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Drugs found to cause 'startling recoveries' for Covid-19 patients
Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/10/20 | Y. Rabinowitz

Posted on 10/23/2020 6:24:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

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1 posted on 10/23/2020 6:24:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

With a name like ravulizumab, it has to be good.


2 posted on 10/23/2020 6:27:45 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Eleutheria5; SeekAndFind

Good news.


3 posted on 10/23/2020 6:29:47 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

So the IL7 and 8 have done nothing. If the IL5 is better then this is good news. However. -mabs are ungodly expensive.


4 posted on 10/23/2020 6:39:56 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: Eleutheria5; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

5 posted on 10/23/2020 6:40:45 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: ComputerGuy

LOL


6 posted on 10/23/2020 6:41:57 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Eleutheria5

I have a suspicion that Vitamin D might be useful to reduce the danger of Covid.

Northern England and people of color in temperate areas have a reduced ability to produce Vitamin D.


7 posted on 10/23/2020 6:44:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

Exactly! Open EVERYTHING up. End ALL lockdowns. End ALL mask mandates. If you WANT to wear a mask, knock yourself out. Continue to promote common-sense procedures like washing your hands. Ignore the fear-mongering press, government, and health care systems. End the 'national emergency' so all financial incentives come to a screeching halt. Coronavirus isn't going anywhere; like the flu or the common cold.

8 posted on 10/23/2020 6:47:07 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Chinese vaccines look promising:

(Spanish language article)
http://www.radiohc.cu/noticias/salud/237396-no-ha-habido-efectos-adversos-en-vacunas-chinas-contra-la-covid-19


9 posted on 10/23/2020 6:55:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: who knows what evil?

Hospitals in Paris, Liverpool and parts of the American Midwest are under great Covid patient load stress.

The brother of the Mayor of Liverpool died of Covid.

At this point, Covid is several times more dangerous than the flu.


10 posted on 10/23/2020 7:01:09 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Eleutheria5

As of last week, there were only 50,000 doses of the medicine Trump got available.


11 posted on 10/23/2020 7:04:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The brother of the Mayor of Liverpool died of Covid.

So? NO reason for me (or any other American) to wear a mask.

12 posted on 10/23/2020 7:05:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Brian Griffin

How old was this brother (of the Mayor of Liverpool)?

Did he have any underlying health issues? Was he treated EARLY?


13 posted on 10/23/2020 7:11:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Brian Griffin

And older people too. The link to Covid severity is now well established.


14 posted on 10/23/2020 7:15:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Port this over the arthritis and that’ll make many celebrate.


15 posted on 10/23/2020 7:37:32 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Eleutheria5

Under the C, five.
Bingo!


16 posted on 10/23/2020 8:02:03 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: Brian Griffin

Because it still is being tested.

Trump, a president, was a guinea pig.

It could have gone badly.


17 posted on 10/23/2020 8:14:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Link to the original article cited in this article:

Covid patients at 'death's door' recovering with immune system drugs, scientists say by Sarah Knapton, Science Editor, October 22, 2020, The Telegraph.

This article makes a good point that should be obvious given how co-morbidities negatively affect outcomes of COVID:

Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, the director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge, also said people could help themselves by losing weight.

Sir Stephen, who caught coronavirus in the spring, believes he only survived because he had lost 13 pounds in the preceding months and said: "Even a small amount of weight loss can be beneficial. Walk a mile, lose a pound. Even a modest degree of calorific restriction in a matter of days can start to shift fat in the organs even before body weight reduces.

The Telegraph article further links to this one (getting further afield from Ravulizumab):

Experts reveal how to optimise heat and humidity to reduce Covid transmission inside the home by Sarah Newey, Oct 22, 2020, The Telegraph.

That article cites this preprint: Theffect of temperature and humidity on the stability1of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses in bioRxiv, October 16, 2020 which states "As mucus gets drier, it becomes worse at trapping infections in our airways." Relative humidity drops very low in heated buildings in winter.

So, lose weight, take your Vit D, keep your house warm, humidify your house, and keep informed about Ravulizumab. I read recently about beneficial effects nasal irrigation which would support this environmental effects article.

18 posted on 10/23/2020 8:18:24 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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Infectious Disease Ping - covid-19, fighting the cytokine storm with medications

" The immune system is usually seen as our ally in fighting disease, but in the case of coronavirus, it can sometimes turn into our foe.
A phenomenon known as a cytokine storm has been implicated in many fatal cases of Covid-19,
and several drugs are currently being tested to calm this storm and raise patients’ chances of survival."

" These drugs are known as anti-C5 drugs as they prevent a molecule named C5 from triggering the complement system to produce cytokines,
which are known to cause inflammation in the body.
Over-activation of cytokines (also known as a cytokine storm) has also been associated with many other diseases
such as asthma, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel disease. "

19 posted on 10/23/2020 8:38:51 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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Exactly.

This virus could be with us in some degree or another for a thousand more years, or 10,000, or even longer. Just like influenza and many other viruses which are still here.

We can’t shut down the country forever. We’ll destroy ourselves, literally.


20 posted on 10/23/2020 8:53:43 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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