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2020-05-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

A couple of interesting videos about covid treatments

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Posted by gorb 2020-05-10 05:32|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Gah! Mods! Help! They're doing it again!

Posted by gorb 2020-05-10 05:40|| 2020-05-10 05:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Fixed. Good morning, all!

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 09:16|| 2020-05-10 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Text at the link for the first video:

Hydroxychloroquine versus remdesivir: here’s what you need to know about these two COVID-19 drugs.

DATA:
https://bit.ly/RemdesivirAndCovid19

A New Study Unveiled By Prominent French Virologist Claims HCQ-AZ Combination Removed Novel Coronavirus In 92 Percent Cases
Link

COVID-19 and Clotting: https://youtu.be/z8_mq563Dz0

Timestamps
0:10 A big mistake by the World Health Organization
1:13 Remdesivir versus hydroxychloroquine
2:00 A new study
2:40 An amazing story on hydroxychloroquine

In this video, I want to compare hydroxychloroquine versus remdesivir.

A big mistake was made by the World Health Organization when they sent this study to various publications. There was a rush to publish the study right away because of the success of remdesivir, and the wrong study was accidentally sent.

In the study that was sent, there was not an association with statistically significant clinical benefits with remdesivir.

The study that they wanted to publish only showed a moderate improvement in recovery time. Remdesivir is also an expensive drug.

The media has sparked excitement over remdesivir, but is ignoring hydroxychloroquine.

A new study that was done using hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic showed that 91.7% of the patients that were tested for COVID-19, in 10 days did not test positive for COVID-19. The mortality rate was 0.5%, with no cardiac toxicity. Hydroxychloroquine is a very inexpensive drug.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 55, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg’s Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 09:23|| 2020-05-10 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry about briefly breaking the Burg — that entirely too long link is now attached to Link.

Text at the link for the second video:

The Cheapest COVID-19 Therapy in the World

Timestamps
0:00 The cheapest potential COVID-19 therapy in the world
0:43 Looking at a unique community
1:14 What puts people at risk for COVID-19?
1:38 Darker skin and vitamin D
2:06 Looking back at the Somalian group
2:33 Distance from the sun and COVID-19
3:08 Looking at all of the factors

Today we’re going to talk about the cheapest potential COVID-19 therapy in the world. What we’re talking about is the sun, and what it can do to give you vitamin D. Of course, this is actually free, all you have to do is go out and get 20 minutes of sun.

Somalian immigrants make up a very small community in Stockholm, Sweden. They make up less than 1% of the entire population of Stockholm. Yet, in Stockholm, 40% of all of the COVID-19 deaths were from this small group.

What puts people at risk for COVID-19?:
• Pre-existing health problems (obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, COPD, asthma)

This group didn’t have many of these problems, and they weren’t all over the age of 60. But, what they do have is darker skin. The melanin that changes the color of the skin—protects against UV. But, it also prevents the absorption of vitamin D. In Chicago, 72% of deaths due to the coronavirus were African American.

The Somalian group also has a dress code that requires them to be almost fully covered, which can prevent vitamin D absorption.

It has also been found that the great majority of COVID-19 deaths were in the Northern hemisphere. This could be related to the distance between where you are and the sun, and how much vitamin D you’re going to get.

Looking at more factors:

Seasonality—
Certain viruses are seasonal. This could have something to do with less vitamin D, temperature, and humidity.

Vitamin D is a very powerful immune modulator—
It directly regulates a lot of different parts of the immune system.

An Indonesian study—
In this study, the mortality rate was much higher in the group that was deficient in vitamin D than the group that had normal levels of vitamin D.

Vitamin D is very anti-inflammatory—
It could help reduce the cytokine storm, which can be deadly.

Vitamin D is anti-thrombotic—
It helps prevent blood clots.

Pre-existing conditions—
People with the pre-existing conditions that could cause complications with COVID-19 typically also seem to have a vitamin D deficiency.

Age—
The older you are, the less vitamin D you have.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 09:30|| 2020-05-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 It may be correlation and not causation, but I take D3 supplements everyday, and I'd say in the last 18 months I've had nothing more than a cold.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 09:54|| 2020-05-10 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Every year about this time I have a bout of acute bronchitis. Coincides with plane flights to and from the annual NRA convention. This year no problems. Being as I'm not going to the NRA convention again until they clean house, I'm good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 10:13|| 2020-05-10 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Gun cleaning helps. Light coats of boiled linseed oil on stock surfaces. The smell of Hoppes bore cleaner, leather slings, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 10:26|| 2020-05-10 10:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Just being nowhere near Dana Loesh is probably the best curative.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 10:31|| 2020-05-10 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 NeverTrump piece of filth who made fun of some woman's cancer. Phoney. Piece. Of. ...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 10:38|| 2020-05-10 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 A family member was on a trans-Atlantic flight in October 2019, of course, very near a coughing passenger (I'll never complain about a crying kid again). Said family member (fit as a flea before the flight) felt ill within days, and it was a nagging illness that took a solid week to go away. So, yeah, moral of the story: flying can be a pain.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 10:59|| 2020-05-10 10:59|| Front Page Top

#11 NeverTrump piece of filth

To whom do you refer, M.Murcek? Mrs. Loesch transferred her allegiance from Senator Cruz to President Trump long since.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 12:05|| 2020-05-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Berg is not my first, second or third choice for medical information.

Posted by Threreque Chaimble3474 2020-05-10 12:40|| 2020-05-10 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you, TW. :-)

Posted by gorb 2020-05-10 12:43|| 2020-05-10 12:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Unaware Dana ever apologized for this...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 13:29|| 2020-05-10 13:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Ref #12: Berg is not my first, second or third choice for medical information.

Perhaps not, but it's kept me alive for many years.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 13:41|| 2020-05-10 13:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Silence from Dana Loesch fab clun since comment #14

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 14:01|| 2020-05-10 14:01|| Front Page Top

#17 fab club

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 14:02|| 2020-05-10 14:02|| Front Page Top

#18 F a n c l u b

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 14:03|| 2020-05-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#19 Meh. Not a fan, not a hater

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-10 14:25|| 2020-05-10 14:25|| Front Page Top

#20 certainly not fap club

Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 14:28|| 2020-05-10 14:28|| Front Page Top

#21 She's somebody's idea of a MILF. Definitely not mine.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 15:18|| 2020-05-10 15:18|| Front Page Top

#22 Unaware Dana ever apologized for this...

I have no idea, nor any idea what triggered her explosion in that direction. But everyone was overwrought in 2016, and a great many people said things that should not have been uttered, including here at Rantburg. I’m inclined to be forgiving, in the hope of receiving forgiveness in return.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 17:00|| 2020-05-10 17:00|| Front Page Top

#23 She apparently not only didn't apologize, she doubled down. Evan McMullin with a nail job.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 17:53|| 2020-05-10 17:53|| Front Page Top

#24 So, she nauseates me and her defenders nauseate me too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 17:55|| 2020-05-10 17:55|| Front Page Top

#25 OK. Not something I’ll ever be up to speed on, I’m afraid, a disadvantage of not being involved with the NRA.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 20:44|| 2020-05-10 20:44|| Front Page Top

#26 NRA has a looooong way to go fixing itself up but fortunately they stopped paying Loesch a while ago.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-10 20:50|| 2020-05-10 20:50|| Front Page Top

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