The immune system needs adequate amounts of zinc to handle COVID-19. This article is a repost from April 2020. The World Health Organization issued a report that says zinc deficiency is present in one-third of the world’s population[7] Worldwide, about two billion people are estimated to be affected by zinc deficiency. In developing countries, zinc…
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Vitamin C for COVID-19
This article is a repost from March 31, 2020. Now that we know that neutralizing antibodies against COVID-19 are only effective for a few months, it is essential to strengthening the immune system. High doses of Vitamin C are being used in the current COVID-19 pandemic in China and New York. This article looks into several…
Protective Antibodies Against Coronaviruses are Short-Lived
A common belief is that once you get exposed to the COVID-19 virus, then a long-lasting immunity will develop, and there will be protection against COVID-19. That may not be the case. Two preprint studies, from Wuhan, China, and Amsterdam answers those questions. In both studies, the IgG or immunoglobulin G was tested. IgG confers…
How Can Foods Cause Migraine and Hypertension?
On April 21, I had the worst headache of my life. It felt like bad sinusitis. However, there was visual aura in the upper and bottom part of my field of vision. I felt that I was looking thru a glass prism. It lasted the whole night and was relieved the next day after taking…
What does Covid-19 have in common with Ebola and HIV?
Patients with Ebola and HIV get lymphopenia or low lymphocytes. The viruses in both conditions enter the cells and destroy the lymphocytes. The result is a weakened immune system. Lymphopenia is also a common finding in the blood test of Covid-19 patients. Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell that the body uses to fight viral infections. …
The Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Covid-19 are Equally Infectious
There are two studies in this article: the Ningbo Study and its reanalysis. The Ningbo Municipal Center made the Ningbo Study for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose was to know how infectious is the new coronavirus infection. That new coronavirus infection is later known as the COVID-19 disease. The Ningbo study concluded that people…
COVID–19 Headlines April 7, 2020
Covid-19 has infected at least 1.35 million people worldwide. If you are a subscriber to this website and are not getting any email notifications about the latest postings, please subscribe again. The recent restoration of the website may have deleted the list of subscribers. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you want to get the…
How Long Can the Covid-19 Virus Survive on Common Surfaces?
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is responsible for causing Covid-19 that has infected more than 1.3 million and killed almost 74 thousand people all over the world. For easier reading, I will use SARS-2 in place of SARS-CoV-2 in some parts of the article. Lancet recently published a study about long can SARS-CoV-2 viruses survive in…
Who Gets Cardiac Injury in Covid-19?
Many are familiar that Covid-19 leads to severe pneumonia. A new study that came out today from the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that heart damage also occurs in patients with Covid-19. Cardiac injury in Covid-19 presents with more severe illness. Their blood work shows signs of more significant systemic inflammation, and chest x-rays and CT…
Can’t Smell and Taste Suddenly? It Can be Covid-19!
There is a surprising similarity between NBA player Rudy Gobert and Member of the UK Parliament and Health Minister, Nadine Dorries. Both lost their senses of smell and taste at the beginning of their Covid-19 illness. The complete loss of smell is called anosmia. If the damage is partial, it is called hyposmia. Lastly, the…
Covid–19 Headlines Mar 23, 2020
The pandemic gets worse each day. Protect yourself and your loved ones. This page will update all day. Check frequently to be current. Check out on the ads to help support the website. Headlines have embedded links. News sources retain all copyright. Click on the titles to go to the full report. Click on…
Covid–19 Headlines Mar 22, 2020
The pandemic gets worse each day. Protect yourself and your loved ones. This page will update all day. Check frequently to be current. Check out on the ads to help support the website. Headlines have embedded links. News sources retain all copyright. Click on the titles to go to the full report. Click on…
U.S. Data: All ADULTS can have Serious Covid-19
Before this report, we knew that the elderly and people with chronic medical problems have the highest risk of severe illness and death from Covid-19. That information came from the Chinese experience. That knowledge is critical in preparing the world on what to expect once the epidemic reaches them. Not all countries are the…
Covid–19 Headlines Mar 21, 2020
Tip: The epidemic is forecasted to last months. Is it a good time to start vegetable gardening? This page will update all day. Check frequently to be current. Check out on the ads to help support the website. Headlines have embedded links. News sources retain all copyright. Click on the titles to go to the…
Should you take Ibuprofen for Covid-19?
When I was in the Philippines in February, I had an upper respiratory infection. I don’t usually get sick, but I guess my body is not immune to the viruses there. At that time, there were only 3 cases of Covid-19, and they were far from me. Two are imported from China, and one…
Covid–19 Headlines Mar 19, 2020
TIP for the day: When going out to buy anything, keep the receipt. It has a date and time on it. That way if your local health department announces a positive case in that area at the time you are there, you will know if you are exposed and need to be tested. This…
How to Beat a Pandemic Just like in the Movies
In the movie I am Legend, Will Smith’s character uses his blood to create a cure for a viral disease that killed 90% of the people and turned the rest into cannibalistic mutants. That’s not only in the movies. During a viral illness like Covid-19, the immune-competent can develop their own antibodies to kill the…
How to Fight an Invisible Enemy
The virus causing the Covid-19 disease is so tiny that you can’t see it. More than that, you can’t smell, feel, and hear it. But that tiny thing has infected more than 160 thousand and killed almost 6,000 worldwide. The Covid-19 virus was able to do that damage because it is very contagious. The virus…
Covid–19 Headlines Mar 15, 2020
Covid-19 is the disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. This page will update all day. Check frequently to be current. Check out on the ads to help support the website. Headlines have embedded links. News sources retain all copyright. Click on the titles to go to the full report. Click on the titles in blue…
Using the 80/20 Principle for Covid-19
The 80/20 Rule is also the Law of Inequality or the Pareto principle. The idea is, not everyone contributes equally, and not all efforts produce comparable results. 20% of the energy will produce 80% of the results. 20% will provide 80% of the effect. A minority of the workers will contribute 80% of the results….