Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors around the world reported high success rates using an inexpensive treatment protocol of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and zinc, typically in combination with an antibiotic to treat secondary bacterial infections
A medical review in the January 2021 issue of The American Journal of Medicine now urges early use of HCQ and zinc to reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19
HCQ is a zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc into the cell, and there’s compelling evidence to suggest the primary benefit of the HCQ protocol actually comes from the zinc, which effectively inhibits viral replication
For patients with cardinal features of COVID-19 (fever, body aches, nasal congestion, loss of taste and smell) at-home treatment can be the same as those with confirmed COVID-19, the authors say
While media headlines have painted HCQ as a life-threatening drug, it actually has a very robust safety profile that goes back decades
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@silvermouse said:
Uh huh, interesting. "Don't shoot the messenger" comes to mind.
Lol, not meaning to shoot the messenger. Definitely NOT directed at you. I appreciate your effort in finding and telling us about these things.
It's just that there was NO news forthcoming from the medical world while Trump was advocating this treatment. It may have been out there, but no media outlet would touch it.
In fact, just the opposite. The late night TV personalities made much of Trumps ignorance and apparent willful lying about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment option. Loudly. Similar to their misrepresentation of his suggesting that it would be nice if there were a simple solution, the way we spray bleach on a counter-top to kill germs. They immediately represented this innocent comment as "Trump suggests injecting bleach...". If there was any opposition to this I'm unaware of it. It seemed to be stifled.
So, now that the Trumpster is gone, it's OK to verify that this treatment may in fact be effective.
Makes one wonder just who had OUR best interests at heart, and who cynically didn't give a rip about you and me, as long as their political ends were met.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Yes. That was my point and I was agreeing with you. I didn't think your comment was aimed at me. I have to watch my sentence structure more closely....
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
I am not a "the sky is falling" type but this does have me concerned. We are planning to open our shop this summer. Lots of contact with our customers. A couple of years ago both my wife and I had life-threatening lung infections that scarred our lungs long-term....
"On the other hand, the variant identified in the United Kingdom is “likely” linked to an increased risk of hospitalization and death, British government scientists wrote in a paper released Friday. British officials had previously indicated that the variant “may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.”
"The unknowns about the variants — and the possibility that the virus can continue to mutate — has alarmed officials, who advise people to maintain distancing to limit the spread of the contagious variant.
"More cases of the mutation have been identified in the United States, Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s highest-ranking infectious-disease doctor, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, meaning the variant could become a main source of infection in the country.
“If it becomes dominant, the experience of our colleagues in South Africa indicates that even if you’ve been infected with the original virus, that there is a very high rate of reinfection to the point where previous infection does not seem to protect you against reinfection,” he said. “That gets to the point that we’ve said over and over again, vaccination is very important.”"
Aspirin use for cardiovascular disease may reduce likelihood of COVID-19 infection
11-Mar-2021 1:20 PM EST, by Bar-Ilan University
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Newswise — Aspirin is an established, safe, and low-cost medication in long-standing common use in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and in the past a pain relief and fever reducing medication. The use of aspirin was very popular during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic, several decades before in-vitro confirmation of its activity against RNA viruses. Studies showed that aspirin, in addition to its well-known anti-inflammatory effects, could modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses helping the human immune system battle some viral infections.
With this information in mind Israeli researchers hypothesized that pre-infection treatment with low-dose aspirin (75mg) use might have a potential beneficial effect on COVID-19 susceptibility and disease duration. A joint team from Leumit Health Services, Bar-Ilan University, and Barzilai Medical Center conducted an observational epidemiological study, utilizing data from Leumit Health Services, a national health maintenance organization in Israel. Their findings were recently published in The FEBS Journal.
The researchers analyzed data of 10,477 persons who had been tested for COVID-19 during the first COVID-19 wave in Israel from February 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020. Aspirin use to avoid the development of cardiovascular diseases in healthy individuals was associated with a 29% lower likelihood of COVID-19 infection, as compared to aspirin non-users. The proportion of patients treated with aspirin was significantly lower among the COVID-19-positive individuals, as compared to the COVID-19-negative ones. And those subjects who had been treated with aspirin were less associated with the likelihood of COVID-19 infection than those who were not. Moreover, the group observed that the conversion time of SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results from positive to negative among aspirin-using COVID-positive patients was significantly shorter, and the disease duration was two-three days shorter, depending upon the patients' pre-existing conditions.
"This observation of the possible beneficial effect of low doses of aspirin on COVID-19 infection is preliminary but seems very promising," says Prof. Eli Magen from the Barzilai Medical Center, who led the study.
Study principal investigator Dr. Eugene Merzon, from Leumit Health Services, emphasizes the importance of repeating the study results using larger samples, and including patients from other hospitals and countries, to verify the results.
Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University: "The present study sought to better understand the potential favorable effects of aspirin in aiding the human immune system battle COVID-19. We intend to investigate a larger cohort of patients and in randomized clinical trials."
"A new experimental Covid-19 vaccine has shown promising results in early animal testing, according to researchers who say the preventive may provide protection against existing and future strains"
"The vaccine takes an unusual approach in that it targets a part of the spike protein of the virus, the "viral fusion peptide," that is essentially universal among coronaviruses.
The spike protein helps the virus to enter the human cells.
The fusion peptide has not been observed to differ at all in the many genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 that have been obtained from thousands of patients around the world during the pandemic."
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
I've wondered about that. They push immunosuppressants for so many conditions now, psoriasis etc., I sometimes question the wisdom. If you're a transplant recipient, well, no choice. But, if you're Crohn's or Lupus or some such, where's "the line" that you may not want to cross? Hopefully the herd immunity effect will lessen the likelihood of being infected in the first place.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I'm still not sure about this supposed vaccine and it's need. If I get the vaccine I can still contract the virus and I can still spread the virus, why the push for an ineffective "cure"?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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And you thought the nasal swabs were uncomfortable.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
I’m still good, been tested 19 times this month. Here’s a pic from my last visit
^^^now you're gonna have to be tested for something else.
that young lady has almost no waist, eating disorder?
With that kind of posture it's likely that she is wearing a coreset. they have been making a comeback in the last decade.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
I figured you'd look a bit manlier.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
We all have our weekend hobbies 😂
Did you tell her about our “ bum of the week” thread?
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors around the world reported high success rates using an inexpensive treatment protocol of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and zinc, typically in combination with an antibiotic to treat secondary bacterial infections
A medical review in the January 2021 issue of The American Journal of Medicine now urges early use of HCQ and zinc to reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19
HCQ is a zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc into the cell, and there’s compelling evidence to suggest the primary benefit of the HCQ protocol actually comes from the zinc, which effectively inhibits viral replication
For patients with cardinal features of COVID-19 (fever, body aches, nasal congestion, loss of taste and smell) at-home treatment can be the same as those with confirmed COVID-19, the authors say
While media headlines have painted HCQ as a life-threatening drug, it actually has a very robust safety profile that goes back decades
https://principia-scientific.com/the-american-journal-of-medicine-now-recommends-hcq-for-covid19/
So, now that Trump's out of office, it works? ^^^
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Uh huh, interesting. "Don't shoot the messenger" comes to mind.
Lol, not meaning to shoot the messenger. Definitely NOT directed at you. I appreciate your effort in finding and telling us about these things.
It's just that there was NO news forthcoming from the medical world while Trump was advocating this treatment. It may have been out there, but no media outlet would touch it.
In fact, just the opposite. The late night TV personalities made much of Trumps ignorance and apparent willful lying about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment option. Loudly. Similar to their misrepresentation of his suggesting that it would be nice if there were a simple solution, the way we spray bleach on a counter-top to kill germs. They immediately represented this innocent comment as "Trump suggests injecting bleach...". If there was any opposition to this I'm unaware of it. It seemed to be stifled.
So, now that the Trumpster is gone, it's OK to verify that this treatment may in fact be effective.
Makes one wonder just who had OUR best interests at heart, and who cynically didn't give a rip about you and me, as long as their political ends were met.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Yes. That was my point and I was agreeing with you. I didn't think your comment was aimed at me. I have to watch my sentence structure more closely....
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-variants-pandemic-longer-contagious-deadly-88cdee57-a640-484e-860f-2cec9f950a94.html
Test Yourself:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/signs-that-sars-cov-2-is-evolving-to-avoid-immune-responses/?comments=1
Very interesting article, Edward. Even better that I could understand this one.
I am not a "the sky is falling" type but this does have me concerned. We are planning to open our shop this summer. Lots of contact with our customers. A couple of years ago both my wife and I had life-threatening lung infections that scarred our lungs long-term....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/13/reinfection-south-africa-variant/
"On the other hand, the variant identified in the United Kingdom is “likely” linked to an increased risk of hospitalization and death, British government scientists wrote in a paper released Friday. British officials had previously indicated that the variant “may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.”
"The unknowns about the variants — and the possibility that the virus can continue to mutate — has alarmed officials, who advise people to maintain distancing to limit the spread of the contagious variant.
"More cases of the mutation have been identified in the United States, Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s highest-ranking infectious-disease doctor, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, meaning the variant could become a main source of infection in the country.
“If it becomes dominant, the experience of our colleagues in South Africa indicates that even if you’ve been infected with the original virus, that there is a very high rate of reinfection to the point where previous infection does not seem to protect you against reinfection,” he said. “That gets to the point that we’ve said over and over again, vaccination is very important.”"
Aspirin use for cardiovascular disease may reduce likelihood of COVID-19 infection
11-Mar-2021 1:20 PM EST, by Bar-Ilan University
favorite_border
Newswise — Aspirin is an established, safe, and low-cost medication in long-standing common use in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and in the past a pain relief and fever reducing medication. The use of aspirin was very popular during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic, several decades before in-vitro confirmation of its activity against RNA viruses. Studies showed that aspirin, in addition to its well-known anti-inflammatory effects, could modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses helping the human immune system battle some viral infections.
With this information in mind Israeli researchers hypothesized that pre-infection treatment with low-dose aspirin (75mg) use might have a potential beneficial effect on COVID-19 susceptibility and disease duration. A joint team from Leumit Health Services, Bar-Ilan University, and Barzilai Medical Center conducted an observational epidemiological study, utilizing data from Leumit Health Services, a national health maintenance organization in Israel. Their findings were recently published in The FEBS Journal.
The researchers analyzed data of 10,477 persons who had been tested for COVID-19 during the first COVID-19 wave in Israel from February 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020. Aspirin use to avoid the development of cardiovascular diseases in healthy individuals was associated with a 29% lower likelihood of COVID-19 infection, as compared to aspirin non-users. The proportion of patients treated with aspirin was significantly lower among the COVID-19-positive individuals, as compared to the COVID-19-negative ones. And those subjects who had been treated with aspirin were less associated with the likelihood of COVID-19 infection than those who were not. Moreover, the group observed that the conversion time of SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results from positive to negative among aspirin-using COVID-positive patients was significantly shorter, and the disease duration was two-three days shorter, depending upon the patients' pre-existing conditions.
"This observation of the possible beneficial effect of low doses of aspirin on COVID-19 infection is preliminary but seems very promising," says Prof. Eli Magen from the Barzilai Medical Center, who led the study.
Study principal investigator Dr. Eugene Merzon, from Leumit Health Services, emphasizes the importance of repeating the study results using larger samples, and including patients from other hospitals and countries, to verify the results.
Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University: "The present study sought to better understand the potential favorable effects of aspirin in aiding the human immune system battle COVID-19. We intend to investigate a larger cohort of patients and in randomized clinical trials."
"A new experimental Covid-19 vaccine has shown promising results in early animal testing, according to researchers who say the preventive may provide protection against existing and future strains"
"The vaccine takes an unusual approach in that it targets a part of the spike protein of the virus, the "viral fusion peptide," that is essentially universal among coronaviruses.
The spike protein helps the virus to enter the human cells.
The fusion peptide has not been observed to differ at all in the many genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 that have been obtained from thousands of patients around the world during the pandemic."
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/new-covid-vaccine-may-provide-protection-against-future-strains-scientists-121042100379_1.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/23/mit-researchers-say-youre-no-safer-from-covid-indoors-at-6-feet-or-60-feet-in-new-study.html
Been saying that since the beginning. Any closed HVAC system recirculates the air within, this should not be shocking to anyone.
MOW badge received.
97% survivable.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
We are doing pretty well as a nation, not quite so as humans. Things are looking bad, pandemic-wise for much of the world.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/01/world/world-covid-crisis-covax-dst-intl-cmd/index.html
likely that folks, like my wife, who are on immunosuppressants won't be protected by a vaccine...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/04/health/covid-19-vaccine-immunosuppressants/index.html
I've wondered about that. They push immunosuppressants for so many conditions now, psoriasis etc., I sometimes question the wisdom. If you're a transplant recipient, well, no choice. But, if you're Crohn's or Lupus or some such, where's "the line" that you may not want to cross? Hopefully the herd immunity effect will lessen the likelihood of being infected in the first place.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I'm still not sure about this supposed vaccine and it's need. If I get the vaccine I can still contract the virus and I can still spread the virus, why the push for an ineffective "cure"?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.