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Category: Corona Virus
Swedish expert says NZ faces years of quarantine for arrivals
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12330725
05/09/2020
Sweden’s former top virus expert says lockdowns are just a way of delaying the inevitable and warns that New Zealand could face years of quarantining foreigners entering the country, even after wiping out Covid-19.
Johan Giesecke has defended his country’s coronavirus strategy, saying lockdowns do not prevent surges in cases or deaths, but merely delay them.
Giesecke believes it is “futile” to attempt to stop the spread and says most countries will end up in a similar position, regardless of their strategy, until treatment can be found.
He believes Denmark, Norway and Finland, which are in full lockdown, will end up with the same number of cases as Sweden, which isn’t, as soon as their restrictions ease.
He also says New Zealand will begin importing cases from overseas, after successfully suppressing the virus during lockdown.
To avoid that, quarantine measures will have to stay in place until a vaccine is developed – something he says could take a decade, or longer.
Giesecke spoke out to Swedish media after the country’s current top virus expert, Anders Tegnell, refused to recommend a lockdown, as deaths and case numbers continue to soar.
Sweden has more than 25,000 cases of Covid-19 and more than 3170 people have died.
Meanwhile, Norway has 8034 cases and 217 deaths.
The Scandinavian countries which have gone into lockdown have announced they will begin easing restrictions.
Giesecke says this means it is only a matter of time before their numbers rival Sweden’s.
Because of the highly contagious nature of Covid-19, he wrote in The Lancet that “everyone will be exposed to [the virus] and most people will become infected”.
He agreed flattening the curve was important to stop hospitals being overwhelmed but argued it was naive to think you could eliminate the virus without the vaccine.
“There is very little we can do to prevent this spread,” he said. “A lockdown might delay severe cases for a while, but once restrictions are eased, cases will reappear.
“I expect that when we count the number of deaths from Covid-19 in each country in one year from now, the figures will be similar, regardless of measures taken.”
“Our most important task is not to stop spread, which is all but futile, but to concentrate on giving the unfortunate victims optimal care,” he added.
Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in a follow-up interview, he used the example of New Zealand, widely praised globally for its Covid-19 response.
He says New Zealand is still at risk from cases being imported from overseas as soon as borders open.
The only way to avoid that, he believes, is by putting every new arrival in a 14-day quarantine.
Covid Enemy – Your Nitric Oxide
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, author of PREVENT & REVERSE HEART DISEASE, has been reading Project Waistline blog! A few months ago I personally shared with him early findings relating Covid-19 mortality rates to endothelial function. In this NEW video he describes how to improve endothelial health by increasing your body’s production of nitric oxide.
How cool is that? The doc prescribed six servings a day of these types of foods (clicking here). I anoint them with lemon juice, or seasoned vinegars. I stick them in my salads and sandwiches. I cook them in my soups, my stews, my sauces. (Here’s how to squeeze six servings into your day.)
Slowly chew to induce interaction with bacteriae on the tongue. If for whatever reason you are unable to chew & must blend/juice your greens, just let it remain in your mouth long enough to make thorough contact with the tongue. (And avoid floridated toothpaste, as it reacts negatively in the process.)
Bon appetit!
Treating Covid
Dexamethasone, a cheap, widely available corticosteroid, significantly reduced deaths of severely sick COVID-19 patients in a major clinical trial. Although full trial data have not yet been released, several outside commentators hailed the result as a “breakthrough.”
But even if steroids reduce mortality, they do not solve the problem of COVID-19 patients potentially overwhelming a health care system, Sridhar cautions. That’s because the drug can help treat patients who are already sick, but not prevent the illness in the first place. “The real game-changer will be a drug that prevents people going from mild symptoms to a severe state…”
Fuzzy Nursing Home Math
When the administrator of the Saugus Rehab and Nursing Center in Saugus, Massachusetts, heard that a new Medicare website reported her facility had 794 confirmed cases of COVID-19 — the second highest in the country — and 281 cases among staff, she gasped.
“Oh my God. Where are they getting those numbers from?” said Josephine Ajayi. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
Those weren’t the numbers that her facility reported to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network, under new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), she said.
Ajayi said her 80-bed facility actually reported 45 residents have tested positive and five residents died, although the CMS website showed no Saugus deaths. About 19 staff members tested positive for the virus, and most have returned to work, she said.
Officials at skilled nursing facilities around the country said Monday they were shocked to see their data reported inaccurately — wildly so in some cases, as at the Saugus home — on the new CMS public website
QUESTIONS TO ASK IF IN HOSPITAL w/ COVID-19
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Diabetes may present greatest risk to COVID-19 patients when diabetes is newly diagnosed
Recently published research says
mortality risk relative to those with normal blood glucose was highest in those with newly diagnosed diabetes, at a 9.42-fold risk increase after accounting for age, sex, smoking, systolic blood pressure, and total cholesterol levels.
This size of risk increase was linked specifically to raised fasting glucose; there was a 10.4-fold risk increase in the subgroup of patients with fasting glucose of 7.0 mmol/L or higher but HbA1c below 6.5%.
People with hyperglycemia below the diabetes threshold and those with established diabetes also had a significantly increased mortality risk, but to a lesser degree, at 3.29- and 4.63-fold, respectively.
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Covid 19 Rapid Tests Update
Antiviral Effects of a Plant-Based Lifestyle
Cardiologist Baxter Montgomery interviews nutritional biochemist T Colin Campbell.
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Could Changing Our Diets Defeat COVID-19?
Center for Nutrition Studies
by T. Colin Campbell, PhD
June 25, 2020
In the early 1980s, I organized and helped lead a comprehensive study of diet, lifestyle, and disease mortality in rural China and eventually Taiwan, to investigate why cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases localized in geographic clusters.
The findings from this study, when combined with experimental studies of cancer in my laboratory and clinical human studies on heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and related illnesses by others, showed that a whole-food, plant-based diet could not only prevent but also reverse these diseases.
I draw my confidence in this suggestion both from the multifaceted evidence on hepatitis B virus cited here and from an abundance of evidence showing the comprehensive effect of whole-food, plant-based nutrition on total health. Although some narrowly focused research studies have shown a beneficial effect of plant nutrients on viruses, a protocol using such candidate chemicals or nutrients is not likely to be effective unless they are part of whole food.
This nutritional makeover could be hugely important, both for its health value and because I sense that we are becoming too accepting of our present limited knowledge as to how to manage future flu seasons and other epidemics. I doubt there are many people who will be content with repeated masking, social distancing, and contact tracing when changing our diet could do so much more, while simultaneously protecting social norms, job security, and our economy.
With each new epidemic, do we really want to wait a year or more to develop drug treatments and vaccines of uncertain efficacy?
Often Quoted Hydroxychloroquine Study Retracted
Lancet and New England Journal retract studies – including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs.