Better Health for Women in Virginia             Isn’t it ironic? Ironic that a government that is supposed to be “of, by, and for the people” is now “of, by and for” big business and the billionaires who control them. Take women’s health in Virginia for example.             The Commonwealth of Virginia has provided the pharmaceutical industry with one billion dollars in tax breaks to bring more than seven hundred jobs to Virginia. It also provides twenty million annually to subsidize research on how to produce pharmaceutical chemicals more cheaply. But industry should be paying to do that. Then, when asked to provide seven million dollars a year to conduct clinical trials to improve women’s and everyone’s health, Old Mother Virginia Hubbard finds her budgetary cupboard completely bare. It is stripped bare by subsidies to big industry with nothing left to investigate easily a...

         The Virginia Health Enquirer Enquiring minds want to know – how to improve Virginia’s health   Ignoring Sound Science Was a Tragic Mistake During the Covid Pandemic             Mistakes in wartime can result in hundreds, even thousands of excess deaths. Strategic mistakes made during deadly viral pandemics can result in hundreds of thousands of excess deaths, just as they did with Covid-19. After SARS-1 in 2002, scientists went to work to discover ways to protect people against future corona viruses. When SARS-2/Covid-19 arrived seventeen years later, that research was ignored. In January 2020, Chinese scientist reported that Ebselen, a selenium-based drug, was the most effective out of 10,000 chemicals tested against the SARS-2 virus. That discovery also was ignored. In March 2020 researcher Howard Armistead sent three emails to Tony Fauci’s deputy at the National Institutes of Health, N...