Covid 5.0
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IF you eat a reasonably healthy diet, drinking gin and tonics will do as much for you as taking supplemental Zinc.
Got contacted by an old employee at a hospital I worked for, they are building a 50 bed unit in a parking garage in prep for patients coming in. I remember having to prep to build those for Ebola and H1N1, but they never came, sounds like this time it’s happening.
True but they all have benchmarks and many years of data on them by themselves
My understanding is that the mechanism of action for hydroxychloroquine is that it acidifies the lumen of endosomes through which malarial parasites (remember this is an anti-malarial drug) enter the cells. Because coronaviruses enter through means other than endocytosis these drugs predictably should have little effect. At high doses, which are lethal in humans, they may help fight the virus, but then what's the point if the drugs themselves kill you.
I guess they better get ahold of the Dr in France and find out what he used in his trial. Although a small trial.
from what I've heard, hydroxychloroquine can possibly act as an ionophore, transporting zinc through the cell membrane much more easily.
this is also good news, although I understand why it was overlooked
Yes, drugs can act in multiple ways. @dinglefritz covered pretty well, though, why zinc may be necessary but not sufficient for treating viral infections
Yes it is an anti malaria drug but it is used to suppresses the immune system. Is used for rheumatoid arthritis. My mom and uncle have been on it for years for that purpose.
The reason this drug is showing promise is because it suppresses the immune system. Many of the patients who are crashing hard from this virus is because their immune systems are going on over drive mode to try and fight the virus. In doing so it gets out of wack and start attacking healthy cell as well.IE Causing lung tissue to be inflamed, the lungs filling with fluid and death.
By suppressing the immune system, Im assuming this helps in stopping that haywire immune system response
Correct. My dad is also on it (Plaquenil, which is hydrochloroquine, and he takes it with methotrexate for his RA). The mechanism of action for how it helps with RA is unknown to the best of my knowledge but like most RA treatments it takes months to go into effect so I'm not sure how well it will translate to treating Covid-19.
The proliferation of testing in Korea was a huge part of getting that under control there. But there are also reasons why that works there so well but wouldn't be as effective here.
There are already "old" vaccines that are effective against viruses, such as the old TB vaccine. If there was investment this old TB vaccine could be a new more effective universal vaccine that provides a 50-60% immune boost...which would cut the death rate in half, and cut hospitalizations by 50%. By the time the TB vaccine is even tested 50-100k people will die world-wide when we could have had the industrial plans ready to go once we had community spread. The TB vaccine will be used and will decrease hospitalizations by 25% but investment means improvement. Sadly our greatest inventions of the last 15 years have been smartphones, long-distance shopping, and an electric car that has hundreds of cell phone batteries jammed inside of it....
did you see the news about Ford producing much-needed medical equipment?
the rich get richer amirite
This is not the definition of a fact: State and local governments are being panicked into horrific decision-making by garbage models that have already been proven to be wildly wrong.
Your boy sean does not understand exponential growth...I am surprised he didn't put New York up there. And you have to be a sick human being use what should be viewed as "good" news as means to politically attack others...I mean what if social distancing has worked? Doesn't this support this idea?
You should read the sick stuff that went on World War II with American companies...Jews being shipped to concentration camps in American made transports as the private industry had to be forced to stop working with Nazi Germany. There is a sort of relief that there are companies that have the capital to weather this storm, they work as sort of mini-governments , such as walmart, has the capacity to adjust on the fly, as does Amazon, and do other large manufacturers. They should be paid very well because they are going to be saving lives...
OMG. If I become ill and end up on a respirator built by Ford all I will be thinking about is to old saying Ford stands for "fix or repair daily". However, my wife's Explorer seems to be holding up real well.
My seat fan seems to last forever. Now if they make life saving equipment out of their paint quality on my truck, we’re all screwed.
I could see some of those guys with the Kenny pissing on Ford bumper stickers deciding to just take their chances with the virus.
Zinc disrupts RNA replication of the virus in the cytoplasm. In vitro studies show that zinc inhibits RdRP. The RdRP is necessary for the virus to replicate because it is responsible for making the mRNA (+ and -) and also contributes to the making of the viral membrane and receptors that are necessary for the virus to leave your cell. Zinc is very effective in vitro and has been effective in emergency cases in South Korea and possibly France. This is the disagreement between Drump and Fauci...Trump doesn't understand that a test tube study is not the same as a human study, Fauci needs human trials before he'll o.k it for widespread use.
My company just announced 50% salary reductions instead of mass layoffs. Hopefully this is temporary. It's getting real
Well I don't know if I see the logic of that. But I trust they've thought that threw
seems 2 possibilities are going to happen.
Mass infection and the results that come
Mass unemployment and the results that come.
Or both
I didn’t want to pry, but wondered too. Seems a move like that would either have wage and hour or contractual issues.
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