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One of the main reasons for the current low uptake of the COVID mRNA bivalent booster (less than 43 million doses administered) is the scary anecdotes of side effects overreported in the media. These stories are not effectively countered by presenting unexciting low-risk data, or the equally boring but true knowledge that the more immunity you have the better off you are against COVID’s short- or long-term side effects. You will likely get less sick and you will recover more quickly and completely. But fear of a rare side effect overcomes reasoned reassurance every time. There is also some evidence...

Several years ago I wrote about the "cycle of worry" in my book, "False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear." The term means that whatever anxiety-provoking obsessive mindset you are stuck inside, it tends to perpetuate itself, built up by lack of sleep, lack of exercise, loss of diversionary activity, increased alcohol use, etc. It doesn’t matter – in terms of what you are feeling – whether the cycle of worry comes from excess fear of catching a virus or fear of an evolving war, as Dr. Judson Brewer, author of the important book "Unwinding Anxiety: New Science...

(Fox News video screenshot) Looking hale and hearty, Donald Trump joined Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel for an on-camera interview — his first since being diagnosed with COVID-19. He said he was “medication-free” as of Friday and feeling “really, really strong.” Trump downplayed his condition after being admitted to Walter Reed hospital. He said he felt he was in “not bad shape” and could have left the hospital after the first day.Fox News: The president also said he underwent CT scans on his lungs upon arrival at Walter Reed, but did not experience difficulty breathing.“They wanted to keep...

VIDEO Here is a sneak preview of what a debate between Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto and Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel on the subject of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19 could look like. Watch as each make their cases both pro and con on the subject of this treatment.

Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News medical contributor, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday that his 96-year-old father was recently weak and struggling to breathe but recovered after he was administered an anti-malaria drug and antibiotics. Siegel was discussing hopeful signs that hydroxychloroquine has shown in recent studies when combined with antibiotics for coronavirus treatment. Siegel said his father, who lives in Florida, recently complained about weakness, shortness of breath and feared that he was going to die.

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel said on Tuesday that he prefers constant hand sanitization and washing over wearing gloves for safety purposes during the coronavirus outbreak. “Gloves accumulate germs, gloves accumulate viruses,” Siegel told “Fox & Friends," responding to a viewer's question about whether wearing gloves at the grocery store is necessary. “You’re going to not even realize when you touch something then you have it on the gloves, then you transfer it to your face, then you can get infected," he explained. Siegel said that gloves are not necessarily the right answer. “You can’t change them enough to...

Here is video from Fox & Friends this morning where Dr. Marc Siegel talked about medical treatments that would be in danger of disappearing or being drastically curtailed in America if President Obama's Government Health Care Plan is enacted. They are in danger because the treatments are very targeted and quite expensive, which could make it difficult to be approved under a Government-controlled Health Care System. They could particularly disappear for the elderly, who might be deemed unworthy of the expensive treatments because of age and health. Here are the five he mentioned: 1. Targeted, Effective Cancer Treatments - Latest...