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Are you having, or have you had, COVID? I am highly curious about actual symptoms and duration.

Again, the 3rd time over 2 weeks, I ask for prayers! I keep having trouble and no answers yet. I’m on the verge of going to the hospital, which I hate because of the isolation due to COVIDhysteria, etc.

Crime is Another Example of Economic Malfeasance Related to the Peoples Republic of China Accommodating Theft of Commercial Products They Cannot Field Organically Former Ohio woman Li Chen, 46, pleaded guilty today via video conference in U.S. District Court today to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets and conspiring to commit wire fraud concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.“Once again we see the People’s Republic of China (PRC) facilitating the theft of our nation’s ingenuity and hard work as part of their quest to rob, replicate and replace any product they don’t...

Please pray again for me. I’m still having troubles.

Recent scientific studies have raised concerns and generated headlines after they suggested that antibodies to the coronavirus fade within months. But scientists say the story is more complicated — and less depressing than it seems.... Scott Hensley, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania, tweeted that a contraction of the immune system after viral infection is “basic immunology.” Shane Crotty, a virologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, told The Atlantic, “It’s not unusual to have fading antibody response after several months.” “The drop-off isn’t that surprising. When you look at something like the smallpox vaccine, you see the...

Leaving for a doc appt. Hoping she can help me with more than just cancer check-up.

What does everyone gather regarding long-term negative effects on COVID patients’ health? I’ve seen some mention occasionally but not much.

Going without sleep for too long kills animals but scientists haven’t known why. Newly published work suggests that the answer lies in an unexpected part of the body. Feeling dead tired? Scientists may finally be on the verge of learning why too little sleep is inevitably fatal. Inside a series of tubes in a bright, warm room at Harvard Medical School, hundreds of fruit flies are staying up late. It has been days since any of them have slept: The constant vibrations that shake their homes preclude rest, cling as they might to the caps of the tubes for respite....

This is a bit of a rant, vent, as well as a warning, it could happen to you. I really never expected this would happen. Read on. A Wisconsin company, Milliman IntelliScript, has my prescription history and is selling that information. I found out when Lincoln Financial denied me short term disability insurance. I called Intelliscript and demanded that they stop selling my medical info and delete MY information. They said no. I'm a Vet my prescriptions are filled through pharmacies on military bases. There is no way they should have that information. The DoD doesn't release medical histories of...

A California deputy attorney general pleaded not guilty to charges related to possession of child pornography, according to reports Thursday. Raymond Joseph Liddy was arrested Tuesday but was later released after posting a $100,000 bond. In January, an electronic service provider tipped off the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about a user uploading an image appearing to be child porn. A similar tip was sent to the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force about a month later and it the activity was traced to a house in Coronado in San Diego County. Federal authorities recovered 10...

With medical supplies in high demand, federal authorities say health workers can wear surgical masks for protection while treating COVID-19 patients — but growing evidence suggests the practice is putting workers in jeopardy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said lower-grade surgical masks are “an acceptable alternative” to N95 masks unless workers are performing an intubation or another procedure on a COVID patient that could unleash a high volume of virus particles. America’s health care workers are dying from the coronavirus pandemic. These are some of the first tragic cases. But scholars, nonprofit leaders and former regulators in...

PARIS -- "Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said in a recent interview with CNN, justifying content censorship on her company's platform. On Feb. 3, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom recommended against closing borders to China, saying there was no reason for measures that "unnecessarily interfere with travel and trade." Four days earlier, Adhanom was advised by the WHO's emergency committee that the situation needed to be classified as a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern." Did the head of the WHO not understand the meaning...

One America News Chief White House Correspondent Chanel Rion asked President Trump how he feels about mainstream media organizations being in lock step with Chinese propaganda efforts accusing him of being racist for calling COVID-19 the "Chinese virus." Racism is not the right tool to cover your own incompetence pic.twitter.com/LmGDyPsULt— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) March 17, 2020 Rion led the two-part question by first asking Trump if he considers calling food originating from China as "Chinese food" racist."No, I don't think it's racist. I don't think it's racist at all," Trump replied."On that note, major left-wing news media, even in...

When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates, the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67%, in contrast, the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33%. The multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings, with a 75% probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47%. Conclusions: In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the 'asymptomatic infected individuals' reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832 Editor office’s response for...

From Europe to South America, U.S. allies are complaining about the superpower's "Wild West" tactics in outbidding or blocking shipments to buyers who have already signed deals for vital medical supplies. In France and Germany, senior officials said the United States was paying far above the market price for medical-grade masks, on occasion winning contracts through higher bids even after European buyers believed a deal was done, and Brazil's health minister reported a similar incident. "Money is irrelevant. They pay any price because they are desperate," one high-level official in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU/CSU group told Reuters. A...

Uncooperative patients, long hours and a lack of protective equipment are hampering health care workers across the world as they take the fight to the coronavirus, leading many to fall sick themselves. In Malaysia, a pregnant woman who did not disclose that her father was infected tested positive after giving birth, leading to the shutdown of the entire hospital for cleaning. In the Philippines, nine doctors have died, two of whom had dealt with a patient who lied about her travel history. In Spain, where more than 5,400 health care workers have been infected, accounting for about 14 per cent...

Hospital workers are separating from their families as a way to protect other family members during the coronavirus pandemic. An Arkansas physician has only seen his 1-year-old son Zeke through a glass door for the last two weeks. During that time, Dr. Jared Burks saw his son crawl for the first time.

Through the garbled word soup of fancy buzzwords and bureaucratic newspeak, officials in Washington state are basically saying they are preparing to ration health services, with those whom the state seems as less desirable to receive less attention and care. In the age of what’s pretty much Bernie Sanders’s wet dream of socialized healthcare, there simply aren’t enough resources to care for everyone.The Seattle Times reports: Washington state and hospital officials have been meeting to consider what once was almost unthinkable — how to decide who lives and dies if, as feared, the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms the state’s health care...

Amateur "biohackers" are making their own experimental COVID-19 test kits, which purport to diagnose the disease in just 30 minutes, and which patients can potentially perform themselves. The design copies experimental work conducted in the US and China, but has not yet been assessed by any regulatory bodies. The tests are designed to be used almost anywhere, without any specialised equipment, but to date have only been performed on a limited number of human samples. Some experts say the diagnostic test is promising, but they also warn of the potentially serious risks of using tests made by amateurs. "It would...

Several years ago, after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road...New York legislators are pushing a new law to have the cash-strapped state spend more than $500 million to provide virtually free, taxpayer-financed health care to more than 400,000 adult illegal immigrants...