BOGUS Coronavirus treatments making the rounds. Please check Snopes or just google the advice before passing it along. https://www.snopes.com/collections/coronavirus-origins-treatments/
I got this email this morning from a usually trustworthy friend, but in these times, people are passing along advice a little too quickly.
"From Stanford with love"
Subject: Fw: From a Stanford doc, on their board: The new Coronavirus may not show sign of infection for many days. How can one know if he/she is infected? By the time they have fever and/or cough and go to the hospital, the lung is usually 50% Fibrosis and it's too late. Taiwan experts provide a simple self-check that we can do every morning. Take a deep breath and hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. If you complete it successfully without coughing, without discomfort, stiffness or tightness, etc., it proves there is no Fibrosis in the lungs, basically indicates no infection. In critical time, please self-check every morning in an environment with clean air. Serious excellent advice by Japanese doctors treating COVID-19 cases: Everyone should ensure your mouth & throat are moist, never dry. Take a few sips of water every 15 minutes at least. Why? Even if the virus gets into your mouth, drinking water or other liquids will wash them down through your throat and into the stomach. Once there, your stomach acid will kill all the virus. If you don't drink enough water more regularly, the virus can enter your windpipe and into the lungs. That's very dangerous. Please send and share this with family and friends.
There’s a Facebook Coronavirus Post Going Viral Claiming to be From Stanford. Don’t Believe It.
SNOPES ON CORONAVIRUS Circulating Coronavirus Treatments. Check SNOPES to keep up to date:
1. Will warm weather kill the Coronavirus? Answer: Unproven
2. Will sipping water every 15 min kill the virus? Answer: No
3. Will holding your breath for 15 minutes tell you if you have fibrosis in your lungs? No.
4. Can homemade Tito's vodka hand sanitizer help stem the virus? No
5. Will garlic water cure the virus? No
6. Did Corona bill sales drop due to the virus? No
7. Did a Chinese intelligence officer reveal the truth about the coronavirus outbreak? No
8. Was coronavirus found in packages of toilet paper? No
9. Does washing your hands work? YES!
Regarding all the Chinese and herbal remedies. Check them out online before taking. I've always relied on ginger and lemon water. Some are advocating elderberry.
Please use the the advice of the WHO and CDC for preventing exposure:
Mostly, do continue the evidence-based advice:
1. Social distancing
2. Frequent hand washing especially when returning from being in public places
3. Don't touch your face
4. Disinfect door handles, buttons and surfaces you touch frequently
5. Avoid eating with your hands--use utensils. Your hands are the most likely places to have picked up the virus.
Trump got tested.
The UK and Ireland are now part of the travel ban.
@lawrence, I am responding to your post under the "Unraveling ..." thread.
So interesting that you sensed an HIV drug possibly helping with the coronavirus. Rachel Maddow featured Dr. David Ho on her program last night. Dr. Ho is the scientist who designed the studies and did the initial research on HIV. He saw how rapidly the HIV virus replicated itself inside within the body, which would often lead to AIDS and the opportunistic illnesses that can kill many HIV positive people. He found that you needed strong antiviral drugs to stop the virus from replicating, in order to give the immune system some relief. It was Ho’s research that led to revolutions in developing successful drugs for HIV treatment. Back in 1996, Time Magazine named Ho “Man of the Year.”
Ho showed graphs of China, Europe (specifically Italy and Spain), and New York, to illustrate that the shape of the curve, or wave of the epidemic, is the same. Which means that in this country, we will be following the same exponential growth in cases.
Back to the HIV connection: Dr. Ho heads up his own research lab, and is currently looking for a cure for COVID-2019. Ho said we need some sort of intervention, either through vaccine, drugs, or antibodies. His current research is focused on targeting two enzymes that the body uses to replicate itself. If you block either of those two enzymes, you stop the replication cycle, which will kill the virus.
The good news is, focusing on these two enzymes is already well investigated and documented, in the context of developing drugs to treat HIV and Hepatitis C. He said that through the HIV research, there is already a wealth of knowledge about chemicals designed to target these two enzymes.
Dr. Ho did say that this will be a prolonged process. He said that even if they find a “hit” in a couple of months, the optimization process would take several more months, and then you’d have to do the manufacturing, safety testing, etc. So this year, Ho said we’ll have to fight the virus without any defensive drugs or vaccines.
The Italians play music and sing with one another from their balconies. Take a moment and sing with them and fill them with light.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/13/21179293/coronavirus-italy-covid19-music-balconies-sing
Speaking as a small business owner, we are sending that email because people want to know and have a right to know what procedures we normally have and what new measures have been put in place to protect them. We at the same time share information about natural healing methods, much as we do here in the forum, and we relay information about developments with the coronavirus itself, because, as you know, there is a lot of bad information out there. We don't do this because we are desperate for shoppers, but because we care about people.
Thank you Raindrop. Thank you for reminding me that small and probably many business owners want to reach out and share what their procedures have and will be with their customers. I am sure customers are asking as well. Thank you for gently bringing that to my attention and letting me look inward and re-evaluate that judgmental thought.
What type of business do you own if you don't mind sharing, I am now intrigued? (if you told us already, I am sorry I forgot).
Thanks, Lovendures.
I am a massage therapist and my husband is a chiropractor. Small practice, just the two of us and our receptionist.
Did you guys read the story on MSN this morning about that a-hole who is now stuck with close to 18,000 bottles of hand sanitizer he can't sell because he has been banned from websites due to his price gouging?
The one thing there never seems to be a shortage of is jerks looking to profit off of other people's fear and misfortune.
I'm looking through the predictions because I think someone made a prediction about how bartering would become something people do again.