Posted on 04/17/2020 8:39:57 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Corona Virus Daily Thread #45 COVID-19
Coronavirus - symptoms
Confusion, seizure, strokes: How COVID-19 may affect the brain
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine this week examining 58 patients in Strasbourg, France found that more than half were confused or agitated, with brain imaging suggesting inflammation...
...Frontera, who is also a professor at NYU School of Medicine... is documenting striking cases including seizures in COVID-19 patients with no prior history of the episodes, and “unique” new patterns of tiny brain hemorrhages.
One startling finding concerns the case of a man in his fifties whose white matter — the parts of the brain that connect brain cells to each other — was so severely damaged it “would basically render him in a state of profound brain damage,” she said.
we talked about this a few days ago, but the ‘white matter’ evidence is new
not trusting any medic not to be infected themselves. Call me Paranoid Polly.
At the vet, routine now is pull up, call, they come out to get the animal, then bring out the estimate, then the paymachine. Tried to keep social car distance, but no, cars pulled up on either side. I was the only one who kept my mask on while talking to the vet tech - the other two car people pulled their masks down to talk, pretty much defeating the whole purpose of not contaminating the vet tech. Would the same thing happen at a drive-thru? Of course it would. People breathe on the vet tech mask, vet tech talks and by talking blows off some virus onto the next person. No thanks.
Biden says Trump failed to hold China accountable on coronavirus
(Reuters) - Americans are paying the price for President Donald Trump’s failure to hold China to account over the coronavirus pandemic, presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Friday...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/biden-says-trump-failed-to-hold-china-accountable-on-coronavirus/ar-BB12NOdb?ocid=spartanntp
What year does he think this is, I wonder?
FLORIDA
...timing could mean the virus was already spreading unchecked through Florida communities as early as late February, weeks before the state began taking social-distancing measures.
cruise people? returning greenies and citizens who didn’t self-quarantine as asked? Puerto rico visitors?
. Older patients are not so much quarantined as stranded, unwilling or unable to get up from their hard plastic beds without help, workers say. Other, younger patients are free to roam the halls with no masks....
...As of Thursday, NBC News had identified more than 1,450 COVID-19 cases at state mental health facilities in 23 states and Washington, D.C. — roughly double the total reported in the federal prison system.
CHINA -
The first 100,000 coronavirus antibody tests authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and headed to New York City could have been deployed days ago, but they’ve been stuck in red-tape limbo in China, officials with the U.S. government and with the antibody test company told ABC News..
...“The Chinese government issued an export restriction on COVID-19-related medical products,” Cellex said in a statement. “While it may have good intention, it nonetheless prevented our test from being shipped out of our production site.” ...Cellex executives even considered whether workers could deconstruct the packaged test kits and ship them stateside in components that would not fall under the export restrictions...
PANDEMIC TREND - Germ Pods
PANDEMIC TREND - Big Brother
Facebook will start nudging users who have “liked” coronavirus hoaxes
“...This represents one of the first times Facebook will warn a specific set of users who have interacted in the past with false information. ...“We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources...”
AFRICA/CHINA RACIST CONFLICT
““They’re everywhere. Realistically, I think it’s important both sides understand why this is happening and try and resolve this mutually.”
Still, a host of African officials have made sure China does not get away lightly with its treatment of Africans living in China.
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said the ill-treatment of African nationals in China was “inconsistent with the excellent relations that exist between China and Africa,
dating back to China’s support during the decolonization struggle in Africa.”
and now Africa is a colony of China, as resources are stripped not to benefit Africa, but to build even more busy-work concrete ghost cities in China
MedCram Lecture
April 17, 2020
Dr. Roger Seheult
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 57: Remdesivir Treatment Update and Can UV-C Disinfect Public Spaces?
Stat News has reported on preliminary data about Remdesivir that appears promising. Due to its short wavelength, UV-C light may have the benefit of killing viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2, but not damaging human skin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U4DAQ3kjRs
hug a Christmas tree:
MedCram Lecture
April 16, 2020
Dr. Roger Seheult
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 56: What is “Forest Bathing” & Can It Boost Immunity Against Viruses?
A series of joint studies from Stanford University School of Medicine and several medical schools and institutions in Japan demonstrated that exposure to “phytoncides” released by trees and plants may boost immunity by increasing natural killer cell quantity and activity among other effects.
Dr. Seheult illustrates how these studies were conducted as exposure to forests (forest bathing) may fall into the category of additional things we can do (and that don’t cause harm) to potentially help prevent viral infections such as COVID-19. Also discussed is how the state of New York decided to count some deaths that have occurred at home that were presumed to be from COVID-19 but did not have a positive test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDjVEpEOdQ
INDIA - China opportunism
Government rushes in to check takeover of Indian companies after China scoops up HDFC stake
. Last week, HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation) revealed a surprise shareholder, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), in a disclosure to the stock exchanges
RUSSIA/CHINA
Expelled by Russia, refused by China, Chinese citizens stranded at Russia border | NTD
(China offering up to a $700 reward for reporting any Chinese citizen attempting to cross back home to China from Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gIjlRAXjI
Thai-China Meme War
New revelations the Chinese Communist Party at the highest level, including Xi Jinping, new about the coronavirus well before they warned the public. And they knew human to human transmission was highly likely, even as they told the World Health Organization the opposite. Meanwhile, a meme war between Thailand and China goes all out, as the Virgin Wumao and Chad Thai go toe to toe. Meanwhile, Wisconsin State Senator Roger Roth gets an unusual request from the Chinese consulate.”
I wonder how many other senators got a pre-drafted resolution with a ‘request’ from China to praise China? Roth’s resolution in response is pretty blunt.
The Telegraph, UK, will stop running their monthly ‘chinawatch’ insert, as it is written by Chinese propaganda goons and submitted to the Telegraph. NYT, WallStreetJournal and WaPo also runs ‘chinawatch’. Telegraph was paid $1Million a year for 12 issues.
And, MilkTeaOlogy is born. Calls for Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to join Taiwan and Hong Kong in efforts against Chinese domination and control of, among other things, the Mekong River and environmental destruction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVbMLoIGV4
your turn in 3 days :)
Who Lysol’s the pet?
“Supermarkets Adjust Meat Sections as Coronavirus Cuts Supply”
Question: Sweden seems to have a relatively low number of cases per capita, but a high number of deaths per case. Given their approach (modest mitigation), and we are told their population is very healthy, how does this make sense? Insufficient testing?
I want to know why you are floating CCP type propaganda over the Chapel Hill study..even to the point of trying to say it was a MERS study with a link to a totally different study.
Its like some deep plant backward propaganda.
Why do you refuse to admit the whole purpose of the study was to see if a sars like virus could jump to humans..and the study involved the famous wuhan bat lady to boot.
And when the Us stopped funding and allowing this type of study....they funded the bat lady in china
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