A fingertip Blood Oxygen % meter can predict up to 12 hours in advance who’s Covid disease is about to go severe.

While sitting down resting if the Oxygen meter reads 94% or more
Then while walking at a normal pace the Oxygen meter drops to 90% or less,
The Covid-19 severity is very likely to become high and need ICU support and supplemental Oxygen within 12 hours.

https://www.trtworld.com/life/covid...s-when-walking-show-virus-severity-42585

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It can be helpful to assess blood oxygen levels in patients when they are walking if that level is normal when they are sitting, a new study suggests.
A low level of oxygen in the blood, or hypoxia, contributes to shortness of breath and worsening illness in patients with Covid-19.

At 10 Chicago-area hospitals, doctors studied 531 Covid-19 patients whose blood oxygen levels were normal at rest. Roughly one in four developed hypoxia when they got up and walked.

These individuals were nearly five times more likely to eventually need basic oxygen support and nearly eight times more likely to need advanced oxygen therapy, compared to patients whose blood oxygen levels held steady while walking.

The drop in blood oxygen levels while walking could be detected an average of 12 hours before patients required extra oxygen, researchers found.

So-called ambulatory hypoxia
"may serve as an early, non-invasive physiologic marker for the likelihood of developing moderate to severe disease and help clinicians triage patients and initiate earlier interventions,"
the researchers proposed in a paper posted on Thursday on medRxiv ahead of peer review

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Israel researchers say old drug
Fenofibrate (Tricor)
greatly helps lungs of severe Covid patients heal

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-clinical-fenofibrate-ability-lung-covid-.html

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The results were abundantly clear. Patients who were taking the drugs to speed up the breakdown of fats were recovering from the Corona-caused lung infections in a matter of days. The evidence even showed that there was zero mortality among these patients.

"We showed that the human lungs responded to the SARS-CoV-2 virus by completely changing their metabolism, causing a major buildup of fats in lung cells. Our findings show that this unhealthy fat buildup is a critical factor in COVID-19 patient's deterioration. Patients taking fibrates that work directly to breakdown fats recovered fast from the disease, while those taking medications that build fats like thiazolidinediones, showed greater lung damage and mortality," Professor Nahmias explains.

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Mild opioid drug
Tramadol may make Covid-19 more severe.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...s-associated-with-COVID-19-severity.aspx

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In particular, the use of an opioid medication called Tramadol strongly correlated with COVID-19 hospitalization.

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Let the ball drop already.

If reading any of this makes you afraid,
even just enough to keep you from getting full sleep,
then refrain from reading it.

The news is not all bad,
many helpful medicines have been found,
and soon 100 million will be vaccinated,
which along with those millions who have already recovered from mostly symptomless infection,
will get the USA to “herd immunity.”

I hope no one on Moparts will be the last
to die
or become disabled by a Covid caused stroke
in the final 60 days of the pandemic.

Tis the season to get a life, fa la la la la, le la la la. "the final 60 days of the pandemic" ? Get a life....

What have you read about getting Covid more than once? Some have said herd immunity is not possible because people are getting it multiple times. I haven't really kept up with all the information, but I'm sure you've read more about it than anyone I know.

The most knowledgeable person about coronaviruses in the USA,
Dr Ralph Baric of UNC-CH
just said in an another radio interview ( in previous posts above he has done 2 fifty minute long interviews)
that the USA will suffer 250,000 to 400,000 more deaths
the Covid-19 pandemic will taper off in the Fall of 2021
but 20,000 to 60,000 US citizens will continue to die as Covid joins with 20,000 to 60,000 Influenza deaths
during a now different “Winter virus season.”

Way more pessimistic than my statement above.

https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/show-1241-coronavirus-update-for-the-close-of-2020

People have gotten Covid-19 more than once.
I have only read of one person who died on the second infection.

Has anyone seen or heard of a good treatment for the post Covid cough? I am back on my feet again and working after having Covid, but I will get a coughing spell that just comes out of nowhere. A few other people I know that have Covid have had the same thing. I have woken up a few times in the night just coughing my brains out for an hour, then it goes away. coughing so much gives me a headache for a bit, and when out it public, it makes everyone around you run for cover.

I do not know if it will work for a special post-Covid cough
but when I read years ago that a substance in 70% Dark Chocolate
reduced cough better than Codeine
I was highly skeptical
but it worked when I tried it myself.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/chocol...odeine-treating-persistant-coughs-243847

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Previous research at the National Heart and Lung Institute in the UK showed that the cocoa ingredient called theobromine was even more effective than the widely used drug codeine in blocking the action of the sensory nerves that triggers the cough reflex.
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A persistent cough (chronic cough) is a cough that lasts eight weeks or longer. Some of the symptoms of coughing include loss of sleep, sore chest muscles and leaking urine. In severe cases, a chronic cough can lead to vomiting, rib fractures and lightheadedness.
...snip...
In the study, participants were given a single dose of 1,000mg of theobromine. However, an unsweetened dark chocolate bar contains about 450mg per ounce, sweet dark chocolate contains around 150mg and milk chocolate contains about 60mg.
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I put pieces of 70% Dark Chocolate under my tongue and let it dissolve.

Ricola cough drops from Switzerland seem to be the commercial drop that works best for me.

https://www.amazon.com/Ricola-Origi...ough+drops&qid=1609006216&sr=8-5

Another “odd” way of reducing coughing is
... no kidding...
to rub Vicks Vapo Rub
on the Bottom of Your Feet.

I also did not think that would work but it did.
Weird.

My brother had a bad cough that nothing seem to work on until he tried Nexium heartburn drug.
His cough turned out to be a hidden symptom of acid reflux.

Dr. Li Wenliang died trying to treat the sick and warn the public.
CCP immediately tried to hide the truth.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/25/chinas-virus-deceptions-have-been-even-worse-than-we-thought/

very rough estimates of what US States might be approaching “Herd Immunity”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...n_their_way_to_herd_immunity_144936.html

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My rough estimate showed that five states are likely to have more than 60% of their populations previously infected (North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska) with three others (Utah, Rhode Island, and Wyoming) approaching 60%. In each of these states, the recent trajectory for new cases is declining.
States where the seven-day rolling averages are trending upward tend to have a lower rate of previous infections: South Carolina (39%), Texas (36%), Massachusetts (34%), California (32%), West Virginia (29%), the District of Columbia (28%), and New York (17%).

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People with Diabetes and Alzheimers are dying due to Lockdowns even though they never actually caught Covid-19

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-coronavirus-pandemic-people-diabetes-alzheimer.html

slightly off topic

“Motor Skills Training” found to ease lower back pain more than typical back exercises

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-regimen-ease-pain-1.html

Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-92HQA0GcI8

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

California’s surge in Covid-19 cases is so large it skews the results in the other 49 states

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...clining-nationally-if-not-for-o-n2582126

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As other regions of the country finally see some relief from the insidious coronavirus,
California’s surge has grown so large it now claims a dark distinction in the nation’s outbreak:
Without the Golden State, U.S. numbers would be dropping.
That’s according to The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, which analyzes data from across the country.

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Moderna suggests giving younger US citizens half doses of its vaccine could be a better strategy to get to Herd Immunity faster

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-usa-moderna-idUKKBN2980O0

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“ We know that for the Moderna vaccine, giving half of the dose to people between the ages of 18 and 55, two doses, half the dose, which means exactly achieving the objective of immunizing double the number of people with the doses we have,” Slaoui said.

“We know it induces identical immune response” to the full dose, he added.

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makes sense to me

Americans over 65 living alone have been hard hit by isolation during lockdowns

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ssion-america-failed-its-elderly/617496/

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95% of USA Covid fatalities have been in those over age 50

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Many doses of the monoclonal antibodies drug that the President got sit unused

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01...-19-treatment-drug-is-slow-reach-others/

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President Trump asserted the medication had cured him of COVID-19. Rudy Giuliani and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie raved about receiving it during their bouts of coronavirus.

Yet only a fraction of the available doses of monoclonal antibodies have made it into the arms of less-famous patients, despite preliminary data suggesting the experimental drug might keep people out of the hospital.

Nationwide, patients have received 20 percent of the 378,000 doses that the federal government has distributed to states.

In Massachusetts, health officials said they have sent 5,650 doses to 14 hospitals — and as of Thursday, nine had reported treating a mere 133 patients.

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The only person I know who got Regeneron double monoclonal antibodies drug is the Chief of Infectious Disease at a major state hospital.
It worked well for him and he then asked his insurance company how much they had been billed for his doses and was told $37,000.