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Soon, a new kind of blood donor could be helping patients in the Ozarks.
"Once you've tested positive for COVID and then recovered you're plasma is going to have antibodies in it," said Anthony Roberts.
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Soon, a new kind of blood donor could be helping patients in the Ozarks.
"Once you've tested positive for COVID and then recovered you're plasma is going to have antibodies in it," said Anthony Roberts.
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Zhan Zhang, MD, of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, and colleagues reported results from 62 patients randomized to receive either placebo or hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice daily for 5 days on admission in addition to standard treatment consisting of oxygen therapy, and unspecified regimens that could include antiviral and antibacterial agents, and immunoglobulin with or without corticosteroids.
"The data in this study revealed that after 5 days of hydroxychloroquine treatment, the symptoms of patients with COVID-19 were significantly relieved, manifesting as shorten(ing) in the recovery time for cough and fever," Zhang and colleagues reported.
President Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential life-saver, although there is no widespread scientific evidence to date showing it helps battle COVID-19.
But Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month said health care providers in the state would be using the drug in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, for some last-ditch cases, based on potentially promising research.
Comment: What a transparent scam! Why they would actually tell journalists they're using vitamin C as a placebo is either stupidity or hubris (or both).
See also:
- Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has now treated 699 coronavirus patients with 100% success using Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, Zinc and Z-Pak
- Hydroxychloroquine rated 'most effective' coronavirus treatment, poll of doctors finds
- Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial - Renmin Hospital, Wuhan
- France sanctions hydroxychloroquine drug treatment after 78 of 80 patients recover from COVID-19 within five days
- Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signs emergency order banning prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine for treatment of coronavirus
- Bahrain, Belgium successfully treating coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine
Liam Hemsworth had long been a proponent of veganism after making the switch the plant-based eating back in 2015, but in this month's issue of Men's Health the Aussie actor revealed he's transitioned away from the diet for health reasons.
"The first two years, I felt great," he says. "I felt my energy was high. I felt like my body was strong, cardio was high, everything felt really good."
However, the 30-year-old says that began to change in early 2019.
Comment: It's hardly surprising Hemsworth succumbed to oxalate toxicity given the massive quantities of high-oxalate foods he was eating. Unfortunately, high oxalate foods are found in many popular diets, from vegan to paleo.
See also:
- Sally Norton: The damaging effects of oxalates on the human body
- Objective:Health: #9 - The Hidden Dangers of Oxalates in Your Food - Interview With Sally K. Norton
- The Role of Oxalates in Autism and Chronic Disorders
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Now, three weeks after the United States and other countries took sweeping suppression steps that could last months or more, some public health specialists are exploring a different consequence of the mass shutdown: the thousands of deaths likely to arise unrelated to the disease itself.
The longer the suppression lasts, history shows, the worse such outcomes will be. A surge of unemployment in 1982 cut the life spans of Americans by a collective two to three million years, researchers found. During the last recession, from 2007-2009, the bleak job market helped spike suicide rates in the United States and Europe, claiming the lives of 10,000 more people than prior to the downturn. This time, such effects could be even deeper in the weeks, months and years ahead if, as many business and political leaders are warning, the economy crashes and unemployment skyrockets to historic levels.
Comment: The above article is coming from the perspective that "the coronavirus is bad, but..." But what if the coronavirus isn't any worse in it's death toll than the seasonal flu? Or even not as bad? Then how can all the above consequences be justified?
See also:
- Food banks overwhelmed as America's "working poor" starve during lockdown
- Coronavirus lockdown: We are so afraid of death, no one even asks whether this 'cure' is actually worse
- World-renowned Virologist: Coronavirus lockdown "useless, grotesque, collective suicide"
- Who's the snowflake now? Still no lockdown in Sweden, where its govt continues protecting population against infection of mass hysteria
- "This is what a police state is like": UK's ex-supreme court judge lambasts policing, 'collective hysteria' and the lockdown
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One Arizona doctor explains why vitamin C through an IV might be effective.
One Arizona doctor explains why vitamin C through an IV might be effective.
"When people get sick, the first thing in their body that actually gets depleted is vitamin C," said Dr. Steven Katz, a naturopathic physician in Scottsdale.
Dr. Katz often sees patients with pneumonia or bronchitis. The World Health Organization says coronavirus can lead to things like pneumonia.
Comment: The WHO and CDC are proving willfully ignorant on the subject, no doubt due to their vested interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Doctors who were in the heat of the coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan reported remarkable results from vitamin C infusions and clinical trials are underway. Does this not count as evidence?
See also:
- New York hospitals treating coronavirus patients with vitamin C
- Coronavirus Coverup: Vitamin C dramatic help against infection in China, South Korea — Why aren't we being told?
- Chinese medical team report successful treatment of coronavirus patients with high-dose vitamin C
- Objective:Health - High Dose Vitamin C: Good for People, Bad for Coronavirus
- Shanghai government using high-dose IV Vitamin C to treat COVID-19: Initial results of clinical trials positive
- Tons of vitamin C to Wuhan
- Three intravenous vitamin C research studies approved for treating COVID-19
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Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse
Darwinist Randolph Nesse has been peddling "Darwinian medicine" for years. He laid out his vision of medical science informed by Darwinian speculations two decades ago in a book, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, co-authored with Darwinist George C. Williams. He pointed out (correctly) that Darwinism has no current role in medical education and medical research. He means to change that. He argues for integration of Darwinian science into medical school curricula, and he argues that the light cast by Darwinian insights will significantly advance medical education and research.
That is a dubious claim. The very admission that Darwinism has had no role in medical science is a telling argument not for its inclusion, but for its irrelevance. Medical science is remarkably successful. Antibiotics, cybernetics, cancer chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, hip replacements, heart transplants, and a host of near-miraculous advances have greatly extended our lifespan and improved the quality of our lives — all without Darwin.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko
Last Wednesday, we published the success story from Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a board-certified family practitioner in New York, after he successfully treated 350 coronavirus patients with 100 percent success using a cocktail of drugs: hydroxychloroquine, in combination with azithromycin (Z-Pak), an antibiotic to treat secondary infections, and zinc sulfate. Dr. Zelenko said he saw the symptom of shortness of breath resolved within four to six hours after treatment. Hydroxychloroquine is now being used worldwide, according to a map from French Dr. Didier Raoult. In the meantime, scientists at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine believe they've found potential vaccine for coronavirus.
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A view of Bourbon Street amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. March 25, 2020.
A view of Bourbon Street amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. March 25, 2020.
"We're just sicker," said Rebekah Gee, who until January was the health secretary for Louisiana and now heads Louisiana State University's healthcare services division. "We already had tremendous healthcare disparities before this pandemic - one can only imagine they are being amplified now."
Along with New York and Seattle, New Orleans has emerged as one of the early U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus, making it a national test case for how to control and treat the disease it causes. Chief among the concerns raised by doctors working in the Louisiana city is the death rate, which is twice that of New York and over four times that of Seattle, based on Thursday's publicly reported data.
Comment: What has become clear over the course of this pandemic is that those who are at risk of death from the disease overwhelmingly have pre-existing conditions. The article above states 78%, but given the way deaths are being recorded, the number is likely much higher. This essentially means that one's best defense against the virus is the same as one's best defense against any health condition or disease - keep yourself in good physical condition with diet, exercise, sleep and other lifestyle factors. The majority of people on the planet have nothing to worry about coronavirus.
See also:
- Obesity similar to premature aging say scientists
- Are Americans already too diseased to go back to work right now?
- Dr. Aseem Malhotra: Lifestyle tips to hedge against respiratory illness
- Coronavirus - COVID-19 - some facts & figures
- Covid-19's meant to be a new Black Death, but in Britain no more people are dying than NORMAL. What does this say about the virus?
- First, Do No Harm: If Primary Healthcare Remains Shut Down, Toll on Elderly Will be Worse Than COVID-19
Diseased horse
"This disease has just occurred in Thailand. We've never had it in the past," director-general of the Department of Livestock Development, Sorawit Thanito, said on Thursday.
The government has quarantined sick horses to limit the spread of the disease, Sorawit said.
At least 131 horses have died across four provinces, latest government data showed.
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