Posts

Showing posts with the label CDC

Why I Don't Believe SARS-Cov-2 Came from Nature

  The circumstantial: In 2015, some at the University of South Carolina corroborated with Wuhan Institute of Virology to get a wild coronavirus and make it infectious to humans (These early studies were in-vitro) Three pandemics in relatively rapid succession: Sars, Mers, Covid-19. China locked down Wuhan and did not allow intra-China travel but permitted travel to Eu and the U.S. China has not allowed the CDC to investigate the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although Anthony Fauci said that China was being cooperative, the first CoV-2 sequences released by China were incorrect. We've got our hands in this epidemic. Li-Meng Yan says the Chinese military released CoV-2 and there is certainly ample circumstantial evidence, it seems weird, though, that China would release it on its own people. Would they not have had the foresight to release it into one of the alleged concentration camps in China, North Korea, or elsewhere or use it to decimate unwanted groups? Coronaviruses are fo...

How Airlines can get back into Business at Little Cost

Half the solution is already inplace. Remember those masks that drop when the airplane is in trouble? Drop them from the start and pump in air (from outside the plane preferred). If the cost is too much, add it to the fare and passengers can just "bring their own" next time they fly. A filtered exhalation port would need to be added to the mask. Meals can be distributed with social distancing in mind; perhaps seats can be color-coded so that, for instance, no reds are together. The "reds" would get their meals first while those in other colors would have to wait for them to finish. Drinks would be had at any time through a one-way straw that can be inserted through the mask and into your mouth as needed. Speaking of masks, I'd like to see Governor Cuomo give each of this contact tracers a mask that they are to wear throughout their waking hours while not at home. At the end of a week, the mask will be replaced and sent to a lab to determine the amount of virions...

Covid: Where on Earth is it Safe?

Image
Let's take a look at the density of coronaviruses and how they act when released into the atmosphere (exclusive of droplets for I'm not a physicist and I don't know how to calculate that variable). The density of coronaviruses is about 1.225 kg/m³. So, we need to get to an area where the density is lower than that because then the virus will sink--hopefully, like a lead balloon. First, you need to calculate the air pressure at a certain altitude.  (go  here ) Once you have a number for air pressure at your chosen altitude, you then go  here  to calculate the density of air and you want to see a number that is less than 1.225 kg/m³ which is the density of coronaviruses. I found these numbers. A pressure of 13.88 psi would be found at 1500 feet above sea level at a temperature of 32°F. The air temperature was left cold at 32°. Relative humidity was set at 50%. That gave us an air density of 1.21905 kg/m³; and that ensures that the coronavirus will sink rather tha...

Covid-18 Deaths in the Elderly may be due to Insufficient Fever

"The immune system doesn’t function as efficiently in older adults as it does in younger people. The body's fever response to infection is not always automatic in elderly people. More than 20 percent of adults over age 65 who have serious bacterial infections do not have fevers." From  Fevers in Adults  article. While the classically trained MD just shoves breathing tubes down patient's throats, they may do better by raising body temperature in cases where the fever response to Covid-19 is not as high as it should be. There are many drugs that increase temperature; interestingly enough, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are listed as two of them.  See the list here Possible support for this theory may come from an analysis of elderly deaths in the tropics. Here, being that the ambient temperature is already high, the elderly may have less work to do to get their temperatures into fever range. I started researching this angle when--in daily temperature readings...

HydroxyChloroquine is Unlikely to Work by Classic Immunosuppression in Covid-19 cases

Consider this, Dr. Gupta: if all you do is stop the immune response, the virus would continue to replicate and maybe with a vengeance. It is more likely that hydroxychloroquine--if indeed it is working--hinders replication. It would do this by preventing the vacuole carrying the virus from bursting inside the cell giving the cell time to introduce proteolytic enzymes that degrade viral proteins. Once the virus bursts from the vacuole, it is probably too late for the cell to defend itself. This may be the same mechanism that make it useful in autoimmune diseases. If you don't have antigen presentation to immune cells, you don't trigger the hyperimmune response seen in these diseases. Would you call this immunosuppression? No, the immune cells are still functioning normally. What I can't explain is the drug's success in malaria but then I haven't had time to look into it. Although it just occurred to me that--assuming the malaria parasite reproduces inside a blood c...

FDA Policies are More to Blame for Covid-19 Deaths than Nature Herself, IMHO

This article on the efficacy of oxidative therapy  should be read by all in the medical profession because they are the cowards so afraid of government, that they LET PATIENTS DIE before trying an FDA unapproved therapy.  I'm talking about using unorthodox therapies that do not make it into mainstream medical practice because no pharmaceutical company would touch a therapy that was unpatentable--as almost all alternative therapies are. In dire situations like the present, we need to hogtie the hands of the FDA completely so that men and women in the medical profession who are capable of thinking outside the box, can do so. Hydrogen peroxide is used to disinfect medical equipment like PPE. Why not use it to treat Covid-19 patients? The inhalation of H2O2 has been shown to be relatively safe for inhalation at a concentration of 2.2 PPM.  This NIH article talks about safety of inhaled H2O2. . Now, I can't calculate 2.2 PPM in air and I can't test for it but if diagnosed ...

Quick Sanitizer (Handrub) Recommended by W.H.O.

https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf These instructions are difficult to follow unless you have access to 100% isopropyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol. What you usually get at the pharmacy is 70% but not to worry, the recipe actually lowers the alcohol content to 75% and the CDC says that anything over 60% is adequate.* So, if we start with 100 ml of 70% isopropyl alcohol, you can add 1.5 ml glycerin and 0.2 ml of hydrogen peroxide and still be within guidelines for effective sanitizer (about 69%). I added the fluid to a small spray bottle and I mist my hands with it when needed. If you went with something like Everclear (100% ethyl alcohol) you'd have to add distilled water to lower the concentration down to 75% (75 ml Everclear plus 25 ml distilled water). Then you would add the glycerin and hydrogen peroxide as above. *[note: my store bought, FDA-approved Purel knockoff from China is 62% ethyl alcohol]

If you take an Ace Inhibitor, You are at Increased Risk of Getting a Covid-19 Infection.

Just watched a great video by Dr. Ogan Gurel on how Covid-19 attaches and wreaks havoc on our respiratory system. If you are on Ace inhibitors for Blood Pressure and are considered susceptible to a coronavirus infection, you and your doctor should weigh the risks of continued therapy with an Ace inhibitor. https://youtu.be/PfG-q5opkYs In the event you don't want to watch the video, here's the summary: many tissues of the body have a cell receptor known as Ace-2; although it is found in numerous tissues, it is their presence along the respiratory tract that concerns us here. The receptor targeted by the high blood pressure meds is an Ace-1 but taking an Ace-1 inhibitor has the unfortunate effect of increasing Ace-2 levels. Increased Ace-2 levels would not be a problem if it were not for the fact that Covid-19 attaches to the Ace-2 and drags it along as it uses it to gain access to a cell's interior where the DNA is; and that would not be too much of a problem if ...