Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/_o3iY5RW70g   The CPSC and Family Dollar are recalling Family Dollar Beach Loungers.   These loungers may suddenly collapse and create an injury hazard if fingers or toes become caught in the folding metal joints.   About 38,300 of these loungers were sold nationwide.   If you this lounger, stop using it and return it to any Family Dollar store for a full refund.   Al...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/n1Y55Jk-mp0   With Omicron spreading faster than any previous CoVid version, it is proving to be the deadliest variant to date with a previous 7-day average of 2200 deaths.   This is far greater than the numbers recorded during the Delta variant’s heyday and the greatest number of cases since February, 2021 when CoVid vaccinations were just beginning.   The CDC report...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/8cJd70mUAOY   A 4 th dose of Pfizer mRNA vaccine for those 60 years or older reduces the chances of a serious or severe Covid infection threefold and offers twofold protection against any CoVid Omicron infection.   Israel’s health ministry announces these preliminary results of their study comparing the fate of 400,000 Israeli’s who received 4 Pfizer doses with 600,00...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/1JIlWJO7lCA   Omicron lives on plastic for up to 10 days and on skin for as long as 28 hours.   For plastic that’s 3.5 times longer than for the original strain and for skin that’s 2.5 times longer.   Japanese infectious disease and molecular biology researchers now report these findings on biorxiv.org, the pre-publication website, after comparing the viability of CoV...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/xbUJxNAf8Go   The FDA and Lily’s Sweets have recalled Lily’s Peppermint Baking Chips.   This product contains undisclosed soy lecithin.   Anyone with an allergy to soy should not consume this product.   The recall involves 18,855 cases of the 7 ounce package with various lot codes that were contaminated by the co-manufacturer when white disc-shaped pieces of candy wer...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/cQ0GjJK2axk   The FDA and Amy’s Kitchen are recalling Amy’s Vegan Organic Rice Mac & Cheese.   This product contains undeclared milk in lot # 60J0421 with a best before of 10/1023.   Those with a milk allergy could develop a severe or life-threatening allergic reaction after ingesting this Mac and cheese product.   If you have this product in your freezer, do not cons...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/sjjwXlyNVF8   The FDA and Frozen Food Development is recalling Lidl Frozen Chopped Spinach.   This product is contaminated with listeria monocytogenes that may cause serious and sometimes life-threatening infections in the very young, elders, and in those who are immunosuppressed.   The lots involved are R17742 and R17963 with a best buy date of 9/10/23.   If you purc...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/HyGKif1L8Mc   The FDA and BCS International Corporation are recalling Dr. Snack Goji Berry Food Snacks.   This product contains undisclosed sulfites.   Consuming them could trigger severe or life-threatening allergic reactions in those with sulfite allergies.   These treats were sold in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.   If you b...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/LA79TFbm8_w   The CPSC and Mushie & Co. have recalled FRIGG Silicone Pacifiers.   The base of the silicone nipple has a manufacturing defect that may cause the nipple to detach from its plastic shield and create a choking hazard.   About 333,725 of these baby pacifiers were sold nationwide.   Immediately take these pacifiers away from your infants and toddlers.   To r...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/_AlveZVvo54   The CPSC and Childrensalon Ltd. announce the recall of Children’s Sleepwear Garments including Fabric Flavours, Mini Lunn, My Little Pie, Joha and Beau Kid.   This sleepwear fails to meet federal flammability standards and create risks of burn injuries to children that wear them.   Parents should immediately stop using the recalled children’s sleepwear g...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wuj8VZo_4Ac   Ramping up America’s current rather dismal CoVid booster vaccination rate could prevent more than half a million hospitalizations and save at least 70,000 lives.   The CDC reports that, as of last week, only 47% of booster-eligible Americans have received the shot that will offer significant Omicron protection.   The rate of booster vaccination nationwid...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/w1SujdrJgxk   Those with depression are are twice as likely to believe lies about CoVid.   Psychiatric investigators at Harvard’s Mass. General Hospital report these conclusions after analyzing responses from 2,809 adults completing two consecutive surveys two months apart.   Those with moderate or more severe major depression were more than twice as likely (2.2) to b...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/mg_dpDydTFc   More than 75% of patients expect to be contacted with abnormal test results within 24 hours.   Only 9% of clinicians agreed.   This disturbing non-connect is now reported by surgical investigators at the University of Colorado after surveying 57 patients and 69 clinicians.   Some 89.7% of patients and 80.6% of clinicians agree with the premise that patie...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5p8RfY3bZmg   There turns out to be good and bad news according to Boston University epidemiologists who looked at the relationship between CoVid and the ability of men and women to create offspring.   First the good headline: vaccination against CoVid does not reduce fertility.   Now the bad headline: an actual CoVid infection reduces the ability of men to father chi...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/q5jIboTP-qM   We all know that regular exercise is the best thing you can do for your body.   If you’ve had a case of CoVid, when can you safely return to exercising.   British and Scottish sports medicine specialists weigh in with some guidelines to follow.   The first consideration is how severe a case of CoVid you experienced.   If it was a mild case with very few...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/bJtF6l7KcFs   More than two-thirds of those infected with CoVid continue to suffer some olfactory problems in some form at least 18 months later.   Neuroscientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute report this and other related finding following their longitudinal studies of 100 CoVid-infected individuals.   A group of 44 non-infected persons served as controls.   The...

Taste of Ins Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/1x29IW1HDWk   The FDA and Poppies International, Inc are now extending their recall of their Delizza cream puffs to those branded as Taste of Inspirations.   This new recall is again due to small metal fragments in the product.   Ingesting these cream puffs could lead to injuries in the mouth, throat, and other parts of the digestive tract.   These cream pu...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/_wNSUXKYiHM   The CPSC and Textron Specialized Vehicles are recalling 2022 E-Z-GO Freedom RXV ELiTE, Freedom RXV Gas, and Freedom RXV 48V vehicles with a rear-facing seat.   The rear seat support infrastructure is subject to failures leading to the rear seat unexpectedly tilting creating injury hazards for passengers.   About 280 of these vehicles have been sold natio...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/pR3WgyfNzAU   The CPSC and Giant Bicycles and Giant Retailers are recalling 2021 Giant and Liv Adult Bicycles.   The recall involves model year 2021 Giant Cypress DX, Giant Escape 3 Comfort, Liv Flourish FS 1 and Liv Alight 3 Comfort bicycles.   The adjustable handlebar stem on these bicycles may become loose and create fall and injury hazards.   About 20,800 bicycles...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ZSsIcC6kvnw   The CPSC and EGL Motor Inc. have recalled EGL and ACE Branded Youth All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs).   These vehicles fail to comply with federal mandatory ATV safety standards in that children can operate them above the maximum allowable speeds creating risks for crashes and injuries.   In addition the handlebars cause a laceration risk should a child rider...

  https://youtu.be/lY2zSNyxIGo   The CPSC and HulovoX are recalling HulovoX Children’s Robes.   These unicorn robes fail to meet federal flammability standards for children;’s sleepwear. They were sold online by amazon.com from January through May 2021. Immediately stop your children from wearing these robes.   You may wait for Amazon to send you a prepaid mailer in order to return the robe for a...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/9ltPIjlQUQc   The CPSC and 3 makers of residential elevators, Bella Elevator, LLC, Inclinator Company of America, and Savaria Corporation, now announce recalls on a total of 69,000 residential elevators in the US and in Canada.   All of these elevators share the same issue: young children can become trapped in the space between the exterior door and the interior eleva...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/U7CWHdT0SWQ   Receiving the first shot of a 2 shot mRNA vaccination battery on the day you test positive for CoVid or within 5 days afterward cuts your chances of dying from the disease by over 80%. This the conclusion of an Israeli study that analyzed data from 271,710 persons who tested CoVid-positive using the PCR test during the period from December, 2020 through...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Co-zziI5pmw   Learning comprehension and retention are unaffected by watching an instructional video at up to twice the speed.   Educational psychologists at UCLA studied this phenomenon in 231 of their undergrads by having them watch two 15 minute videos including one about the Roman Empire and the other about real estate appraisals.   Groups screened the videos at e...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/1Ox1wde3AIU   From the “Yes….face masks really do make a difference ..department” comes a cut and dry engineering study that shows face masks reduce the distance an infectious aerosol travels by more than 50%.   Mechanical engineers at the University of Central Florida exhaustively studied 14 20-something participants to determine the effectiveness of various mask typ...