Covid-19 News

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NO KIDDING Covid in older kids ‘significantly higher’ in second wave & they are now most likely to bring infection into hhouseholds

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1…antly-higher-second-wave/

THE number of older kids with coronavirus has risen "significantly" compared with the first wave of the pandemic, the Government's scientific advisers have said.

The findings mean older children are now more likely than adults to bring the infection into households.

Data reveal deadliness of COVID-19, even in young adults

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/new…ovid-19-even-young-adults

Even though all-cause mortality due to COVID-19 may not be known for a while, two new studies highlight that 173,300 (79.5%) of excess deaths from March through August were COVID related, with 4,535 deaths occurring from March through July in younger adults ages 25 to 44, or 38% of all excess deaths in that group.

hospitals overwhelmed ? Blame the administrators, saving money isn't saving lives

Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: an observational study

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/…0/08/13/bmjqs-2020-011512

Conclusions Hospital nurses were burned out and working in understaffed conditions in the weeks prior to the first wave of COVID-19 cases, posing risks to the public’s health. Such risks could be addressed by safe nurse staffing policies currently under consideration.

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Melatonin, best known as the sleep hormone, wasn’t an obvious factor in halting a pandemic. Its most familiar role is in the regulation of our circadian rhythms. Each night, as darkness falls, it shoots out of our brain’s pineal glands and into our blood, inducing sleep. Cheng took the finding as a curiosity. “It was very preliminary,” he told me recently—a small study in the early days before COVID-19 even had a name, when anything that might help was deemed worth sharing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/he…eep-pandemic-zzzz/617454/

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Combining Ivermectin With Remdesivir For COVID-19, A Synergistic Combination?

- in vitro, they work better together

Frail Older Individuals Exhibit a Worse Response to Vaccination

https://www.fightaging.org/arc…-response-to-vaccination/

Oral nano-curcumin formulation efficacy in management of mild to moderate hospitalized

coronavirus disease-19 patients: An open label nonrandomized clinical trial

- Curcumin appears effective even in hospitalized patients

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/r…irus/publication/33389761

Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)

- Numerous prominent coauthors, including V. Zelenko, Thomas Borody,

Harvey Risch, Jean-Jacques Rajter, ...

- Argues for early aggressive, multi-agent out-patient treatments

ABSTRACT: The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreading across the world has led to surges of COVID-19 illness,

hospitalizations, and death. The complex and multifaceted pathophysiology of life-threatening COVID-19 illness including viral mediated organ damage, cytokine storm, and thrombosis warrants early interventions to address all components of the devastating illness. In countries where therapeutic nihilism is prevalent, patients endure escalating symptoms and without early treatment can succumb to delayed in-hospital care and death. Prompt early initiation of sequenced multidrug therapy (SMDT) is a widely and currently available solution to stem the tide of hospitalizations and death. A multipronged therapeutic approach includes 1) adjuvant nutraceuticals, 2) combination

intracellular anti-infective therapy, 3) inhaled/oral corticosteroids, 4) antiplatelet agents/anticoagulants, 5) supportive care including supplemental oxygen, monitoring, and telemedicine. Randomized trials of individual, novel oral therapies have not delivered tools for physicians to combat the pandemic in practice. No single therapeutic option thus far has been entirely effective and therefore a combination is required at this time. An urgent immediate pivot

from single drug to SMDT regimens should be employed as a critical strategy to deal with the large numbers of acute COVID-19 patients with the aim of reducing the intensity and durationof symptoms and avoiding hospitalization and death.

https://rcm.imrpress.com/artic…153-8174/RCM2020264.shtml

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/r…irus/publication/33387997

COVID-19: Can early home treatment with Azithromycin alone or with Zinc help prevent hospitalisation, death, and long-COVID-19? A review

https://www.medrxiv.org/conten…12.29.20248975v1.full.pdf

Development of Electrospun Nanofibrous Filters for Controlling Coronavirus Aerosols

- a new avenue for advancing air filtration by developing electrospun nanofibrous air filters

for controlling SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission

https://www.medrxiv.org/conten…101/2020.12.30.20249046v1

Cheap hair lice drug (ivermectin) may cut risk of COVID-19 death by 80 percent: study

https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/…d-19-death-by-80-percent/

An anti-ivermectin hit-piece from The Corporate Media

Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment: what you need to know

https://okcfox.com/news/local/…ent-what-you-need-to-know

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‘TRUTH’ With RFK, Jr. and Dr. Zach Bush: Shifting Away From Big Pharma Health Paradigm

https://childrenshealthdefense…ruth-rfk-jr-dr-zach-bush/

Sausage Making at FDA: How Human Cancer Cells Got Into Vaccines

https://childrenshealthdefense…cancer-cells-in-vaccines/

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Vaccines may not work on South African coronavirus variant: UK scientists

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Scientists are not fully confident that Covid-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, ITV’s political editor said on Monday, citing an unidentified scientific adviser to the British government.

The #s are beginning to rival the second wave in 1918.

In deadliest week so far, U.S. loses more than 18,400 lives to COVID-19

https://in.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idINKBN2992A6

In the week ended Jan. 3, more than 18,400 people died from COVID-19, bringing the pandemic’s total to over 351,000 deaths, or one in every 930 U.S. residents, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county reports.

The country reported nearly 1.5 million new infections last week, up 16.5% from the previous seven days. (For a state-by-state interactive, open tmsnrt.rs/2WTOZDR in an external browser)

A year since Covid first emerged in China, the world battles its deadliest surge yet

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

More than 77,572 Americans died from the coronavirus in December alone, the deadliest month of the pandemic in the U.S. Now, officials are tracking a new, more contagious variant of the virus that's threatening to make the situation in the nation's hospitals worse.

Amid a devastating Covid-19 surge, Los Angeles County ambulance crews told not to transport patients with little chance of survival

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Ambulance crews given grim instructions

As hospitalizations climb, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve the use of oxygen

Give these people a chance!!! Treat, ivermectin, vitamin d show mercy to the dying treat them don't just let them die.

They’re coming in younger and coming in sicker’: One hospital’s war with coronavirus

https://www.latimes.com/califo…-covid-19-cases?_amp=true

That’s our average age that we’re getting,” Mann said. “They’re coming in younger and coming in sicker.”

On average, patients are going into respiratory and cardiac arrest at least four times a day. The medical staff has saved people from dying during those medical emergencies.

But every day, at least two people are dying of COVID-19 here.

Study: Concerns surrounding COVID-19 treatment Remdesivir

https://www.wcpo.com/news/coro…d-19-treatment-remdesivir

Remdesivir stops the activity of an enzyme found in a person's intestine, liver and kidney. This enzyme is needed to break down many medications, including antiviral medications that are used to treat HIV, AIDS or hepatitis C. Remdesivir could also lead to increased toxicity with heart medications and anti-cancer drugs.

While medical professionals usually ask what medications people are on before prescribing new treatments to make sure they all work in unison, Yan said those conversations might not happen with COVID-19.

Cheap drug could be ‘transformative’ COVID-19 treatment

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Ivermectin costs as little as $1 per course, could cut mortality rates by as much as 80%

LONDON: Early-stage trials indicate that a cheap and readily available drug has the potential to make “transformative” changes to COVID-19 mortality rates, according to a leaked presentation by Liverpool University scientists.

Data revealed in the presentation suggested that the drug Ivermectin — normally used to treat lice — could cut deaths in hospitals by as much as 80 percent.

In 11 trials involving more than 1,000 patients, those who received the drug appeared to clear themselves of the virus in about half the usual time.

Trials of another 5,000 patients have yet to report their results, but Dr. Andrew Hill, the researcher at Liverpool University who gave the leaked presentation, said they are expected soon

Better late than never!!!

Vitaminn D eyed as new tool in fight against coronavirus

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Brigham and Women's Hospital will look at whether vitamin D can lessen the severity of COVID-19 symptoms or even reduce the chance of becoming infected.

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Vitamin D is already known as an immune system booster.

The study will focus on patients age 30 or older who have been diagnosed with the virus within the previous five days.

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For Moderna after a single dose (95% CI)

Not so for Pfitzer Biontech! Just 50% after first shot and may be even less for the South Africa strain!

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Trials of another 5,000 patients have yet to report their results, but Dr. Andrew Hill, the researcher at Liverpool University who gave the leaked presentation, said they are expected soon

Who is willing to pay the bribe for FDA to get it through??

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Not so for Pfitzer Biontech! Just 50% after first shot and may be even less for the South Africa strain!

Pfizer :

Efficacy against severe COVID-19 occurring after the first dose was 88.9% (95% CI 20.1, 99.7),
with an estimated VE of 75.0% (95% CI -152.6, 99.5) (1 case in BNT162b2 group and 4 cases
in placebo group) against severe COVID-19 occurring at least 7 days after Dose 2.
Among all participants (regardless of evidence of infection before or during the vaccination
regimen), 50 cases of COVID-19 occurred after Dose 1 in the BNT162b2 group compared with
275 cases in the placebo group, indicating an estimated VE of 82% (95% CI: 75.6%, 86.9%)
against confirmed COVID-19 occurring after Dose 1, with VE of 52.4% (95% CI: 29.5%, 68.4%)
between Dose 1 and Dose 2. The efficacy observed after Dose 1 and before Dose 2, from a
post-hoc analysis, cannot support a conclusion on the efficacy of a single dose of the vaccine,
because the time of observation is limited by the fact that most of the participants received a

second dose after three weeks. The trial did not have a single-dose arm to make an adequate
comparison.

Ivermectin meta analysis Liverpool U..

waiting on results from Latin America.. manana..in a month's time?

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said they are expected soon

South African variant unlikely to 'completely negate' COVID vaccines, scientist says

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

British scientists expressed concern on Monday that COVID-19 vaccines may not be able to protect against the variant identified by South African scientists and which has spread internationally.

Richard Lessells, an infectious disease expert at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, which played a central role in identifying the variant known as 501Y.V2, said his understanding was that the comments were not based on any new data but on shared information.