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Depression rates have increased as Covid-19 increased https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-pandemic-depression-triple-pre-covid-.htmlSample quote For the study, the researchers used a survey of more than 1,400 people aged 18 and over who completed the COVID-19 and Life Stressors Impact on Mental Health and Well-Being survey, conducted March 31 to April 13. That data was then compared with data on more than 5,000 people who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2017 to 2018. Since the pandemic, 25% of responders reported being mildly depressed, compared with 16% before the pandemic. Fifteen percent were moderately depressed, compared with 6% before the pandemic. There were 8% with moderately severe depression, compared with 2% before COVID-19 and 5% with severe depression, compared with less than 1% before COVID-19. The risk for depression symptoms was highest among people with less than $5,000 in savings, the researchers found. End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Ford and GM came through and completed their ventilator contracts https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-gm-ford-finish-ventilators.htmlSample quote Ford made 50,000 and GM made 30,000 of the machines designed by Ventec Life Systems, the Associated Press reported. GM made the ventilators at a converted auto electronics plant in Kokomo, Indiana, at a cost of $489.4 million. Ford's contract was worth $336 million and it made the ventilators at a factory near Detroit that was converted to make the medical equipment. The Ford plant will return to producing auto parts, while GM will turn control of its Kokomo plant to Ventec, which will continue to make ventilators there and in Bothell, Washington, the AP reported. End quote
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"The risk for depression symptoms was highest among people with less than $5,000 in savings, the researchers found." So money can;t buy happiness, but lack of gets depression for free?
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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"The risk for depression symptoms was highest among people with less than $5,000 in savings, the researchers found." So money can;t buy happiness, but lack of gets depression for free? Capitalism has SO many benefits!
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Chicken or egg comes first? Lack of money causes depression? Depression interferes with making or being to save several thousand dollars? To me personally, the “big deal” right now is the use of Ketamine as a “first 3 weeks” Depression drug treatment. There is also a raging controversy about some States such as Colorado allowing EMT’s to give big doses of Ketamine (500 to 750 mg) to “agitated” suspected law breakers. There is also the subject as to whether bringing a human head close to a very powerful pulsing magnet ( Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) has benefits to treating Depression that drugs cannot duplicate. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-treatment-relieved-depression-small.html
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U Chicago before/after study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-vitamin-d-deficiency-covid-.htmlSample quote The research team looked at 489 UChicago Medicine patients whose vitamin D level was measured within a year before being tested for COVID-19. Patients who had vitamin D deficiency (< 20ng/ml) that was not treated were almost twice as likely to test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus compared to patients who had sufficient levels of the vitamin. ...snip... Half of Americans are deficient in Vitamin D, with much higher rates seen in African Americans, Hispanics and individuals living in areas like Chicago where it is difficult to get enough sun exposure in winter. End quote
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Long article on damage Covid-19 can do to the heart https://www.scientificamerican.com/...art-even-if-you-havent-had-any-symptoms/Sample quote Samuel called it “extremely dangerous” for athletes diagnosed with myocarditis to play competitive sports for at least three to six months, because of the risk of serious arrhythmia or sudden death, and several athletes already have made the decision to heed those dire warnings. End quote
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Staying 6 foot distance, or 25% room capacity limit, are just “old guesses” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-covid-safety-feet-social-distance.htmlSample quote For example, singing, coughing, and sneezing generate warm, moist, high-momentum gas clouds filled with droplets that move faster than typical ventilation flows, the researchers wrote. Studies suggest these droplets can travel up to eight meters (about 26 feet) "within a few seconds." ...snip... "Further work is needed to develop specific solutions" for various indoor environments, the researchers concluded. "Physical distancing should be seen as only one part of a wider public health approach." End quote
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Why have many 95+ year olds survived Covid-19 infection, or not gotten infected even though being close to infected people for multiple days? https://elemental.medium.com/the-my...olds-are-surviving-covid-19-35ded8ebea42Sample quote One of the established facts about Covid-19 is that it hits older people hardest — which is why stories of centenarians beating Covid-19 piqued the curiosity of geneticist Mayana Zatz. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of dying due to Covid-19 is 630 times higher in people over the age of 85 as compared to young adults ages 18 to 29. So how come some of the oldest of the old are surviving Covid-19 unharmed? End quote
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Sweden claims it has found a super small antibody, or “nanobody” from an Alpaca that can prevent the Covid-19 virus from infecting a human cell. https://phys.org/news/2020-09-nanobody-covid-infection.htmlSample quote Nanobodies offer several advantages over conventional antibodies as candidates for specific therapies. They span less than one-tenth the size of conventional antibodies and are typically easier to produce cost-effectively at scale. Critically, they can be adapted for humans with current protocols and have a proven record of inhibiting viral respiratory infections. "Our results show that Ty1 can bind potently to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and neutralize the virus, with no detectable off-target activity," says Ben Murrell, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology and co-senior author of the publication. End quote
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COVID-19 patients suffer long-term lung and heart damage but it can improve with time https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-covid-patients-long-term-lung-heart.htmlSample quote The average age of the 86 patients included in this presentation was 61 and 65% of them were male. Nearly half of them were current or former smokers and 65% of hospitalised COVID-19 patients were overweight or obese. Eighteen (21%) had been in an intensive care unit (ICU), 16 (19%) had had invasive mechanical ventilation, and the average length of stay in hospital was 13 days. A total of 56 patients (65%) showed persistent symptoms at the time of their six-week visit; breathlessness (dyspnoea) was the most common symptom (40 patients, 47%), followed by coughing (13 patients, 15%). By the 12-week visit, breathlessness had improved and was present in 31 patients (39%); however, 13 patients (15%) were still coughing End quote
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Speculative theory that wearing a mask allows through such a small amount of virus in that it acts somewhat like a vaccine.... https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-mask-kind-vaccine-covid-.htmlSample quote More recently, studies conducted in hamsters seem to show that "higher doses of administered virus led to more severe manifestations of COVID-19," Gandhi and Rutherford wrote. And when the hamsters were protected with simulated masking, they "were less likely to get infected, and if they did get infected, they either were asymptomatic or had milder symptoms than unmasked hamsters," the experts noted. For ethical reasons, similar trials in humans haven't been conducted. But population studies seem to support the "mask as vaccine" theory. For example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that by mid-July about 40% of coronavirus infections were asymptomatic, but in areas of the United States where mask wearing was very prevalent, that number rose to 80%. In early outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 infections on cruise ships, before the widespread use of face masks, the rate of cases with no symptoms was about 20%, Gandhi and Rutherford noted. But in an outbreak on one Argentinian cruise ship where face masks were mandated for passengers and crew, the rate of asymptomatic cases rose sharply, to 81%. Finally, in two recent outbreaks in U.S. food-processing plants where workers were told to wear masks, 95% of cases of coronavirus infections were asymptomatic, and the remaining 5% experienced only mild-to-moderate symptoms, the two experts said. End quote
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British claim they have a simple method of dividing Covid-19 patients into 4 risk groups: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-discovery-covid-groups-treatment.htmlSample quote Some of the data used to identify which group a person falls into—and, therefore, their risk of dying—included age, sex, the number of pre-existing conditions, respiratory rate on admission, and the results of two blood tests. One in every hundred patients in the low-risk group was found to be at risk of dying. It was 10 in a hundred patients in the intermediate-risk group, 31 in a hundred in the high-risk group and 62 in a hundred in the very high-risk group. End quote
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Speculative theory that wearing a mask allows through such a small amount of virus in that it acts somewhat like a vaccine.... https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-mask-kind-vaccine-covid-.htmlSample quote More recently, studies conducted in hamsters seem to show that "higher doses of administered virus led to more severe manifestations of COVID-19," Gandhi and Rutherford wrote. And when the hamsters were protected with simulated masking, they "were less likely to get infected, and if they did get infected, they either were asymptomatic or had milder symptoms than unmasked hamsters," the experts noted. For ethical reasons, similar trials in humans haven't been conducted. But population studies seem to support the "mask as vaccine" theory. For example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that by mid-July about 40% of coronavirus infections were asymptomatic, but in areas of the United States where mask wearing was very prevalent, that number rose to 80%. In early outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 infections on cruise ships, before the widespread use of face masks, the rate of cases with no symptoms was about 20%, Gandhi and Rutherford noted. But in an outbreak on one Argentinian cruise ship where face masks were mandated for passengers and crew, the rate of asymptomatic cases rose sharply, to 81%. Finally, in two recent outbreaks in U.S. food-processing plants where workers were told to wear masks, 95% of cases of coronavirus infections were asymptomatic, and the remaining 5% experienced only mild-to-moderate symptoms, the two experts said. End quote Interesting!
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Strep. Bacteria in nose helps Flu spread, if you are a feret. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-block-flu-transmission-nasal-bacteria.htmlSample quote Researchers showed that direct interaction between Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) bacteria and influenza A promoted airborne transmission of the virus in ferrets. The scientists reported that influenza A survived longer in the environment and remained infectious when bound to the bacteria. An antibiotic ointment applied to the nasal passages of flu-infected ferrets selectively reduced levels of S. pneumoniae and other common nasal bacterium in the ferrets and blocked airborne transmission of flu to uninfected animals. Flu transmission was restored when pneumococcus was reintroduced into the ferrets' noses. End quote
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