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Misinformation...... here’s a sad article about a tragic tale. The sadness of the article is it’s title that proclaims that a ‘perfectly healthy’ 16 y/o dies in 24 from covid19 - another tragic victim of this pandemic. One look at the young man exposes the real truth. He was morbidly obese - huge. Somehow morbidly obese now translates into ‘perfectly healthy’. Instead of the article correctly identifying a key factor known to add morbidity to this disease so that others should learn from his mistake they forgive the mistake as something ‘normal’. The victim did not need to accept responsibility and neither did his parents. Being overweight, fat, tubby is NOT healthy and if you get covid19 you will see why - big time. https://people.com/health/16-year-old-dies-suddenly-from-covid-19/

Beliefs are dangerous when taken as ‘unproven’ fact.

I really do appreciate your skepticism....... but in this instance you have your facts wrong. In this instance ALL the data was personally collected by the people involved and it is ALL available for review. The Lancet study did not offer these circumstances and ‘balked’ when they were requested. This is a singular case whilst the Lancet paper purported to have a data base from 86,000 cases. Granted you cannot draw clear conclusions from either study but only one paper asked you to, the Lancet study. This is merely a detailed and accurate reporting of a well documented ‘exposure’ situation..... a case study. IF these events hold true across the board then it will be proven timely and significant. Further, the authors merit kudos for their quick and thorough assessment, collection and execution of this work. Consider the opposite. It may have verified our worst fears about covid19, that masks were ‘useless’ in containing its spread. But it did not. But - it is still possible that neither ‘hairdresser’ was infectious at the time of exposure..... and THAT is important information as well. But the paper is accurate in its presentation and in scope of analysis. People need to know valid research that’s applicable from facetious work undertaken for ‘whatever’ reasons that is useless. In this case you do not seem to know that difference.

It’s considered a ‘case’ study and stands alone in its presentation, particularly because of the results.

Some really happy and good news, for a change. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/us/missouri-hairstylists-coronavirus-clients-trnd/index.html

How covid19 impacted minorities......... This is a Wall Street Journal article and the link requires a subscription. Sorry. But try to find the article. It is enlightening. https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-obliterated-best-african-american-job-market-on-record-11591714755

Here’s a promising new treatment approach aimed at managing the ARDS associated with covid19. https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/10/coronavirus-lungs-enzyme/ Yesterday I started back at the museum and one of our visitors was a registered nurse from Oregon. She was on furlough from her job and took the opportunity to road trip with her family. As an RN she found herself on the receiving end of the covid19 job recruiting campaign. They were offering her $10K per week plus all travel, room and board to travel to NYC and work the epidemic, which is a huge chunk of $ for nurses. Obviously she didn’t accept the challenge and she felt bad for not stepping up to the plate but she had her work and 2 young kids, etc. More than 600 healthcare workers have died from covid19 contracted while working so it is a really dicey situation.

This is interesting. Sorry it is from Fox News.... but they reference a valid paper so it is worthy 👍😁. Researchers looked at how covid19 impacts people who live at high altitudes. Those people have adapted to low oxygen levels seen at altitude in many ways. They did find them less susceptible to ‘bad’ covid19 infections but really were unable to isolate exactly why. It is probably multifactorial. Even us ‘sea level’ denizens offer well documented conditions that make covid19 infections worse. High among those is obesity which I am fairly certain is not a huge problem in the Andes (the work was done in Bolivia). It’s an interesting read. https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-and-high-altitudes-how-distance-from-sea-level-offers-inhabitants-leverage

Long, long ago whilst in high school our gymnastics team was challenged to a wrestling tournament by the track team. No problem, we were sure it’d be a cake walk. I was a pretty good sized kid then..... as in muscle mass as well as stature. I was considered too big (tall) for gymnastics. My point? Have you ever tried to muscle someone into submission? Of course wrestling is not life or death but with bragging rights in the line, nobody aimed to lose. Its insanely exhausting. I could not imagine having to bring a criminal under restraint physically, one fighting tooth and nail to not be subdued. It would certainly be nice if we did not need to or have to manage elements in our society intent on malfeasance. Nuf said.

Thinking the headline would more accurately read: Shutdowns ‘delayed’ 60 million covid19 infections. Already the rate/pace of new covid19 infections are rising. Time will tell how severe it will become. It’s sorta like the start of the ‘dark ages’. Covid19 has exposed some serious weaknesses in our systems and 10’s of thousands have died in substandard (IMHO) nursing homes.......... and the rioters desire that we remove police enforcement 😳. Guess these are the same folks who intelligently horded toilet paper for a respiratory disease.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/07/researcher-involved-in-retracted-lancet-study-has-faculty-appointment-terminated-as-details-in-scandal-emerge/

This is a very sobering article. I am so very glad that I never had to work under these conditions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/07/health-care-workers-coronavirus-burnout/?arc404=true

Brazil has stopped updating its covid19 statistics as a matter of policy. So we’ll not know how severe the disease is proceeding there. Of course this same situation certainly appears to fit Russia’s covid19 numbers too. Perhaps in a few years time we’ll learn how many died globally from this event, assuming we’re here to gather the data. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/brazil-govt-yanks-virus-death-toll-data-befuddles-71117147

The “pH” balance in your blood is quite well maintained on its own. There are fixed and volatile buffer systems that manage acidity in our blood in order to keep the pH within normal ranges. And the pH of the blood needs to vary some just to be functional. The Haldane and Bohr shifts describe alterations in how our red cells pick up and deliver oxygen and carbon dioxide and they are both related to blood pH levels. Take anaerobic exercise as an example of extreme metabolic acidity. You sprint until you simply have to stop. Your breath is heaving and you bend over and wait to recuperate. Well at extreme exercise you dump loads of lactic acids into the blood. You offset those acids by blowing off tons of carbon dioxide to keep your pH functional. You stop exercising when your reach the pinnacle of those systems....... and you blow off carbon dioxide while your body recuperates. Once recuperated you’re back to normal less a few calories. But that is just how extreme of an acid load the blood will accept and the body can accommodate. Our bodies are designed for this work and it applies to illnesses as well.

Good ole hydroxychlorquine isn’t finished yet. Yet another study done which shows that hydroxychlorquine did not help covid19 patients but that it is safe to use in the dosages administered, contrary to other studies. And more work is proposed for hydroxychlorquine. One group feels it may aid in keeping people from contracting covid19 (just as Trump is using the drug). Sadly the politics of hydroxychlorquine has leeched into the science attempting to validate or invalidate the drug. We have seen studies done an published that were biased intentionally. Now researchers are having difficulties getting study participants due to the mixed press reviews and clear disinformation from all sides. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hydroxychloroquine-not-dead-yet-n1224586

Agreed 10,000%

There are many millions of healthcare professionals in America. So your answer is: “Only” 1,200 ‘supposed’ medical professionals signed this letter and the liberal media is highlighting it because it fits their narrative. And I’d wager than most of those ‘supposed’ professionals are not doctors or nurses. Stop believing the hype. You seem smart enough to know whose driving agendas.

Oh no.......... the folks gathering in the mass demonstration crowds are just as vulnerable, if not more so - to covid19. On the upside they’ve placed themselves in the role of ‘guinea pig’ for covid19. Think about it.......... if science WANTED hordes of people to participate in a high risk behavior scenario to study covid19 there would be righteous disapproval. Such a study would not ever pass a human research ethics committee. These souls have done this on their own and now we’ll get to observe how it all turns out. On the downsides there are no controls over these people. They do as they decide, go where they choose and damn the consequences. So we will learn some things about covid19 but there will also be unwanted ‘spill over’. Kids and seniors will likely get exposed and innocents not involved with their issues will suffer, some will die. But it is what it is and the worst of it all is the media that seems supportive of the continued activity. Sad times in deed and in fact.

I’m not as fatalistic as this. Humanity has always faced vermin and pathogens and we can be a resilient bunch. What we are witnessing is medical science stepping up to the task and our gov’t giving them the ability to muster their best efforts. I do appreciate your acknowledgment of human fragility and the perils we all face from outside influences. Use that to live a smarter life. Take good care of yourself and make healthy choices. There will be another Ebola, another AIDS and some new deadly critter and if nothing else humanity will go down fighting whatever threatens our existence.

Just more information......... https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-disease-diagnostics-b2939e9a-86ac-4670-95ac-07fc4a860094.html

New treatment in the pipeline.......... https://bgr.com/2020/06/05/coronavirus-treatment-drug-sorrento-monoclonal-antibodies-sti-4398-covidtrap/

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/501392-wave-of-cognitive-disorders-in-young-people-from-covid-19

Agreed......... but only time will tell. There are 3 scenarios here. One is where the virus remains in the body in a dormant state causing no acute illness but still alive and then reactivates in some manner. That’s how shingles is related to chicken pox. The second scenario is where organs are damaged by our immune system during the course of the infection. That’s is what occurs with rheumatic/scarlet fever. Unfortunately we already know that covid19 causes hefty immune system responses so there is some likelihood this will occur. Lastly are the damages inflicted during the infection by the infection. I’d think that anyone who survived covid19 pneumonia will suffer lung loss/scarring from their infection. Major infections tear up the tissues they infect and the delicate lungs are well known to suffer damage from pneumonic infiltrates.

There has been 1 follow up study on remdesivir showing it to be not as effective as the prior report. The Lancet hydroxychlorquine study had no business being published and would not have been published if not for the opportunity to take a poke at Trump. If hydroxychlorquine has any positive use in the treatment of covid19 it is not dramatic. It all may soon be moot. Both remdesivir and hydroxychlorquine are drugs designed for other viruses that were used for covid19 in hopes of benefit. There are now drugs in the pipeline designed for covid19 that look much more effective. A handful are now entering human trials. These are not vaccines but antiviral meds.

I am just hoping we’ve staved it off long enough for some better treatments and medications to have evolved. It is still out there. Now we’ll get to see just how dynamic it can be.