Posted on 04/11/2020 9:18:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Stephen Smith shared some very exciting news Wednesday night on The Ingraham Angle.
Dr. Smith has been treating coronavirus patients at the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health in East Orange, New Jersey.
Dr. Smith revealed that in his treatment of coronavirus patients he has not seen a single patient severely affected under the age of 70 who was not diabetic, pre-diabetic or obese.
Dr. Stephen Smith: The more we see this disease, the more we understand that severe rapid COVID disease especially is in diabetics or prediabetics. We have 19 or 20 patients who are intubated. And 18 of the 20 are diabetic. And two are prediabetic. We don’t have anybody who’s been intubated in our group of over 80 now that was not diabetic or pre-diabetic that was intubated. We’ve seen younger patients with severe disease that have a very high BMI. We have patients that are over 300 pounds. We’ve seen a lot of it. And just now I think the world is catching up to this. A Seattle group published their data in the New England Journal of Medicine saying 58% of their ICU code patients were diabetic and that their average BMI was 33 which is morbidly obese. That fits with our data. What people haven’t focused on yet is that pre-diabetics are also at risk, especially if they have a high BMI. We haven’t had anyone under 70 who didn’t have a high BMI or was pre-diabetic get seriously ill.
Dr. Stephen Smith then later pointed out that not a single coronavirus patient under his care who was on the hydroxychloroquine regimen needed to be intubated.
Body Mass Index (BMI) | Healthy Weight | CDCwww.cdc.gov › healthyweight › assessing › bmi
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. A high BMI can be an indicator of high body fatness. BMI can be used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems but it is not diagnostic of the body fatness or health of an individual.
That’s what I’ve been thinking. Didn’t have hard data to confirm it until now.
About half of American adults are diabetic or prediabetic.
At-risk populations are where diseases are first detected. Eventually the entire population is at risk.
No one was being fed...the ones with lean bodies succumbed first.
almost nobody is at any serious risk except the elderly who are already sick or immune-compromised
and recovery is extremely fast with just 3 days worth of these very cheap and plentiful little pills
(it appears logical that the very best practice may be to add cheap and plentiful antibiotic and zinc pills)...
at any event, there are now so many of these success reports from the doctors and hospitals ... that it appears USA can return to normal NOW (with simple advice to the small at-risk group to exercise prudent caution for awhile, period, end of file.)
I am going to call the White House and governor today to end the lockdown, free America, restore our Constitutional rights, and jump start the USA economy and get people back to work again !
Makes me glad I’ve lost fifty pounds since January. I’m wearing Large Polos not XXL now. Blood pressure down 30 points and no longer taking two BP pills a day.
Most obese people are overfed and undernourished, which actually creates, not only obesity, but obesity related illness. Marathon runners become very acidic and use up electrolyte stores without even knowing it. Those that over train are diabetic, have a thyroid issue, heart disease or an autoimmune issue, such as psoriasis have one thing in common, they are most likely low in Zinc saturation. This is why Hydroxy Chloroquine has been working. It works better when combined with Zinc.
For example, if you watch the used car venues right now there are people selling their Jeeps and boats and recreational vehicles at fire sale prices to keep their businesses afloat. Businesses selling part or all of their service vehicle fleets.
I have thought of buying a few up and storing them in a rented RV storage stall for a year. They will probably bring blue book a year from now.
I will probably let it pass by, because I was trying to manufacture a short run of specialty furniture before this all went down and I still want to finish that once the fabrication shops and aluminum suppliers are allowed to reopen.
I have enough to get through this, but not a whole lot of excess liquid capital.
People don’t focus enough on minerals, especially Potassium, I was shocked as to how much Potassium you should get each day (3,500–4,700 mg), and yet most Americans don’t even come close to that.
I find now that focusing my diet on getting proper amounts of minerals per day, makes a huge difference. Don’t worry about calories, focus on mineral intake.
Have you ever been to East Orange?
Are you suggesting that I said we were all gonna die? Never did. I did tell people to be ready in case the stuff that is going on now happened. And I have had more than one battle with FReepers posting actual lies and misrepresenting data. And themselves.
But if you want to be “hysterical” about me trying to help others or make sure the best information is out there to potentially save lives, you should really reassess.
See the difference? Probably not, since you want to justify your own biases by projecting.
BOL!
How did you lose weight?
“Well, there are some financial opportunities if you aren’t panicking although I struggle with deciding how ethical some of them are.”
If it isn’t medical supplies or survival goods I wouldn’t worry too much. The businesses need the cash more than they need the assets, but when things turn back to normal they may just buy them back from you at a reasonable markup. You can think of it as a loan with interest. Win-win.
See?
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
The prevalence of obesity was 40.0% among young adults aged 20 to 39 years, 44.8% among middle-aged adults aged 40 to 59 years, and 42.8% among older adults aged 60 and olde
Good for you! If you calculate how much food you need to consume to get the RDI for pottassium, it is very easy to realize how many fall short.
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