dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Update on C****-**. Improvements in how we treat C***D. Great hope


Interesting information:



A professor of pharmacy at U of Toronto friend sent this clearly worded update to his family.

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For this p******c there’s a greater chance of survival for those getting infected 3 months later like June 2020 than those who got infected 3 months earlier say February 2020. The reason for this is that Doctors and scientists know more about C****-** now than 3 months ago and hence are able to treat patients better. I will list *5 important things* that we know now that we didn’t know in February 2020 for your understanding.

1. C****-** was initially thought to cause deaths due to *pneumonia- a lung infection*- and so Ventilators were thought to be the best way to treat sick patients who couldn’t breathe. *Now we are realizing that the v***s causes blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs* and other parts of the body and this causes the reduced oxygenation . Now we know that just providing oxygen by ventilators will not help but we have to prevent and dissolve the micro clots in the lungs. This is why we are using drugs like *Aspirin and Heparin ( blood thinners that prevents clotting) as protocol in treatment regimens in June 2020. *

2. Previously patients used to drop dead on the road or even before reaching a hospital due to reduced oxygen in their blood- OXYGEN SATURATION. This was because of *HAPPY HYPOXIA*- where even though the oxygen saturation was gradually reducing the C****-** patients did not have symptoms until it became critically less, like sometimes even 70%. **Normally we become breathless if oxygen saturation reduces below 90%. **This breathlessness is not triggered in C***d patients and so we we’re getting the sick patients very late to the hospitals in February 2020. Now since knowing about happy hypoxia we are monitoring oxygen saturation of all c***d patients *with a simple home use pulse oxymeter and getting them to hospital if their oxygen saturation drops to 93% or less*. This gives more time for doctors to correct the oxygen deficiency in the blood and a better survival chance in June 2020.

3. We did not have drugs to fight the c****a v***s in February 2020. We were only treating the complications caused by it... hypoxia. Hence most patients became severely infected.
```**Now we have 2 important medicines
FAVIPIRAVIR & REMDESIVIR**```

These are ANTIV***LS that can k**l the c****a v***s. By using these two medicines we can prevent patients from becoming severely infected and therefore cure them BEFORE THEY GO TO HYPOXIA. This knowledge we have in JUNE 2020... not in February 2020.

4. Many C****-** patients die not just because of the v***s but also due the patient’s own i****e s****m responding In an exaggerated manner called *CYTOKINE STORM*. This stormy strong immune response not only k**ls the v***s but also k**ls the patients. In February 2020 we didn’t know how to prevent it from happening. Now in June 2020, we know that *easily available medicines called Steroids,* that doctors around the world have been using for almost 80 years *can be used to prevent the cytokine storm in some patients*.

5. Now we also know that people with hypoxia became better just by making them lie down on their belly- known as prone position. Apart from this a few days ago Israeli scientists have discovered that a chemical known as Alpha Defensin produced by the patients White blood cells can cause the micro clots in blood vessels of the lungs and this could possibly be prevented by a drug called Colchicine used over many decades in the treatment of Gout.

So now we know for sure that patients have a better chance at surviving the C****-** infection in June 2020 than in February 2020, for sure.

Going forward there’s nothing to panic about C****-** if we remember that a person who gets infected later has a better chance at survival than one who got infected early.

Let’s continue to follow precautions, but let us not be unreasonably paranoid.

roy

I for one wished they would find a cure soon,so many people off work their crowding the lakes with ski boats and jet skis and a person can't even get out early in the morning and fish.

Gatsby

South Dakota started 3 trials using Hydroxychloroquine on 4/7/2020.

March 8 - June 7, 2020:
Cases - 5438 (60.42 per day); Hospitalized - 478 (8.79%); Deaths - 65 (1.20%).

Hydroxychloroquine trials ended June 7, 2020.

June 7 - July 19, 2020:
Cases - 2468 (58.76 per day); Hospitalized - 296 (11.99%); Deaths - 53 (2.15%).

Since Hydroxychloroquine trials ended:
Hospitalizations have increased by 36.05%, deaths have increased by 79.17%.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I went water skiing last weekend and the lake was sparsely used. Everyone cleared out on Sunday and we stayed until Monday, which was a ghost town that day. Of course, it didn't help that the temperature that Sunday was 109*. Everyone was in the water and it still was not crowded.