The article below I wrote 8 years ago, but it has relevance to today.  I describe some of the tricks that were pulled when a pandemic vaccine was rushed into use in 2009, and how the agencies that rushed it covered their tracks over the next several years–Meryl Saturday, August 4, 2012 Rewriting the history…

Verbatim 8/31/20 from the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons: Many are afraid to take hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID as they have been told it could kill them because of its effect on the heart. Are you worried about this?  It is a fact that HCQ, azithromycin (Z-Pak™), and other drugs can prolong the QT…

I wrote this article in August, eleven years ago. The take-home lesson is that everyone having anything to do with a pandemic vaccine or drug program has had their product liability waived… as long as they don’t know there are product defects.  This incentivizes manufacturers to avoid testing products and fails to penalize them for…

From today’s Washington Post: “Belgium had one of the world’s worst [actually the worst recorded–Nass] per capita death rates this spring, with most of the mortality occurring in nursing homes. Now, even though cases have nearly quintupled compared to their lowest point in late June, Belgian hospitals remain calm. Very few cases are appearing in…

This protocol was developed by Dr. Paul Marik and additional colleagues over the past few months, and their results were published last week.  They report a mortality rate of 5.1% in hospitalized Covid patients using the protocol, which notably does include zinc.  Compared to other, historical data from hospitalized Covid patients, this is a 75%…

Deaths and hospitalization rates are the two measures available to the US public to best assess Covid extent and severity. Hospitalization rates are definitely down; see CDC’s graph below.  Mortality rates have held steady at 1000/day for the whole of the past month. I have no data on how treatment patterns have changed over time…

I have been criticized by USAToday and 6 other fact-checking sites over the past few days (since Plandem!c 2:  Indoctornation came out). In the film, I say I believe the coronavirus came from a lab.  The fact-checkers:  a) claim scientific consensus that the virus had a natural origin. But there is no consensus. For example,…

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, write that “the FDA’s actions regarding [hydroxychloroquine] HCQ may be directly costing…

If you were trying to watch the documentary Plandemic 2: Indoctornation after someone sent you a link on Facebook, you probably found it impossible. According to Forbes, Users who attempted to share the link were met with a warning message stating the URL to the video goes against Facebook’s community guidelines because it contained “COVID-19…

Today’s Science Magazine  describes how the NIH is seeking information on the specific SARS-Coronaviruses held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.  NIH had funded the Wuhan lab using the ‘non-profit’ EcoHealth Alliance (EHA,whose CEO Peter Daszac earned $400,000 yearly).  The complete role of EcoHealth Alliance has yet to be…

According to the AAP, 86 American children have died from Covid-19 through July 30, 2020. (UPDATE Aug 16:  186 was a mistake) According to the CDC in its latest year reporting on flu deaths,  “During the 2018–2019 season, 136 deaths in children with laboratory–confirmed influenza virus infection were reported in the United States. However, influenza-associated pediatric deaths are likely…

From the August 9, 2020 Washington Post: So, when you start screening asymptomatic people who you think may have been exposed, you find lots of positives.  They are then called cases.  But they were not sick.  Did they spread the infection farther?   If they did not spread it farther, then we can all stop…

Covid has brought out the finest in government mismanagement.  Now it is being applied to schools.Does anyone believe the notion that students will be safer attending school two and a half days a week, instead of five? Who dreamed this up? Do they think if your child inhales 1/2 as much virus, or uses the…

There is a lot of published evidence that surgical masks, which are equivalent to dust masks, and are basically the same as the cloth masks we are now wearing, provide little or no protection to the wearer against respiratory viruses.Current dogma is that they are supposed to protect others from your exhaled viruses and secretions….

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/510700-why-doctors-and-researchers-need-access-to-hydroxychloroquine BY PETER A. MCCULLOUGH, M.D., OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —  08/07/20 10:30 AM  THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  On July 6, a team of doctors from Henry Ford Hospital, supported by physicians from Baylor University Medical Center, submitted an urgent request to the Food and Drug Administration…

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html Below is entirely copied from the CDC website: From June 20 (MMWR week 25) – July 11 (MMWR week 28), overall weekly hospitalization rates increased for three consecutive weeks. Data for the weeks ending July 18 and July 25 (MMWR weeks 29 and 30) currently show a decline; however, those data are likely to…

On July 29, Ohio’s Pharmacy Board announced that beginning the following day, neither chloroquine drug could be dispensed to prevent or treat Covid-19. Prescriptions would require a diagnosis and those for Covid would be rejected.  Not only that, if a prescriber happened to have obtained the drug and wished to provide it to to a patient,…

Below is a Wall Street Journal article I am reposting in full–Nass https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politics-of-hydroxychloroquine-11594831408 OPINION | COMMENTARY The Politics of Hydroxychloroquine Trump touted it, so Biden denounces it. The FDA has suspended a permit for its use. Let doctors decide. By Allysia Finley July 15, 2020 12:43 pm ET Hubert Humphrey began his career as a…

The CDC provides updated US death data on 7/24/20 “involving Covid” (2nd column) @ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm Deaths in the US have been FLAT or DECREASING over the last five weeks. Why aren’t you hearing this? Because the media want to instill panic so they talk about rising cases (many asymptomatic, based on often inaccurate lab tests).  We…

The following is the text of Professor Harvey Risch’s opinion piece in yesterday’s issue of Newsweek. As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within…

Writing in the New England Journal, Dr. Fauci and his deputy, Clifford Lane tell us that despite “appropriate treatment with Remdesivir and dexamethasone, far too many people with Covid-19 will die.”  And if Fauci keeps preventing the use of cheap, available and effective treatments, he will be correct. See “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to…

Curious about the scientific evidence regarding masking?  It turns out, according to two Oxford professors of Evidence-Based Medicine who reviewed the world literature on this subject, that no reliable scientific evidence supports the use of masks.  No reliable evidence says they don’t work, either.  The “science” does not help us understand their pros and cons.  …

This entire post is a copy of the website in the title.  I was in a hurry when I posted it and did not make that clear.  https://c19study.com/ @CovidAnalysis     Share   Tweet         PrEP100%   PEP100%   Early100%   Late61%   All75%     65 studies (39 peer reviewed)  COVID deaths:  660,803 Global HCQ studies….

Back in March, I considered COVID-19 an extremely serious threat to all, and wrote detailed guidance on how people could protect themselves, here and here.   While I believe that my advice was prudent given what was known at the time, I now believe the current threat of COVID-19 is being exaggerated by the media and public figures, to…

What could be worse than giving potentially lethal doses of hydroxychloroquine to Hospitalized Covid-19 patients? The REMAP-Covid study is using the same HCQ dose as the Recovery trial for 6 days.  But it is even worse for the following reasons: You have to be close to death, either on a ventilator or in shock, on…

The Trump administration arranged on March 28 for 30-60 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine and certain (unapproved, unlicensed) chloroquine tablets to be donated by manufacturers to the National Strategic Stockpile (NSS) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).  The official who signed the EUA is the FDA’s Chief Scientist, Denise M. Hinton.  Denise Hinton is a nurse with a master’s degree,…

The Solidarity Trial is a WHO-led conglomeration of many national trials of treatments for Covid-19. In March alone, the WHO collected $108 million from donors to cover costs of Solidairy clinical trials. Per the WHO: As of 3 June 2020, more than 3500 patients have been recruited in 35 countries, with over 400 hospitals actively recruiting patients. Overall, over 100 countries…

Turkey started testing early, with rapid results.  They did case-finding and quarantines, and they used hydroxychloroquine as soon as someone got sick. Mortality in a premier hospital in Turkey for Covid-19 is under 1%.  Mortality in New York hospitals for Covid-19 cases has been reported here and here as 20%.   The BBC goes into depth…

The following discussion comes straight from consumerlab, which is a subscription service.  This is the best information I have found for producing a washable, highly effective mask that can protect both the user and everyone else nearby–Meryl Here is their August 2020 update. Question: How can I make a mask that is as good as…

I think most people have already figured out you can’t trust the mass media on the subject of the chloroquine drugs and Covid-19… let’s avoid the question of which subjects can they be trusted with?   I thought you could trust medical journals to a degree, but even they, whose editors are physicians, have been…

I hope you have noticed that while the mass media have spent 2 months railing about the dangers of hydroxychloroquine and how it may kill you, they have had a hard time finding doctors to issue the alarm on-camera.  Practicing doctors usually know that the risks of HCQ are no greater than the risk of…

Why Is Protecting COVID-19 Origin Narrative so Important? STORY AT-A-GLANCE ·       The manufactured anthrax crisis of 2001 initiated the PATRIOT Act, one of the most severe compromises of our personal freedoms up to that point. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to take away even more freedoms ·       It appears influential virologists are protecting…

A big news story came out today regarding the results of a Lancet study of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in hospitalized Covid-19 patients.  The first author is, naturally, from Harvard. What the authors found were considerably higher rates of arrhythmia and death in the patients who received a chloroquine drug, with even worse outcomes if…

 US CDC proved efficacy of chloroquine for SARS 15 years ago. Virol J. 2005; 2: 69. Chloroquine is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread Published online 2005 Aug 22. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-2-69 Martin J Vincent,1 Eric Bergeron,2 Suzanne Benjannet,2 Bobbie R Erickson,1 Pierre E Rollin,1 Thomas G Ksiazek,1 Nabil G Seidah,2 and Stuart T Nichol1 PMCID: PMC1232869 PMID: 16115318 1Special Pathogens Brach, Division of Viral…

From CNN: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be backing away from a theory he and President Donald Trump were pushing that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China… Yet he still wants to “punish” China.  What a blustering fellow he is, drunk on power, ignorant of facts (as are we all)…

I have worked with investigative reporter Sam Husseini to help with background information on biodefense, biological warfare, lab escapes. Sam was featured in this 1 hour documentary about gain of function research, biolabs, and the origin of SARS-CoV-2. He provides a profound and detailed discussion of these subjects in this extremely worthwhile film, made by…

I have not written much about testing since the early days of this crisis, because there is almost no reliable information.  The Infectious Diseases Society of America issued recommendations about testing two days ago, yet the authors admit that their advice is almost evidence-free. So, this is all I can say reliably at this time. 1.  A fabulous…

A spectacular Washington Post article of May 4 connected the lack of protective respirators (aka N95 masks) with Emergent BioSolutions (the anthrax vaccine manufacturer). Emergent received incredible insider contracts from the current Assistant DHHS Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Robert Kadlec, who early in life attended the Air Force Academy and DOD medical school,…

Here’s the thing.  For the first week of clinical illness, disease is primarily in the respiratory tract, and viral titers are rising.  After a week, you start making detectable antibodies, and usually viral titers decline. But other processes are at work making you sick, especially an inappropriate immune response. And you are still dealing with…

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/widely-used-surgical-masks-are-putting-health-care-workers-at-serious-risk/ With medical supplies in high demand, federal authorities say health workers can wear surgical masks for protection while treating COVID-19 patients—but growing evidence suggests the practice is putting workers in jeopardy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said lower-grade surgical masks are “an acceptable alternative” to N95 masks unless workers are performing an intubation…

https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/murder-most-foul-perps-behind-covid-19 … But here we are. As our new reality sinks in, as we adjust to lockdowns and home schooling and long lines at grocery stores, as we look for ways to protect ourselves and our families—and as some grieve for lost loved ones—most of us are also seeking answers. Why does this virus cause…

My state has had 1156 positive COVID cases, 0.1% of the population, and 30 new cases in the last day.   Twenty-two percent of cases have been in healthcare workers.  New cases peaked in early April.  My county has had only 10 diagnosed cases, though we don’t know how many people who have second homes here,…

Below you can go to the ClinicalTrials.gov site for the NAIAD Remdesivir trial (ACTT) that Fauci claimed created a new “standard of care” for COVID-19.  The same Fauci who claimed to be a purist about hydroxychloroquine, demanding well designed randomized clinical trials before using it, has done the unthinkable in medicine: changed the goalposts, twice,…

The UK has had a surge in diagnosed cases and deaths over the past few weeks.  Its lockdown started late compared to the rest of western Europe. The initial strategy was to protect the most vulnerable and allow the rest of the country to develop herd immunity.  Some say that is still part of the…

http://www.aidsorigins.com/covid-19-and-origins-aids-debate Ed Hooper took a very deep dive into the origin of AIDS in his highly lauded book, The River. How did HIV jump species from monkey to man?  While blamed by some on the consumption of bush meat, Hooper suggested that the use of monkey kidneys to manufacture live polio vaccines, in the Belgian…

Prof Stuart Newman believes genetic engineering may have been involved at some point in the virus’s history Another expert on biotechnology has attacked the evidence being used to quash suggestions that SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that causes COVID-19, might have been genetically engineered. Professor Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York…

Great detailed pieces from Newsweek, which has been delving into the US government’s financial support for “gain of function” (which means increasing the virulence of a pathogen) research in Wuhan, China, which might have contributed to the formation of SARS-CoV-2. They were posted April 27, and 29.  From the latest story: The NIH research consisted…

Dr. Petrovsky, of Flinders University, Australia, was asked his opinion on the origin of SAR-2 and wrote the following:  “An extremely important but still unanswered question is what was the source of COVID-19 virus. While COVID-19 has close similarities to SARS and other bat viruses no natural virus matching to COVID-19 has been found in…

(Reuters Health) – Patients may continue to shed the SARS-CoV-2 virus for up to six weeks after symptoms emerge, a small study of recovered COVID-19 patients suggests.  One third tested positive 4 weeks after start of symptoms… so when can you go back to work after getting COVID? Dr. Zhang and colleagues summarized their experience…

Dr. Oz interviewed him here.

From FierceBiotech: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to grant Gilead Sciences’ experimental COVID-19 drug remdesivir a special, speedy approval, despite it failing to show any definitive clinical signs that it works. The report, from Japanese news site Kyodo, could make Japan the first country in the world to approve the med, which was…

Excellent discussion of what we know, don’t know, and may be assuming incorrectly–by Marc Lipsitch, PhD, professor at Harvard School of Public Health. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-immunity.html

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/did-this-virus-come-from-a-lab-maybe-not–but-it-exposes-the-threat-of-a-biowarfare-arms-race/ Dangerous pathogens are captured in the wild and made deadlier in government biowarfare labs. Did that happen here? SAM HUSSEINI There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild are sometimes studied in labs — and sometimes made more dangerous. That possibility,…

Mortality rates and spread We have had 5 weeks of quarantine.  I earlier pointed out that there is an average 4 week lag between exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and death (or recovery) for those with a significant Covid-19 illness.  So, if the quarantine was going to work as planned, we should now be able to see…

There are so many questions.  But so few answers.  So little to go on.  No workable Plan B in sight. When to reopen the economy?   When to send children back to school?   Will there be a second wave, or even a third wave, as occurred with the 1918 swine flu pandemic? Those questions demand answers,…

Dr. Tony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) does well.  According to the NY Times, “He is among the most highly paid federal employees, earning about $400,000 a year, more than the vice president or the chief justice of the United States.” Based on reporting by the Associated Press and British…

It turns out that hydroxychloroquine has been tested in a couple of hundred clinical trials–BEFORE Covid-19 appeared–for an extraordinarily wide range of medical conditions.  Just to give you a feel for the range of illnesses the drug was tried on (I stopped making a list when I got to 30), they include obesity, the prevention of…

I was interviewed by Dennis Bernstein along with independent journalist Sam Husseini tonight on KPFA (Pacifica)’s Flashpoints show.  I did my best to create some flashpoints over the failures of preparedness by the responsible federal agencies, and the enduring threat to the planet from biological “defense” research. https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=332258

I am going out on a limb here, since genetics has evolved quite a bit in the decades since I studied it.  I would appreciate readers to comment on arguments pro and con the natural evolution theory of SARS-CoV-2. While SARS-Cov-2 might have evolved naturally, from bats, pangolins and civets, I have trouble seeing that…

It is all too easy to find mistakes, misstatements and omissions made by public health officials around the Coronavirus pandemic.  Consider the fluent but facile Dr. Fauci.  Have you ever heard him say that the institute he directs has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on coronavirus research?  Has he tried to help Americans understand any…

SARS-CoV (the first SARS virus) and its cousin SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing our current pandemic) are classified by the US government as Select Agents, organisms that pose a significant threat to humans, and could be used for bioterrorism.  The current Select Agent program came into being after the 2001 anthrax letters event. The Department of Health…

In September 2018, the White House announced its improved National Biodefense Strategy, as required by Congress.  Below I have excerpted its Goals, Objectives and Conclusions, listed on pages 6-8 of the Strategy.  As you can see, despite the claimed quest for a biodefense capability, the US government has failed miserably in accomplishing any and all of…

1.  Coronavirus by the numbers Today, the United States has over half a million people who have tested positive for Coronavirus.   Today, the United States became the nation with the highest death toll in the world from the novel coronavirus.  Twenty thousand US deaths.  In the space of 6 weeks we have gone from zero…

(I was asked to post this–Meryl) Invited submission to the Committee on Government Reform for its November 14, 2001 Hearing: Comprehensive Medical Care for Bioterrorism Exposure Preparing a Medical Response to Bioterrorism  — A broad view of the problem — Seeking affordable protection — Identifying research needs — How much protection is obtainable? Preparing a…

Doctors in Wuhan have published the following: Conclusion Despite our small number of cases, the potential of HCQ in the treatment of COVID-19 has been partially confirmed. Considering that there is no better option at present, it is a promising practice to apply HCQ to COVID-19 under reasonable management. However, Large-scale clinical and basic research…

From  USA Today, August 17, 2014: More than 1,100 laboratory incidents involving bacteria, viruses and toxins that pose significant or bioterror risks to people and agriculture were reported to federal regulators during 2008 through 2012, government reports obtained by USA TODAY show. More than half these incidents were serious enough that lab workers received medical…

From Bloomberg’s article, “Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Go To The Press,”  NYU Langone Health employees received a notice Friday from Kathy Lewis, executive vice president of communications, saying that anyone who talked to the media without authorization would be “subject to disciplinary action, including termination.” Jim Mandler, a spokesman for NYU…

1.  I know about biological warfare/biodefense.  I am the first person in the world (according to publicly available literature) to have analyzed an epidemic and demonstrated that the epidemic was due to biological warfare. (1992 study of the 1978-1980 Rhodesian anthrax outbreak, published in Medicine and Global Survival, aka Physicians for Social Responsibility Quarterly (name…

In Search Of The Anthrax Attacker – Following Valuable Clues   By Meryl Nass, MD February 3, 2002   “Senior Bush administration officials have privately said that little progress is being made in the anthrax investigation, which has involved hundreds of investigators, [who] are no closer to finding the culprit, they say.” So reported Todd…

Various interviewees estimated the that the coronavirus tests they are familiar with are 75%, 85% or 100% accurate: Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for the division of disease control of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said he recently told a patient with mild symptoms who sought a test and received a negative result…

Janet Woodcock has spent most of the last 20 years as the head of FDA’s Center for Drugs.  Most of that time, while China and India took over the manufacturing of most of the world’s drugs, her head has been buried in the sand.  From FiercePharma: “As the spread of COVID-19 threatens to disrupt pharma…

This WaPo piece provides further evidence that the government is well aware this virus transmits via the airborne route.  As a result, indoor air that is shared with those infected (who may be asymptomatic or presymptomatic) carries risk of infection.  You don’t need to have someone cough on you.  Breathing infected air is enough to…

Unbelievable.  4 years ago, the FDA gave contractor Battelle half a million dollars to study the use of commercial decontamination equipment, using hydrogen peroxide gas, on N95 masks.  Battelle said the method worked in 2016.  But we are only just hearing about it, as thousands of healthcare workers get infected due, in part, to lack…

Here, the WaPo goes into the tawdry story of how DHHS’ Preparedness group and BARDA got prototypes for a machine to produce reusable N95 masks, then dropped the ball despite their $1.5B yearly funding for ‘preparedness.’ From  the NY Times: Few in the protective equipment industry are surprised by the shortages, because they’ve been predicted for…

Nature Medicine ran a 3 page article that claimed to explain why the novel coronavirus is not a lab construct.  USA Today wrote a summary piece explaining it: “If someone were seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as a pathogen, they would have constructed it from the backbone of a virus known to cause illness,”…

There is a huge disconnect between the personal protective equipment (PPE) healthcare workers (HCWs) should be wearing to protect themselves from coronavirus, and what actually exists right now for them to use.  The White House has told the governors to find their own supplies.  The equipment market is in chaos.  CDC is now telling HCWs to make their own…

From STAT, a report of an online meeting between Johns Hopkins infectious disease doctors and doctors from Zhejiang, one of China’s top medical schools, who had responded to the COVID-19 epidemic:  …We want to work together with you to help fight Covid-19, Wang told the Americans as the hourlong meeting began. Their first question: If…

FiercePharma on other drugs being considered for Covid-19: Other than remdesivir and chloroquine, researchers and physicians are also looking at other existing drugs to treat COVID-19. These include AbbVie’s HIV combo therapy Kaletra (Aluvia), which just failed a clinical study in China in critically ill patients. Chinese authorities, which have been dealing with the virus longer, are…

A view of gloves and boots used by medical staff, drying in the sun, at a center for victims of the Ebola virus in Guekedou.   Nitrile or latex gloves can be rewashed and reused.  Soap and water.  Hang to dry.   Face shields and goggles can be rewashed and reused–avoid bleach solutions which cloud…

This is a preliminary report from a Scottish doctor, and may turn out to be wrong later.  He has analyzed data from Italy on deaths, and concluded that those patients on ACE inhibitors or ARBs (which target ACE receptors, which are also used by coronavirus) had significantly higher death rates. Because coronavirus disease is currently…

Newest on a chloroquine drug trial, to start 3/24:  New York State is about to begin testing drugs for treatment of coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo said Sunday.  The feds have given the state 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine. Testing will kick off Tuesday, Cuomo said.  “The president is…

Here’s the story. Oddly, the WHO was initially going to omit studying the cheapest drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, despite support for them by Chinese doctors here and here and French doctors.  But now both have been added to WHO’s mega COVID-19 trial.

Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment–a 68 page guide Zhejiang University School of Medicine Thanks to Jack Ma/ Alibaba for the web creation and English translation of the Chinese guidelines found to be most useful in clinical care of COVID-19!

“The Food and Drug Administration late Friday approved the first coronavirus test that can be conducted entirely at the point of care for a patient — and deliver results in 45 minutes. The FDA granted “emergency use authorization” to Cepheid, a California company that makes a rapid molecular test for the coronavirus. The turnaround time for Cepheid’s…

A Medscape Commentary by John Medrola, MD “I have to remind the American doctor that life is changing.… It’s not a normal life. It’s a #COVID19 life. It’s a pandemic life.” With these words, spoken March 18, during a joint webinar of the Chinese Cardiac Society and the American College of Cardiology, Professor Bin Cao, MD, from China, jolted…

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open label non-randomized clinical trial 20 patients were treated, 16 patients (unmatched, nonrandomized) were controls, 6 treated patients lost to followup, in some cases due to worsening Update:  on March 25, India banned the export of hydroxychloroquine.  And has approved its use prophylactically: “The…

This paper is designed to help readers understand the new corona virus and why it has inevitably led to the quarantine measures currently imposed.  I will refer to the virus as the COVID-19 virus, as does the W.H.O., instead of using the official, but confusing, name SARS-CoV-2. The official name of the disease is COVID-19. Historical…

From STAT: “NIAID virologist Vincent Munster and his colleagues used a nebulizer — a device that creates an aerosol from liquids — to release samples into the air of both the new coronavirus and the one that caused the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s. They reported detecting viable virus 
in aerosols for up to three hours….

Eric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing Europe and US are mostly all on the same path. Note log Y-axis (linear=exponential; steeper line is more exponential). Japan also has limited testing. Only SK, Singapore and HK have it under control or improving. #COVID19 Twitter Ads info and privacy

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-answers-covid-19/ Medical staff wait outside rooms at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan, China.AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Much of the current discourse on — and dismissal of — the Covid-19 outbreak focuses on comparisons of the total case load and total deaths with those caused by seasonal influenza. But these comparisons can be deceiving, especially in the…

https://www.ad.nl/dossier-coronavirus/40-a-50-nederlandse-coronapatienten-op-intensive-cares-meer-dan-de-helft-is-onder-de-vijftig~a058aad2/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharing_web Today there are between forty and fifty corona patients in critical condition on Dutch intensive care units. “More than half of those patients are under fifty years old. There are also young people. “” That says chairman of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care (NVIC) Diederik Gommers, in an interview with this site.  Marcia Nieuwenhuis 03/14/20, 9:23…

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/study-highlights-ease-spread-covid-19-viruses?fbclid=IwAR1hJyLkXMqXzrRlmjgshJI0Qyc8jUjT6S7EJB2Eqk-u9BCeBkTnI5MSSOU COVID-19 can be spread before it causes symptoms, when it produces symptoms like those of the common cold, and as many as 12 days after recovery, according to a virologic analysis of nine infected patients published today on the preprint server medRxiv. Also, in a study published in today’s Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at Johns Hopkins found a median…

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/pdf–a great compilation of the world literature on decontaminating coronavirus in the environment. What has worked well to kill other coronaviruses on surfaces? Bleach (sodium hypochlorite) 0.21% dilution on a surface for one minute.  Different bottles of bleach have different concentrations, so calculate your dilution accordingly. Hydrogen peroxide 0.5% dilution for one minute Alcohol 70%…

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/short-staffed-and-undersupplied-coronavirus-crisis-strains-seattle-areas-capacity-to-deliver-care/

Number of specimens tested for SARS-CoV-2 by CDC labs (N=3,995) and U.S. public health laboratories* (N=15,749)†

The scope of this epidemic does not fit all the data we have been given. The Rzero number has to be greater than 2.2, much greater, to get so many cases so quickly in Wuhan and Lombardy, if the earliest case occurred in November-December, and the doubling time of the epidemic is 6 days.  The…

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2020/03/13/coronavirus-drug-update-the-latest-info-on-pharmaceutical-treatments-and-vaccines/#49181a7e21db Expect to see ASO3 or related adjuvant from GSK in experimental Coronavirus vaccines: GSK has previously developed a pandemic vaccine adjuvant platform, a system that helps to improve vaccines by strengthening the immune response in patients who receive it. In February, the company announced it was partnering with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to use that platform…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487329-ohio-health-official-estimates-100000-people-in-state-have-coronavirus A top health official in Ohio estimated on Thursday that more than 100,000 people in the state have coronavirus, a shockingly high number that underscores the limited testing so far. Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton said at a press conference alongside Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that given that the virus is spreading in the community in Ohio, she…

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-insight/as-pressure-for-coronavirus-vaccine-mounts-scientists-debate-risks-of-accelerated-testing-idUSKBN20Y1GZ?               CHICAGO (Reuters) – Drugmakers are working as quickly as possible to develop a vaccine to combat the rapidly spreading coronavirus that has infected more than 100,000 people worldwide.  Behind the scenes, scientists and medical experts are concerned that rushing a vaccine could end up worsening the infection in some…