If this is successful, it could mean more than just a treatment, it could mean prevention of COVID-19 and possibly fast development against future novel coronaviruses, along with immunity-boosting approaches such as intake of absorbable forms of zinc, vitamins D3, B-complex, etc.
It is just a bandage. An ACE bandage.
DK
Lead?
I’d use spent Uranium...
Or maybe Wolfram.
Do they make Copper jacketed lead based mini proteins?
Lead as in Pb or as in leads the pack?
From Can low-cost, open-source ventilator designs help save lives? - by James Temple, 2020 March 24
The motorized device automatically compresses widely available bag valve masks, the sort of manual resuscitator used by ambulance crews to assist patients with breathing problems. The designs could arrive as a growing number of engineers, medical students, and hobbyists attempt to build or share specifications for makeshift respirators — of unknown quality and safety — amid rising fears of widespread shortages as the coronavirus epidemic escalates. The team recently launched a website unveiling the MIT Emergency Ventilator Project, or E-Vent, which now states the device "is being submitted" to the Food and Drug Administration for rapid review under an "Emergency Use Authorization." Last week, MIT Technology Review was informed the team intended to test the devices on pigs in recent days, though it's still unclear what the results were. ..... < snip > ..... It's also not clear if the team has yet fully answered the fundamental question of the project: Is it possible to safely ventilate a Covid-19 patient by automatically actuating a manual resuscitator? If that answer is yes, the hope is that openly publishing the designs, test results, and related medical information could enable those with the necessary manufacturing capacity and expertise to produce reliable, safe, and affordable respirators. Even so, the site stresses the device should be operated only under the supervision of trained medical professionals and is not a replacement for an FDA-approved intensive care unit ventilator "in terms of functionality, flexibility, and clinical efficacy." ..... < snip > ..... Researchers at the University of Minnesota are developing a similar device, which also relies on automating the pumping of "ambu" bags. They also hope to soon publish open-source designs. ..... < snip >
MIT researchers hope to publish open-source designs for a low-cost respirator that could potentially help Covid-19 patients struggling with critical respiratory problems.
Much has been speculated about the ACE receptors that seem to be the portal of entry for this virus. There is the question if the use of ACE inhibitors such as Vasotec or ARBs such as valsartan either alter those ACE receptors and inhibit virus infectivity or do they increase the number of ACE sites an make infection more likely.
By now the CDC should have collected enough data on this issue to advise the public.
Get in line! 18 months for testing, and half the country infected ot dead!
All this medical lingo and acronyms gives me a headache. It sounds promising.