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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. duggers_dad

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    Pretty much, although I might asterisk #2 …

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  2. Gatorrick22

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    Lol... Bye bye Liberal... :D;)
     
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  3. Gatorrick22

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    I knew it was all about weakened Thymus gland... Lol.
     
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    @Gatorrick22 I don't expect you to acknowledge this, but your chances of actually learning something here has just been diminished by one poster.
     
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  5. duggers_dad

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    Another one down the hole.
     
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  6. Gatorrick22

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  8. duggers_dad

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    Monthly reminder that if vaccines have killed one person they’ve outkilled the fictitious agent they were designed to thwart.
     
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  9. AzCatFan

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    Know how many AZ vaccines were administered in the US? Zero. It was never approved. The shot in the US that caused clots in women of birthing age was the Johnson and Johnson. Also extremely rare. As for Pfizer and Moderna, hundreds of millions of vaccines administered and zero evidence of clots to date.
     
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  10. VAg8r1

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    It was common knowledge back in 2021 that the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine could cause fatal blood clots in women of child-bearing age and although that side effect was extremely rare the recommendation was that those women take of the mRNA vaccines. It should also be noted that the incidence of fatal blood clots among that demographic was higher for hormonal birth control than from the Covid vax.
     
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  11. duggers_dad

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    Common refrain on TV medications commercials …

    “Tell your doctor if you’ve had vaccines.”
     
  12. Gatorrick22

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  13. duggers_dad

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    One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. ~Carl Sagan
     
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  14. G8trGr8t

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  15. duggers_dad

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    Crickets …

     
  16. HeyItsMe

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    What? You don’t trust the sources from a site called “The Gateway Pundit?” Next you’ll tell me not to trust everything I read on Breitbart.
     
  17. duggers_dad

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    “Trust the people who brought us Wounded Knee and Tuskegee!”
     
  18. G8trGr8t

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    Metformin decreases viral load. Interesting but more interesting to me is that the computer model predicted these results fairly accurately. Imagine getting a computer model accurate enough to forego the lengthy trials required to get drugs approved.

    Study finds metformin reduces COVID-19 viral load, viral rebound (msn.com)

    Ateam of University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, can decrease the amount of COVID-19 virus in the body and lower the chances of the virus coming back strongly after initial treatment. The study was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.A higher viral load—the amount of virus in a person's body—usually indicates a greater concentration of the virus, which can be important in understanding the severity of infection and monitoring the effectiveness of treatments.

    "The results of the study are important because COVID-19 continues to cause illness, both during acute infection and for months after infection," said Carolyn Bramante, MD, principal investigator and an assistant professor at the U of M Medical School. She is also an internist and pediatrician with M Health Fairview.In this phase 3 randomized clinical trial, the researchers tested metformin against a placebo in 1,323 adults infected with COVID-19. The group treated with metformin had a viral load that was about four times lower than the placebo at day 10. The metformin group also had less viral rebound than the placebo group.

    The research team concludes that metformin treatment for adults recently infected with COVID-19 is an effective way to reduce the amount of the virus in the nose and to keep the amount of the virus from becoming elevated again. "Among the volunteers in this randomized trial, there was a more than 41% reduction of long COVID among those receiving metformin and a 58% reduction in hospitalization by 28 days. This new study explains why this occurred. Metformin reduced the amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus present, which likely accounts for why this $1 medication reduced hospitalizations and long COVID," said David Boulware, MD, MPH, an infectious disease physician and professor at the U of M Medical School and M Health Fairview.

    A computer simulator developed by U of M Medical School and College of Science and Engineering faculty accurately predicted metformin's effectiveness against COVID-19—helping steer the direction of the clinical trial. Similarly, the simulation also predicted the failure of medications such as hydroxychloroquine. "These results are consistent with the model predictions for viral replication that we developed to identify antiviral drugs at the beginning of the pandemic," said David Odde, Ph.D., co-author and biomedical engineering professor in the College of Science and Engineering. "This is another great example of how engineering tools can be used to predict clinical outcomes, steer research efforts and ultimately add to the body of knowledge around disease treatments."
     
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  19. VAg8r1

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    You are aware that it's not that unusual for those drug commercials to recite a whole laundry list of potential adverse drug interactions with vaccines very often being one of many drugs that could negatively interact with the product being advertised.
     
  20. duggers_dad

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    Indeed, it’s almost as if pharmaceuticals (including the injected kind) can be deadly.
     
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