Category: Corona Virus

The Science, Logic and Data Explained

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At 5-foot-9 and 248 pounds before covid-19 struck, John Place knew he needed to work on his health. In the scramble to run a small business and help raise four children, he ate high-calorie restaurant food every day. He never exercised. He was often fatigued and urinated frequently — warning signs of diabetes that he ignored.

When Place, 43, landed in a Florida intensive care unit in June, infected with the coronavirus and unable to breathe on his own, a brutally frank doctor put his survival chances at 20 percent.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-man-s-battle-shows-why-covid-19-and-obesity-are-a-toxic-mix/ar-BB18IMXH

Published 8/14/2020.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee has used their super computer (second fastest in the world) to uncover a new theory about how Covid-19 impacts the body. The hypothesis provides a model that explains many aspects of Covid-19. It also suggests 10-plus potential treatments, many of which are already FDA approved.

The renin–angiotensin system (RAS) controls many aspects of the circulatory system, including the body’s levels of a chemical called bradykinin, which normally helps to regulate blood pressure. According to the team’s analysis, when the [Corona] virus tweaks the RAS, it causes the body’s mechanisms for regulating bradykinin to go haywire. Bradykinin receptors are resensitized, and the body also stops effectively breaking down bradykinin. (ACE normally degrades bradykinin, but when the virus downregulates it, it can’t do this as effectively.)

The end result, the researchers say, is to release a bradykinin storm — a massive, runaway buildup of bradykinin in the body. According to the bradykinin hypothesis, it’s this storm that is ultimately responsible for many of Covid-19’s deadly effects. Jacobson’s team says in their paper that “the pathology of Covid-19 is likely the result of Bradykinin Storms rather than cytokine storms,” which had been previously identified in Covid-19 patients, but that “the two may be intricately linked.” Other papers had previously identified bradykinin storms as a possible cause of Covid-19’s pathologies.

Read more about it here:

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

Still too early to celebrate, but Sweden has taken much criticism for no mandatory lockdown (although they confess their huge nursing homes SHOULD have locked down).

Their general public only self isolated, by choice. The course of the virus was more natural. Their vocal supporters (epidemiologists) have been systematically banned from social media.

Some believe strict lockdowns will prolong the course of the disease. Of course, this is all yet to be verified. We must wait & see. Patience…

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Here is the long version of the Associated Press article:

Associated Press reporters Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Vanessa Gera in Warsaw, Poland, contributed.