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County-Level Data Shows Racial, Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19
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| 4-27-2020
| Jessica Kent
Posted on 04/29/2020 12:54:16 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: FormerFRLurker
if its one thing I am learning with this virus is that I personally need to get in better shape.....started a somewhat low carb low sugar diet yesterday...although I did have a cookie today....but no bread, no rice, no taters, no pasta....lots of meat though...I will not give up tomatoes or other veggies....
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posted on
04/29/2020 2:25:57 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: spintreebob
Let’s see:
1) NYC has way more cases than other US locations.
2) de Blasio leaves the subways open.
3) We find out today that de Blasio hasn’t been cleaning the subways.
Hmmm. Maybe there’s a connection.
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posted on
04/29/2020 2:38:59 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
To: TexasGator
To: Amberdawn
It’s Trump and his evil flu machine
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posted on
04/29/2020 3:08:05 PM PDT
by
RonnG
(')
To: spintreebob
If the Democrats who control the major cities didn’t keep “their voters down on the welfare/release the criminals plantation”, a lot of this might not have happened.
Look at Detroit. Run by a lifelong Communist Party mayor Coleman Young and aided by CP supporters Mahaffey and Henderson, made a once productive city into a slum/abandoned blocks wasteland.
In NYC, the white mayors keep the blacks in virtual housing project penitentiaries.
Incompetent white and black mayors of Baltimore helped destroy a once major economic center of the East Coast (I was born and lived their for 21 years, with a family business of 50 years, one doctor, etc.). Nothing is left. Hard to even find a good Jewish delicatessen on Corned Beef Row. 90% of them are gone except for Attman’s (not as good as it used to be under Grandpa) and Harry’s.
Look at No. Philadelphia. Parts are worse than they were when I went to school their in the 60’s.
LA, SF, Seattle, etc. Watch where you step, folks.
When you chase good jobs/businesses out of the city by overtaxing, over-regulation, and condemning them as evil instruments of capitalism, you automatically condemn the lower economic members of society to a harder form of life. Blame it on Dinkins, Bloomturd, DeBlasio, etc. for NY City, and some of these other incompetent Marxists in Philly, Cleveland, Newark, Chicago, etc.
Singing “They only hurt the ones they love (as long as they vote for them)”.
To: Redmen4ever
“do you have a source?”
Lots
To: spintreebob
meh... In time it will be a badge of honor to have or have had it.
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posted on
04/29/2020 4:44:41 PM PDT
by
CodeJockey
(Dum Spiro, Pugno)
To: TexasGator
To: spintreebob
A cup of Vitamin D fortified milk contains about 100 IU of Vitamin D. An adult needs about 5000 IU per day. Milk is fortified enough to prevent rickets.
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posted on
04/29/2020 6:12:28 PM PDT
by
Ragnar54
(Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
To: cherry
That’s great! Personally I have given up alcohol to boost my immune system. I was never a heavy drinker to begin with (1-2 glasses of wine with dinner a few times a week) but I definitely feel more focused without it. Might be a placebo effect. Anyway it’s a great time to start new healthier lifestyle choices.
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posted on
04/29/2020 6:16:09 PM PDT
by
FormerFRLurker
(Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
To: Redmen4ever; ActresponsiblyinVA
No, it's because dark skinned people produce less Vitamin D in response to UV B, and are as a result lower in Vitamin D.
Probability of Vitamin D Deficiency by Body Weight and Race/Ethnicity
"Conclusions:
The effects of skin color and body weight on vitamin D status are large, both statistically and clinically. At typical target concentrations of deficiency (below 20 or below 30 ng/mL), those with darker skin colors or heavier body weights have a higher probability of being vitamin D deficient. Knowledge of these effects may facilitate the diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency."
There is a sad familiarity to the distribution of this disease, if one reviews the history of rickets:
Rickets before the discovery of vitamin D
"Progress in studies of the causes and treatment of rickets suddenly moved much faster, in the period 19171922. At the beginning of that time, Huldschinski33 advocated ultraviolet light treatment for rickets. At the same time, Hess34 showed that cod liver oil could prevent and cure rickets in Afro-American children in New York."
Evidently the disease was more pronounced in Afro-American children, for the reason outlined above (rickets is caused by a severe deficiency of Vitamin D). The fact that this new disease is more severe for Afro-Americans is an important clue that should be acted upon. If every adult took enough Vitamin D to raise their blood levels to 100 nmol/l (40 ng/ml), the severity of the disease would be reduced.
Old people are also deficient in vitamin D, because old skin doesn't work as well in producing it and old people are more likely to stay inside and covered.
There is an article on NIH by a Canadian physician (Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg) who works in nursing homes. He has developed a protocol for reducing flu like illness among his patients. This should be tried against the corona virus in US nursing homes:
Vitamin D for influenza
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posted on
04/30/2020 12:16:34 PM PDT
by
Ragnar54
(Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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