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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1st-coronavirus-death-u-s-officials-say-n1145931
Health officials in Washington state said on Saturday a coronavirus patient has died.
The death is the first from coronavirus illness COVID-19 in the United States.
"It is a sad day in our state as we learn that a Washingtonian has died from COVID-19. Our hearts go out to his family and friends. We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement.
President Donald Trump said during a press conference Saturday afternoon the person who died was in their late 50's and was "medically fragile."
Good lord this is getting bad.
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You do not know what to believe. Trump is of course repeating what he was told. He does not know first hand. I read somewhere else the person who died was 19. Yes, it is bad. It is not the flu and it is not a bad cold. You do not lock 11 million people in their homes for a bad cold. Nor do you shut down countries, close boarders, and cancel all flights for the flu or a bad cold.
I think that things could get a lot worse. I have already noticed shelves totally wiped out of certain items at Walmart this weekend. If people start hoarding things then everybody else will do the same thing. And you have a crisis on your hands.
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I'm waiting for zombies....awesome...pew pew bang bang
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very sad to hear that. May God protect us all :rose: :rose:
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It is sad news. But if people fear tomorrow they will never be able to enjoy today or any other day. It was under quarantine the guy died in. Don't fear this virus out break it has not gotten as bad as predicted by the news which loves to fear monger people into a panic. Cowards like that should lose their jobs
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This was a surprise, worked for Ebola maybe it would pull Coronaviruses out too!
Hemopurifier made of protein mesh material attaches to a dialysis machine - The specially designed filter is made of a protein that acts as glue for proteins found on the Ebola virus surface. Over a period of 6.5 hours, the filter extracted the virus from the blood that flows through. While most dialysis filters can pull out molecules that are less than 4 nanometers in diameter, the virus filter boasts a mesh that’s able to filter out larger viral particles that are less than 250 nanometers. That means only the virus is pulled out, and the immune cells remain in the blood, ready to fight off any remaining viral invaders.
RELATED STORIES
https://time.com/3586271/ebola-treatment-dialysis-blood/
That’s when Geiger recalled reading about a novel way of treating viruses that didn’t involve drugs. Aethlon Medical, a California-based company, was testing a way to quite literally filter viruses out of the blood of infected patients. The team had been testing their device, which attached to standard kidney dialysis machines, on hepatitis C and HIV patients in India. The German doctors, desperate to help their patient, asked to test it for Ebola.
“We had no [idea] about how much [virus] would be extracted, because this was the first patient, but I was very surprised because the drop in viral load was deeper than I expected,” says Geiger. Before the filtration began, the patient’s virus count was about 400,000 per mL blood. After the session it had dropped to 1,000 copies/mL.
What’s more, when Geiger’s team sent the filter, which was designed to safely contain the Ebola virus it had extracted, to the University of Marburg, which has a biosafety level 4 laboratory for safely handling the virus, they learned that the device had managed to trap 242 million copies of the virus.
Freed from that viral burden, the patient soon began to improve rapidly. His own immune system began fighting off the remaining virus, and he no longer needs dialysis or a ventilator. The patient is walking and waiting to be released from the hospital.
Geiger stresses that it’s not clear yet whether the Hemopurifier alone was responsible for the patient’s recovery, since he was given other experimental therapies, but the amount of virus removed from his body and his rapid recovery after the filtration suggests that it at least played a role in helping him survive his infection.
While puling viruses out of infected individuals has never been tried before, Geiger believes it will be an important strategy for treating not just Ebola but other viral infections as well, including HIV, hepatitis and even influenza. “It’s a very interesting concept. The big advantage is that the plasma is filtered, and only the virus is removed and the other plasma components like immune cells go back to the patient. That’s important because with viral infections, the patient is in a reduced immune situation.”
The device works with most standard kidney dialysis machines, so Geiger says most hospitals would have no problem using it. And his team have worked out the mechanics of setting the blood flow to the proper levels to ensure the filter works at its best. “We have all the data that could be applied at other centers and for other users of the device,” he says.
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It is sad news. But if people fear tomorrow they will never be able to enjoy today or any other day. It was under quarantine the guy died in. Don't fear this virus out break it has not gotten as bad as predicted by the news which loves to fear monger people into a panic. Cowards like that should lose their jobs
I have not seen the news predict any numbers. They said it will be wide spread in the US which is happening. The man who introduced it to the nursing home where several people died has been all over the US spreading and infecting people. It is popping up every where. New cases and states every day. So no it is not fear monger. If you do not want to believe this is real then don't. If you want to do nothing to prepare then don't. But don't be online crying about how you should have been warned. The virus is very contagious and is also quite deadly. They are not cowards.
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I was curious to see how many were being reported and the number has climbed:
Coronavirus: US death toll climbs to 11 as California declares state of emergency
Confirmed cases in New York state now at 13
House passes $8.3bn emergency bill
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https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-updates.html
A newly identified coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is spreading across the globe. Here's what you need to know about the virus and the disease it causes, called COVID-19.
Coronavirus live updates: Poland reports first infection as cases globally pass 93,000.
Los Angeles County reported six new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday (March 4). All of the cases are linked with an "assumed known exposure," such as a history of travel, exposure to a traveler or close contact with a known case, officials said. The county declared a local health emergency to better prepare for and respond to the virus.
This is the most encouraging portion, that there is a known chain of contact and we are aware of it in this outbreak!
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Thank you all for the information you have passed along.
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https://corona.help/
This site updates and has the world statistics, prevention methods and articles
This is a sample:
How to Treat Symptoms:
We strongly advise you to contact a medical specialist in case you suspect that your are displaying symptoms of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV infection). If your symptoms are not too strong and you haven't been in close contact with persons that have travelled to/from China recently, then you most probably are experiencing common flu symptoms.
Here's what you can do to alleviate flu symptoms:
go to your local pharmacy and get yourself fever and pain medications.
drink plenty of fluids.
stay at home and make sure you rest until the symptoms are gone.
use room humidifiers and take hot showers in order to help your throat heal faster.
contact your healthcare provider by phone and make sure to let them know about all your symptoms, so that they can provide a much better treatment in case your symptoms get worse.
common flu/ common human coronavirus illnesses should normally vanish on their own, as the human body is perfectly capable of repealing such viruses.
the presence of the 2019-nCoV illness is harder to detect in younger patients.
Until the 2019 Wuhan Novel Coronavirus is contained and eradicated we strongly advise you to follow all the tips listed above, and if you are displaying any symptoms that are resembling those of a powerful flu then you will contact your healthcare provider as soon as possible.
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I believe they were residents of a senior housing facility.,
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Very sad and very scary for sure.
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This is new and very interesting! I would go there and be tested!
Governor Cuomo announces first drive through coronavirus …
https://www.bing.com/search?q=New+Rochelle+drive-through+testing&filters=tnTID%3a%22B64E17F1-E3A8-4d26-95E0-33B8947B374E%22+tnVersion%3a%223435221%22+segment%3a%22popularnow.carousel%22+tnCol%3a%222%22+tnOrder%3a%228f533777-9a9d-4266-bc8b-997867eadab5%22&FORM=HPNN01
https://wnyt.com/news/governor-cuomo-announces-first-drive-through-coronavirus-testing-center-new-rochelle/5673293/
Governor Cuomo announced the first drive through coronavirus testing center is opening in New Rochelle on Friday. It will open at 10:30 a.m.
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So many events and gatherings have been cancelled! This feels unbelievable. I hope people will use good sense about staying healthy!
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My issue with China is why didn't they stop all transportation out of their country when they discovered Covid-19? If they had done their job, we would not have to stress ourselves because of their lack of handling the situation correctly. Now we have some many people afraid to leave their home or go out anywhere. This is too much for people to handle.
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Coronavirus Vaccines — Precision Vaccinations
https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/vaccines/coronavirus-vaccines
Mar 10, 2020 · Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates Conducting Human Clinical Trials: INO-4700 MERS-CoV is a DNA plasmid vaccine that expresses the MERS CoV spike (S) glycoprotein. Inovio expects to advance INO-4700 into a Phase 2 field study in the Middle East and Africa where outbreaks have been observed, with full funding from CEPI.
Coronaviruses without preventive vaccines are the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), and the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease in humans.
There are 5 approaches currently being taken by various organizations deploying different technologies to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. As of March 13, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration has not approved any preventive or therapeutic vaccines for use against the SARS, MERS or SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses.
INO-4800 DNA Coronavirus Vaccine - March 12, 2020 - INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it has received a new $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the testing and scale-up of CELLECTRA® 3PSP proprietary smart device for the intradermal delivery of INO-4800, a DNA vaccine for COVID-19 disease.
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I found this site off another survey platform and it has interesting topics for everything health and wellness related. Must see:
https://thirdage.com/a-5-step-coronavirus-survival-plan-for-seniors/
thirdAGE.com is a premier health and wellness site targeted to women of all ages and their families. Healthy living matters more than ever—and women don’t just take care of themselves, they care for their family’s health too. When it comes to health decisions—they make 80% of them. thirdAGE provides thoughtfully curated health and lifestyle content, offering a full-range of interactive up-to-the-moment information —including video, slideshows, health condition centers, articles about cutting-edge research and more—all medically reviewed and approved by our team of thirdAGE physicians.
The thirdAGE audience is growing exponentially and provides a powerful platform for building health and wellness awareness for this empowered group of women.
https://thirdage.com/ very nice website for information, good job!
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This was a surprise, worked for Ebola maybe it would pull Coronaviruses out too!
Hemopurifier made of protein mesh material attaches to a dialysis machine - The specially designed filter is made of a protein that acts as glue for proteins found on the Ebola virus surface. Over a period of 6.5 hours, the filter extracted the virus from the blood that flows through. While most dialysis filters can pull out molecules that are less than 4 nanometers in diameter, the virus filter boasts a mesh that’s able to filter out larger viral particles that are less than 250 nanometers. That means only the virus is pulled out, and the immune cells remain in the blood, ready to fight off any remaining viral invaders.
RELATED STORIES
https://time.com/3586271/ebola-treatment-dialysis-blood/
That’s when Geiger recalled reading about a novel way of treating viruses that didn’t involve drugs. Aethlon Medical, a California-based company, was testing a way to quite literally filter viruses out of the blood of infected patients. The team had been testing their device, which attached to standard kidney dialysis machines, on hepatitis C and HIV patients in India. The German doctors, desperate to help their patient, asked to test it for Ebola.
“We had no [idea] about how much [virus] would be extracted, because this was the first patient, but I was very surprised because the drop in viral load was deeper than I expected,” says Geiger. Before the filtration began, the patient’s virus count was about 400,000 per mL blood. After the session it had dropped to 1,000 copies/mL.
What’s more, when Geiger’s team sent the filter, which was designed to safely contain the Ebola virus it had extracted, to the University of Marburg, which has a biosafety level 4 laboratory for safely handling the virus, they learned that the device had managed to trap 242 million copies of the virus.
Freed from that viral burden, the patient soon began to improve rapidly. His own immune system began fighting off the remaining virus, and he no longer needs dialysis or a ventilator. The patient is walking and waiting to be released from the hospital.
Geiger stresses that it’s not clear yet whether the Hemopurifier alone was responsible for the patient’s recovery, since he was given other experimental therapies, but the amount of virus removed from his body and his rapid recovery after the filtration suggests that it at least played a role in helping him survive his infection.
While puling viruses out of infected individuals has never been tried before, Geiger believes it will be an important strategy for treating not just Ebola but other viral infections as well, including HIV, hepatitis and even influenza. “It’s a very interesting concept. The big advantage is that the plasma is filtered, and only the virus is removed and the other plasma components like immune cells go back to the patient. That’s important because with viral infections, the patient is in a reduced immune situation.”
The device works with most standard kidney dialysis machines, so Geiger says most hospitals would have no problem using it. And his team have worked out the mechanics of setting the blood flow to the proper levels to ensure the filter works at its best. “We have all the data that could be applied at other centers and for other users of the device,” he says.
UPDATE:
The Hemopurifier® in Infectious Disease :: Aethlon Medical ...
https://www.aethlonmedical.com/the-hemopurifier
The Hemopurifier® in Infectious Disease. We’re Developing Medical Countermeasures with Broad-Spectrum Capabilities Statement regarding Aethlon’s position with respect to the potential for use of the Hemopurifier as a countermeasure against the current coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak.
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I hope and pray that this pandemic dies down very soon. I just learned that one of my relatives tested positive for the virus. :(
I have had to work remotely from home over the past two weeks. While I enjoy the time away from work, I am understandably not happy with the circumstances which led to my tele-working.
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Tyson will reopen Waterloo plant where hundreds sickened
https://apnews.com/db0055d9b08c05193d1fe81c5c6fc46f
May 06, 2020 · Tyson will reopen Waterloo plant where hundreds sickened May 6, 2020 GMT WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Tyson Foods will begin limited operation Thursday of its huge pork processing plant in Waterloo, more than two weeks after closing the facility because of a coronavirus outbreak among workers, the company announced Tuesday.
[A mutant coronavirus has emerged, even more contagious ...
https://www.ajc.com/news/mutant-coronavirus-has-emerged-even-more-contagious-than-the-original-study-says/hie7CwOfn0AWHQcPAQsNiN/ftp://
Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19.
The new strain appeared in February in Europe, migrated quickly to the East Coast of the United States and has been the dominant strain across the world since mid-March, the scientists wrote. In addition to spreading faster, it may make people vulnerable to a second infection after a first bout with the disease, the report warned. The 33-page report was posted Thursday on BioRxiv, a website that researchers use to share their work before it is peer reviewed, an effort to speed up collaborations with scientists working on COVID-19 vaccines or treatments. That research has been largely based on the genetic sequence of earlier strains and might not be effective against the new one. The mutation identified in the new report affects the now infamous spikes on the exterior of the coronavirus, which allow it to enter human respiratory cells. The report's authors said they felt an "urgent need for an early warning" so that vaccines and drugs under development around the world will be effective against the mutated strain.
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