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symptoms of Corona
I found this interesting on CNN tonight. They interviewed a couple people who had direct experience with the Corona virus.
This one younger lady, probably in her early 30's...she was diagnosed with it and she said that she had lost her sense of smell and taste. The host commented that she had heard that before as well.
Then they interviewed a few nurses from the elderly home out in Washington State...I think, or maybe Oregon. But anyway, they said that the patients with it, their eyes turned red. One lady (nurse) said, it was like they put red eye liner on.
Anyway...just a few things I have not heard before other than just tonight.
Stay safe all.
This one younger lady, probably in her early 30's...she was diagnosed with it and she said that she had lost her sense of smell and taste. The host commented that she had heard that before as well.
Then they interviewed a few nurses from the elderly home out in Washington State...I think, or maybe Oregon. But anyway, they said that the patients with it, their eyes turned red. One lady (nurse) said, it was like they put red eye liner on.
Anyway...just a few things I have not heard before other than just tonight.
Stay safe all.
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The flu, world war one peace, and world war two war....
... US president Wilson, professor and idea man behind his 14 points for peace Great War armistice, embryo seed for the UN, was reportedly a victim of the 1918 (Spanish) influenza---epidemic in Gay Paris at the time. We think of the flu, as with this current novid 19, as having many physical signs and symptoms. But in some cases, it affects the ability to think, even if no frank severe encephalitis is fully present. President Wilson's usually forceful personality, influential in a somewhat generous treaty proposal with Germany, apparently was in no shape for later argument with French politician Clemenceau (known as the tiger), who wanted a pound of flesh from the German broken, starving and demoralized state. Witnesses say that Wilson was shaky, confused and anything but a match for the French. Sort of like Creepy Joe will be in debates with President Trump. But I digress. When the final plan was signed in Vesailles, some 20 miles away, the already badly beaten Germans were skewered with impossible war debt, humiliating other terms, and almost total demilitarisation. Most historians see a direct connection with the rise of Hitler and Nazism over the following 20 years. Wish I could make this stuff up.
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Washing your hands... That's NOT the correct way to do it!
So far, I've seen more than a dozen videos explaining the best way to avoid (any) virus is to frequently wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. Yet, every example has the person opening the faucet, washing then touching the faucet again to shut off the water!
Washing... The most important part of the equation was negated when you touch the faucet you contaminated 20 seconds earlier!
If you don't believe me, try this experiment. Drip something like mustard or ketchup on your fingers and smear it around. Go to the sink and wash. Shut off the water and dry your hands with a towel... inspect the towel. Did some of the mustard from your 'clean hands' make it to the towel?
Paper towels are great as you toss them when you are done. But in a family environment, you've probably got kids and parents sharing the same cloth towel. Pass the virus please...
Somewhere along the way washing the faucet handle/lever should be considered before turning off the water.
Washing your hands... That's the way to do it, if you do it correctly!
Washing... The most important part of the equation was negated when you touch the faucet you contaminated 20 seconds earlier!
If you don't believe me, try this experiment. Drip something like mustard or ketchup on your fingers and smear it around. Go to the sink and wash. Shut off the water and dry your hands with a towel... inspect the towel. Did some of the mustard from your 'clean hands' make it to the towel?
Paper towels are great as you toss them when you are done. But in a family environment, you've probably got kids and parents sharing the same cloth towel. Pass the virus please...
Somewhere along the way washing the faucet handle/lever should be considered before turning off the water.
Washing your hands... That's the way to do it, if you do it correctly!
SAFETY AGAINST CORONA VIRUS
NO ALCOHOL BEVERAGES
NO TOBACCO
NO DRUGS
DRINK MILK
HONEY
GARLIC
GINGER
APPLY VICKS OIL OR EUCALYPTUS OIL OR EVERGREEN OIL ON FEET , HEAD CHEST , BACK AND HANDS.
NO TOBACCO
NO DRUGS
DRINK MILK
HONEY
GARLIC
GINGER
APPLY VICKS OIL OR EUCALYPTUS OIL OR EVERGREEN OIL ON FEET , HEAD CHEST , BACK AND HANDS.
Hope for treatment of people infected with coronavirus
In Wuhan doctors were desperate for a way to treat patients and thus tried a variety of drugs for effectiveness.
One drug used to successfully treat malaria helped. With corona virus infections it helped reduce hospital stays and hasten recovery. It had a similar effect with SARS. While perhaps not advisable for the general public, due to side effects, it might offer promise as a treatment, especially in severe cases.
Last night from ABC news;
One drug used to successfully treat malaria helped. With corona virus infections it helped reduce hospital stays and hasten recovery. It had a similar effect with SARS. While perhaps not advisable for the general public, due to side effects, it might offer promise as a treatment, especially in severe cases.
Last night from ABC news;
In response to:
Chloroquine, an old malaria drug, may help treat novel coronavirus, doctors say
Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been used to treat malaria since 1944.
By
Dr. Angela N. Baldwin
March 18, 2020, 10:22 PM
What do malaria and COVID-19 have in common? On the surface, not much. But according to early research, an old malaria drug called chloroquine might also work for the new coronavirus.
Could a decades-old malaria drug work to treat COVID-19? Elon Musk seems to think so, recently tweeting that it "might be worth considering chloroquine" for COVID-19. Although data are spare, studies so far seem to back up the billionaire entrepreneur’s suggestion.
Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been used to treat malaria since 1944. It can be given before exposure to malaria to prevent infection, and it can also be given as treatment afterward.
Malaria is a disease that is caused by a parasite, unlike COVID-19. Nevertheless, laboratory studies show chloroquine is effective at preventing as well as treating the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, a close cousin of COVID-19.
Given chloroquine’s effectiveness in treating SARS, scientists have investigated if it will be an effective treatment against the new coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. So far, the initial trials are encouraging.
"There is evidence that chloroquine is effective when they looked at SARS in vitro with primate cells," said Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonologist and internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "The theory of the experiment with primate cells was that chloroquine could be for preventing viral infection or as a treatment for viral infection after it had occurred. In vitro in these primate cells, there was evidence that viral particles were significantly reduced when chloroquine was used."
Both the virus that causes SARS and the virus responsible for COVID-19 belong to the same overarching family of coronaviruses. Researchers in China discovered that the protein spikes on the surface of the COVID-19 virus are similar to the protein spikes found on the surface of the SARS virus.
People become infected when those protein spikes bind to special receptors on the outside of human cells. Chloroquine works by interfering with those receptors, which may interfere with the virus’s ability to bind to cells.
"The way that it worked against SARS was by preventing of the attachment of the virus to the cells. Chloroquine interfered with the attachment to that receptor on the cell membrane surface," Horovitz said. "So it’s disrupting a lock and key kind of mechanism of attachment."
Researchers in China found that treating patients with COVID-19-associated pneumonia with chloroquine may shorten their hospital stay and improve the patient’s outcome.
There are more than 20 ongoing clinical trials in China and more scheduled to start in England, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.
Chloroquine, an old malaria drug, may help treat novel coronavirus, doctors say
Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been used to treat malaria since 1944.
By
Dr. Angela N. Baldwin
March 18, 2020, 10:22 PM
What do malaria and COVID-19 have in common? On the surface, not much. But according to early research, an old malaria drug called chloroquine might also work for the new coronavirus.
Could a decades-old malaria drug work to treat COVID-19? Elon Musk seems to think so, recently tweeting that it "might be worth considering chloroquine" for COVID-19. Although data are spare, studies so far seem to back up the billionaire entrepreneur’s suggestion.
Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been used to treat malaria since 1944. It can be given before exposure to malaria to prevent infection, and it can also be given as treatment afterward.
Malaria is a disease that is caused by a parasite, unlike COVID-19. Nevertheless, laboratory studies show chloroquine is effective at preventing as well as treating the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, a close cousin of COVID-19.
Given chloroquine’s effectiveness in treating SARS, scientists have investigated if it will be an effective treatment against the new coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. So far, the initial trials are encouraging.
"There is evidence that chloroquine is effective when they looked at SARS in vitro with primate cells," said Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonologist and internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "The theory of the experiment with primate cells was that chloroquine could be for preventing viral infection or as a treatment for viral infection after it had occurred. In vitro in these primate cells, there was evidence that viral particles were significantly reduced when chloroquine was used."
Both the virus that causes SARS and the virus responsible for COVID-19 belong to the same overarching family of coronaviruses. Researchers in China discovered that the protein spikes on the surface of the COVID-19 virus are similar to the protein spikes found on the surface of the SARS virus.
People become infected when those protein spikes bind to special receptors on the outside of human cells. Chloroquine works by interfering with those receptors, which may interfere with the virus’s ability to bind to cells.
"The way that it worked against SARS was by preventing of the attachment of the virus to the cells. Chloroquine interfered with the attachment to that receptor on the cell membrane surface," Horovitz said. "So it’s disrupting a lock and key kind of mechanism of attachment."
Researchers in China found that treating patients with COVID-19-associated pneumonia with chloroquine may shorten their hospital stay and improve the patient’s outcome.
There are more than 20 ongoing clinical trials in China and more scheduled to start in England, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.
Very good news regarding the Coronavirus
A lot of progress has taken place in understanding the coranavirus.
The genes have been sequenced and proteins have been made.
Indeed, one of those proteins is a "spike" protein that the virus uses to attach
to a host cell. It's sort of like an anchor that initiates further progress in the
infection process.
After the virus attached to the cell, the membranes of the cell and the virus then fuse,
enabling the RNA of the virus to enter the cell and direct new virus production.
Well, genes for this spike protein itself have been isolated and incorporated into cells.
These cells were then used to make lots of this spike protein.
Subsequently, this protein has been 3D mapped and now it has been sent to many
research teams to both produce drugs for treatment and to use as antigens to make vaccines.
Thus within a month or two, vaccines will possibly become made and tested for effectiveness.
The bottom line, is that progress is rapidly being undertaken.
There may actually be something good to come out of this. The common cold is caused by a virus
in the coronavirus family. Imagine if one of the vaccines against the new virus also works to
prevent the common cold. It is possible. It would be a nice positive side effect.
I can hear the potential commercials now.
Here's a recent article from LiveScience;
The genes have been sequenced and proteins have been made.
Indeed, one of those proteins is a "spike" protein that the virus uses to attach
to a host cell. It's sort of like an anchor that initiates further progress in the
infection process.
After the virus attached to the cell, the membranes of the cell and the virus then fuse,
enabling the RNA of the virus to enter the cell and direct new virus production.
Well, genes for this spike protein itself have been isolated and incorporated into cells.
These cells were then used to make lots of this spike protein.
Subsequently, this protein has been 3D mapped and now it has been sent to many
research teams to both produce drugs for treatment and to use as antigens to make vaccines.
Thus within a month or two, vaccines will possibly become made and tested for effectiveness.
The bottom line, is that progress is rapidly being undertaken.
There may actually be something good to come out of this. The common cold is caused by a virus
in the coronavirus family. Imagine if one of the vaccines against the new virus also works to
prevent the common cold. It is possible. It would be a nice positive side effect.
I can hear the potential commercials now.
Here's a recent article from LiveScience;
In response to:
Coronavirus 'spike' protein just mapped, leading way to vaccine
By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff Writer 2 days ago
Researchers worldwide are racing to develop potential vaccines and drugs to fight the new coronavirus, called SARS-Cov-2. Now, a group of researchers has figured out the molecular structure of a key protein that the coronavirus uses to invade human cells, potentially opening the door to the development of a vaccine, according to new findings.
Previous research revealed that coronaviruses invade cells through so-called "spike" proteins, but those proteins take on different shapes in different coronaviruses. Figuring out the shape of the spike protein in SARS-Cov-2 is the key to figuring out how to target the virus, said Jason McLellan, senior author of the study and an associate professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
All about COVID-19.
Though the coronavirus uses many different proteins to replicate and invade cells, the spike protein is the major surface protein that it uses to bind to a receptor — another protein that acts like a doorway into a human cell. After the spike protein binds to the human cell receptor, the viral membrane fuses with the human cell membrane, allowing the genome of the virus to enter human cells and begin infection. So "if you can prevent attachment and fusion, you will prevent entry," McLellan told Live Science. But to target this protein, you need to know what it looks like.
Earlier this month, researchers published the genome of SARS-Cov-2. Using that genome, McLellan and his team, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), identified the specific genes that code for the spike protein. They then sent that gene information to a company that created the genes and sent them back. The group then injected those genes into mammalian cells in a lab dish and those cells produced the spike proteins.
Next, using a very detailed microscopy technique called cryogenic electron microscopy, the group created a 3D "map," or "blueprint," of the spike proteins. The blueprint revealed the structure of the molecule, mapping the location of each of its atoms in space.
"It's impressive that these researchers were able to get the structure so quickly," said Aubree Gordon, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan who was not a part of the study. "It's a very important step forward and may help in the development of a vaccine against SARS-COV-2."...
Coronavirus 'spike' protein just mapped, leading way to vaccine
By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff Writer 2 days ago
Researchers worldwide are racing to develop potential vaccines and drugs to fight the new coronavirus, called SARS-Cov-2. Now, a group of researchers has figured out the molecular structure of a key protein that the coronavirus uses to invade human cells, potentially opening the door to the development of a vaccine, according to new findings.
Previous research revealed that coronaviruses invade cells through so-called "spike" proteins, but those proteins take on different shapes in different coronaviruses. Figuring out the shape of the spike protein in SARS-Cov-2 is the key to figuring out how to target the virus, said Jason McLellan, senior author of the study and an associate professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
All about COVID-19.
Though the coronavirus uses many different proteins to replicate and invade cells, the spike protein is the major surface protein that it uses to bind to a receptor — another protein that acts like a doorway into a human cell. After the spike protein binds to the human cell receptor, the viral membrane fuses with the human cell membrane, allowing the genome of the virus to enter human cells and begin infection. So "if you can prevent attachment and fusion, you will prevent entry," McLellan told Live Science. But to target this protein, you need to know what it looks like.
Earlier this month, researchers published the genome of SARS-Cov-2. Using that genome, McLellan and his team, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), identified the specific genes that code for the spike protein. They then sent that gene information to a company that created the genes and sent them back. The group then injected those genes into mammalian cells in a lab dish and those cells produced the spike proteins.
Next, using a very detailed microscopy technique called cryogenic electron microscopy, the group created a 3D "map," or "blueprint," of the spike proteins. The blueprint revealed the structure of the molecule, mapping the location of each of its atoms in space.
"It's impressive that these researchers were able to get the structure so quickly," said Aubree Gordon, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan who was not a part of the study. "It's a very important step forward and may help in the development of a vaccine against SARS-COV-2."...
A few facts of the conora virus
Conoraviruses are a large group of viruses that cause diseases in animals and humans amoug some camels,cows ,seafood, cats dogs bats and more and sometimes it evolves to infect humans
In animals conora can cause diarrhea in cows and pigs and upper respiratory disease in chickens.
2019 -nov emerged from a seafood/chicken market in China's Wuhan city.
The virus conora has been around for many decades I'll add.
In animals conora can cause diarrhea in cows and pigs and upper respiratory disease in chickens.
2019 -nov emerged from a seafood/chicken market in China's Wuhan city.
The virus conora has been around for many decades I'll add.
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Well, all, it's now really fully in gear....
.....the public health approach to "flatten the curve" on the Novid 19 CHINESE, VERY Chinese, virus. Good thinking, as the same number of cases, but spread out over time, will help the health care systems not be overwhelmed, even in the back waters of the world.. Might, theoretically, also boost herd immunity, and cut the death rates. While we await specific treatments, and vaccines. Low level preventive approaches, and high tech science. What could possibly go wrong?
Pesky little virus !
I had an excellent workout at my gym this afternoon.
However, I learned that tonight they will be shutting down the gym
for at least 2 weeks. Dammit !
The last 2 months I have put on a lot of muscle working out at that gym.
I get home and read some emails and for at least 2 weeks, they have delayed
the start of my softball season (multiple leagues). Dammit !
Pesky little virus !! 178 cases of coronavirus now in New Jersey.
However, at least I haven't gotten it yet and I'm still very healthy.
People in their 80's have to be fairly nervous by now.
I hope they come up with an effective vaccination sometime relatively soon.
However, I learned that tonight they will be shutting down the gym
for at least 2 weeks. Dammit !
The last 2 months I have put on a lot of muscle working out at that gym.
I get home and read some emails and for at least 2 weeks, they have delayed
the start of my softball season (multiple leagues). Dammit !
Pesky little virus !! 178 cases of coronavirus now in New Jersey.
However, at least I haven't gotten it yet and I'm still very healthy.
People in their 80's have to be fairly nervous by now.
I hope they come up with an effective vaccination sometime relatively soon.
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Check...
10 mega rolls of toilet tissue... Check!
11 rolls of paper towels... Check!
4 cans of Lysol spray disinfectant... Check!
3 large bottles of 91% rubbing alcohol... Check!
2 large bottles of hydrogen peroxide... Check!
1 case of drinking water... Check!
1 pint of cherry ice cream... Check!
1 box of disposable face masks... Check!
2 boxes of latex gloves... Check!
2 gallons of bleach... Check!
1 gallon of laundry detergent... Check!
3 packs of facial tissues... Check!
1 bottle of Iodine scrub... Check!
I'm not finished shopping.
11 rolls of paper towels... Check!
4 cans of Lysol spray disinfectant... Check!
3 large bottles of 91% rubbing alcohol... Check!
2 large bottles of hydrogen peroxide... Check!
1 case of drinking water... Check!
1 pint of cherry ice cream... Check!
1 box of disposable face masks... Check!
2 boxes of latex gloves... Check!
2 gallons of bleach... Check!
1 gallon of laundry detergent... Check!
3 packs of facial tissues... Check!
1 bottle of Iodine scrub... Check!
I'm not finished shopping.
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