A Wake-up Call About COVID and Vaccinations

<p>We need a wakeup call on healthcare. Thousands continue to die from opioid overdoses while COVID long haulers and vaccine reactions drive even more prescriptions. It is time to learn some lessons from this past year, or all the discomfort and the death and the misery that we have gone through is worth nothing. </p><p>In this episode Dr. Rountree shares personal experiences regarding the COVID vaccine, but also digs into  recent scientific studies detailing the effectiveness of light therapy for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 patients. </p><p><strong>Links to studies mentioned in this podcast:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194064/">Light as a potential treatment for pandemic coronavirus infections: A perspective</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7521601/">Adjunct low level laser therapy (LLLT) in a morbidly obese patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia: A case report</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.hindawi.com/journals/rerp/2021/6626932/">Low-level Laser Therapy in Prevention of the Development of Endothelial Dysfunction and Clinical Experience of Treatment and Rehabilitation of COVID-19 Patients</a></li> <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10103-020-03206-9">Photobiomodulation therapy as a high potential treatment modality for COVID-19</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428000/">Low level laser therapy a a modality to attenuate cytokine storm at multiple levels, enhance recovery, and reduce the use of ventilators in COVID-19</a></li> <li><a href="https://doi.org/10.2147/JIR.S301625">Evaluation of Adjunctive Photobiomodulation (PBMT) for COVID-19 Pneumonia via Clinical Status and Pulmonary Severity Indices in a Preliminary Trial</a></li> <li><a href="https://khn.org/news/article/doctors-more-likely-to-prescribe-opioids-to-covid-long-haulers-raising-addiction-fears/">Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Opioids to COVID 'Long Haulers,' Raising Addiction Fears</a></li> </