — and this summer increase is happening earlier than it did in 2023.
Data from Stanford University’s WastewaterSCAN project, which monitors the presence of COVID-19 in human sewage across the U.S. and other viruses, indicates that COVID-19 levels are up across 73% of the sites monitored around the Bay Area.
WastewaterSCAN’s Amanda Bidwell told KQED by email that COVID-19 has been detected in 70% of Bay Area sewage samples they’ve collected over the last three weeks. (If you have COVID-19, the virus will show up in your feces soon after you’re infected.)
The Bay Area’s own COVID-19 wastewater levels are “higher than where they were this time last year,” said WastewaterSCAN’s Bidwell, who noted that in 2023, “late June is when we started to see a summer increase.”
The Stanford team is observing a sharp rise in San Francisco’s wastewater in particular, said Bidwell, who last week told KQED that “we are seeing some [of the] highest concentrations we’ve ever measured” at the Oceanside SF and Southeast SF wastewater sites.
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