Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Hearing loss reported after Covid recovery https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-deterioration-discharged-covid-patients.htmlSample quote One hundred and twenty one of the adults admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital, part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, took part in the survey by telephone. When asked about changes to their hearing sixteen people (13.2%) reported their hearing was worse. Eight people reported deterioration in hearing and another eight reported tinnitus (hearing noises that are not caused by an outside source). End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Columbia U researchers make interesting case that the most severe Covid-19 cases are brought on by flaws in one of the most ancient parts of the immune response, the “Complement” system. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-ancient-immune-underpin-severe-covid-.htmlSample quote One of the immune system's oldest branches, called complement, may be influencing the severity of COVID-19 disease, according to a new study from researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Among other findings linking complement to COVID, the researchers found that people with age-related macular degeneration—a disorder caused by overactive complement—are at greater risk of developing severe complications and dying from COVID. The connection with complement suggests that existing drugs that inhibit the complement system could help treat patients with severe disease. The authors also found evidence that clotting activity is linked to COVID severity and that mutations in certain complement and coagulation genes are associated with hospitalization of COVID patients. ...snip... Coronaviruses, the survey found, are masters of mimicry, particularly with proteins involved in coagulation and proteins that make up complement, one of the oldest branches of the human immune system. Complement proteins work a bit like antibodies and help eliminate pathogens by sticking to viruses and bacteria and marking them for destruction. Complement can also increase coagulation and inflammation in the body. "Unchecked, these systems can also be quite detrimental," says Shapira. "The new coronavirus—by mimicking complement or coagulation proteins—might drive both systems into a hyperactive state." ...snip... That led Shapira and Tatonetti to look at COVID patients with macular degeneration, an eye disease caused by overactive complement, as well as common coagulation disorders like thrombosis and hemorrhage. Among 11,000 COVID patients who came to Columbia University Irving Medical Center with suspected COVID-19, the researchers found that over 25% of those with age-related macular degeneration died, compared to the average mortality rate of 8.5%, and roughly 20% required intubation. The greater mortality and intubation rates could not be explained by differences in the age or sex of the patients. "Complement is also more active in obesity and diabetes," Shapira says, "and may help explain, at least in part, why people with those conditions also have a greater mortality risk from COVID." End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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California institute claims the 4 coronaviruses of the “common cold” can train some immune cells to attack Covid-19 too: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-exposure-common-cold-coronaviruses-immune.htmlSample quote We have now proven that, in some people, pre-existing T cell memory against common cold coronaviruses can cross-recognize SARS-CoV-2, down to the exact molecular structures," says LJI Research Assistant Professor Daniela Weiskopf, Ph.D., who co-led the new study with LJI Professor Alessandro Sette, Dr. Biol. Sci. "This could help explain why some people show milder symptoms of disease while others get severely sick." "Immune reactivity may translate to different degrees of protection," adds Sette. "Having a strong T cell response, or a better T cell response may give you the opportunity to mount a much quicker and stronger response." The new work builds on a recent Cell paper from the Sette Lab and the lab of LJI Professor Shane Crotty, Ph.D., which showed that 40 to 60 percent of people never exposed to SARS-CoV-2 had T cells that reacted to the virus. Their immune systems recognized fragments of the virus it had never seen before. This finding turned out to be a global phenomenon and was reported in people from the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom and Singapore. End quote Since we do not have a Covid-19 vaccine yet, does this mean that deliberately trying to infect yourself with one of the four common cold coronaviruses every 2 weeks, until you have recovered from all 4 after eight weeks would protect many from severe Covid-19 that leads to ICU admittance or death? If you had given yourself a common cold coronavirus and still were fighting it, what would happen if you got accidentally infected wIth Covid-19 too, and your immune system had to fight two coronaviruses?
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Swedish doctors further confirm that the arthitis drug tocilizumab Greatly helps Covid-19 patients on ventilators https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-drug-ventilator-patients-severe-covid-.htmlSample quote The differences between the treatment and control groups were significant. Patients who received tocilizumab were hospitalized for a much shorter length of time, including time spent on a ventilator, than those who received the standard treatment. The time spent on ventilation was reduced by ten days, the time spent in intensive care by eight days, and the total hospital stay by ten days. The treatment was not associated with serious adverse events. End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Until they speed up getting test results back we are screwed and it will continue to spreed. My son took two tests after having headaches and a 103.6 temperature and they told him 8 days wait on one and two weeks on another. But it’s ok to go back to work if you temperature is normal for three straight days. Hmmmmmm
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Lingering troubles common in “recovered” Covid-19 survivors https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientistsSample quote The list of lingering maladies from COVID-19 is longer and more varied than most doctors could have imagined. Ongoing problems include fatigue, a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, achy joints, foggy thinking, a persistent loss of sense of smell, and damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain. The likelihood of a patient developing persistent symptoms is hard to pin down because different studies track different outcomes and follow survivors for different lengths of time. One group in Italy found that 87% of a patient cohort hospitalized for acute COVID-19 was still struggling 2 months later. Data from the COVID Symptom Study, which uses an app into which millions of people in the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden have tapped their symptoms, suggest 10% to 15% of people—including some “mild” cases—don’t quickly recover. But with the crisis just months old, no one knows how far into the future symptoms will endure, and whether COVID-19 will prompt the onset of chronic diseases. End quote Edit: another study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-covid-road-recovery.html
Last edited by 360view; 08/06/20 05:26 PM. Reason: Added 2nd study link
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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'Ongoing problems include fatigue, a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, achy joints, foggy thinking, a persistent loss of sense of smell, and damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain." Houston, Moparts has a problem.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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U. Of Michigan study makes claim that BCG vaccination in USA could have reduced Covid-19 deaths by 80% https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/mandatory-bcg-vaccination-may-slow-spread-of-covid-19Sample quote There would have been approximately 80% fewer COVID-19 deaths in the United States by March 29, 2020, if the country had employed mandatory BCG vaccination since at least 2000, according to the new research. ...snip... For each country, the researchers focused on a 30-day period after the first 100 confirmed cases or the first death. Provided any national differences in reporting remained stable during this period, say the scientists, this should eliminate the effect of this bias on the data. In their analysis, the scientists also tried to account for other factors that could have affected the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in different countries. These included the median age of populations, population size and density, and gross domestic product, or GDP, per capita. They found that having mandatory BCG vaccination significantly “flattened the curve” of the initial spread of COVID-19 throughout the populations studied. End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Which raises the question: Has anybody caught it twice??? If so; did they then have anitbodies. Then it would seem this virus would have to make "2 Full Rounds" thru the entire population before it really subsides to any level close to the pre-covid time frame. Isn't that Law of Diminishing Returns? You only immunize a small % of population during each cycle.
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