news Covid19-Coronavirus updates and news

[Mister Funsky]

Having relatives and friends scattered all over the globe, I am getting an overload of input (some on the record and some off the record).

My intention for this thread is for community members from around the world to post first hand stories and/or links to information sources that, for the most part, should be reliable.

In my community, just outside a major southeastern city, 'assets' have been placed. Only because I have friends in both high and low places have I heard about some of this. At this point it is only some basic medical supplies that should be equally distributed anyway in preparation for a natural emergency (hurricane/wildfire/etc.).

I will start with posting a link to a site with current data that seems to come from an aggregate of sources and hope others will do the same as they come across similar sites/pages.

Because of the 'typhoid Mary' spread-ability of this disease, I feel we may be in for a really large spread globally which will impact the global economy and through extension, retail domain prices.

One thing is for sure...things will get worse before they get better.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa-coronavirus/

 

[Cannuck]

The Russian Vaccine study published in The Lancet, published today the 4th September.

The heterologous rAd26 and rAd5 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine has a good safety profile and induced strong humoral and cellular immune responses in participants. Further investigation is needed of the effectiveness of this vaccine for prevention of COVID-19.

Good information! The Russian vaccine appears to inhibit glucose chains from bonding to ACE2 receptors.

Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection might be achieved by targeting the spike protein (glycoprotein S), which interacts with the ACE2 receptor and enables entry of SARS-CoV-2 into the cell. Blocking this interaction decreases viral internalisation and replication.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31866-3/fulltext

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This might explain the higher proportion of co-morbitity in obese and diabetics, and diets high in sugar (glucose). Here is an excerpt from a 2014 study correlation of sugar intake to cardio-vascular disease:

Our results suggest that the usual percentage of calories from added sugar among US adults increased from the late 1980s to 1999-2004 and decreased during 2005-2010. Most adults consumed more than 10% of their total calories from added sugar, and approximately 10% of adults consumed 25% or more of calories from added sugar in 2005-2010. Compared with those who consumed approximately 8.0% of calories from added sugar, participants who consumed approximately 17% to 21% (Q4) of calories from added sugar had a 38% higher risk of CVD mortality. This relative risk was more than double for those who consumed 21% or more (highest quintile) of calories from added sugar.
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1819573

 

[Cannuck]

More research is required into fasting insulin levels and impaired glucose tolerance, re: CBD use as prophelactic against Covid-19

TREATMENT FOR INFLAMMATION

CBD has long been known to possess anti-inflammatory properties, and because chronic inflammation is known to play a role in the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, research is investigating its efficacy in reducing inflammation in diabetes.

A 2017 study by the Medical College of Georgia revealed that CBD treatment reduced inflammation in animal models of diabetes, concluding “the nonpsychotropic CBD is a promising candidate for anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective therapeutics”.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/recreational-drugs/cannabis.html

References:

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/references

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/39/10/1777.long

https://www.ajc.com/news/canadian-s...bis-could-treat-covid/xtpNkbXF8JQosUNWYeTdpM/

https://thenextweb.com/corona/2020/...nd-treating-covid-19-than-hydroxychloroquine/

https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bph.15157

https://norml.org/blog/2020/03/23/a-norml-reminder-beware-of-covid-19-cure-all-claims/

 

[Mister Funsky]

Texas company produces first and only EPA-approved sanitizing surface spray

https://www.newsnationnow.com/healt...d-only-epa-approved-sanitizing-surface-spray/

 

[Cal2]

Horrifying Images Show How the Coronavirus Ravages Our Lungs

https://gizmodo.com/horrifying-imag...tter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-09-04

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 879,803
United States: 192,146
Brazil: 125,584
South Africa: 14,678
United Kingdom: 41,537
Canada: 9,141
Mexico: 66,851
Russia: 17,759
India: 69,749
Bolivia: 5,343
Japan : 1,330
Indonesia: 7,940
Italy: 35,518
Spain: 29,418
Belgium: 9,901
France: 30,724
Netherlands: 6,241
Chile: 11,494
Philippines: 3,790

 

[koolishman]

Coronavirus: Tests 'could be picking up dead virus'

The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say.

Most people are infectious only for about a week, but could test positive weeks afterwards.

Researchers say this could be leading to an over-estimate of the current scale of the pandemic.

 

[Compassion]

https://www.rochesterfirst.com/coro...aths-in-us-had-underlying-medical-conditions/

CDC says 94% of COVID-19 deaths in US had underlying medical conditions

(.06*191,060=11,463=More accurate CV19 death total)



The CDC listed the following as the top underlying medical conditions linked to coronavirus deaths:

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  • Influenza and pneumonia
  • Respiratory failure
  • Hypertensive disease
  • Diabetes
  • Vascular and unspecified dementia
  • Cardiac arrest
  • Heart failure
  • Renal failure
  • Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
  • Other medical conditions

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Translation: The world has been scammed into fixating on a charade. Turn off the mainstream media and focus on improving your lifestyle choices to increase longevity if you are serious about improving health and boosting immunity.

 

[Compassion]

SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers - Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone - Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses

So the world has been duped, eh?

 

[Cal2]

SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers - Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone - Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses

No, the CDC Has Not “Quietly Updated” COVID-19 Death Estimates

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-...uietly-updated-covid-19-death-estimates-67902

https://www.google.com/search?q=cdc...69i57j0l7.11115j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[Compassion]

No, the CDC Has Not “Quietly Updated” COVID-19 Death Estimates

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-...uietly-updated-covid-19-death-estimates-67902

https://www.google.com/search?q=cdc...69i57j0l7.11115j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The CDC admitted that 94% had underlying conditions (The true root cause of death)

The world has been played.

No reason to hang on to the fear mongering story,

The jig is up.

 

[Cal2]

"However, fueling the conspiracy theory, the CDC web page stated:

“For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause [of death] mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

That meant, yes, medical investigators believed only 6% of COVID-19 patients died from the coronavirus alone. Those patients had no reported comorbidities. However, it was dangerously wrong to misinterpret that fact to mean that the remaining fatalities (or 94 percent) died from health issues other than the coronavirus. Rather, most people’s underlying cause of death was COVID-19 and the virus either intensified or caused other illnesses that contributed to patients’ death."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-mortality-statistics/

Like I said before about Compassion: Bad at critical thinking.

 

[Compassion]

"However, fueling the conspiracy theory, the CDC web page stated:

“For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause [of death] mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

That meant, yes, medical investigators believed only 6% of COVID-19 patients died from the coronavirus alone. Those patients had no reported comorbidities. However, it was dangerously wrong to misinterpret that fact to mean that the remaining fatalities (or 94 percent) died from health issues other than the coronavirus. Rather, most people’s underlying cause of death was COVID-19 and the virus either intensified or caused other illnesses that contributed to patients’ death."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-mortality-statistics/

Like I said before about Compassion: Bad at critical thinking.

Snopes

 

[Cannuck]

I got this email today - professor of pharmacy at U of T explains:

For this pandemic there's a greater chance of survival for those getting infected 3 months later, like June 2020, than those who got infected 3 months earlier, say February 2020. The reason for this is that Doctors and scientists know more about COVID-19 now than 3 months ago, and hence are able to treat patients better. I will list *5 important things* that we know now that we didn't know in February 2020 for your understanding.

1. COVID-19 was initially thought to cause deaths due to *pneumonia- a lung infection*- and so Ventilators were thought to be the best way to treat sick patients who couldn't breathe. *Now we are realizing that the virus causes blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs* and other parts of the body; and this causes the reduced oxygenation. Now we know that just providing oxygen by ventilators will not help, but we have to prevent and dissolve the micro clots in the lungs. This is why we are using drugs like *Aspirin and Heparin (blood thinners that prevent clotting) as protocol in treatment regimens in June 2020

2. Previously patients used to drop dead on the road, or even before reaching a hospital, due to reduced oxygen in their blood - OXYGEN SATURATION. This was because of *HAPPY HYPOXIA*- where even though the oxygen saturation was gradually reducing the COVID-19, patients did not have symptoms until it became critically less, like sometimes even 70%. **Normally we become breathless if oxygen saturation reduces below 90%. **This breathlessness is not triggered in Covid patients, and so we were getting the sick patients very late to the hospitals, in February 2020. Now, since knowing about happy hypoxia, we are monitoring oxygen saturation of all covid patients *with a simple home use pulse oximeter and getting them to hospital if their oxygen saturation drops to 93% or less*. This gives more time for doctors to correct the oxygen deficiency in the blood and a better survival chance in June 2020.

3. We did not have drugs to fight the corona virus in February 2020. We were only treating the complications caused by it... hypoxia. Hence most patients became severely infected. ```**Now we have 2 important medicines: FAVIPIRAVIR & REMDESIVIR**``` These are ANTIVIRALS that can kill the corona virus. By using these two medicines we can prevent patients from becoming severely infected and therefore cure them BEFORE THEY GO TO HYPOXIA. This knowledge we have in JUNE 2020... not in February 2020.

4. Many Covid-19 patients die not just because of the virus, but also due the patient's own immune system responding In an exaggerated manner called *CYTOKINE STORM*. This stormy strong immune response not only kills the virus but also kills the patients. In February 2020, we didn't know how to prevent it from happening. Now in June 2020, we know that *easily available medicines called Steroids,* that doctors around the world have been using for almost 80 years, *can be used to prevent the cytokine storm in some patients*.

5. Now we also know that people with hypoxia became better just by making them lie down on their belly - known as prone position. Apart from this, a few days ago, Israeli scientists have discovered that a chemical known as Alpha Defensin, produced by the patients White blood cells, can cause the micro clots in blood vessels of the lungs; and this could possibly be prevented by a drug called Colchicine, used over many decades in the treatment of Gout. So now we know for sure that patients have a better chance at surviving the COVID-19 infection, in June 2020, than in February 2020, for sure. Going forward, there's nothing to panic about Covid-19 - if we remember that a person who gets infected later, has a better chance at survival, than one who got infected early. Let's continue to follow precautions, wear masks and practise social distancing.

Canadians may have a distorted view of COVID-19 because of our proximity to the U.S. and the way the pandemic has sometimes been covered by the media. Many parts of Canada are green, the lowest category of risk with fewer than one case per 100,000 population. By comparison, many areas of the United States are red, or greater than 25 cases per 100,000.


The Harvard Global Health Institute developed a simple framework for thinking about COVID transmission risk. It includes four levels that are colour coded (green, yellow, orange and red) and range from least to greatest risk.

https://globalepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/key_metrics_and_indicators_v4.pdf

 

[Cal2]

"Snopes "

Another example of bad critical thinking, and a tool of deceivers - attacking the messenger instead of the message.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 884,448
United States: 192,864
Brazil: 126,230
South Africa: 14,779
United Kingdom: 41,549
Canada: 9,143
Mexico: 67,326
Russia: 17,820
India: 70,732
Bolivia: 5,398
Japan : 1,349
Indonesia: 8,025
Italy: 35,534
Spain: 29,418
Belgium: 9,906
France: 30,724
Netherlands: 6,243
Chile: 11,551
Philippines: 3,875

 

[J Sokol]

I got this email today - professor of pharmacy at U of T explains:

This is really helpful and hopeful information. Thanks for posting.

 

[DmitrySV]

Ivermectin Triple Therapy Protocol for COVID-19 Released to Australian GPs for Infected Elderly and Frontline Workers
https://www.benzinga.com/pressrelea...sed-to-australian-gps-for-infected-elderly-an

 

[Henry Y]

Hong Kong third wave: university study finds Covid-19 lingering in stool samples, prompting new testing push for elderly, at-risk infants

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...-kong-third-wave-university-study-finds-covid

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 893,697
United States: 193,253
Brazil: 126,686
South Africa: 14,889
United Kingdom: 41,551
Canada: 9,145
Mexico: 67,558
Russia: 17,871
India: 71,844
Bolivia: 7,008
Japan : 1,357
Indonesia: 8,130
Italy: 35,541
Spain: 29,418
Belgium: 9,907
France: 30,724
Netherlands: 6,243
Chile: 11,592
Philippines: 3,890

 

[Mister Funsky]

It is just a matter of time, unfortunately, India will likely become #1.

India now country with second-highest number of coronavirus cases
The country's health ministry reported a staggering 90,802 new cases on Monday

https://www.foxnews.com/world/india...number-of-coronavirus-cases-overtaking-brazil

 

[Cal2]

It'll be interesting to see what might come from this:

Authorities misinterpreting COVID-19 trial data with 'disastrous' results, Canadian researchers say

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/cana...ian-researchers-say/ar-BB18Nqwh?ocid=msedgdhp

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 8:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 897,476
United States: 193,586
Brazil: 127,001
South Africa: 15,004
United Kingdom: 41,554
Canada: 9,146
Mexico: 67,781
Russia: 17,993
India: 72,843
Bolivia: 7,054
Japan : 1,363
Indonesia: 8,230
Italy: 35,553
Spain: 29,516
Belgium: 9,909
France: 30,726
Netherlands: 6,243
Chile: 11,652
Philippines: 3,916

 

[Cannuck]

^ it would be interesting to know how they adjust their numbers, I wonder if Healthdata will modify their metrics' analysis based on co-morbities as time goes on.

 

[Mister Funsky]

^ it would be interesting to know how they adjust their numbers, I wonder if Healthdata will modify their metrics' analysis based on co-morbities as time goes on.

Not sure how they will handle data changes. It will be interesting to look back in 5 years (assuming we are still here ) to see how things are viewed with the 20/20 vision looking at things past affords.

This labor day weekend, combined with the hundreds of thousands of students going into the fall semester will bring quite a surge...it will be interesting to see how the 'sides' will cover the number of infections and deaths that result.

 

[koolishman]

The coronavirus is mutating — does it matter?

Different SARS-CoV-2 strains haven’t yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but they might in future.