Some British bakers are bringing back a WW2 bread during the pandemic. It is more nutritious than white bread and can be made when there is a scarcity of ingredients.
The fast track rolling out of antibody tests and also the clamor to create vaccines should be a red flag to people. You will be their guinea pigs, since these lab tests are untested on humans. If a vaccine comes out earlier the usual time it takes for a vaccine, I would scrutinize the testing process and avoid letting anything into your body too soon.
As for the antibody tests, the tests themselves can't harm you. They just draw your blood and check to see if you have antibodies. But I would not rely on these untested, non FDA-approved tests until I've seen the clinical trials and am convinced those trials are thorough and valid.
So you get a result that you have COVID antibodies from an unapproved test that Donald Trump has said not to worry about, then what? You start putting yourself in harm's way?
The companies that develop these tests and the vaccines are profit-driven. All those news stories about fast tracked vaccines--someone posted one of those stories here from Jerusalem Post -- those stories are just hype from profit-making companies hoping to get funding from investors.
These bio companies' press releases are as reliable as Donald Trump's tweets.
This morning MSN released this story about how the Federal government, under "newly relaxed rules" (thanks to Twitler), is allowing companies to go ahead and distribute their untested antibody tests to hospitals who are eager to use them.
So they'll be using tests that only some profit-driven, investor-controlled company itself has tested?
From MSN: Though their accuracy remains in question, these antibody tests have become highly sought in the pathway out of the pandemic. Federal regulators have eased standards in an effort to speed production of the tests.
On Sunday, after my mom made masks, she started to have chest pains. Since then, her situation started to become better. This is likely a mild version of Coronavirus, where household remedies can help.
That's good, but keep an eye - many people even with milder cases relapse and it can then get more dangerous.
If chest pain was her only symptom, I would think something else like anxiety/panic attack is more likely than Covid-19
@frank I checked online that chest pain isn't listed as a common symptom of Coronavirus. She was working all day without stop making masks.
@jeanne-mayell this is so important- the testing (for vaccines etc) takes so long for a reason. There is no fast tracking this work. The trump government and the ensuing media coverage should be ignored completely- experts and professionals know this but too many Americans don’t. When a SAFE vaccine and reliable testing is available only then should we move forward.
@jeanne-mayell, regarding a vaccine, I heard a spokeswoman from Johnson & Johnson state yesterday that they are moving on an accelerated timeline toward Phase 1 human clinical trials by late September 2020, with clinical data on safety and efficacy expected to be available by the end of the year. Apparently they began their coronavirus vaccine research in January 2020. They project a vaccine could be ready for emergency use in early 2021. What on earth do they mean by "emergency" use?
@enkasongwriter, I'd just keep track of your mother to see if her chest pain is ongoing or returns. I have a history of anxiety and panic attacks and that can create chest pressure or pain, among other symptoms. But since I am now a senior, I don't assume it's strictly anxiety and am more mindful when that occurs.
How is your mom feeling today?
i am from phialdelphia and cases are dropping in my state despite some hospitals seeing new covid patients today based on cases over the weekend. my state is on the list of slowly reopening it our government wants it to reopen but it has to be safe to reopen i do feel though that we are going to reach our peak at the end of this week or mid week next week.
Wondering if this resonates with you medical intuitives, since many of you have seen a breakthrough coming soon:
Just saw a discussion online that the presentation of the coronavirus is in reality closer to high-altitude sickness, which is why ventilators are frequently failing to help. (There has been some discussion that ventilators are doing more harm than good, and I've linked to a few here.)
In this case, acetazolamide could be a better option, and, of course, since that treatment option already exists, that could be the breakthrough many of you have seen. Acetazolamide helps reduce fluid buildup (ie, such as in glaucoma) and would work to reduce the fluid in the lungs.
Curious what you brilliant minds think!
@elaineg I had those symptoms for about ten days and no fever and then nothing happened. I drank gallons of home grated ginger and lemon tea, soup broth, and avoided dairy. I also took a course of hydroxychloroquin but without the antibiotic. Frankly, I think i didn't have it at all. Just had stress about it, and some post nasal drip from allergies that causes coughing.
Also there may be some variation in the percentages of people who got the virus by blood type, but the number one principle in health research is that correlation does not mean causation. Just because you have type O, does not mean you can't get the virus or that having type 0 causes you not to get it and having type A means you will be more susceptible.
As outlined in the Chinese study of blood types versus those who got the virus, the normal population in Wuhan has a blood type distribution of:
- Type A - 31%
- Type B - 24%
- Type AB - 9%
- Type O - 34%
Comparatively, Wuhan residents who had contracted COVID-19 had a blood type distribution of:
- Type A - 38%
- Type B - 26%
- Type AB - 10%
- Type O - 25%
This data says you still get it no matter what blood type. It shows variation, but we'd need them to run statistical tests to determine what this data are saying. You can't tell what it's saying until you do that. There are so many questions about this data that they haven't answered.
What's my gut reaction? My gut says that it is foolish to speculate. I don't want to be like the snake oil salesman-in-chief and speculate about these wildly questionable numbers.
@deetoo I didn't see the alert but there is something called "emergency use" of medicines in which the FDA waives their normal procedures for approving vaccines and other treatments when there is a CBRN threat which is a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threat. Keep in mind that those approval procedures are in place to protect people from being harmed by inadequately tested drugs.