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North Texas was ranked #17 in week 9?
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Maybe coronavirus's aggressiveness could be changed by adding or subtracting sugar molecules from its spike protein https://theconversation.com/amp/maybe-coronaviruss-aggressiveness-could-be-changed-by-adding-or-subtracting-sugar-molecules-from-its-spike-protein-137388?__twitter_impression=true “Many physicians noticed that people with high blood sugar, not only those with a history of diabetes but also unexplained new diabetes, were showing up in the hospitalwith the novel coronavirus. This indicated to me that something could be going on with the addition of sugar molecules to the virus, or the receptor it latches onto to infect cells, that influenced the severity of the disease. I am a medical oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh who treats women with breast cancer. Colleagues of mine at the University of Pennsylvania have trials where we use the drug hydroxychloroqine to try to keep breast cancer from growing in the bone marrow, only to regrow years later. We call this tumor dormancy. It turns out that among other things, hydroxychloroquine can serve as an oral hypoglycemic agent, lowering blood sugar”.... So HCQ can also be used as an oral Hypoglycemic to lower blood sugar. Its interesting to me to see discoveries of use for certain drugs made for one thing can help with othrers...(Viagra-blood pressure, Glucogen-Hypoglycemic-smooth muscle relaxant, Remdesivir-Ebola, HCQ-Malaria). Rick
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I’ve posted & mentioned several trials and here’s another, the full peer review of Dr.Raoult’s trial on HCQ. . Early treatment of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: A retrospective analysis of 1061 cases in Marseille, France https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920302179
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Promising COVID-19 Treatment Faces Political Hurdles https://theeconomicstandard.com/covid-19-political-hurdles/ ....”Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is part of recommended treatment for COVID-19 in modern healthcare systems around the world, and every day brings new evidence that appears to support this judgment call by overseas public health authorities. Sadly the U.S. is the only country on earth where the drug has become a toxic political football — due entirely to President Trump’s endorsement With over 150 trials underway in the U.S. and worldwide to see if HCQ does indeed help COVID-19 patients, we must remove our partisan glasses so we can clearly interpret the results — and maybe even gain valuable insights into the functioning of the virus itself“.... Rick
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Michael Flynn was railroaded by Comey's FBI https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-flynn-was-railroaded-by-james-comeys-fbi?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true ...”The final nail in the coffin of those who pretend political bias did not influence the FBI’s decisions in 2016 and 2017 is a text exchange between Strzok and Page on Feb. 25, 2016, discussing how to approach the Clinton interview: Rick
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I couldn’t have possibly been referring back to my position since March 14th that warm weather and UV sunlight would slow things down allowing people to get outside rather than shut themselves inside...which I’ve been questioned on several times since, right? Or my post on March 28th about Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic which was followed by a post by @CMJ about How Mexican American workers handled that 1918 pandemic better due to being in the sun. ,right? Rick
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NY subway cars to be disinfected with ultraviolet lamps https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/495977-ny-subway-cars-to-be-disinfected-with-ultraviolet-lamps ............”The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will use ultraviolet light to clean the New York City subway system, adding to the daily disinfecting process Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced last week. The MTA will partner with scientists at Columbia University who had previously explored whether the light could be used to kill other diseases being spread through public transportation, the New York Daily News reported Sunday. Transit officials told the Daily News that UV lamps will be placed inside cars and buses at two MTA rail yards and a single bus depot beginning next week While research is ongoing into whether the lights kill the coronavirus specifically, it would be “inconceivable to me that it wouldn’t kill this particular virus,” David Brenner, director of Columbia University’s Center for Radiological Research, told the Daily News.“...... Imagine that? Rick
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My math may be off but this just seems impossible. Ten largest cities in the world with a combined 231 million population and their Cov19 related death numbers. Tokyo: 19 Dhaka: 186 Mumbai: 1783 Cairo: 467 Mexico City: 2704 Delhi: 65 Beijing: 4633(who knows if true or not?) São Paulo: 8674 Osaka: 577 Shanghai: 4633 =23,741 deaths New York City, with a population of 8 million has just 3,000 less at 20,597
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In that first link you provided,...that’s a “study” done within the Veteran’s Health Administration centers that was so extremely dishonest that it’s beyond ridiculous. For one thing one of its researchers receive funding from Gilead, which makes Remdesivir, a competitor to HCQ, Secondly they waited until some patients in the untreated control group got sick enough to be placed on ventilators..THEN gave them HCQ. Then turned around and reported those same patients’ eventual death as evidence that HCQ was not only ineffective but may have increased or led to their risk of death. No one that I have ever read has claimed HCQ cures Cov19 and it’s well documented that in order for it to help it must be given early,...not in late stages of patient treatment during the cytokin storm.(point of intubation in many patients). Then of course this “study” got leaked out to the media who then ran with it as evidence against the use of HCQ despite the fact that the SOURCE clearly states on its front page...
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In your link... Therapeutic Options for COVID-19 Currently Under Investigation Summary Recommendations At present, no drug has been proven to be safe and effective for treating COVID-19. There are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs specifically to treat patients with COVID-19. Although reports have appeared in the medical literature and the lay press claiming successful treatment of patients with COVID-19 with a variety of agents, definitive clinical trial data are needed to identify optimal treatments for this disease. Recommended clinical management of patients with COVID-19 includes infection prevention and control measures and supportive care, including supplemental oxygen and mechanical ventilatory support when indicated. As in the management of any disease, treatment decisions ultimately reside with the patient and their health care provider. Antivirals: There are insufficient clinical data to recommend either for or against usingchloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19 (AIII). If chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine is used, clinicians should monitor the patient for adverse effects, especially prolonged QTc interval (AIII). There are insufficient clinical data to recommend either for or against using the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19 (AIII). Remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19 is currently being investigated in clinical trials and is also available through expanded access and compassionate use mechanisms for certain patient populations....” Like HQC from 4(?) weeks ago, Remdesivir just recieved emergency release for hospital use last week Unlike HQC..Remdesivir is expensive, is a failed drug for treating Ebola and is made by Gilead. If it works fine. But ’m gonna guess Fauci and possibly Gates have a vested interest in it’s reestablishment in the drug industry?
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Dr. Armstrong was interviewed last night. BTW...despite the numerous success stories, according to the clinical trial database Thelancet.com there’s over 300 clinical trials being performed worldwide concerning Hydroxychloroquin. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04363203?cond=COVID-19&fund=01&draw=2&rank=1 Rick
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I’m not sure testing is gonna help us or not? Even if we could test(swab for + - Cov19) 10,000 people a day in just Tarrant and Dallas counties alone that would be over 14 months. By then there will probably be a mutation of it plus no telling what else? Then the testing will need to start over. And the testing sites are slow right now from a lack of people with symptoms needed to qualify. So do you wait until people come in for their yearly checkups? Do you make it mandatory? If so how, go door to door? Do a third of the population even get a flu shot each year? I don’t see it ever happening. Rick