An Endemic: Real Answers About the Years Ahead in Medicine with Dr. Lane Rolling

by Renee Hart

Dr. Lane Rolling

The pandemic is not new. Germs have been around for years, yet it was not until this pandemic that people started to pay attention. Dr. Lane Rolling, coined “The Black Dr. Fauci” wants to provide power in knowledge to the African American community on how they can be safe as we live through what he calls an endemic. Rolling like so many other African Americans, was dissuaded from pursuing a medical career. 

Less than five percent of doctors in the United States are African American. Why are these numbers so low? Research studies indicate that financial barriers, underrepresentation, and being told by educators that it's not a career choice for them are reasons for the low percentage. Racial disparities are far too common in the medical world. Black families are known to cure their own ailments until it is necessary to seek professional help. The fear and mistrust in systems are revealing that there is a disconnect in the delivery of information. Rolling delivers the truth to people about the new effects of COVID-19 and how we can protect ourselves as we navigate into the new normal.

Dr. Rolling is the Chief Medical and Science Officer of SRS Inc. and Chief Medical Advisor of the MiFinger Corporation. He is a U.S. Army veteran and board-certified physician with credentials as an Infectious Diseases Specialist, Trauma Surgeon with Virology, and Tropical Medicine. He studied beyond the laboratories, being in the jungles with disease transmitting animals. 

His experience in Peru restored his purpose for pursuing a medical career. It taught him to teach people compassion. It is not easy to deliver bad news, surgically remove a limb, or watch individuals suffering from an infectious disease. “Peru has defined me as a human being. Somebody mortal that has a responsibility to bring hope, life, and compassion to the less fortunate on the planet.” Says Dr. Rolling. Rolling educates people on news and media outlets to create and maintain healthy protocols and practices in corporate and personal environments. His service to humanity received the honorable nomination of becoming the first African-American Global Humanitarian in the world.

Rolling views SARS COVID-19 as an equal opportunity employer. It affects everybody. The setback of this disease reverts 50 years. Children are not in school, people have economic hardships, and the question remains if we will see normal circumstances again. 

What makes the virus unique is the mutation capabilities of the spiked protein. It allows the virus to attach to all the cells, particularly the ACE2 receptors. These new strains are 70% more effective or deadlier, which means greater infection and the likelihood of infection. It is gaining effective fitness, which gives it the ability to affect more people, more cells in the body to live and transmit to other people, according to Dr. Rolling.

There are two types of cures: clinical cure and radical cure. A clinical cure is when you have a temperature, doctors prescribe Tylenol, and the fever goes away. Another factor like a tumor could cause that temperature. If the tumor is extracted, the headache goes away. That is called a radical cure. Most medication currently being prescribed for the SARS COVID virus is a clinical cure. A radical cure where we can kill or neutralize the virus is still being researched. One vaccine can neutralize a virus and tell the immune system to create antibodies to protect you long-term, called COVAXX. It is a multitope peptide vaccine where different peptides are created based on the spiked protein. There is an FDA clinical trial that’s happening right now in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and Jackson, Mississippi, with a pill called NOviricid that has the potential to save your life if you contract COVID-19. 

The African American community's disconnect in spreading awareness on COVID-19 information is that more people of color need to be on frontline media educating them. 

Science and medicine have to catch up to technology. We won’t know if the vaccine is effective until we know the signs—vaccine effectiveness. We are still six months to a year away from knowing vaccine effectiveness. If we don’t have a uniform policy, you’re never going to get herd immunity. If you never get the herd immunity, the virus is here to stay. 

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Just because you cannot see the virus does not mean that the virus is not there.