Covid Definition and 88 Threads

First They Faced the Virus. Now Come the Medical Bills. https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-faced-virus-now-come-120944607.html Saw this article today. From the wording/descriptions in the article, it's not clear to me whether health providers can legally claim part of the estate of a deceased...

D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product, a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. So, the presence of D-dimer indicates that fibrinolysis is active in the body. Fibrinolysis should be considered beneficial against the backdrop of the danger...

From our local paper, unfortunately behind a paywall. However, a precis follows: Just up the road from where I live, Griffith University has developed a treatment to reduce the viral load by up to 99.99%. It uses a “gene-silencing” antiviral treatment that kills COVID-19 in what would be an...

Many of the Covid vaccines at present need two doses. Is the second dose, the same as the first dose, in terms of its contents and dosage? I specifically want to know if there is any variation in the contents of the second dose. Thanks.

There is a bias in the medical community toward getting vaccinated even if you have had Covid with symptoms. Example - https://health.clevelandclinic.org/when-should-you-get-vaccinated-if-youve-had-covid-19/ I am unaware of any hard science - incremental analysis - that would conclude that...

During this second wave of pandemic in our country, there have been several cases where the RT-PCR test is yielding false negatives. Many patients are being advised CT scans by doctors if the RT-PCR is negative, but the patient still shows symptoms of COVID. In many cases, this has given good...

Summary:: Article on doctors trying to diagnose patients who don’t have COVID but does have COVID indications. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-misdiagnosis

Here's a CDC link summarizing how a influenza vaccine is developed: Selecting viruses for flu vaccine However, as you know, we've had a record mild flu season because of covid. I'm wondering if this will adversely affect our ability to create an effective vaccine for the 2021 flu season due...

Check out: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-initiates-phase-1-study-novel-oral-antiviral If it works out may change the vaccine landscape entirely. Thanks Bill

Presently some 4-5 Covid vaccines are popular worldwide. pfizer, moderna, astrazeneca, sputnik to name a few. Some Chinese and Indian vaccines are also in the selected markets. It is said that all these vaccines elicit robust antibody responses against the SARS-cov2 virus. My question is if...

Hi, I'm a physicist so I have a basic knowledge of probability and hypothesis testing etc. I would like to more sophistically calculate from available data in my country whether ones Covid infected people have a statistically significant different probability of reinfection than people who are...

Hi All An interesting article on Covid long-haulers appeared in our local newspaper - the Courier Mail in Brisbane. Unfortunately it is behind a paywall - but a precis follows. Start of precis: Gary Macpherson could pull a golf cart around 18 holes without effort. He’d climb the six flights...

News release https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/preliminary-phase-iia-trial-results-of-molnupiravir-in-covid-19 Molnupiravir has passed part of a phase II-a study. Caveat: this is preliminary, not peer reviewed data. Study design Earlier paper Feb 24 2021...

https://www.worldobesity.org/news/statement-coronavirus-covid-19-obesity This is more of a medical practitioner's site than a research facility. This shows far greater impact on medical facilities and fatalities, apparently 90% of fatalities occur in chubby countries. News version...

I saw this today, and it's something for women to know. Mammograms Should Be Scheduled Before COVID-19 Vaccine or 4 to 6 Weeks After, Experts Say https://www.everydayhealth.com/cancer/breast-cancer/mammograms-should-be-scheduled-before-or-4-to-6-weeks-after-covid-19-vaccine-experts-say/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/health/neanderthal-gene-coronavirus-scn-wellness/

I can't post unless I put a message here but my question is pretty clear and there's nothing to add.

SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by south African Donar plasma from the abstract SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2, a novel lineage of the Coronavirus causing COVID-19, contains multiple mutations within two immunodominant domains of the spike protein. Here we show that this lineage exhibits...

The Covid disease has caused the emergence of the many of types of vaccines like DNA, mRNA, whole-inactivated-virus etc. Also many companies have brought on similar vaccines (Pfizer and moderna's mRNA vaccine). I want to know if any of these vaccines have adjuvants present in them. Which of the...

I discovered something really fun, that I would like to share. I bought a cheap ($30) digital photo album. It is cheap because it has no memory, just a USB port for a thumb drive. I also have more than 29 thousand pictures in my folders, some on the hard disk, some in the cloud. I even...

Normally, when a person gets infected by a virus and subsequently recovers from it, it is understood that he had developed sufficient antibodies. One can surmise that his T-cell contribution also could be satisfactory in its fight against the infection. In my view, the vaccines are supposed to...

I received results this morning that I’m COVID-19 positive. On Friday, my mom sent me a message on my watch saying that her Dr tested her at her normal checkup, I was in the lab at the time and just finished up my duties at template stage for testing a few thousand specimens (mainly for COVID)...

Here is the official peer reviewed Pfizer vaccine study published in the New England Journal of Medicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 This is a follow-up piece that describes what an emergency use authorization means and gives a perspective about follow-up...

Links for some of the science are included - this presentation is based on press releases. The peer reviewed data will be available shortly. Some things to note - results show both 64% and 90% effective,the video explains this one The tests looked for positive Covid tests in volunteers...

It is becoming apparent that the COVID pandemic may be casusing more harm than originally thought. Months after recovering from noncritical infections from COVID people are developing medical conditions that are greatly affecting their lives. Symptoms include tremors, vertigo, double vision...

I do curbside/drive-up pick-up service from various businesses. I order on their app. They pack it and when I arrive to the store, they put it in my trunk. No contact. I never have to roll down my window even. I let the groceries (non-refrigerated) or retail goods sit in the trunk for a...

Welcome to PF! I'm an HVAC engineer and I actually gave a talk/round-table with the founder of your organization a few years ago: https://www.westchesterbiotechproject.org/innovation-in-research-2017 One factoid I give on labs that speaks to what people know is that a single 8' constant volume...

https://www.embs.org/ojemb/articles/covid-19-artificial-intelligence-diagnosis-using-only-cough-recordings/ A study has been posted in Engineering in Medicine and Biology (article) that describes the methods and results from an MIT algorithm as applied to asymptomatic COVID-19. Per the...

US Covid-19 fatality rates are the highest among top 18 developed countries -primary claim The US medical system and Covid-19 therapy are both as good as it gets, therefore other factors intervene <- is what the letter says. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771841 I need...

Hi All Someone passed onto me the following supercomputer analysis of the Covid virus: https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63 Very interesting. Thanks Bill

� Source Deaths Data timestamp https://www]cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html 175,651 Aug 23 2020 12:15PM EDT https://www]worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries 180,724 August 24, 2020, 16:47 GMT Johns Hopkins U ARCGIS* 176,901 8/24/2020, 10:27:56 AM...

When cells get "Hi-jacked" to make new virus particles it usually has a considerable effect on us, and we feel tired and unwell. The so-called "superspreaders " are presumably able to ignore these effects , but they must have them to a lesser degree than usual.

After many months what comes out of the mouth and nose of someone infected with Covid 19 has not been directly observed. A single virus particle of Covid 19 is about 120 nanometers in diameter. This means that to see the virus, visible light wavelengths of 400 nm to 700 nm are too long to...

Russia's vaccine news has me pondering. How often after a successful phase 2 study do phase 3 studies show that the vaccine causes harm? If I were offered a COVID-19 vaccine that had passed phase 2 trials, I'd accept it. Is that foolhardy of me? Is it possible to use existing data to model...

If you type in google.com any 2 or 3 digit numbers combinations before "new cases" for example "312 new cases" into google there will always be a result with a covid19 article correlating with the number... why is that?

My main reason for posting this is to prevent overreaction to the research, especially from the "pill press" internet people and the impact that has on non-science people. Yes, it is interesting. No, it is not definitive. Worried about it? Take a short 10 minute walk, 5 or 6 days a week, in...

This is an ER doctor in New York with a respirator with cartridges. Due to shortages of the N95. There are hundreds of doctors in my country using them too. I even bought one. But I noticed something dangerous. The exhalation valve has only a thin rubber flap that moves when you talk or exhale...

An article published Monday in "Computers, Materials, & Continua" identifies leading indicators of which patients will go on to develop ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). From the abstract: Among the features identified as possible indicators: A pdf of the full article can be...