People who need to take medication for high blood pressure appear to have improved survival rates for those suffering from COVID-19 and a less severe infection, according to new research from a team of scientists at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. and published Monday in the Journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports, a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal. ‘At the start of the pandemic, there was concern that specific medications for high blood pressure could be linked with worse outcomes for COVID-19 patients.’
The researchers studied the data from 28,000 patients taking anti-hypertensives — a class of drugs that are used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) — and said the risk of death and a severe response to coronavirus infection was reduced for patients with high blood pressure who were taking Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) or Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARB).
‘The chance of death/critical disease in patients taking ACEi/ARB was 33% lower than in those not taking them. Therefore the ACEi/ARB were beneficial.’ — Lead researcher Dr. Vassilios Vassiliou, senior clinical lecturer in cardiovascular medicine at the University of East Anglia.
“At the start of the pandemic, there was concern that specific medications for high blood pressure could be linked with worse outcomes for COVID-19 patients,” said lead researcher Dr. Vassilios Vassiliou, senior clinical lecturer in cardiovascular medicine at the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School, adding that people with cardiovascular issues were at more risk. “The chance of death/critical disease in patients taking ACEi/ARB was 33% lower than in those not taking them. Therefore the ACEi/ARB were beneficial.”
One important note of caution: Vassiliou cautioned that his team is NOT recommending that people start taking these medications. The limitations of the study focused solely on those who take these medications to deal with their blood pressure. “We are not able to address whether starting such tablets acutely in patients with COVID-19 might improve their prognosis, as the mechanism of action might be different,” he said.
The takeaway: It may indicate that people who already suffer from hypertension and take medication may be less at risk than those who have not taken measures to deal with their blood-pressure issues. People with high blood pressure have readings of more than 140 over 90 consistently. When treated for high blood pressure, most people aim for 130 over 80.
Blood Pressure Meds Could Improve Survival in COVID-19 Patients Nearly half of U.S. adults are at risk for major health problems due to high blood pressure, according to American Heart Association News guidelines. People with top readings of 130 or more or and bottom readings of 80 or more are considered to have high blood pressure. That accounts for approximately 46% of the population.
Video: Medical experts concerned as Flagstaff scientist work on COVID-19 vaccine (KTVK) “The latest evidence shows that people with uncontrolled or untreated high blood pressure may be at risk of getting severely ill with COVID-19,” the Mayo Clinic said. “It’s also important to note that people with untreated high blood pressure seem to be more at risk of complications from COVID-19 than those whose high blood pressure is managed with medication.”
“We wanted to find out what the impact of these medications is for people with COVID-19,” Vassiliou said. “We therefore studied the outcomes for patients taking anti-hypertensives — looking particularly at what we call ‘critical’ outcomes such as being admitted to intensive care or being put on a ventilator, and death.”
“A third of COVID-19 patients with high blood pressure and a quarter of patients overall were taking an ACEi/ARBs,” he said. “This is likely due to the increasing risk of infection in patients with comorbidities such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes. We showed that there is no evidence that these medications might increase the severity of COVID-19 or risk of death.”
Early reports from COVID-19 hot spots, including Wuhan, Lombardy, and New York City, identified higher rates of hypertension among severely ill, hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a separate review of studies by the American College of Cardiology. “A large U.S. study of 5,700 hospitalized patients revealed an overall hypertension rate of 56%,similar to hypertension rates reported from China and Italy (50% and 49%, respectively).”
But correlation does not equal causation. “Despite these observations, the link between hypertension and COVID-19 is unclear. Severity of COVID-19 illness is skewed towards the elderly population who have a higher prevalence of hypertension. The median age of hospitalized patients in Lombardy and New York City was 63 years old, and the percentage with a hypertension diagnosis is consistent with the percentage observed in the general population,” it said.
“While there is an over-representation of hypertension among hospitalized and critically-ill COVID-19 patients, it is uncertain whether this relationship is causal or confounded by age and other comorbidities associated with hypertension including obesity, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease,” the review added.
Coronavirus update: As of today, COVID-19 has now infected almost 25 million people worldwide, which mostly does not account for asymptomatic cases, and killed at least 842,522. The U.S. still has the world’s highest number of COVID-19 cases (6,005,588), followed by Brazil (3,846,153), India (3,572,160) and Russia (990,326), according to data aggregated by https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/coronavirus
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He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. King James Bible. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9
God’s strength is made perfect in weakness: We can ask: How weak was Jesus? He was so weak in the days of His flesh that He offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death. (Hebrews 5:7) Prayers and supplications are signs of weakness. It is written that He was heard because of His godly fear. He had to die, just for us the unjust; yet He did not die this death: “For if you live according to the flesh you will die …”Romans 8:13. But in order not to die that death, He had to fight with prayers and supplications and vehement cries and tears in the days of His flesh. That is how weak He was in those days. But He was aware of His weakness, and because of that He was also so strong that He never committed sin. God’s strength was made perfect in His weakness. Paul was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. When he prayed to be released from his weakness, he received this answer: “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:7-10.
Everyone who is born of flesh and blood is weak, but not everyone is aware of his weakness, for they are not God-fearing. The weak person who sees the danger flees, but the strong person has exalted thoughts about himself. He does not cry out for help. It was by God’s grace that Jesus could overcome and be a spotless Lamb who could taste death for us all. (Hebrews 2:9-10) It was because of Paul’s weakness that God’s grace could be sufficient and God’s strength was perfected in him. Paul says, “But by the grace of God I am what I am …” 1 Corinthians 15:10.
Cry out to God… Many people believe they are weak when they suffer defeat and sin. Far from it! That is not the reason. The reason is that they are not aware of their weakness, and so they are not God-fearing enough to cry out to God in their need before they fall. They do not present themselves before the throne of grace to seek our great, compassionate High Priest, He who sympathizes with their weakness and can therefore give them grace to help at the right time. (Hebrews 2:17-18) We are exhorted to flee the corruption that is in the world through lust, flee youthful lusts, flee the love of money, etc. Why does a person not flee? It is because he is not aware of his weakness, or because he is not God-fearing enough that it is vital for him to get away from it. Therefore, he does not receive grace to become strong so he can overcome. Also read: How important is it to “flee?” If you are aware of your weakness, you are also humble and receive grace. Then you become strong in God, for His strength is made perfect in weakness. But then you will also flee from these things and from company that draws you into the world and its lust, and you will pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with all those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (2 Timothy 2:22)
Timothy, the man of God, did not consider himself too good to receive such exhortations. He was aware of his weakness and received grace to be a great servant of the Lord.
My Weakness Became My Strength when I began to research the Facts for Myself!!! Why would I want to listen to all the rejects and retards in the Corporate World & Government… From sea to shining sea; we are many, but we are one. We are the Silent Majority. But together, we stand. Concise and to the point. The Great Civil War of 2020 is a choice for freedom or an over oppression of the likes the world has never seen before. Choose a side… America is not just an idea or a constitution.
America is our home, and we must protect and defend our home. For if She falls, there is no alternative. There is no other place to go. Fight with all your might – for our President and for our country! For if we lose and will never be another like what we had.
However there is a remedy to this. If a massive army of patriotic Americans show up to vote November 3, they will have to call the race by midnight.
You can’t call a landslide and then say: BUT WAIT! 12 years of physical and mental decline defined in a side by side analysis. It has been said, “the eyes are the light of the soul”.
Why would people want to take a rushed vaccine for a virus that poses no significant danger to them (as is the case for practically everyone under 50, or under 70 in decent health)? Barely over half the country is now willing to take a Coronavirus vaccine. The attack on science has consequences. CNN POLL: Would Try To Get a Coronavirus Vaccine Now = 56% May = 66% CNN is the Wuhan wet market of media! It Doesn’t Change my mind… Viruses Can’t replicate in high levels of Vitamin D!!!
“This week the CDC quietly updated Covid-19 numbers to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid-19. That’s 9,210 deaths… 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses & the overwhelming majority were very advanced age.” “Communist Governments love pandemics for the same reason they love war. Because it gives them the ability to impose controls on the population that the population would otherwise NEVER accept. To create institutions and mechanisms for orchestrating and imposing obedience (maybe on those rioting.) But they must be careful they’re Allowing God’s Will to prevail. Thus allowing people to be creative (which doesn’t happen in communist countries) and finish Out their Mission of their Own LIFE that’s stamped in their DNA Code.”
𝓘 𝓼𝓾𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓣𝓻𝓾𝓶𝓹 #MAGA# 𝓝𝓸 𝓛𝓲𝓫𝓼=𝓝𝓸 𝓓𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓪 I Am Conservative: A•M•E•R•I•C•A 1ST God is Great A Beer is Healthy InBlueStatesOfEmergency Liberals are Crazy
“In the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.” * Freedom Over Fear * I Stand for Our Flag Always seeking. Always venturing within. Watch and I’ll show you what I was made to see. If They try to break me, It will only make me stronger. Antifa and BLM makes my piss boil. Atheist they are: If the left & The MSM don’t piss you off… you’re not paying attention.
The Storm is Here. THE BATTLE IS REAL AND IT IS HERE: ̿̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿’̿’̿\̵͇̿̿\з=(•̪●)=ε/̵͇̿̿/ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿
I am excited to see the swamp getting drained.. And Professional Athlete’s & Celebrities Will Have to Do Their Thing at a Reduced Salary in the future ~ Thank GOD 🙂
Awaken and Arise to this Threat! For Our Country and POTUS: Pray for Wisdom Unceasingly And Let your light SHINE for Christ!
Since 2006 when my father died of cancer I have become a humble man that loves meeting people from here and there!! I am a pretty basic person. Honest and down to earth. I will fight for what is right. After this storm you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.
Real friends say good things about you behind your back and bad things about you to your face.
I AM a Deep State truth seeker… The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly. The deep state is a conspiracy theory which suggests that collusion and cronyism exist within the US political system and constitute a hidden government within the legitimately elected government. Author Mike Lofgren believes that there is “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process”, or consider the deep state to encompass corruption prevalent among career politicians and civil servants.
The term was originally coined to refer to a relatively invisible state apparatus in Turkey “composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary, and organized crime” and similar alleged networks in other countries including Egypt, Ukraine, Spain, Colombia, Italy, Israel, and many others. https://www.thoughtco.com/deep-state-definition-4142030
Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), called Communist Party USA, is a left-wing political party in the United States that was, from its founding in 1919 until the latter part of the 1950s, one of the country’s most important leftist organizations.
Helping people to overcome the Chinese Virus calamity. Helping people to expose rioters, looters and their mentors. I Speak my mind, never be intimidated! I am energetic, spontaneous and creative and I enjoy every sort of person– for the fun and education they create in my life!
Wide Awake American love their Country. AND Are a Pro Trump Patriot. Socialism KILLS. As long as you claim victimhood, you will never be victorious. Progressives ARE Socialists. A lie will run only until it’s taken over by truth. #VoteRedToSaveAmerica“
Let’s stay humble, love, laugh & live/let live, be strong & be fair grounded, or be forgotten.
Don’t be forgotten. I AM a patriot, I Believe in the Bible and The Golden Rule, I am no longer a member of the silent majority!
Ezekiel 22:30 30″I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. Stand in the gap — God bless the USA! Kindness always comes from the heart. God fearing, Country loving , American Patriot, husband & wives, father & mothers, grandfather and grandmothers!
“There are two ways of getting home. One of them is to stay there.” – The Other One Is Actually Two: BORNtobeFREE OR ROCKthePLANET
You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.” Matthew 7:13
President Trump! I never get tired of winning! Let’s Take Back the House in 2021 And Dump Pelosi in the New year.
𝔾𝕚𝕧𝕖 ℙ𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 In 2021: Let’s Stop the hatred toward a man who is doing his all for the USA. (Emphasis on “MAGA”) “I’m going to put this down as one of our great achievements” President Donald J. Trump Statement on IG report 12/09/2019
If we are meant to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, Saved by his Grace….I AM Proud deplorable and a member of cult for 45. Jesus Is Lord! “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve either one.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Leftism is a malignant tumor in America that we must remove asap. What’s the best way to kill socialists? Is through Socialism…………. ” Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela
I Love Our National Anthem: The Star Spangled Banner makes me swell with pride! I Love the USA! THANK GOD for TRUMP! @NickAdamsinUSA (Trump’s Favorite Author) #20TRUMP20 ☆☆ TheGreatAwakening is Upon US … Don’t Buckle ☆☆
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom was not free, it was paid for with the blood and honor of veterans/patriots with an America first attitude. My father Almost died three times in Germany WWII. In that case I would have never lived in the greatest Country on Earth?
Trump is our President! #MAGA Placed Here By GOD to help save our country from those who want to destroy it!
ALL OF ME ~ John Legend & Lindsey Stirling Living in the US, I feel the best is yet to come. Let’s get to it! Lincoln set us all, on the same path in life. Let’s work together to keep us all there! America First! “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” ~ Marcus Cicero
Only when you “Naturalize” should you have constitutional rights! “You cannot withstand the storm”…The warrior replies, “I AM THE STORM”) Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness!!
We are the best Nation in the World When We ALL WORK TOGETHER AS ONE! I’m living in the greatest country in the history of the world and it’s led by the Best President in my lifetime!
Matthew 5:5 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Acts 2:21 21 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.’
I love GOD & America 《 Be the Light, NOT the dark. I have a sense of humor-so deal with it. And I Love Will Rogers “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. ~Edmund Burke~
My only political stance is constitutional. ~ Milton William Cooper I believe if we forget our history we are bound to repeat the same mistakes!!! In pursuit of rationality. Learn everything you need to know about logical fallacies and arm yourself with better critical thinking skills. In a world full of snowflakes, be a snowplow. I believe Liberalism is a mental disease 🙁 We Should Support Each Other Not Kill Each Other 《 love our Country 🙂
President Trump has been chosen by God to ensure people’s civil liberties! he is protected by Angels sent by the Council of Love & Light ~ God is my pilot.
★ Calm Before the Storm ★ I love My Family, My God, My Country and Life Itself.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. Is the Opponent of the MSM. The bias, demeaning, discrediting, smearing, distortion, hate and negativity. Hate is a powerful motivator and the Democrats have plenty of it – They are the cause of so much of what goes on in the world today. Fortunate to live in the best country in the world.
Legal immigrant: My family name came to the United States in 1805 aboard The Good Ship Charles from Pintheville in the District of Meuse, in North East France through New Orleans to West Central Ohio to farm ~ that makes me a 5th Generation American.
My motto is there isn’t anything that can be done.
★☆☆ United We Stand ~ Divided We Fall ☆☆★
Pray 𝖂𝖂𝕲յ𝖂𝕲𝕬 and believe because New York & California Needs To Be Saved’
Liberals make me wonder if we will go extinct from their stupidity?
I try to live life to the fullest by exploring God’s amazing creation and snapping photos along the way 🙂
A MUST READ: Journey into the Whirlwind (both parts).
A citizen who loves America, and honors the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe and free.
I repeat we should be about God & Family, Our Military, Backing The Blue and Pro-Life (why should I pay for an abortion).
We Shall Prevail God Willing ~ Nothing is true, everything is permitted. #EndChildTrafficking#BLM is B.S.
Helping to keep the evil liberals, deep state and MSM out of power. I’m kind, honest, giving, friendly and loyal.
A prayer out to a veteran who is tired of the decline in our country at the hands of those who want to be FAIR but not really.
~A Smile Is The Best Accessory You Can Wear!~ when you think you can’t get a fair shot in the country.
I love President Trump – a man who honors his promises.
We need to Help Drain the swamp with POTUS!
And “Laissez le bon temps rouler,” (“Let the good times roll.”) GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Reality being, it is not going to happen. Life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Whether it be changes within work, relationships, friendships – absolutely anything – you will never see the changes you want manifest if you are not willing to make one yourself. Progress is impossible without change.
What have you done today to change your life?
Many of us are guilty sometimes of just waiting for life to happen to us. We sit around forever, waiting for some miracle to happen, hoping that somehow life will get better with minimal effort from us. For many people, this way of thinking is leaving them crippled. They want to become fit and healthy, or for their job prospects to improve, but they’re too lazy to make that change.
They are stuck in the mentality that someday, somehow, life is just going to work out – as if by chance.
I’m here to break the bad news: that is not how it works!
Sadly life doesn’t get better just by chance; it takes real, consistent change and commitment to building the life of your dreams. As self-help expert Darren Hardy says, people don’t just become ‘lucky’ – luck has to be earned.
Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck. That means that if you want to improve your circumstances, you’re going to have to put in some hard work first. But fortunately, that doesn’t need to be daunting. First things first, you’ll need to start by looking at your daily habits and taking stock of what’s holding you back. What you do daily – even the seemingly little things – dictates who you’ll become later on in life.
These routines help to determine your future and shape your circumstances, so you need to start by making sure you know exactly what direction your habits are taking you in. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.” This quote is often wrongly attributed to Albert Einstein but, whoever really said this, there’s a lot of truth in it.
Learn How To Control Your Thoughts And Mind – Inspiring Motivational Video If you want something to be different, you’re going to have to do something different. Continuing to do the same thing over and over again is only ever going to produce the same results – and probably make you really frustrated in the process. So let’s get real. If you want to make improvements in your business, you’re going to have to review your business, check out your competition, jiggle things around, ditch the things that aren’t working for you, and find new, creative ways to drive your business forward. If you want to improve your fitness, eating badly and sitting on the couch all day is not the way to go about it!
To reach that healthier level of fitness, you’re going to have to make some changes – cut back on the unhealthy food in favor of a more nutritious diet, and participate in daily fitness activities.
But I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know, am I?
This is nothing new or groundbreaking – in fact, you’ve probably heard it a million times and, deep down, you know exactly what you need to do. Now’s the time for you to wake up, smell the coffee, and stop sleepwalking your way through life. If you’ve made it this far, you’re already on the right track, so next, you just need to take the leap.
Today is the day to start making changes in your life – no more putting it off, no more waiting around for those changes to fall from the sky and land in your lap. Take control: think of one thing that you can start doing today that will help improve your life. It doesn’t need to be anything big – maybe it’s going for a 20 minute run after work, or learning something new about your industry.
Once you’ve made that tiny little change, think about what you could do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. Imagine how drastically your life will change, and how much more exciting your opportunities will become if you did just one thing differently each day. The results you’re looking for may not happen overnight, but you’ll very quickly begin to reap the reward.
Learning To Trust Yourself
Finding the capabilities to truly learn to trust yourself is anyone’s guess. Trusting you are making the right decisions, living the life you want to be living, befriending the appropriate people, cutting out the negative. Unsure and insecure, right? We’ve all had times of self-doubt, self-loathing, not feeling fulfilled with our lives.
It’s not exactly easy to learn how to let go of our hate.
We want to cling like a newborn baby because it has caused us hurt and we’re not quite ready to let go and forgive a certain situation that has had a negative impact on us. All we truly have is trust in ourselves before we can ever move onto our next achievement. It is by trusting in yourself that you can make decisions in your life. Every day we make decisions big and small that require us to trust in ourselves.
This can, of course, be challenged at times when something may happen in your life and create a negative impact. You may have to take a step back and wrap your thoughts and emotions around what has happened and how you can take the next step in moving forward. Sometimes it can be fixed, sometimes you have to let go and move on trusting in the powers that be to guide you. In life, we have to find what is important to us and for us. If that means making difficult decisions then so be it.
There will always be a critic, always! If you know this, it may just make things that bit easier. Value your choices and trust the choices you make even if it results in outcomes you don’t necessarily want. Maybe you face losing someone or face negativity as a result of a choice you need to make in order to better yourself as a person and to better your life.
Hopefully, you’ll have a select few people that will be able to stand with you against the critics, one way or the other. If you feel bad about something in your life, trust yourself in moving forward and try not to be afraid of what may or may not be. Do not be discouraged especially if you feel you are making the right decision even if faced with adversity.
It’s important to trust your decision and by doing so, you will build true trust within yourself and leave the rest to fate or faith whatever your preference… leave it to that. We can only hope it’ll work out, right?
Acknowledge what has gone before, tip your hat, smile and progress. It may be leading into the unknown, but at least you’ll know yourself. Life’s lessons must be learned, it’s mother nature’s will, otherwise there would be no purpose for your being. What are we if not ourselves? It is only and all of anything we ever can be!
Believe and trust in the next step and your answers will come. We cannot change people, we can only change ourselves and through that hopefully, we can change the world one tiny piece at a time and know that it was our contribution as a person that did it. Forever transition, forever grow… let it go!
Chosen over the Eastern Wild Turkey: The Bald Eagle has been the national bird of the United States since 1782 when it was placed with outspread wings on the Great Seal of our country. It appears in many government institutions and on official documents, making it the most pictured bird in all of America. The bald eagle was officially adopted as the emblem of the United States five years later, in 1787. The eagle is often a solar symbol, and can be linked to all sky gods. It signifies inspiration, release from bondage, victory, longevity, speed, pride, father and royalty; an emblem for powerful nations.
“Love is this road we call Life.” As a youth, I wiggled and twisted and sometimes even looked at the road for long periods of time laying in the back window. “It was like hundreds of roads we’d driven over – no different – a stretch of tar, lusterless – the love of a new destination, scaly, bumpy, humping toward the center. On both sides of the road were telephone poles, tilted this way and that way and leaning one way or the other… There were billboards everywhere — which made no sense to me.
And Down yonder an increasing clutter of them. It was a tottering barn in a waste field, the Mail Pouch ad-half weathered away. Large woods: spring blooms and fever autumn color – leafless now – the bare branches netting darkly against the sky. Then down, where the road curved away, a big white farmhouse, trees on the lawn, picket fence – and above it all, way up, a television aerial, struck by the sun, and family restaurants and motels that glared neon. “When you return back to the road that you have beautiful memories from the past, the road starts talking to you!” I guarantee if I did anything like that today, it would for sure get my father a ticket. “To release ourselves from accountability of our choices is to say that we can be ‘reckless’ without causing a ‘wreck.’ And maybe that’s why the road of life looks more like a parking lot.” Another difference about the child in me …was that I would fall asleep in one location and wake up in another. Life in the late 60’s and 70’s was so peaceful and serene. Most of our Dad’s were WWII or Korean war vets and we respected them for it. They taught us the important standards of life “the Golden Rule” treat others the way you would want to be treated and that of respecting your elders which helped them pull out of the Great Depression in the Early to Mid 50’s. Life back then was tough prior to Interstate Highways without power steering driving a truck took war time character.
“Sometimes the best way to find your road is to get lost. Sometimes the only way to find a way is to get lost.” “Sometimes you can’t see the road ahead but as you keep going, it gets clearer. Stay the course as the fog of life dissipates.” “Many past mistakes pave the road to future discoveries.” “What’s the point of complaining about past history and our tragedies, obstacles, and scars?
What’s the point of playing the role of victim? It’s your road, you’ve walked and been barefoot among all the difficulties! “Just like a GPS, the universe sends you signs to show you the best course. What’s the point of revealing your misery to others no matter how close they are? I am sure too that you know your way, and your heart will guide you to the best destination if you only trust the light within…” No one will ever feel your pain or how much it hurts. No one will understand your fears or why you suddenly couldn’t hold on anymore. “In Today’s World – People are so easily offended and divided by the Democrats’ Neanderthal thoughts of a better life through socialism. As Life becomes filled with unanswered questions by non listeners, it takes courage to seek those answers that continue to give meaning to your life.
In today’s world we can spend our life wallowing in despair from the violence around us and a globe filled with madness. Wondering why we were the one’s who were led towards the road strewn with pain, be assured that we are a collected society strong enough to survive it.”
In my travels through out the 50 States: I have learned: “No man is brave that has never driven a thousand miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, drive until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.” ALL THE WHILE Viewing the Mackinac Bridge over Lake Michigan in your rear view mirror. “How little we understand of the gifts we have been given or the shape of the path until we reach our salvation.” “All my life it has always come back to one thing, my need to feel free and the need to feel the breeze, the ride provides a freedom this free spirit needs, where every road is another blessed memory, a new experience to carry inside my journey, a sense of belonging to a familiar tribe, a brotherhood that goes beyond the small town cliques and nepotism.” 🙁 Travel Photography: Photographing All 50 States
“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and an inferiority complex.” So get out and smile at the world around you and realize the world is not what it seems.
“Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon?
Because that’s where the point lies.” “Let us search the old highways.” “They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, filled with subdivisions and cul-de-sac and the road that leads to nowhere. But for others …. might just be the road that leads to somewhere (HOME and Where The heart is!”)
Some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.”
“It’s the ride of life, the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.” “Could America Present: have been the fork in the road we never took, at a singular point we jumped the wrong way from? Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and more mercy in the name of Judas?
God Bless The Broken Road!!! Throughout history has taught us that a tough road creates a strong person!” “You will come to many crossroads throughout your life! Sometimes you will be very lucky because both ways will be the right way. Sometimes you will be very unlucky because both ways will be the wrong way!” “The road may be long, tortuous and wearied. But the resulting success is enduring, sure and sweet. The fool abandons hope in the wearied journey of life. The wise gets going – holding firmly to the promise of a better tomorrow. He that gives up too soon fails to understand that life rewards with success only those who cling on to hope against hope. “Sometimes, the road that you don’t know, is the road that you will find the answer you should know.” “Some roads steal your time; some roads steal your comfort and some roads steal your heart!” “If this journey of life is only walked alone it will be a long and lonely hard road to follow.” “If you don’t go to very difficult roads, you will only reach places where everyone reaches!” “Those who run to see the end of the road will miss the road itself — when they see that there is nothing at the end of the road!” “All the roads that I’ve taken have taken me back to myself. To the dreams of that little boy in the back glass wondering what life was all about. “If you are not asking when the road will end, where the road is going, when the weather will darken, what are the dangers on the road, you should know that you are traveling on a great road! On a fascinating road, you only think about the beauty of the road, you never ask questions!” “All your life, you will always encounter two roads:
One is easy, the other one is difficult – One is flat, the other one is steep!
For glory and honor and for real success, choose the hard road!” “It is good to go boldly and quickly on some roads, but on some roads it is absolutely necessary to go with fear and very slowly! Fear and slow moves can help you stay alive on those dangerous curves that occur in life!” “And an Education is the journey in which roads never ends.” And remember: “If there’s a there — there’s a road that’ll take you there.” “The road listens — It believes in you and will take you there.” Tiffany Markins this was my take on our chat last night🙂
First case of coronavirus reinfection confirmed, researchers say Originally published on Live Science. By Yasemin Saplakoglu August 24
Reinfection – What Reinfection? BREAKING: First ever official Re-Infection case of COVID-19 Coronavirus documented. This may be the first major clue to a still-unanswered question about the COVID-19 pandemic: How long does immunity to SARS-CoV-2 last? There have been some previous reports of potential reinfection cases around the globe, but none have been confirmed with definitive testing, according to The New York Times. People who recover from COVID-19 can shed virus fragments for weeks, which can turn up as a positive COVID-19 test results, even when they aren’t actually shedding live virus.
But on (Aug. 24), a group of researchers reported on a case of a patient who was infected with two genetically different strains of the coronavirus, months apart, according to a press release from the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Medicine. The scientists found that the coronavirus that infected the patient, a 33-year-old-man in Hong Kong, the second time around had 24 different nucleotides, or building blocks, in its gene sequence than the virus that infected him the first time.
That likely means that the person didn’t just continue to shed the same virus months after being infected, according to the study that was just accepted, but not yet published, in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
But this case shouldn’t spark widespread fear.
“This is no cause for alarm – this is a textbook example of how immunity should work,” Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the Yale School of Medicine, wrote on Twitter.
The patient, who was previously healthy, was first diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 26. During his first infection he had mild symptoms including a cough, sore throat, headache and fever for several days. Though his symptoms subsided, he was hospitalized on March 29 and was discharged on April 14 after testing negative for the virus twice. Four and half months later, the patient was returning to Hong Kong from Spain via the United Kingdom and tested positive for the virus in a screening at the Hong Kong airport on Aug. 15, according to the report. He was again hospitalized but didn’t have any symptoms. “While immunity was not enough to block reinfection, it protected the person from disease,” Iwasaki wrote.
Antibody tests showed that the patient did not have any detectable antibody to the coronavirus when he was re-infected but developed detectable antibodies after reinfection. “This is encouraging,” Iwasaki wrote. “While this is a good example of how primary infection can prevent disease from subsequent infection, more studies are needed to understand the range of outcomes from reinfection.”
This case of re-infection has “several important implications,” the authors wrote in the study. “It is unlikely that herd immunity can eliminate SARS-CoV-2, although it is possible that subsequent infections may be milder than the first infection as for this patient.” COVID-19 will likely continue to circulate in the human population, similar to the coronaviruses that cause common colds, they wrote. Other implications are that vaccines may not be able to provide lifelong protection against COVID-19 and that vaccines studies should include those who have recovered from COVID-19, the authors wrote.
“What I think is really important is that we put this into context,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for coronavirus response and head of the emerging diseases and zoonoses unit, said during a news briefing in Geneva on Monday (Aug. 24), according to CNN. There’s been more than 24 million cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide, and so “we need to look at something like this on a population level.” Van Kerkhove said she was still reviewing the case, according to STAT News. “What we are learning about infection is that people do develop an immune response, and what is not completely clear yet is how strong that immune response is and for how long that immune response lasts.” #LoveInTheTimeofCorona
CDC Director Says These States Started to ‘Turn the Tide’ on COVID.
1. Arizona In his JAMA interview, Redfield specifically cited Arizona for following CDC mitigation guidelines as evidence of how successful those can be. “If you see how Arizona, for example, put that in play and literally, you saw about two to four weeks later, you really see that we can get control of this pandemic. We don’t have to close retail. We don’t have to lock down. We really just need to wear face garments when we can’t go social distance, wash our hands, and be smart about crowds,” he said. “We can get this outbreak under control. And we’re now starting to see that take effect, I think, more broadly across the South.” According to The New York Times,Arizona saw the highest spike in daily COVID-19 cases on Jun. 30 at nearly 4,800 infections. But by closing bars statewide and after major cities mandated mask wearing, the number of daily cases was down to 208 on Aug. 23. And for more on Arizona’s recent success story, check out Dr. Fauci Says This Is Why Coronavirus Cases Are Dropping in Arizona.
2. Florida The Sunshine State was among the first states to reopen in the spring. As a result, Florida also received a fair amount of attention when its daily COVID cases spiked at a whopping 15,300 infections on Jul. 13, according to The New York Times. Over the past six weeks, however, daily cases have dropped dramatically. On Aug. 23, for example, Florida reported 3,000 new COVID cases. To be sure, that is still a lot of daily infections, but it’s also 20 percent of its previous record high. And for more up-to-date information, sign up for our daily newsletter.
4. Texas No other state may have a more mercurial relationship with COVID-19 infections than the Lone Star State. Gov. Greg Abbott was initially resolute in his call to reopen many local businesses across the state of Texas, but as he saw a sharp spike in infections early in the summer, he reversed that decision and called for bars to shut down. He also eventually mandated masks for Texans in areas above a certain COVID count. According to The New York Times,daily infections in Texas peaked at over 15,000 on Jul. 12, but mitigation efforts seem to have slowed cases a bit. On Aug. 23, the state registered its lowest total since Jun. 15 of just under 3,000 cases. For more on issues Texas faced, check out This Is Why Texas Has “Gone From Bad to Worse.”
“Hope is seeing the light, despite being surrounded by darkness” When I first went to Facebook to discover people that went through cancer and prevailed. I Began blogging those cancer survivor stories in Solitarius.org which you can find through the search bar in the upper right hand corner below the mountain scene in this blog. I had many people come at me wondering what I have researched about Lyme Disease… telling them I never really gave it much thought as they told me not many doctors do either and for those with Lyme Disease its much like the death sentence given cancer patients. Therefore, I also started to blog post about Lyme Disease as well!!!
Lyme Disease Facts That You Should Know Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. This bacterium is spread by infected blacklegged ticks also known as deer ticks. Treating Lyme disease can be difficult because the bacteria are not easily destroyed and have a history of bouncing back. Moreover, antibiotics, which are the only US FDA approved Lyme treatments, attempt to control the symptoms but cannot stop recurrent attacks as the bacteria tend to get resistant to antibiotics. Hence a healthy immune system is most important and there are no drugs or conventional medicines that boost immunity. On the other hand, Ayurveda and Homeopathy have various researched ways to boost immunity with specific herbs and nosodes.
You may speak with our Homeopaths & Ayurvedic Doctors to boost your immunity and balance your being by clicking here.
Biogetica Doctors Carefully Evaluate all Research Before Formulating our Groundbreaking Kits. https://www.biogetica.com/ There has been growing research on numerous herbs, homeopathic ingredients and supplements globally for boosting the immune system.
Below is information on the more compelling and popular ingredients that we have found after studying all possibilities from traditional medicine systems and the latest research available today.
We strive each day to give natural medicine the respect it deserves and hope that you will join us in this quest today. We vow to be with you every step of the way on the road from disease to ease that manifests each day!
Herbal Research This peer reviewed and published research has most probably not been studied or approved by the FDA in your country as a cure of Lyme disease. The FDA of each land is the only authority that can decide if something is a cure or not and hence no claims can be made and you are advised to see a local Doctor for Lyme disease. However, you’re welcome to take these herbs for immunity. Generally Ayurveda is only accepted as medicine in India. Homeopathy is considered medicine in most parts of the world but can only be used for over the counter issues in the USA.
Olive Leaf Extract:The active principle (main substance) in Olive leaf extract is Oleuropein. This substance is believed to form a barrier field around the infected cells which may help in inhibiting the infection. Studies suggest that this herb may help boost the immune system against foreign invaders.1 Astragalus:This herb is believed to possess properties that may potentially boost the immune system and protect the body against foreign invaders. Laboratory tests have indicated that astragalus may enhance the functions of the natural killer cells, which can successfully inhibit cell invasion.2 Echinacea purpurea: This herb is believed to potentially empower the immune cells, so that they can inhibit bacteria, viruses and abnormal cells. Research on Echinacea species has indicated that the plant possesses properties that may inhibit infective agents by increasing the overall activity of infection-fighting cells and enhancing immunity.3
Homeopathic Research Veratrum virdi: This natural ingredient is used in homeopathy for various conditions. Clinical investigations suggest that it may boost the immune system and is useful in managing inflammatory responses.4 Ledum palustre:This homeopathic remedy is traditionally used for insect bites and in certain conditions of the joints. Studies suggest that it may be beneficial in painful and inflammatory conditions.5
We hope and wish that countries across the globe study this research in the interest of public health and then do the best they can for their citizens that are suffering. Lyme disease today is a global pandemic and solving it for the sake of humanity must take precedence over any patent for profit pharmaceutical agendas and intentions!
Whether you are Suffering From Lyme Disease or not, it is a Great Idea to Keep Your Immunity Boosted!
Herbs, Supplements, Ayurveda and Homeopathy are all believed to help keep your immunity boosted! Biogetica brings them into your life from the far corners of this earth, in a unique set of products and services designed to accompany you back to health and wellness.
Our Natural Health Practitioners will guide you to understand and balance your constitution, and boost your immune system. Now is a great moment to start the journey back to health and freedom! Each journey begins with one step.
Homeopathy considers healing of the entire being and not only the physical manifestations. Thus, Homeopathy aims to achieve balance across the molecular and vibrational nature of life to live with ease. When the immune system or internal vitality of the human body is deranged, it becomes incapable of keeping itself disease free. Homeopathy helps to balance and restore that vitality. Once the vitality is restored to its original state, it is able to function optimally without any external aid.
The complementary advice of our naturally inclined Homeopathic or Ayurvedic practitioners does not replace the advice of a licensed Doctor in your state. Our message is one of love, not hate. We don’t claim to cure or treat any disease, but vow to be with you every step of the way, to ease.
Our Full spectrum kits are a synergistic combination of evidence based natural solutions that will potentially lead us back to health and freedom. Our multidisciplinary natural kits meticulously deliver the best the earth has to offer to your doorstep.
P.S. We put people before profits and will deliver these services to you against any donation if you truly cannot afford them. You may email us on admin@biogetica.com if you wish to avail of this donation based program.
Biogetica’s mission is to provide you with integrated natural solutions that target root issues across the physical, energetic and informational spectrum of your life. Our Doctors research all possible ingredients and combine them synergistically into kits to potentially lead you back to health and freedom.
Biogetica’s approach to healing is based on the following aspects:
1. Heal the Entire Being: Biogetica has a unique and comprehensive Holographic model of healing which synthesizes all the traditional natural health systems to simultaneously ease physical, mental, emotional layers of your being. You, as a living, thinking, feeling, vibrating being, are much more than a collection of inter-related chemical processes. You are life itself. Life can never be reduced to a series of chemical reactions as chemical reactions cannot create life. Every thought, emotion, vibration or action leads to a series of chemical changes in the body. Biogetica recognizes this and balances the ENTIRE BEING, bringing mind, body, and soul into harmony. Treating an ailment on a molecular level alone, seldom has a lasting effect as the untreated social, emotional, mental, spiritual and energetic patterns cause the ailment to manifest once again on a physical plane. Holistic healing is necessary for lasting relief. Biogetica, therefore, uses Resonance Homeopathic to harmonize the entire being; flower essences to attune the mind; Ayurvedic, Tibetan, and Chinese herbs to balance the energetic and the physiological manifestation of the five elements; and nutraceuticals to coordinate cellular nutrition.
2. Look for Natural Solutions: Our bodies are made of and supported by nature and therefore can only be healed by nature in the long term. Chemicals are often necessary for immediate change in an acute situation but tend to do the body more harm than good in the long run. Hence, Biogetica’s Doctors are dedicated to providing natural solutions that are supported by evidence and prior use. To us, the argument is fairly obvious: One would use wood to fix a desk made of wood or metal to fix a car made of metal, so why use chemicals to fix a body made of nature? Nature has blessed the Earth with natural remedies and healing mechanisms. It would be wise not to ignore them. The intelligence of nature is much greater than that of man. Unfortunately, man still focuses on chemical medicines, as they can be patented and sold for huge profits. Allopathic attempts to treat chronic ailments by interfering directly with the chemical processes using man-made substances have essentially been a failure. We claim to be cracking the gene code, but we still can’t cure a cold with man-made substances!!! Homeopathic and Naturopathic methods are never studied and verified by governing bodies, as there is no one who will spend millions obtaining an approval on herbs, knowing that they cannot be patented and sold exclusively by them.
3. Appeal to the Balancing Forces Inherent in all Nature: Life cannot be recreated with chemical interactions and there is much more to life than molecular interactions. Our bodies are the most advanced pharmacies on the planet and millions of functions happen each minute with astounding precision. Biogetica therapies are designed to appeal to the balancing forces apparent in all nature by reminding and stimulating the body towards a certain function. The nutraceuticals in our kits provide specific nutrition for a function, the herbs in our kits balance the terrain of the body so that it is able to perform that function and the resonance homeopathies are designed to remind the body to be in resonance with that very function.
4. From Medication to Meditation: Good health and freedom involve every aspect of our being including diet, lifestyle, exercise, emotional states, thoughts and energetic patterns. Biogetica Drs. have therefore designed diet, nutrition, exercise, and meditation protocols specific to various life situations. We encourage you to actively partake in these for best results.
Hey Tiffany Markins: An abstract writing much like art provides definitions and examples of the two main types of abstracts: descriptive and informative. It provides general guidelines and general tips for you to keep in mind which are thought provoking. Finally, its NEW AGE abstracts broken down into their components. Much like abstract art and why Lincoln wears the sunglasses in the above Artwork. Solitarius is Abstracting and indexing subjects aimed at compiling a body of literature for A particular subject designed to draw the attention of the person reading it. Charlie from Top 10s counts down Stephen Hawking’s Warning For #2020! The scientist Stephen Hawking gave some warnings and predictions for the far future as well as the new year and decade we are going into: 2020! Here are his biggest predictions for the future of the Earth including robots and going to new planets & universes like SpaceX going to Mars! #Future#Animation
2020 QG —originally known by its internal designator ZTF0DxQ—is an Earth-crossing near-Earth asteroid (NEO) and potentially hazardous object (PHO) that flew by Earth at a distance of ~2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) (less than one-quarter of Earth’s diameter) on 16 August 2020. The car-sized asteroid flew past our home planet in the closest flyby of such space rocks on record and scientists hardly had any information about it until it departed. The first image of this record-setting space rock, asteroid 2020 QG, was taken by a NASA-funded facility six hours after the closest point of approach as the asteroid was heading away from Earth. The SUV-sized asteroid was discovered by two students of IIT-Bombay, hailing from Pune and Haryana. The students are Kunal Deshmukh and Kritti Sharma—working on a research project to hunt for Near Earth Asteroids—who discovered the celestial object just hours later using data from the robotic Zwicky Transient Facility, (ZTF), California. — IANS The asteroid passed 2,950 kilometres above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday at 12.08 am EDT (9.38 pm India time), NASA said, “The asteroid was small – roughly the size of a large car – so would most likely have broken up in the Earth’s atmosphere anyway without causing harm. Paul Chodas, director of Nasa’s Centre for Near-Earth Studies, said: “It’s really cool to see a small asteroid come by this close, because we can see the Earth’s gravity dramatically bend its trajectory,” and “Our calculations show that this asteroid got turned by 45 degrees or so as it swung by our planet.”
As if Earth didn’t have enough going on right now — In yet another 2020 surprise: An asteroid heading towards the Earth has a fraction of a percentage chance of colliding with the planet, according to Nasa. There are reports an asteroid is heading our way and could reach — Within 300 Miles Of Earth November 2020 Election Eve’ NASA has predicted a small asteroid heading towards the Earth has a 0.41 percent chance of hitting the planet one day before the US presidential election that is scheduled for November 3. NASA scientists have predicted that the asteroid “2018VP1” with a diameter of 0.002 km (about 6.5 feet) will pass near Earth one day before the 2020 US election, reports the CNN. Although the chance of the asteroid hitting the earth is extremely slim. The space agency is saying that there could be three potential impacts “based on 21 observations spanning 12.968 days. This report comes days after an asteroid the size of a small car just flew by our planet at an extremely close distance? The good news is it was only about the size of a car, however, NASA had absolutely no idea that it was coming.
Response to Globebusters – The Earth Still Isn’t Flat. It was first identified when Astronomers spotted the object from Palomar Observatory in San Diego County in 2018 followed by a 13 day observation arc and have not been detected since. Asteroid 2018VP1 is currently projected to come close to Earth sometime during the day before the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3, according to NASA. The asteroid will likely come as close to between 4,700 miles and 260,000 miles of Earth, according to Forbes. The good news is there is only a 1 in 240 (0.41%) chance of the asteroid entering earth’s atmosphere and because the asteroid is only around 7 feet in diameter, if it does manage to enter the Earth’s atmosphere, it would appear as an extremely bright meteor and break up into tiny pieces. The logarithmic scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of an asteroid rates 2018VP1 Actual scale values less than – 2 reflect events for which there are no likely consequences, while Palermo Scale values between -2 and 0 indicate situations that merit careful monitoring. For the past 290 million years, large asteroids have been crashing into Earth more than twice as often as they did in the previous 700 million years, according to a 2019 study in the journal Science. Asteroids still only hit Earth on average every million or few million years, even with the increased crash rate.
NASA’s list of potential big space rock crashes shows no pending major threats. The biggest known risk is a 4,200-foot wide asteroid with a 99.988% chance that it will miss Earth when it flies very near here in 861 years.
Oh, 2020 please give up! Along with the Lockdown from Covid-19, killer bees, hurricanes, fire tornados, what else ya got 2020 to throw at us and to think about… AND what would we see if we could journey through time, from Earth’s birth up to its death? Watch the (video below) on a voyage through time, from planetary creation to the blossoming of life, from the first civilizations to the planet’s ultimate demise.
Norway and Denmark are to drop border controls between the two countries but have excluded their Scandinavian neighbor Sweden, which has taken a lighter-touch approach to the Covid-19 pandemic and suffered a far higher death toll. The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, told a news conference in Copenhagen on Friday that restrictions on Norwegian nationals entering the country, as well as on citizens of Iceland and Germany, would be lifted from 15 June. “Denmark and Sweden have a close relationship and that will continue in the future,” Frederiksen said. There was “a strong desire to find a solution with our neighbor, Sweden”, she added, but Denmark and Sweden “are in different places when it comes to the coronavirus, and this affects what we can decide on the border”.
Norway’s prime minister,Erna Solberg, said at a simultaneous Oslo event that Norway would admit only Danish citizens for now, but that her government was talking to Sweden, Finland and Iceland about including them at a later date. Solberg said she had twice spoken to the Swedish prime minister, Stefan Löfven, but had entered a bilateral agreement with Denmark “because we have a similar infection situation … The infection situation looks different in Sweden”. While her objective was “a common Nordic regulatory framework”, she said, “it is going to be hardest to find a solution for Sweden. But there are regions in Sweden with a low level of infection where we might be able to find a solution.” The decision by Denmark and Norway to exclude Sweden from an early Nordic “travel bubble” is a blow to Stockholm. The Swedish foreign minister, Ann Linde, said this week that such a move would be “a political decision” and not justifiable on health grounds. Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist and the main architect of the country’s coronavirus strategy, said dialogue between the Nordic neighbors was “continuous. We can certainly find good solutions to this.”
An MP from the Swedish border city of Malmö, Niels Paarup-Petersen, told the Local website he had “hoped that we wouldn’t be treated differently. The numbers are a bit different on a national level, but I’d hoped they’d look more at a regional level.” Sweden has closed schools for the over-16s and banned gatherings of more than 50, but has only asked – rather than ordered – people to avoid non-essential travel and not go out if they are elderly or ill. Shops, restaurants and gyms have remained open. Polls show a large majority of Swedes support and have generally complied with the government’s less coercive strategy, which starkly contrasts with the mandatory lockdowns in many countries, including Norway and Denmark. But the policy, which Dr. Tegnell has said aimed to slow the spread of the virus enough for health services to cope, has been heavily criticized by some Swedish experts, and the country has recorded a death toll many times higher than its neighbors’. Sweden’s 4,350 deaths represent a toll of 419 per million inhabitants, compared with 44 in Norway, 98 in Denmark and 57 in Finland. Its per million tally is, however, lower than the corresponding figures of 548, 570 and 580 in Italy, the UK and Spain. Frederiksen, who placed Denmark in strict lockdown as early as 11 March, said she hoped solutions might be found to allow travel between Denmark and certain Swedish regions. A decision on travel from other countries in Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone would be taken later, she said.
Source: Lockdowns Never Again: Sweden Was Right, and We Were Wrong Sweden, which has stood out among European countries for its low-key approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic, has recorded its highest tally of deaths in the first half of 2020 for 150 years, the Statistics Office said. Covid-19 claimed about 4,500 lives in the period to the end of June – a number that has now risen to 5,800 – a much higher percentage of the population than in other Nordic nations, though lower than in some others, including Britain and Spain. In total, 51,405 Swedes died in the six-month period, a higher number than in any year since 1869, when 55,431 people died, partly as a result of a famine. The population of Sweden was about 4.1 million then, compared with 10.3 million now. Covid-19 meant that deaths were about 10% higher than the average for the period over the last five years, the office said on Wednesday. In April the number of deaths was almost 40% higher than average due to a surge in Covid-19 related fatalities. Sweden has taken a different approach to most European countries in dealing with the pandemic, relying to a greater extent on voluntary measures focused on social distancing & opting against a strict lockdown. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis Most schools have remained open and many businesses have continued to operate to some extent, meaning the economy has fared better than many others. However, the death toll has been higher than in its Nordic neighbors, which opted for tougher lockdown measures. Norway, with about half Sweden’s population, has had only about 260 Covid-19 deaths in total. The economy of Finland also outperformed its larger neighbor in the second quarter, despite a tougher lockdown. Finland’s gross domestic product shrank by 5% against an 8.6% contraction in Sweden from the previous three-month period.
Swedes rapidly losing trust in Covid-19 strategy, poll finds!!! Naysayers may point to Sweden’s mortality rate to discount its success. But the virus has taken nearly 6,000 people in a country of 10 million, and one that tallies about 100,000 annual deaths each year. Given that 70 percent of those who died with COVID were over the age of 80 and very unhealthy, he argues, “quite a few of those 6,000 would have died this year anyway,” making COVID a “mere blip in terms of its effect on mortality.” And while Sweden will likely continue to see deaths from COVID, it will likely never see anything close to those numbers again. The large number of deaths can be clearly attributed to a “complete lack of any immunity” to this novel coronavirus. A few months ago, Dr. Rushworth said, “practically everyone who was tested had COVID,” even if the presenting symptom was a “nose bleed” or “stomach pain.” Today, he reports that he hasn’t seen a COVID patient in over a month, and even when he tests patients with fever or cough, the “tests invariably come back as negative.” To be clear, Sweden’s economy is wide open. No one is social distancing or wearing a ridiculous mask. Life is back to normal, and the infection rate is still falling. It’s pretty safe to say the population in Sweden has now built some level of immunity to the virus, and all signs indeed point to the pandemic being over in Sweden.
To answer that, we’ll look to Alex Berenson, who is nothing short of a national hero for his honest reporting throughout the pandemic. It often serves as a counterbalance to the panic porn preferred by the media, and I could not more highly recommend following his wonderful Twitter feed. In Part 2 of his book series, Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and Lockdowns, he reminds his readers that lockdowns, complete with the economic disruption and social distancing required, aren’t some tried and true means of slowing the spread of a virus in a pandemic. “The idea of using lockdowns to slow epidemics took off in 2006,” Berenson writes. In the aftermath of an avian flu scare in 2005, President Bush “asked for research on slowing epidemics.” I wish what follows were a joke or some conspiracy theory, but it’s not. The idea was the brainchild of the 14-year-old daughter of a computer scientist named Robert Glass. She “created a model of the way social distancing might slow the spread of the flu,” and this was expanded upon by her father in a “simulation “proving” lockdowns could reduce an influenza epidemic in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people by 90 percent.
In 2007, predicated upon the strength of the simulated results, the CDC issued new guidance to “reduce transmission, from “voluntary isolation of ill adults” to “reducing density in public transit.” This was the moment, according to the New York Times, when Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions, or NPIs, became “official US policy,” thus presenting the 2020 lockdowns as just an example of long-standing procedures, and totally understandable policymaking. Crucially, [the 2007 CDC paper] also contained a “Pandemic Severity Index” that included five categories. On the low end, Category 1 represented a normal flu season, which might kill up to 90,000 Americans. On the high end, a Category 5 pandemic, like the Spanish flu, would kill at least 1.8 million Americans. Based on the CDC’s scale, Sars-Cov-2 almost certainly should be classified as a Category 2 epidemic, meaning it will cause between 90,000 and 450,000 deaths. For an epidemic like that, the CDC merely said governments should consider school closures of less than four weeks, along with moderate efforts to reduce contacts among adults, such as telecommuting.
The prospect of closing all retail stores or offices is not even mentioned in the paper, not even for the most severe epidemics (emphasis added.) In short, it was a high school sophomore who initially dreamed up the modern notion of lockdowns and social distancing. Her computer scientist father then created a compelling simulation involving 10,000 hypothetical people enduring a pandemic, and the CDC applied the hypothesis by creating some new interventions, though even those interventions certainly did not include recommendations for an economic lockdown, stay-at-home orders, or mask mandates. In other words, economic and social lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and mask mandates had all only worked in theory before 2020 but had never been shown to be effective in practice. And we are enduring all of this because of a belief that it is theoretically possible to achieve what Sweden has achieved by enduring none of it in reality. Very likely, America will join Sweden in building immunities and being past COVID-19 sometime in the coming months, though we will have paid a much, much higher price to have achieved that goal. We should all hope and pray that Americans will look back to the public policy reaction to this pandemic and recognize it as the colossal mistake that it has been. And, if we are wise, we will commit to never, ever doing anything like it again. Basically, Sweden did the exact opposite of what most Americans tragically still believe are the necessary requirements to reach the outcome that Sweden has achieved — In life, we encounter things that may work in theory but not in practice. Communism is famously one of those things. Time travel is another. With any luck, Americans will soon come to realize that strict social distancing, economic lockdowns, and mask-wearing all belong in that category of supposedly sound ideas that simply don’t work in reality.
For evidence, let’s look to Sweden. As Dr. Sebastian Rushworth, an E.R. doctor at a hospital in Stockholm, writes on his blog, “COVID is over in Sweden. He argues what should now be obvious to any rational, thinking person, which is that “the size of the response in most of the world (not including Sweden) has been totally disproportionate to the threat.” People have gone back to their normal lives and barely anyone is getting infected anymore.” Unlike so many other countries, “Sweden never went into complete lockdown,” Dr. Rushworth writes. Non-essential businesses remained open, people continued frequenting restaurants, the kids stayed in school, and “very few people bothered with face masks.” What is the obvious takeaway from this? Perhaps Dr. Rushworth sums it up best, saying he is “willing to bet that the countries that have shut down completely will see rates spike when they open up. If that is the case, then there won’t have been any point in shutting down in the first place.” In other words, all of the lockdowns will have been meaningless. But we were assured that the lockdowns, the distancing, the masks, all of it would absolutely work, because science (Science!) suggested that these are the only things that could work. But how strong was the scientific evidence to support our government making us lab rats in its experimental and unprecedentedly oppressive response to this virus.
“It’s just not gonna happen. You gotta do both. You gotta get control of the biology as you carefully open the country.” Fauci emphasized the importance of acting in a measured, prudent way. He noted that Americans have seen the consequences of jumping over the guideposts that have been established for safe reopening. He said it goes beyond the financial aspects and that what happens it could be devastating psychologically and medically.
“If you’re really shut down, children may not get their vaccinations. People don’t go to hospitals when they get chest pain,” he added. “There’s a lot of different things that could go wrong, beyond the economy.” He also gave another grim warning. “There’s projections that if you stay shut down, the number of deaths unrelated to Covid will go up,” he said. “The number of suicides, overdoses, family issues, such as child abuse and things like that, they all go up.” Ultimately, Fauci said that he believes the country can come together to overcome the virus.
The CDC issued a dire warning for the fall A top federal health official is issuing a dire warning: Follow recommended coronavirus measures or risk having the worst fall in US public health history. “For your country right now and for the war that we’re in against Covid-19, I’m asking you to do four simple things: wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and be smart about crowds,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I’m not asking some of America to do it,” he told WebMD. “We all gotta do it.” Without following the recommendations, this could be “the worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” he said.
Some officials are already preparing for the coming months. Mayor Quinton Lucas of Kansas City, Missouri, extended the city’s coronavirus state of emergency order until January 16, 2021. The order requires most people to wear face coverings in public places and limits crowds at bars to 50% capacity. “It is now obvious to everyone that Covid-19 is not going away over the next five months,” Kansas City Health Department Director Dr. Rex Archer said in a news release Thursday. “As we move out of summer and into fall and winter, we will still be confronting this health emergency.” The flu season also occurs in the fall and winter, the CDC said.
Coronavirus has infected more than 5.2 million people, according to Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus continues to spread at high rates across the South, Midwest and West — even as the total number of new cases has declined following a summer surge. The seven-day average of daily coronavirus deaths was over 1,000 on Thursday, the 18th consecutive day the US averaged over 1,000 deaths per day. “You can’t run away from the numbers,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Diseases, said during a National Geographic panel Thursday. “You can’t run away from the numbers of people who’ve died, the number of people getting hospitalized, the surges we’re seeing.”
You asked, we’re answering: Your top coronavirus questions Dr. Tina Hartert of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center said lack of faith in the vaccine can lead to major outbreaks. She described the government’s communication on the vaccine as crucial. “We should have started on this months ago but it’s never too late to start this important messaging. Because otherwise the messaging people will listen to is the story of one child from another parent,” Hartert told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, said governments will need to have a “dialogue” with their citizens about vaccination. “I think science and government have a job to do that is to make the case,” Ryan said Thursday. “I think communities and people have a job to do, which is to listen to that case, and hopefully the result of that will be a widely accepted successful vaccine that could bring this pandemic to an end.”
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I hope you stay well, but if COVID-19 strikes you or a loved one, I hope you can find a doctor willing and able to help you. Yale epidemiologist Harvey Frisch told Laura Ingraham that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) could save up to 100,000 lives. But you probably won’t be able to get it. If you have symptoms of COVID-19, with or without a positive test, your doctor may tell you to stay home, isolate yourself, take Tylenol for symptoms, and go to the ER if you can’t breathe. Once in the hospital, you might—or might not—get the $3,000 new drug Remdesivir or qualify for a clinical trial.
If you get HCQ it will likely be too late to help.
Antiviral drugs need to be given early. HCQ was FDA approved in 1955 and has been taken safely by hundreds of millions of people. High government officials who are determining federal policy insist in private that doctors have the legal authority to prescribe HCQ or other FDA-approved drugs for “off-label” uses. However, the FDA has refused to reverse statements that state and local authorities cite to threaten doctors or pharmacists who provide you with this cheap remedy. AAPS has filed for an injunction to force the FDA to stop obstructing use of this drug, while it hoards and wastes the millions of doses that manufacturers donated to the Strategic National Stockpile. If a drug could save 100,000 lives, then government agencies that block its use are responsible for 100,000 needless deaths. In some countries in Central America, officials are going door to door to distribute HCQ. Poor countries that allow free use of HCQ have far lower death rates than rich countries that hinder it. For a summary of the evidence on HCQ, see c19study.com.
Majority in poll say US coronavirus response worse than other countries. When Did the Coronavirus Arrive in the U.S.? Here’s a Review of the Evidence. Was the virus here in January? In December? Earlier? Here’s a look at the evidence of how the virus emerged from China and landed in the United States.
By Mike Baker Published May 15, 2020 Updated June 1, 2020 (for the first half of the year.) SEATTLE — In a county north of Seattle, two people who came down with respiratory illnesses in December now have antibodies for the coronavirus. In Florida, a public health official who got sick in January believes he had Covid-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the United States. After returning to Seattle, Washington, from traveling in Wuhan, China, a man in his 30s began to experience pneumonia-like symptoms, the CDC announced Tuesday. “Based on the patient’s travel history and symptoms, healthcare professionals suspected this new coronavirus. A clinical specimen was collected and sent to CDC overnight, where laboratory testing yesterday confirmed the diagnosis,” the CDC said in a press release. The man is being treated at a hospital in Everett, outside Seattle, and “(The patient) is in good condition and is hospitalized out of an abundance of precaution and for short-term monitoring, not because there was severe illness,” Washington state health officials said.
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Many of the patients in China are believed to have gotten sick after spending time at a food market in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people. But according to officials, the U.S. patient reported that he was “just traveling through the area,” and did not visit the market or know anyone who was ill. State health officials said the man did not take a direct flight from Wuhan to the U.S., but did not say which airports he flew through to get to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 15. Washington Governor Jay Inslee said Tuesday night that the man fell ill a day after arriving in the U.S., and sought medical treatment on the same day. He added that the man lived alone and traveled alone.
And in California, a surprising discovery that an early-February death in San Jose was linked to the coronavirus triggered a broader search for how that person was exposed. As those cases have contributed to growing questions about when the virus first reached the United States and how long it had been circulating by the time its arrival was publicly confirmed in Washington State at the end of February. While there was limited testing to uncover specific cases before then, researchers have other tools to trace the path of the coronavirus. That includes genomic sequencing of the virus to help scientists build an ancestral tree of cases, a re-examination of specific deaths and thousands of old flu samples that have been repurposed to look for the coronavirus.
Here is a look at the evidence and what it shows: I got really sick in February. Did I have the coronavirus? It is possible, but it was most likely something else.
The Seattle area emerged as an early epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak at the end of February, but there is compelling evidence that, even there, the virus did not yet have much of a foothold compared with the flu, which had a particularly potent season. A team that analyzes flu trends in the region has been able to review nearly 7,000 old flu samples collected from around the region in January and February, re-examining them for the coronavirus. All of the samples from January were negative. The earliest sample that tested positive was Feb. 20. Based on that and later case counts, Trevor Bedford, who studies the evolution of viruses at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and who was part of the flu study team, estimated that there were probably a few hundred cases in the area by that point.
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A New York Post editorial on July 3 denounced the Liberal Media, including The New York Times and Washington Post, for disseminating the false narrative that the recent spike in COVID-19 cases was mainly attributable to states with Republican governors, who recklessly re-opened a few months ago. By Mark Schulte
“Media Refuse to Admit the Coronavirus Doesn’t Care About Red vs. Blue” notes that in April the “national daily death toll was often above 2,000,” but it has now plunged to “around 600.” But neither the NY Post nor other conservative media outlets have documented how many coronavirus fatalities occurred in states with Republican governors, as compared to the number of deaths in states with Democrats.
Based on the death tolls compiled at the Atlantic Magazine’s COVID Tracking Project, as of the afternoon of July 6, I calculated that the 26 states with Republican governors have 35,384 coronavirus deaths, or 29%, of America’s 121,926. The 24 states with Democratic governors have 86,542 deaths, or 71% of the nation’s fatalities. However, on July 1, 2019,the 24 Democratic-led states had 177,301,000 residents, or 54.2%, of the nation’s 326,826,000 people. The 26 Republican-led states had 149,525,000, or 45.8%. Thus, the states with Republican governors have 23.7 deaths per 100,000 residents, while those with Democratic governors have 48.8 deaths per 100,000.
With a population of 326,826,000 and 121,926 coronavirus deaths, America’s fatality rate is 37.3 per 100,000. What factors account for states with Democratic governors having more than double the number of deaths per 100,000 residents, as compared to those with Republicans? The primary reason is that the three states in metro New York – New York with 24,904 deaths, New Jersey with 15,211 and Connecticut with 4,335 – accounting for a mind-boggling 44,450 deaths, or 36.5%, of the nation’s 121,926 total fatalities. But in 2019, the three states total population of 31,903,000 represented just 9.7% of America’s 326,826,000 people.
Their COVID-19 death rates per 100,000 residents are: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York: 128.0 Gov. Phil Murphy’s New Jersey: 171.3 Gov. Ned Lamont’s Connecticut: 121.6
New York City, led by the serially incompetent Democrat Bill de Blasio, has 18,596 deaths as of July 6, or 223.1 per 100,000 residents. While Andrew Cuomo’s New York has the second highest fatality rate among the 50 states, the three states with larger populations – California, Texas, Florida – has a combined 12,800 fatalities as of July 6, and thus much lower death rates. California’s Democratic governor is Gavin Newsom, and the Republican governors of Texas and Florida are, respectively, Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis, and their key statistics are: State Population Deaths Per 100,000 California 39,512,000 6,331 16.2 Texas 28,996,000 2,637 9.1 Florida 21,478,000 3,832 17.8
Gov. Cuomo’s performance in fighting the COVID-19 epidemic is so abominable that the Democratic-controlled state legislature should have impeached him in May. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio should have also been removed from office two months ago. In addition to California’s Newsom, other Democratic governors of states among the Top 13 most populous, who effectively battled the coronavirus epidemic are: Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Dr. Ralph Northam of Virginia, and Jay Inslee of Washington.
Their vital statistics are: State Population Deaths Per 100,000 North Carolina 10,488,000 1,396 13.3 Virginia 8,536,000 1,853 21.7 Washington 7,615,000 1,354 17.8
Conversely, two states with Republican governors – Charlie Baker in Massachusetts and Larry Hogan in Maryland – performed badly in the battle against the COVID-19 epidemic: State Population Deaths Per 100,000 Massachusetts 6,893,000 8,183 118.7 Maryland 6,046,000 3,243 53.6
Four other Democratic governors – J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and John Bel Edwards of Louisiana– did not effectively fight the COVID-19 epidemic: Illinois 12,672,000 7,320 57.8 Pennsylvania 12,802,000 6,753 52.7 Michigan 9,987,00 6,221 62.3 Louisiana 4,649,000 3,288 70.7
Key conclusions about how each of America’s 50 states battled the epidemic are: Overall, the 26 Republican-led states performed much better than the 24 states with Democratic governors. Tri-state New York governors – New York’s Cuomo, New Jersey’s Murphy, Connecticut’s Lamont – have the worst records in battling COVID-19. Over the last two weeks, they have taken epidemiological demagoguery to McCarthyite levels by announcing an ever-expanding “Fake Voluntary Quarantine” from visitors from 19 states, 13 of whom have Republican governors. These states have recently seen a spike in the number of residents testing positive for the virus, but not a worrisome increase in daily death totals.
Fourteen Democratic-led states have done well. Only two Democratic-led states – Massachusetts and Maryland – have done poorly. Indeed, the Center for Disease Control’s provisional death tallies show only six states have experienced at least a 10% spike in total deaths from all causes this year, as compared to deaths for the first six months in previous years: Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and New York. As the late Democratic Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who retired in 2000, famously said: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.” Tragically, wise, decisive and moderate leaders, like Sen. Moynihan, have been in short supply among the top leadership of the Democratic Party nationwide during the 21st century. Indeed, seven major states with Democratic governors – New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Louisiana – account for 68,032 of the nation’s 121,925 coronavirus deaths, or a highly disproportionate 55.8%. Mark Schulte is a retired New City school teacher and mathematician who has written extensively about science and the history of science. Read Mark Schulte’s Report’s —More Here.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases per 100,000 in Europe 2020, by country. Published by Conor Stewart, Aug 18, 2020. As of August 17, 2020, there were 3,488,546 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the whole of Europe since the first confirmed case on January 25. Armenia has the highest incidence of coronavirus cases among its population in Europe at 1,408.61 per 100,000 people, followed by a rate of 1,211.77 in Luxembourg. With 922 thousand confirmed cases, Russia has been the worst affected country in Europe, which translates into a rate of 632.64 cases per 100,000 population.
Current virus hotspots in Europe The Faroe Islands have the highest rate of cases per 100,000 in the last week at 129, as of August 18. In Moldova, 95 cases per 100,000 people have been recorded in the previous seven days. Spain, a popular summer holiday destination, has had 77 cases per 100,000 in the last week. This prompted countries such as the UK and Germany to place Spain on their ‘high-risk list’ which requires travelers to quarantine on their return from the country.
Coronavirus deaths in Europe There have been 210,519 recorded coronavirus deaths in Europe since the beginning of the pandemic. The UK has the highest number of deaths recorded in a single European country at 41,366. However, Belgium has the highest rate of deaths from the virus with approximately 86.7 deaths per 100,000 as of August 16, followed by the UK with 62 deaths per 100,000 population. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit their dedicated Facts and Figures page.
