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(Quote from Shane D.)


I have no use for that. Too much like wishful thinking. I want messages with objective, factual scientific information. Information I can use to protect myself and reduce the likelihood of transmission. Strength and resolve have no…

I hope to light a candle in the window tonight in solidary and concern for India. They haven't had a lot of cases yet but I am afraid what would happen if it gets a foot hold in India. I could be millions if they don't stop it before it goes exponential …

The healthdata.org website and model have been recommended by experts in various articles. The model now predicts peak rates, deaths, and resource shortages in the U.S. around April 15. That is a disastrously short time. Evidently, the curve has not been…

HCQ and magic bullets.

Some people, perhaps following the US presidency, are taking a black and white view of HCQ: either it is a magic bullet, or it is worthless. The truth is often somewhere in between.

(Quote from Shane D.)


Shane, you are now on the wrong side of this argument - inconsistent with your earlier "get em back to work" views.

If you want the earliest, longest return to something close to normality this is one of the ways it can happen.…

https://bdnews24.com/world/202…ke-its-own-toll-on-health

" researchers say history shows that responses to a deep and long economic shock, coupled with social distancing, will trigger health impacts of their own, over the short, mid and long term:


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https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.…-portando-avanti/5759037/
via Google translate



Coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine: the point on home experimentation with the doctors who are carrying it out

The scientific community is divided, Chinese and French publications…

(Quote from Dr Richard)


Believe me, I want HCQ to work as much as you do. Anything that works is great news, I don’t care what it is as long as it works and is safe. We need drugs to keep people off ventilators. Until that happens we are essentially…

https://www.the-scientist.com/…-covid-19-treatment-67371


Blood Pressure Meds Point the Way to Possible COVID-19 Treatment


There is little evidence that antihypertensive drugs worsen COVID-19, and scientists are instead exploring the idea that such…

(Quote from Dr Richard)


It’s amazing how much you believe that this one drug is a magic bullet solution to the problem. You may be right. I hope you are. Everyone does. But they just can’t give out a drug en masse without some kind of study to…

Wait for the clinical data from Australia about this, one can't be sure from in vitro data. My brother has been thinking of using it on a weekly basis since he has used it before travelling abroad. The hazmat protection is totally inadequate for…

From "Corriere della Sera", Italy, via Google Translate



Francesco Scaglione, professor of Pharmacology at the University of Milan and clinical pharmacologist at the Niguarda Hospital, is among the experts in charge of putting firm points on the therapies…

Then there is the case of Ai Fen.. whose 'social credit ' also seems to have run out
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two weeks ago Dr Ai Fen, director of the emergency at Wuhan Central hospital, went public in the Chinese magazine, Renwu, saying she had been disciplined and silenced…

(Quote from Curbina)


I don't understand what you are saying here.

Anywhere now that gets rid of COVID is vulnerable to renewed infections from external migration, animal reservoirs (unproven but possible) surface virus which refrigerated can live for a…

https://www.thelancet.com/jour…-3099(20)30243-7/fulltext

From an extensive analysis of data from different regions of the world, our best estimate at the current time for the case fatality ratio of COVID-19 in China is 1·38% (95% CrI 1·23–1·53).…

Here is a clip from a British comedy that perfectly captures the U.S. response to the Coronavirus.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020…nts-coronavirus-response/

Sir Richard Wharton: “In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen.”
Sir Humphrey Appleby:…

Has anyone mentioned melatonin. It is a very safe drug to take and readily available in the USA.

Melatonin as a potential adjuvant treatment

Emergency FDA authorization immediately for hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19. Yay! "benefits may outweigh the risks..."

https://www.politico.com/news/…-anti-malaria-drug-155095

A couple of thoughts... getting enough out will be difficult. Hundreds…

Piazza di Spagna webcam...

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And a recipe email from a friend in N Italy.

"I found these simple instructions in my vintage 1962 copy of – Cuba Missile Crisis Deluxe Edition – (U.S. Dept. of Defense…

I drive a truck for a company that
is an essential business so still working.So many staying at home
means no heavy traffic.Not hard to take.