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  • The Throat Lozenges That Saved Bernie Sanders’s Campaign-Ravaged Voice

    05/14/2022 12:02:19 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 9 replies
    New York Magazine ^ | 5/11/2022 | Staff
    About a quarter of the way through The Fighting Soul, Ari Rabin-Havt’s new book about Bernie Sanders’s most recent run for president, a funny little detail emerges. “After he lost his voice in September 2019,” Rabin-Havt writes, “a friend recommended a specific and hard to find brand of cough drop — Grether’s Blackcurrant Pastilles.”(snip) “It was September 2019, rally in Colorado: 10,000 people. And he blew out his voice completely,” he said. A week later, we had the debate. And he sounded terrible. It wasn’t getting better.” Sanders had apparently been eating Halls to no avail when the friend, who’d...
  • Zinc: The Missing Element in the HCQ/COVID-19 debate

    04/27/2020 6:08:36 PM PDT · by Candor7 · 65 replies
    American thinker ^ | April 26, 2020 | Howard Richman
    It has been known, ever since 1984, that zinc is an effective virus fighter. That year a research study discovered that taking zinc gluconate lozenges early in the course of a common cold could shorten it. After a series of apparently conflicting research studies, a 2012 review of the literature concluded that taking zinc early reduces the duration of a common cold by an average of 1.65 days. Since colds are mild virus infections, it is clear that zinc has anti-virus properties. Zinc and COVID-19 When the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus pandemic began, one of the glaring facts apparent to those...