Corona Virus Updates Part 6

originally posted by: alphabetaone
Remdesivir does seem to be gaining ground though. Shares in Gilead were up 3% on the news that more than half of 397 patients recovered from serious COVID-19 illness and released.

Their study was single-arm though, so I imagine until there's an actual control group study, we wont know the real story.

Article Here

To follow up on that, here's the official statement: Link

(relevant part of the announcement)

The study demonstrated that patients receiving a 10-day treatment course of remdesivir achieved similar improvement in clinical status compared with those taking a 5-day treatment course (Odds Ratio: 0.75 [95% CI 0.51 – 1.12] on Day 14). No new safety signals were identified with remdesivir across either treatment group

And here is the paper that's been submitted. (published in the very old and reputable British medical journal called Lancet)

Full title (if you don't click the link) is "Remdesivir in adults with severe COVID-19: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial"
so it was a randomized double-blind study.

Results look good for the first phase. Again, this is a treatment and not the vaccine.

We can expect other results of leading contenders coming to start showing up in the medical papers this month.

This on Fox news.
ER doctors now [say] 'It's interesting when I'm writing about my death report, I'm being pressured to add COVID. Why is that?

well every one knows now!
lets just hope some thing comes of this.

The US just surpassed 60,000 deaths. Just over a week ago, 60,000 was the IHME predicted total deaths for the US, up through August 1st.

www.worldometers.info...

Whatever happened to TheAMEDDDoc, he had some great input in earlier threads (1-3).

I've been re-reading the threads from the beginning of #1 and I must applaud a few members for some seriously great in sight on this whole pandemic.

MIMS street talk, thank you for such great info time and time again.


MrRCflying for great back and forths while also adding great info regularly

Byrd really nothing I can say just solid material being added thank you.

And so many others I just can't think of all the names but seriously thank you, things said on these threads months ago have come true and thanks to these amazing people my family was well prepared.

Oh and where is toysforadults, I believe its crow eating time lol

originally posted by: buddha
This on Fox news.
ER doctors now [say] 'It's interesting when I'm writing about my death report, I'm being pressured to add COVID. Why is that?

well every one knows now!
lets just hope some thing comes of this.

Playing devils advocate only, here's a link from a disease specialist debunking them;

www.mercurynews.com...

And here's a bit about the guy debunking them;

www.cnbc.com...

That's from cnbc so salt needed. 👍🏻

Numbers from around the world are taken from Worldometers for April 29th.

Spain - Pop: 44.6 M
236,899 Positive tests…….. or 1 out of 197 Spaniards
10.24% Deaths

Italy - Pop: 60.4 M
203,591 Positive tests….. or 1 out of 297 Italians
13.59 % Deaths

France – Pop: 67.0 M
165,911 Positive tests….. or 1 out of 404 French
14.26 % Deaths

UK – Pop: 66.6 M
165,221 Positive tests….. or 1 out of 403 UKers
15.79 % Deaths

Sweden – Pop: 10.2 M
20,302 Positive tests….. or 1 out of 504 Swedes
12.12 % Deaths

Denmark – Pop: 5.8 M
9,008 Positive tests….. or 1 out of 644 Danes
4.91 % Deaths

US - Pop: 330 M
1,046,426 Positive tests.... or 1 out of 315 Americans
5.74% Deaths

US death rates (2017):
1. Heart Disease …………….…………647,457 annual or 1,773 daily average
2. Cancer ……………………..……….….599,108 annual or 1,641 daily average
3. Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936 annual or 465 daily average
7. Diabetes:………………………………….83,564 annual or 228 daily average

COVID-19 ………………………………………. 60,112(60 Day) or 1001 daily average


*** SURPASSED *****

8. Influenza and Pneumonia …………55,562 annual or 152 daily average
9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis:..50,633 annual or 138 daily average
10. Intentional self-harm (suicide):..47,173 annual or 129 daily average
X. Auto accidents ………………….………37,461 annual or 102 daily average
X. H1N1 2009 ESTIMATED (8,868 – 18,638) for 1 year or 24 – 50 daily average

Would there be a reason for hiding a positive case? Insurance reasons? Keeping numbers low for some reason? Any other ideas?

A few pages back I told about my aunt in Kentucky. She is still not good. Found out last night, she is on a vent. and are still giving her a 50/50 chance.

The information is from my cousin to my mother, so kind of third party.

Supposedly they have done a third test, and it too is negative. They are talking about trying to take her off the vent. on Saturday to see how she does on her own.

Right now, I can't see this as anything but Covid. Double pneumonia, fever, very lethargic before hand, etc.

It just makes no sense to me that she is negative.

a reply to: MrRCflying

I read a report a week ago that someone only tested positive through an eye test, the regular throat swap test came back negative.
Maybe bring that up?

I'd try and find a link but working right now.

originally posted by: timewarpedbrain7
a reply to: MrRCflying

I read a report a week ago that someone only tested positive through an eye test, the regular throat swap test came back negative.
Maybe bring that up?

I'd try and find a link but working right now.

Interesting. I do recall seeing something like that as well.

Not much I can do from my end, it is up to her daughter. It just makes me wonder if the tests are good, or if they are trying to hide it for some reason. My hunch is something to do with insurance payments.

Looks like we are coming out of lockdown too soon. Cases are on the rise again in China and now Japan:

Japanese island is hit by a second wave of coronavirus after ending three-week lockdown when cases fell to single digits - as infections soar to 135 in a week

The northern region of Hokkaido lifted its lockdown on March 19 so that businesses and schools could reopen. This came as the result of the number of new cases falling to one or two per day. Now though, only 26 days later, the island has re-enforced its lockdown as 135 new cases were reported in one week.

Dr. Kiyoshi Nagase, chairman of the Hokkaido Medical Association, told TIME: 'Now I regret it, we should not have lifted the first state of emergency. 'It really may not be until next year that we can safely lift these lockdowns. The local government had assessed the impact immigration would have on the spread of coronavirus on the island but had not taken into account domestic migration. Yoko Tsukamoto, a professor of infection control at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido said that with hindsight, the lockdown lift was too early. 'At the time, we didn't have enough information and we did not have an adequate understanding of this disease.

originally posted by: timewarpedbrain7
a reply to: MrRCflying

I read a report a week ago that someone only tested positive through an eye test, the regular throat swap test came back negative.
Maybe bring that up?

I'd try and find a link but working right now.

If I remember correctly it was an Ophthalmologist in Wuhan that first blew the whistle on this 'thing'. He was arrested and later died of Covid19

Rainbows
Jane

Numbers Update for Europe (w/o France), and Elsewhere (BNO has updated, but isn't again...) :

4076 new cases and 4419 new deaths in the United Kingdom "Public Health England (PHE) has developed a new method of reporting daily COVID-19 deaths, to give a more complete number of those who have died from the virus. For the first time from today, Wednesday 29 April 2020, the government’s daily figure will include deaths that have occurred in all settings where there has been a positive COVID-19 test, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales already report out-of-hospital deaths. Today’s figures have been revised retrospectively by PHE since the first death on 2 March 2020 to include additional data sources. This will bring the total number of deaths in the UK to 26,097 from 2 March until 28 April, including 765 deaths reported in the 24 hours to 5 pm on 28 April [...]"

www.worldometers.info...

Some Updated (and New) Financial Times Graphs from John Burn-Murdoch, more at link :




(The other graphs are mainly the ones from yesterday).

originally posted by: timewarpedbrain7
Oh and where is toysforadults, I believe its crow eating time lol

Actually, no - since the deaths are so grossly over inflated as to be a joke - just like the lock-down...

From Reuters :

" Three U.S. children infected with the coronavirus are being treated for a rare inflammatory syndrome that appears similar to one that has raised concerns by doctors in Britain, Italy and Spain "

All three - who range in age from 6 months to 8 years - have undergone treatment at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, and all had fever and inflammation of the heart and the gut.

“Right now, we’re at the very beginning of trying to understand what that represents,” Columbia’s Dr. Mark Gorelik told Reuters.

Gorelik, a pediatric rheumatologist and immunologist, said he was called in to consult on the cases to evaluate whether the children have Kawasaki disease, an illness thought to be linked to infection that in severe cases causes inflammation of the arteries of the heart.

More at the link.

edit : More From the Gu ardian Live Feed, at 7pm

Doctors around the world have reported more cases of a rare but potentially lethal inflammatory syndrome in children that appears to be linked to coronavirus infections, Ian Sample and Denis Campbell report.

Nearly 100 cases of the unusual illness have emerged in at least six countries, with doctors in Britain, the US, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland now reported to be investigating the condition.

The first cases came to light this week when the NHS issued an alert to paediatricians about a number of children admitted to intensive care units with a mix of toxic shock and a condition known as Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory disorder that affects the blood vessel, heart and other organs. So far 19 children have been affected in the UK and none have died.

The French health minister, Olivier Veran, said on Wednesday that the country had more than a dozen children with inflammation around the heart, and while there was insufficient evidence to prove a link with coronavirus, he said the cases were being taken “very seriously.”

Veran told Franceinfo news radio he had received an alert from Paris concerning “about 15 children of all ages”, adding that other cases had been reported in Spain, Italy and Switzerland. He listed the symptoms as fever, digestive problems and vascular inflammation.

Guardian Article on this.

a reply to: CrazeeWorld777

A rise in cases shouldnt be surprising, the mitigation measures were to spread the rate of infection over time and not prevent them entirely.

Beyond that, our immune systems will weaken the longer we are in lockdown, disinfecting everything, etc.

So, when they lift.. expect a jump in many health issues, roughly proportional to however long/extensive the lockdown is.

a reply to: MonkeyBalls2

so, now also in the USA. I havn't heard of it in children in China, Italy or Spain though or anywhere else... either not affecting their children in the same way or its being kept quiet for some reason.

a reply to: Serdgiam

stay in lockdown... you get ill.

come out of lockdown... you get ill.

So what to do

a reply to: CrazeeWorld777

I added an edit, there are at least 6 countries reporting the same sort of symptoms in children.