🦘Cacatman's Personal Coronavirus COVID-19 Update Thread

[cacatman]

Risk of Flying is Low
The risk of contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during air travel is lower than from an office building, classroom, supermarket, or commuter train.

Risk of COVID-19 From Flying

This JAMA Patient Page describes the risk of acquiring the COVID-19 virus associated with air travel, steps that airlines and airports are taking to mitigate risk, and steps that passengers can take to reduce their risk.

jamanetwork.com

 

[Tom.]

There were 7 before that for several months, until the last week, so I guess they included it.

Minks over here had it, now 20 million minks killed in a couple of weeks time now in order to get rid of that strain.....

me and many others pray that this will also mean the end of mink farming, both here and all over the world.
What a disgusting thing that is, embarrassed that that took place here in my country.
fuc cking greedy "farmers" with no respect for animals

 

[cacatman]

Diseases that Increase Risk During COVID-19 Infections
The strongest evidence supporting increased risk of serious COVID-19 illness applies to the following conditions:

• chronic kidney disease
• COPD (chronic bronchitis or emphysema)
• obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 or higher)
• immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant
• serious heart conditions, including coronary artery disease, heart failure, and other diseases of the heart muscle
• sickle cell disease
• type 2 diabetes.

Conditions That Increase Risk During COVID-19 Infections

• Non Blood Type O - ie. A/B/AB increase risk
• Being Male
• Pregnancy

Conditions that might increase risk of severe COVID-19 illness include:

• moderate to severe asthma
• cerebrovascular disease such as stroke
• cystic fibrosis
• high blood pressure
• weakened immune response due to blood or bone marrow transplant, immune deficiencies, HIV or AIDS, use of corticosteroids, or use of other immune-weakening medications
• any condition or treatment that weakens the immune response (cancer, cancer treatment, organ or bone marrow transplant, immunosuppressant medications, HIV or AIDS)
• neurologic conditions, such as dementia
• liver disease
• pregnancy
• pulmonary fibrosis (damaged or scarred lung tissue)
• smoking
• thalassemia (a blood disorder)
• type 1 diabetes

If you are at higher risk - Harvard Health

If you are at increased risk for serious illness from COVID-19, you need to be especially careful to avoid infection. You may have questions about your particular condition or treatment, how it impacts your risk of infection and illness, and what you...

www.health.harvard.edu

Another study showed that asthma isn’t a risk factor for COVID-19. Asthmatics have less ACE-2 receptors.

Asthma poses no increased risk of COVID-19, review finds

Doctors can reassure patients that asthma does not increase their risk of contracting or dying from COVID-19, an Australian-first review has found. The review of 57 studies from four continents, conducted by the George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, found that, if anything, asthma was...

www.ausdoc.com.au

 

[cacatman]

Immunovasculitis
High BP and clotting post COVID-19 syndrome.

Clots, Strokes And Rashes. Is COVID-19 A Disease Of The Blood Vessels?

COVID-19 can cause symptoms that go well beyond the lungs, from strokes to organ failure. To explain these widespread injuries, researchers are studying how the virus affects the vascular system.

www.npr.org

 

[cacatman]

Microthrombosis
Alveolar capillary microthrombi were 9 times as prevalent in patients with Covid-19 as in patients with influenza (P<0.001). In lungs from patients with Covid-19, the amount of new vessel growth — predominantly through a mechanism of intussusceptive angiogenesis — was 2.7 times as high as that in the lungs from patients with influenza (P<0.001).

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2015432

 

[cacatman]

?Possible Nasal Sprays???!!!
?Nasal spray that blocks COVID-19? Novel, but I don't think this will work.

Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds (Published 2020)

Scientists at Columbia University have developed a treatment that blocks the virus in the nose and lungs, is inexpensive and needs no refrigeration.

www.nytimes.com

 

[cacatman]

Chance of Neutralising Immunity Post COVID-19 Infection is NOT 100%
About 95% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 develop antibodies, but only around 80% develop neutralizing immunity.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Protecting Health, Saving Lives—Millions at a Time

www.jhsph.edu

Neutralizing antibody levels declined by 52.5% after 6 months in 94 patients who had their immune response measured at the peak of their infection, which the researchers wrote may raise concerns about reinfection. The patients were a median age of 57 years (interquartile range = 47), and 52% of patients were men.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32656-8/fulltext

 

[cacatman]

T3 could help COVID-19 patients with lung failure
Trials started

Thyroid hormone treatment could prevent lung failure in COVID patients

Research has shown that T3, a thyroid hormone that reduces inflammation and plays a role in cells along the lining of the lungs absorbing fluids, can prevent lung failure in COVID-19 patients.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[cacatman]

What to do if someone is infected in your home

Does Someone in Your Home Have COVID-19? Here’s What to Do

How to care for them while protecting yourself and others

health.clevelandclinic.org

 

[cacatman]

Treatments Proven to be Not Helpful
These Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir and Interferon regimens appeared to have little or no effect on hospitalized COVID-19, as indicated by overall mortality, initiation of ventilation and duration of hospital stay.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20209817v1.full.pdf