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Blood-pressure drugs are in the crosshairs of COVID-19 research
By Deborah J. Nelso(Reuters)
- Scientists are baffled by how
the coronavirus attacks the body..
killing many patients while barely
affecting others..
But some are tantalized by a clue..
A
disproportionate number of patients hospitalized by COVID-19..
the
disease caused by the virus..
have high blood pressure..
...In a recent interview with a medical journal, Anthony Fauci -
the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert - cited a report
showing similarly high rates of hypertension among COVID-19 patients who
died in Italy and suggested the medicines, rather than the underlying
condition, may act as an accelerant for the virus...
..fierce debate among scientists over the
impact of widely prescribed blood-pressure drugs...
...Researchers
agree that the life-saving drugs affect the same pathways that the novel
coronavirus takes to enter the lungs and heart. They differ on whether
those drugs open the door to the virus or protect against it...
Prof Isaac Ben-Israel..
claims that his analysis shows that the virus is self-limiting..
and peaks at 40 days before entering a rapid decline..
Across the globe, debate is raging about the best way to tackle the spread of coronavirus, with countries adopting radically different approaches in the fight against the disease.
But one Israeli professor claims that all efforts will lead to the
same result, because the disease is self-limiting, and largely vanishes
after 70 days, with or without any interventions.
...Major General Ben-Israel, who was also head of the Analysis and
Assessment Division of the Israeli Air Force Intelligence Directorate
and former chief Cybernetics adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, claims shutting down major economies is having devastating consequences for little gain...
Prof Babak Javid, a consultant in infectious diseases at Cambridge
University Hospitals, said: “To suggest that mitigation measures are
irrelevant to the trajectory of the spread of the virus doesn't take
into account the fundamental concept of the dynamics of transmission of
an infectious disease within infectious, susceptible and immune
individuals in a population.”
“They are correct in surmising that if exponential growth is unchecked, it will, in due course, decline. But that is only the case if a majority of the population are infected. It is not true if mitigation efforts have reduced the base number of people infected.
“A striking example is Singapore: now three months (around 90 days) since its first case. After an initial highly successful containment strategy, due to inability to prevent transmission in highly crowded worker dormitories, they are seeing a new, massive spike in cases in a population that was previously unexposed.”
“They are correct in surmising that if exponential growth is unchecked, it will, in due course, decline. But that is only the case if a majority of the population are infected. It is not true if mitigation efforts have reduced the base number of people infected.
“A striking example is Singapore: now three months (around 90 days) since its first case. After an initial highly successful containment strategy, due to inability to prevent transmission in highly crowded worker dormitories, they are seeing a new, massive spike in cases in a population that was previously unexposed.”
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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH
US president wonders if disinfectants could be injected into people to treat Covid-19
John Balmes, a pulmonologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital..
told Bloomberg News:
"Inhaling chlorine bleach would be absolutely the worst thing for the lungs..
The airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant..
Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe..
It's a totally ridiculous concept."
COMING UP
leeches sent for..
where is that little bleeder?
looking for the varmint..
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH
US president wonders if disinfectants could be injected into people to treat Covid-19
John Balmes, a pulmonologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital..
told Bloomberg News:
"Inhaling chlorine bleach would be absolutely the worst thing for the lungs..
The airway and lungs are not made to be exposed to even an aerosol of disinfectant..
Not even a low dilution of bleach or isopropyl alcohol is safe..
It's a totally ridiculous concept."
COMING UP
leeches sent for..
where is that little bleeder?
looking for the varmint..
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