Trump is starting his daily pandemic press briefings again sans any scientists or health care officials because apparently someone convinced him it would make him look good. At least there were none planned for the first one. I haven't watched any of them so I don't really know who is present. He still has no plan, still wants to defund testing, is still bored with the whole thing and wants the country to move on even though he was forced to cancel the RNC national convention planned in Florida. Even though he did finally suggest wearing masks is a good thing. Meanwhile, Trump plays golf while Americans sicken and die.
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Oxford University has had some success with a possible vaccine. In their limited first trial it produced antibodies and the ever important T-cells but there is no proof that it actually protects someone from getting the virus short of intentionally exposing them or for how long. More, bigger studies are forthcoming.
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A doctor in Dallas has what he thinks is a life saving treatment for covid-19 patients, an inexpensive generic steroid used to help asthmatics for more than 20 years administered for 5 minutes through a nebulizer followed by an antibiotic and a zinc supplement. All of this administered early on when patients are first having shortness of breath and painful breathing has an immediate effect and patients recover. All the patients he has been treating since March are still alive. This is the protocol that has been used in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Iceland, countries that have had very few deaths. The current CDC and WHO protocol is to go home and get over it until you are so bad you need emergency care. You can read the article here but this site is listed as 'questionable' for a far right bias with a 'mixed' rating on factual reporting.
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Other studies and trials in the UK have reported:
An experimental drug, SNG001, delivered via an inhaler and based on interferon beta, a protein produced naturally in the body that plays an important role in coordinating the body’s antiviral response, given to hospitalized patients has reduced the need for ventilation or death by 79%.
The steroid dexamethasone, a drug that fights inflammation, given either by mouth or injection has been found to reduce mortality in hospitalized patients. I wonder if this is the same steroid the doctor in Dallas uses.
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The US hit over 4 million cases this past week. Florida has surpassed New York for total cases. Even so Trump and his toadies still want schools to reopen in full and in person though it's not clear how many school districts are going to do that. Some of the proponents of this push admit that their grandkids won't be going back though it's fine for your kids to go back as our incredibly ignorant senator John Cornyn is trying to convince us kids don't get the virus and if they do get it it's mild and they aren't infectious. Again, he says children with the virus can't infect anyone else. Because he thinks the virus can choose whether or not to be infectious? I'm sure all those parents who have sick or dead kids will argue this point.
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My county has 499 cases. They are still reporting just one death but people here are starting to question that as they have personal knowledge that more than one has died.
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Current US statistics as of today 7/26/20, 14:23 GMT (last week's totals in parenthesis): cases – 4,318,247 (3,838,389), deaths – 149,414 (142,895) though how accurate these numbers are is anybody's guess considering Trump is trying to control the numbers by having all data sent to HHS instead of the CDC.
So far Guadalupe County has 1519 confirmed cases and 6 deaths. The deaths aren't necessarily in Seguin. They could all be nearer to San Antonio such as in Schertz where the first case appeared.
ReplyDeleteI try not to be negative, but with Trump in charge, we are all doomed.
ReplyDeleteI live in a tiny blue pocket, ringed by red. I drove north yesterday, through the ring. I saw yard after yard proclaiming Biden. Yard after yard. I asked my grandson. He grinned ear to ear.
ReplyDeleteHi, I need to order some Biden signs. I wish the campaign would provide signs somewhere so we could just go pick one up! Assuming postage costs about as much as the sign. I wonder if you have read Mary Trump's book. I bought the audio version; just finished it this afternoon. It certainly shed some light on how evil grew!!
ReplyDeleteI studied a little on that Texas doctor’s claims and so far, the science doesn’t seem to be backing him up. But who knows?
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I added the caveat at the end. not sure it was a reliable source. but I wonder why these doctors aren't using the protocols that help hospitalized people on those not sick enough for hospitalization. wouldn't it help them also and keep them out of the hospital?
DeleteOur county has had 1750 cases & 24 (reported) deaths. I think many of the deaths are from one nursing home (the one that we used to sing at every Sunday morning!). I can't believe that people are actually going to send their kids to school. Those poor teachers, making out their wills now... Also, as you know, I was excited that baseball started, but the Marlins just had 10 players test positive this weekend. I mean, this thing could totally wreck their future careers if they get a bad enough case (kind of hard to play baseball if you can't breathe). I just feel like we need to cancel this year...
ReplyDeleteKids do catch it and Die, we Lost a Great-Grandchild to it way back in February, so from the Jump we know Children can be Victims and that they aren't immune to it or just get a Mild Case of it! Makes me angry they're still touting that obvious Lie to Families when they know better and that they're covering up the risk factors of contagion and how, even if you survive, your internal organs can be trashed for Life and it is too new to know how much Long Term damage has been done! Yes, heard about the Texas Doc and Steroid Treatment, at least it's a proven Drug but there are some risks to Steroids, but at least we know those side effects. Experimental Treatments not known are scarier to me, I don't want to be a Guinea Pig to 'see what happens'. The Moron-In-Chief has no Experts at those alleged Pandemic Briefings and they're redundant since he has no Plan of Action, just stating what we already know, it's worse, not better... no shit! Tho' he was coerced to say that about Masks he's still running around not wearing one after the lone staged Photo Op, he thinks his Illusionist Tactics will convince people he's sincere, not working, his Approval ratings continue to crater, I'm just surprised there's still 40% who think he's doing a good job! Either they're so poorly Educated, Uninformed, Stupid or Racist Fanatics that want a New World Order that they will Support him regardless of what a Train Wreck he's making of our Country... their Devotion is Cult based.
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