Posted on 07/31/2022 6:52:43 AM PDT by MNDude
The at-home test says you’re COVID negative, but your body says you’re positive—so very positive.
What (or whom) to believe?
No, your body isn’t gaslighting you. If you’re certain you’re COVID positive, you probably are—regardless of what the test says, Dr. Stuart Ray, vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics at Johns Hopkins’ Department of Medicine, told Fortune on Tuesday.
“It’s a funny situation when you’re confronted with a big surge of infections,” Ray said, referencing the fact that in many areas of the U.S., COVID levels are at or near record highs—as evidenced by levels of the virus in wastewater, as opposed to formal testing
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
I have allergies especially this time of year. I do not bother to test every time I have a sneeze and a runny nose.
Trust your gut？
Sounds like Obi Wan Kenobi telling Luke not to trust any high tech instruments and just use THE FORCE.
Yeah, that’ll work.
OR! You simply have a HEAD COLD or influenza like illness from one of the over 400 strains of viruses causing acute URI/LRI and viral syndromes. IT’S NOT ALL COVID DAMMIT!
Stop testing!
I have had it twice, once in 2020 and again at the beginning of this year.
My son and his family all had it in January. His employer made him get vaccinated in March to keep his job. He now has it again (he tested positive on Friday). So far, his unvaccinated wife and children have not caught it again.
Here, Sahara Dust is horrible and has been around for at least a month.
At the first indication that you may have a Covid variant, take Pepcid AC.
It’s the new Ivermectin.
But, unlike Ivermectin, it’s over-the-counter, so Big Pharma can’t bury it.
if they identify as infected... right?
dforest wrote: “I remember the old days. When I thought I had a cold. I had a cold.”
Regardless of what you thought, bet your Mom made you go to school.
yep, bidens billion test purchase kept the chinkenese laughing all the way to the bank selling pre-infected nasal swabs to sell more tests.
This shit is totally out of control.
For the left, feeling trump all.
Facts are an irrelevant nuisance.
BMJ / Newsroom/ Newsroom / Widely available indigestion drug may curb COVID-19 symptoms in mild to moderate disease
Widely available indigestion drug may curb COVID-19 symptoms in mild to moderate disease
Effects felt within 1-2 days; clinical trial of those who don’t require hospital admission warranted
A widely available and inexpensive drug that is used to ease the symptoms of indigestion may prove a worthy contender for treating COVID-19 infection in those whose disease doesn’t require admission to hospital, suggest the findings of a small case series, published online in the journal Gut.
The effects were felt within 24 to 48 hours of taking famotidine, and a rigorous clinical trial is now warranted to see if the drug could be an effective treatment for COVID-19, say the researchers.
Famotidine (Pepcid AC) belongs to a class of drugs known as histamine-2 receptor antagonists, which reduce the amount of stomach acid produced. Famotidine can be taken in doses of 20-160 mg, up to four times a day, for the treatment of acid reflux and heartburn.
The researchers report on 10 people (6 men; 4 women) who developed COVID-19 infection, all of whom happened to have been taking famotidine during their illness.
The severity of five cardinal symptoms—cough; shortness of breath; fatigue; headache and loss of taste/smell as well as general unwellness—was measured using a version of a 4-point scale normally applied to assess the severity of cancer symptoms (ECOG PS).
Seven of the patients tested positive for COVID-19, using a swab test; two had antibodies to the infection; and one patient wasn’t tested but was diagnosed with the infection by a doctor.
Their ages ranged from 23 to 71 and they had a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds and known risk factors for COVID-19 severity, including high blood pressure and obesity.
All started taking famotidine when they were feeling very poorly with COVID-19, the symptoms of which had been going on from 2 up to 26 days at that point.
The most frequently used dose was 80 mg taken three times a day, with the average treatment period lasting 11 days, but ranging from 5 to 21 days.
All 10 patients said that symptoms quickly improved within 24-48 hours of starting famotidine and had mostly cleared up after 14 days.
Improvement was evident across all symptom categories assessed, but respiratory symptoms, such as cough and shortness of breath, improved more rapidly than systemic symptoms, such as fatigue.
Seven of the patients didn’t experience any side effects while on famotidine, and in the three who did, these were mild, and all but temporary forgetfulness were known side effects associated with taking the drug.
While promising, the researchers point out that the findings might have been affected by ‘the placebo effect,’ and/or hazy recall, added to which the number of case study participants was small.
“Our case series suggests, but does not establish, a benefit from famotidine treatment in outpatients with COVID-19,” they caution. And it’s not clear how famotidine might work: if it might incapacitate the virus in some way or alter a person’s immune response to it.
“Clinically, we unreservedly share the opinion that well designed and informative studies of efficacy are required to evaluate candidate medications for COVID-19 as for other diseases,” they emphasise.
Nevertheless, they suggest their findings warrant further more detailed study, adding that a clinical trial, testing the combination of famotidine with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, is already under way.
“An outpatient study of oral famotidine that investigates efficacy for symptom control, viral burden and disease outcome and assesses the effects of medication use on long term immunity should be considered to establish if famotidine may be of use in controlling COVID-19 in individual patients while also reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission,” they conclude.
I supposedly had it for the first time at the end of June.
In March of 2020, when covid first appeared, I took a plane to FL and threw caution to the wind. Never got sick.
But, about 6 months later I had a head cold that laid me up for a week. Lost my taste & smell, but tested neg. I figured the test was faulty, but who knows?
Oh ok. If you think you have polio you probably do
Because there is money in reporting such. The FEds award any med facility that can say they treat the WuhanFlu.
Do not forget the moolah for air that may have killed folks.
My daughter tested positive a few weeks ago. She and my son were together for a few hours in the car the day before. He had to go for training for a new job for the week.
He called and said that he wasn’t feeling good but tested negative three times and asked what he should do.
“Go to work.” He did. The fear over a glorified cold has to stop and we have to stop it.
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