Wuhan virus 2020

[Skybird]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/18/h...rnd/index.html


Eighty-five infants under age 1 have tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county.

[Catfish]

This is all depressing enough, but re vitamins Sky mentioned, this is true. You can usually not overdose them (apart from vitamin K!), also these are not "drugs" but merely natural minerals and combinations of natural components the human body needs to function; they are also in what we eat - unfortunately when your diet is limited due to preferring burgers or never eating vegetables or not enough, you do not get enough of those.

Corona is not limited to any age, of course a healthy 30-year-old will maybe get over it, or has a better chance to survive.
But here is a 32-year old friend, an athlete who won international running competitions. Had some strange problems like feeling dizzy, then tested positive. Seems he caought it in full, things deteriorated, has been in a breathing machine and can walk again after 4 weeks, with a walking frame. Seems in his case, the nervous system is partially destroyed by the infection. Just saying, don't brush it aside.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Catfish

This is all depressing enough, but re vitamins Sky mentioned, this is true. You can usually not overdose them (apart from vitamin K!),

You can overdose liposoluble vitamines, since overages do not get simply dumped by the body, like for example vit-c, which is watersoluble. But the doses when negative consequences must be watched out for, are much higher than the ordinary advice from conservative national health bodies.In case of vit-d these critical treshholds may be in a range of 40,000 IEs daily over a longer period of time, or 250,000 IEs in one swallow/injection as once-in-a-lifetime event. Such doses should only be considered under medical supervision. Compare: I mentioned a maintaining dose of 3000-5000.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Australia launches investigation into security breaches in Victoria's hotel quarantine programme.

Outbreaks linked to errors in the programme have seen Melbourne put back under partial lockdown.

EU leaders are meeting for a fourth day to try and agree a huge virus rescue plan.

Early research suggests a new treatment involving a protein called interferon beta could significantly reduce deaths.

Donald Trump has dismissed Johns Hopkins data showing the US has the seventh-highest mortality rate.

Globally the number of confirmed infections has risen to more than 14.4 million and deaths to 605,000

[Jimbuna]

In France, masks are also now compulsory in indoor spaces such as shops, restaurants and banks. They were already required on public transport. People can be fined €135 (£122; $154) for failing to comply.

Hong Kong is stepping up its measures against the virus after a record new number of cases were recorded on Sunday. Authorities have announced a series of new measures including the mandatory wearing of face masks in indoor public spaces.

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has tested positive for Covid-19. He is a member of a presidential task force that is coordinating the country's response to the pandemic.

Peru has now passed 13,000 virus deaths - nevertheless it is going ahead with easing some restrictions. Restaurants can reopen from today but only to 40% of their capacity. Over the past 24 hours, 189 deaths and 4,090 new infections were recorded. Peru, with 33 million residents, has the second-highest number of cases in Latin America.

Mexico, which has the fourth highest virus death toll in the world at 38,888, has now seen its president pledge to improve health standards in the region.

But it's Brazil that remains the worst affected country in Latin America. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, a staggering 2 million people have been infected and more than 79,000 have died. And yet President Jair Bolsonaro - who himself was infected - has continued to criticise social distancing measures, saying they have "killed" the economy.

[Skybird]

From Japan, a new study. It lead some western experts to claims of that "10% of cases cause 80% of further infections", referring to super-spreaders.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/20-2272_article

We noted many COVID-19 clusters were associated with heavy breathing in close proximity, such as singing at karaoke parties, cheering at clubs, having conversations in bars, and exercising in gymnasiums. Other studies have noted such activities can facilitate clusters of infection (9,10). Japan’s Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced 3 situations that could increase the risk for COVID-19 cases and advised the population to avoid the “Three Cs”: closed spaces with poor ventilation, crowded places, and close-contact settings (11).
Among the probable primary COVID-19 cases we identified from non-nosocomial clusters, half (11/22) were 20–39 years of age, which is younger than the age distribution of all COVID-19 cases in Japan (Figure 2, panel A). We do not know whether social, biological, or both factors play a role in the difference in transmission patterns between the younger and older persons. We also noted probable primary COVID-19 case-patients appear to transmit the virus and generate clusters even in the absence of apparent respiratory symptoms, such as cough.

I need to visit the dentist in a few weeks. Laying there - with my jaw wide open. Wonderful.

[Jimbuna]

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and trains the immune system.

Trials involving around 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight coronavirus.

The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.

The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and trains the immune system.

Trials involving around 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight coronavirus.

The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.

The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839

How encouraging this news is ... so after the anti-Covid-19 virus shot gets into our system we will be immune to the one started in Wuhan, China.

Then we can take off our mask and go out to eat again, watch movies in a theater again, go bowling, have birthday parties, weddings and funeral's, play and attend sports games of all kinds.

Everything will just return to the norms of the summer and fall of 2019, right?

Then we can go back to worrying about cancer, heart attacks, drug overdoses, sexually transmitted diseases, the common cold and the common flu.

What a great future the world has to look forward to

[Buddahaid]

Otherwise referred to as the human condition.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

What a great future the world has to look forward to

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Otherwise referred to as the human condition.

in the Age of the New Normal portended by comet Neowise

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicne claiming that blood group is a variable influencing the severity of Covid-19


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2020283


is beeing objected by two other new studies done at the Boston Massachusetts General Hospital



https://link.springer.com/article/10...77-020-04169-1


and the New York Columbia Presbyterian Hospital


https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....08.20058073v1


Both studies find blood group not to be a deciding factor for intubation and death due to Covid-19. The latter study claims associations, but of no deciding influence.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

EU leaders agree details of economic recovery fund, after four days of talks, with €750bn (£677bn; $859bn) in loans and grants.

UK chief medical officer Chris Whitty tells MPs the government followed advice on lockdown timing.

Iran records record daily death toll of 229 - its highest so far.

UK police, teachers, doctors get pay boost for "vital contribution" to coronavirus frontline.

President Trump now says it's patriotic to wear a mask.

WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan says evidence of "acceleration of disease in Africa"

There have been 14.6 million infections worldwide and more than 600,000 deaths.