Never Give Up—Fight Illness With Strength And Science
A study published in the British Medical Journal shows increased covid-19 infection 90 days after the second injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. Elapsed time since BNT162b2 vaccine and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: test negative design study Results: 83 057 adults received an RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 during the study period and 9.6% had a…
Nigella Sativa (NS), also known as Black Seed or Black Cumin, has been established to have antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties. The active ingredient in Nigella Sativa is thymoquinone (TQ). [1] Studies have shown that NS is effective for early treatment of COVID-19, decreases hospitalization, and lowers mortality. The website c19ns.com makes a meta-analysis…
The FrontLine Critical Care Alliance has protocols for the Prevention and Early Treatment of COVID-19. Povidone-iodine or PI is included in both protocols as a mouthwash and nasal drops. Prevention Protocol Early Treatment Protocol. The complete protocol as PDF is on this link. They can be printed for future reference. Does Povidone Iodine work? The…
Pfizer should be 95% effective, Moderna 94%, AstraZeneca 90%, Johnson & Johnson 66%, and CoronaVac 50%. If they are that effective, why are vaccinated people still getting COVID-19 even with 2 doses? First, let us look at countries where the majority are vaccinated. Notice that the COVID-19 cases were high during the Winter 2020-2021,…
Patients with severe COVID-19 are noted to have a higher tendency to form blood clots inside the blood vessels. These blood clots can block the flow of blood and lead to organ dysfunction. The blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. A study from Ireland available as a preprint from Medrxiv described the…
Antibodies are usually associated with a healthy immune system fighting an infection. That’s mostly true, but there is a saying from Paracelsus, The Dose Makes the Poison. Anything in excess can be poisonous. Too much food, water, coffee, sugar, or mostly too much of anything are unhealthy. It is the same with antibodies against COVID-19….
A previous article, Antibodies to COVID-19 can Exist in the Uninfected, talked about research from the Francis Crick Institute about how the antibodies formed against seasonal coronavirus infections can protect against the new coronavirus infection COVID-19. Aside from antibody production, the body’s adaptive immune system has other components in its armory. One of which is the…
According to the CDC, among U.S. adults, 29% have hypertension, 42.4% are obese, and 10.5% have diabetes. Prediabetes, the condition where the blood sugar is above normal but not high enough to be type 2 diabetes, is present in 88 million Americans or 1 in 3. Hypertension, obesity, and diabetes increase the risk of death…
People who have asymptomatic COVID-19 are more likely to contaminate surfaces and spread COVID-19. That was one of the findings of a preprint study released in BioRxiv. The study examined asymptomatic, mild, and moderate cases of COVID-19 and different places, 641 environmental surfaces, and air samples. The presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was tested with…
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A reader, CSG, asked me a question. She knew someone who became ill and tested positive for COVID-19. That person has since recovered and asymptomatic. The problem is the repeat nasal swab after 2 months is still positive. Because of the positive repeat test, it is believed that the person is still infectious and so…
A preliminary study from Gautret from France showed that the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin lead to a significant reduction of SARS-CoV-2 viral load in a small number of COVID-19 patients. A study from Tongji Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, and Shanghai Institute of Advanced Histochemical Studies in China published a new study showing that hydroxychloroquine…
The pancreas is an organ inside the abdomen that is located right behind the stomach. It is essential for life as it produces digestive enzymes and hormones. Without the pancreas, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates will be hard to digest. Insulin and glucagon come from the pancreas. In the absence of these hormones, blood sugar control…
A ribonucleoside called NHC is a promising drug against COVID-19. It was studied by a collaboration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emory University, Vanderbilt University, Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE), and the CDC. The study was published recently in Science Translational Medicine. In the study, NHC is in the form…
The duration of Covid-19 hospitalization is longer than average. This article is from a study of 420 Covid-19 patients hospitalized at Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital in Shenzhen China, from January 11 to March 10, 2020. The 3 classes of Covid-19 based on symptoms Among the 420 patients, 23 or 5.5% were clinically mild. 394 or …
Camostat is a potential drug for Covid-19 by blocking the entry of the SARS-CoV-2 through the ACE2 and TMPRSS2.
From January to February 2020, 10 people from 3 families were infected by Covid-19 after eating in an air-conditioned restaurant. Here is how it happened. The restaurant is 145 m². The tables were about 1 meter apart. There is an air-conditioned, as shown in the figure below, next to table C. An exhaust fan is…
A study published at Oxford Academic gives a reason why millions have Covid-19 in more than 180 countries. In this study, the scientist compared the growth of the SARS virus and SARS-CoV-2 and the damage they cause in human lung tissues. They also measured the immune response of the lungs to both diseases. The SARS…
There is a widespread belief that warmer weather in the summertime will lower the number of Covid-19 cases. The reason is that the warm sun and humidity will kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The SARS-CoV-2 causes Covid-19 disease. This is what the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report tried to answer. The paper is…
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…
