[Patriot777]

Very good read and also a launchpoint to search the plethora of terminology pertaining to the research that Dr. Esmaeil and Gabriele Grunig have vested. Also, check this link out and ask yourself this question: why isn't anyone being forthcoming about whether COVID-19 is gram-negative or gram-positive?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

A virus cannot be gram positive or gram negative. Those terms refer only to bacteria.

[mjp]

an inappropriate or unchecked immune response can result in severe lung disease and pathologic outcomes

anti-cytokine therapies, include interleukin-1, -6, and TNF inhibitors, as well as less targeted therapies, such as corticosteroids, chloroquine, or Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) inhibitors may be useful treatment

[silverleaf]

And is the big spike in covid occurring where the huge African dust plume swept over the southern US in late June ?

[Graybeard58]

an inappropriate or unchecked immune response can result in severe lung disease and pathologic outcomes

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And injections of Humira can kill you by completely shutting down the immune system, as it did my wife on Oct. 27, 2018.

Her bone marrow stopped producing white blood cells (leukocytes), resulting in massive organ failure.

Cause of death listed: Toxic Shock.

[Redwood71]

A lot of the older treatments with albuterol, or xopenex, have been supplemented now with drugs like xolair and dupixent.

Xolair is a drug that acts by binding to the IgE allergic antibody in the blood stream and hence neutralizing (blocking) its actions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Xolair for the treatment of patients with moderate to severe persistent asthma. It is normally injected bi-weekly.

DUPIXENT is a prescription medicine used with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of moderate-to-severe eosinophilic or oral steroid dependent asthma in people aged 12 years and older whose asthma is not controlled with their current asthma medicines. Another product of dupixent is it may also help reduce the amount of oral corticosteroids you previously needed. Again, bi-weekly injection.

COPD, asthma’s cousin, does not us either of the injectable drugs. It is treated with drugs toward more preventative and less rescue with the use of drugs like Spiriva which is an inhalation powder used to prevent bronchospasm (narrowing of the airways in the lungs) in people with bronchitis, emphysema, or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Normally inhaled daily. Emergency rescue is still albuterol or xopenex, with extreme cases needing injected solu-medrol solution with nebulizer/oxygen treatments.

So there are a number of ways to go after treatment with a number of different types of lung ailments. They are still practicing medicine.

rwood