I work in the food industry for a major CPG firm that does almost 8% of all grocery sales and we have ready to ship to retail 3 -5 months of food-stock up if you want but no need to panic in US. We heard all this with SARS, Ebola and Y2k. We just met with some of our PHds that work with food safety.
Keep this in perspective, even if 250,000 US citizens were to be infected and the mortality rate was 3.5%
there would be 8500 deaths,tragic yet car deaths annual are 33,565 and I don’t see many people refusing to get in cars. And our mortality rate will be much lower here than China because we are better at antibody treatment, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc NASDAQ: REGN is the company based here that shut down ebola with anti-bodies is already working with HHS on anti bodies, Vertex based here is working on virus and we are better at Sepsis, check out on Google Dr Marik new protocol and we are better at preventing organ failure.
And we know there are existing drugs that may already work, For example, teicoplanin, oritavancin, dalbavancin, and monensin are approved antibiotics that have been shown to inhibit corona- and other viruses in the laboratory. These are beign brought to bear jsut now and not getting the publicity because that doesn’t sell.
What we are not any better at is NOT Panicking or not pushing the sensational stories-after all People Magazine is the most popular US Magazine
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Interesting
It is quite the curiosity that these mostly vancomycin-like antibiotics have any effect at all on viruses, much less a critically important one
We previously reported that teicoplanin, a glycopeptide antibiotic which has routinely been used in the clinic to treat bacterial infection with low toxicity, significantly inhibits the invasion of cells by Ebola virus, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, via specifically inhibiting the activity of cathepsin L.
From:
https://www.drugs.com/article/antibiotics-and-viruses.html Antibiotic Resistance Overview
Overuse and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics worldwide is leading to the global healthcare issue of antibiotic resistance. However, the issue of antibiotic resistance can be confusing for many patients. You may be told you cannot use an antibiotic for a viral infection because they are ineffective and may lead to “antibiotic resistance”.
Why don’t antibiotics kill viral infections, and how can overuse of an antibiotic lead to “antibiotic resistance”?
Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because viruses have different structures and replicate in a different way than bacteria.
Antibiotics work by targeting the growth machinery in bacteria (not viruses) to kill or inhibit those particular bacteria.
When you think about it structurally, it makes sense that an antibiotic could not work to kill a virus with a completely different set of replicating “machinery”.
Is this some bizarre spam?
Good to know thanks. BUT we can’t stop others from panicking so i figure stock up some so I’m not in a bind. We live in an area where if you mentioned snow storm or gurricane people instinctively flock to the grocery store and cause havoc for normal everyday shoppers that either thought ahead or aren’t in a panic. Media is mostly to blame and you never know what they are going to mention. Still better to be prepared. There might be food ready to ship out, but only if there are drivers to deliver it or workers to receive it if folks panic and stay home or some actually get sick.
Good to know thanks. BUT we can’t stop others from panicking so i figure stock up some so I’m not in a bind. We live in an area where if you mentioned snow storm or gurricane people instinctively flock to the grocery store and cause havoc for normal everyday shoppers that either thought ahead or aren’t in a panic. Media is mostly to blame and you never know what they are going to mention. Still better to be prepared. There might be food ready to ship out, but only if there are drivers to deliver it or workers to receive it if folks panic and stay home or some actually get sick.
“I work in the food industry for a major CPG firm that does almost 8% of all grocery sales and we have ready to ship to retail 3 -5 months of food-stock up if you want but no need to panic in US. We heard all this with SARS, Ebola and Y2k. We just met with some of our PHds that work with food safety.”
Looks like you were ‘Bourne’ yesterday (literally). So, Welcome to Free Republic!
Pump and dump REGN?
Welcome newbie. You may wish to hang around and get a feel for the place.
Welcome to FR.
What brought you here? Coronavirus?
Is that you who have done so well with Romaine lettuce safety? Maybe you can do something about failed packaging. Seems every time I grocery shop, I waste half my time rummaging through dented cans and safety seals that were never attempted.
We’d do just as well popping bon bons as taking antibiotics for a virus. At least bon bons are tasty.
BTW, this US citizen has never purchased a People Magazine.