Covid19: Global reports, news and updates

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Commuter temperature checks under consideration in lockdown easing plans

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/commuter-t...230130443.html


Commuters could be asked to check their temperature at home before travelling under plans to ease the coronavirus lockdown being considered by the Government.

The Prime Minister will next week set out a “road map” detailing how people might get to work and how children can go back to school or into childcare.

Boris Johnson has said he wants to “get our economy moving” but there are concerns that the return to work could see the virus spread on public transport.

The Times reported that commuters could be asked to take their temperature before travelling, and those with an elevated reading – a symptom of Covid-19 – would be expected to stay at home.

A senior Government source confirmed the plans are being looked at but stressed they are a “long way” from being policy.

It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said his target for 100,000 Covid-19 tests per day had been met, which he hailed as an “incredible achievement”.

The number of people who have died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK as of 5pm on Thursday rose to 27,510.
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Coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals in England (PA Graphics)

Speaking at the daily Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said 122,347 tests were performed in the 24 hours up to 9am on Friday, adding that testing would help “unlock” the UK’s lockdown.

But questions have been raised over how the tests have been counted, with changes in the last few days meaning newer home test kits have been counted as they are dispatched.

The overall total also includes tests dispatched to “satellite testing locations” – such as hospitals that have a particularly urgent need – but does not detail whether the tests have actually been used.

When he set the target, Mr Hancock said the UK “will carry out” 100,000 tests every day by the end of April.

Elsewhere:

– The Sun reported that the PM wants to implement his plan to restart the economy on May 26, while the paper said the Premier League could return on June 12.

– Leo Varadkar said Ireland will begin its journey to a new normal after a further two weeks of the current restrictions.

– A potential treatment for Covid-19 using plasma from recovered patients is to be trialled by doctors at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital.

– New data from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre suggested more than 70% of patients with coronavirus admitted to critical care are men.

– Fertility services will be allowed to reopen after treatment was stopped due to Covid-19, bringing hope to couples trying for a baby, the Health Secretary confirmed.

– Office for National Statistics analysis found that people living in the most deprived areas of England have experienced coronavirus mortality rates more than double those living in the least deprived areas.

The Government’s national testing co-ordinator, Professor John Newton, told reporters there had been “no change” to the methodology but said advice had been sought on counting as “new ways of delivering tests” were brought in.

He said some 27,497 kits sent out to homes were included in the total alongside 12,872 tests delivered to satellite locations.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Prof Newton insisted “whichever way” the results are counted, the 100,000 target would have been met.

He said: “All the tests are only counted once, and you can count tests when they go out or when they come back in, and whichever way you do it we still meet the target.”

Guidance on the Government website appears to have changed on April 28 to include wording saying home tests and satellite tests were being included.
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People queue in their cars outside a household waste recycling plant in Manchester which has reopened after closing in March (Peter Byrne/PA)

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said “many would have expected the 100,000 promise to have been met by actually carrying out testing, not simply because 39,000 kits had been mailed out”.

Meanwhile, queues have built up outside rubbish tips as they reopened for the first time since lockdown.

Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has said councils should be confident to reopen tips “as soon as possible”, although there have been warnings that protective equipment for waste workers and proper social distancing should be in place.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority reopened some of its household waste recycling centres on Saturday, with restrictions and social distancing measures in place.

At the waste centre on Reliance Street in Manchester, a queue of cars was already waiting by 7.30am, half an hour before it was scheduled to open.

[Sarah Rainsong]

Maryland's GOP governor deploys National Guard to protect COVID-19 tests from being seized by feds

Governors of both parties have complained of the Trump administration seizing personal protective equipment
IGOR DERYSH
MAY 1, 2020 6:19PM (UTC)

National Guard troops were protecting a shipment of COVID-19 tests Maryland ordered from South Korea from being seized by the feds Thursday, Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., said.

"The National Guard and the state police are both guarding these tests at an undisclosed location," the Republican governor told The Washington Post.


Hogan said the decision was motivated by reports from other governors who revealed that the Trump administration had seized supplies they purchased.

"There had been reports of — for example in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker told the story of his planeload coming in getting confiscated by the federal government," Hogan said.

Baker, a fellow Republican, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seized an order of 3 million masks at the port of New York, after which he had to rely on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to bring in supplies on the team's private plane.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, told CNN that FEMA "swept up" an order of 500 ventilators purchased by the state. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, also a Democrat, kept a shipment of protective equipment from China secret to prevent the state from suffering a similar fate.

The chief physician at the Veterans Health Administration told The Washington Post earlier this week that FEMA had redirected a shipment of 5 million masks so it could replenish the national stockpile.

A hospital official in Massachusetts wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine that he was forced to smuggle equipment in food trucks in order to avoid a seizure.

A FEMA spokesperson told Salon in a statement earlier this week that it "does not" and "has not" diverted shipments of personal protective equipment, but the agency did not respond when asked why the governors said it had.

Hogan ordered the tests from South Korea with the help of his wife, who was born in the country, after complaining that the Trump administration had left states to figure out their own testing supply.

"States have been competing on the open market and the domestic market and the international market . . . throughout this entire crisis. Competing with each other and the federal government," Hogan told MSNBC last week. "I'm not sure it should have been that way, but that's the way it is — it's the way the president said it had to be, so that's what we were operating under."

Trump groused about the move at a recent White House news briefing, arguing that Hogan "could've called [Vice President] Mike Pence, could've saved a lot of money."

"If there were an easier way, we certainly would have taken it," Hogan told MSNBC. "The president said the governors are on their own and they should focus on getting their own tests, and that's exactly what we did. His message changed yesterday. I'm not sure why."

Hogan said on Thursday that the state had worked for weeks to secure the tests.

"We spent about 22 days and nights dealing with this whole transaction with Korea. We dealt with the Korean embassy, folks at the State Department, and our scientists on both sides trying to figure out these tests," he said. "And then at the last moment — I think 24 hours before — we got the sign-off from the FDA and Border and Customs to try to make sure that we landed this plane safely."

The plane was met "with a large contingent of Maryland National Guard and Maryland state police, because this was an enormously valuable payload," he added. "It was like Fort Knox to us, because it's going to save the lives of thousands of our citizens."

In spite of obvious bias in this article, it does raise some flags. Why are the feds going around seizing medical shipments? I have to yet to hear one good (i.e. justifiable or non-malicious) reason.

[Gwin Ru]

Posted by Sophocles (here)
Chris Martenson getting closer?

[...]Newsweek Bombshell: Covid-19 Virus Lab-Made? [...]

See also this post about the man-made evidences

[The Moss Trooper]

"We haven't infected enough of the population with this virus"

Oh dear.

A Freudian slip?

Word salad?

Verbal diarrhoea?............

Surely not, it can't be.......... It can't be 'The Truth' coming out of her mouth!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LP9OtaH4T5g

Well, there it is.

Make of it that you will.

[Delight]

On the 28th April, 2020, Dr Rashid A. Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM and Dr. Judy Mikovits, Molecular Biologist, gave testimony to the ITNJ Commission of Inquiry into Weaponisation of the Biosphere.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=imIiQF3T9hM

[shaberon]

Posted by Sarah Rainsong (here)
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The plane was met "with a large contingent of Maryland National Guard and Maryland state police, because this was an enormously valuable payload," he added. "It was like Fort Knox to us, because it's going to save the lives of thousands of our citizens."

In spite of obvious bias in this article, it does raise some flags. Why are the feds going around seizing medical shipments? I have to yet to hear one good (i.e. justifiable or non-malicious) reason.[/QUOTE]

I still don't get it...how, exactly, does a test save any lives? Are these particularly useful for anything, other than a very sick person who "may" get an option of something more than standard flu treatment?

I suppose the feds seize them because they can; if it is crossing a border, then they can probably apply thousands of excuses or reasons, the only answer being the state's guard. The fed cannot justify its existence.

But yeah...a month and a half after some virulent outbreak...some tests and masks. Why bother? A show of nothing?

I can understand some extra sanitation and quarantine of the sick, or if they had dispersed nursing home populations, that would have been a really good idea, but the only thing that can really save you is your immune system--which is preferred to be kept professionally scrubbed to nothing. I am not sure anyone knows how to free all of your hemoglobin once it has been locked by disease.

One thing that is increasing is business break-ins:

"the burglar took change and three T-shirts."

That doesn't fix your plate glass.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

This is very worrying if you live in Oregon.

DHS given powers to take your children if you are infected with covid.

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Source: http://www.dhs.state.or.us/policy/ch...-ar-20-004.pdf

This is unbelievable if actually genuine, if actually implemented. 'Officials' arriving on your doorstep to take your kids because _flu_ !

How long before someone blinks? How long before an itchy trigger has something to say about that? It only takes one flashpoint to start an inferno, then it all falls apart.

[Sarah Rainsong]

Posted by shaberon (here)

Posted by Sarah Rainsong (here)

The plane was met "with a large contingent of Maryland National Guard and Maryland state police, because this was an enormously valuable payload," he added. "It was like Fort Knox to us, because it's going to save the lives of thousands of our citizens."

In spite of obvious bias in this article, it does raise some flags. Why are the feds going around seizing medical shipments? I have to yet to hear one good (i.e. justifiable or non-malicious) reason.

I still don't get it...how, exactly, does a test save any lives? Are these particularly useful for anything, other than a very sick person who "may" get an option of something more than standard flu treatment?

I suppose the feds seize them because they can; if it is crossing a border, then they can probably apply thousands of excuses or reasons, the only answer being the state's guard. The fed cannot justify its existence.

But yeah...a month and a half after some virulent outbreak...some tests and masks. Why bother? A show of nothing?

I can understand some extra sanitation and quarantine of the sick, or if they had dispersed nursing home populations, that would have been a really good idea, but the only thing that can really save you is your immune system--which is preferred to be kept professionally scrubbed to nothing. I am not sure anyone knows how to free all of your hemoglobin once it has been locked by disease.

One thing that is increasing is business break-ins:

"the burglar took change and three T-shirts."

That doesn't fix your plate glass.

There's a couple things I see. First, regarding the tests, agreed, a test doesn't save lives. And really, that's more of the bias of the article and the governor speaking. That part's really just static, IMO.

The biggest thing is that this is just the latest in what seems to be a long (relative to current events) history. The feds have been seizing medical supplies for at least a month now.

Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word from April 7, 2020

Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not publicly reporting the acquisitions, despite the outlay of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, nor has the administration detailed how it decides which supplies to seize and where to reroute them.

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A 'War' For Medical Supplies: States Say FEMA Wins By Poaching Orders from April 15, 2020

As the number of coronavirus cases surged in Massachusetts, nurses at a hospital in Milford were desperate. They held up cardboard signs outside the hospital asking for donations of protective gear to wear while treating infected patients.

William Touhey Jr. thought he could help. Touhey is the fire chief and emergency management director in this small town outside of Boston. He did some legwork, and placed an order for 30,000 protective gowns from overseas.

"We were hearing good things that it was coming," Touhey said.

Then he got a phone call from the distributor last week.

"The order had been redirected, as they put it, from us to FEMA," Touhey said. "It's just the way times are right now, where everybody's fighting for a very limited supply of material."

State and local officials are caught up in a fierce global competition for masks, gowns, ventilators and other medical supplies. The White House has told them not to rely on the federal government because it's just a "backup," and to find their own gear.

At the same time, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is keeping a tight grip on critical medical supplies leaving the country – and coming in from overseas. This new system is disrupting an emergency supply chain that's been in place for decades.

And now governors, hospitals and local officials say the federal government is big-footing them by poaching the supplies they ordered.

"We had a good lead with a manufacturer on vents, and they got swept up by FEMA, so we're not getting them," Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, in an interview with CNN this month.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, says his state placed an order for millions of N-95 respirator masks — but never got them. "We had our 3 million masks that we had ordered ... confiscated in the port in New York," Baker said at a press conference this month.

After federal officials took those masks, Baker says Massachusetts scrambled to arrange a new shipment from China. But this time, state officials used a private plane that belongs to the New England Patriots.

So where did that first order of masks end up?

"I don't have any specific information on that," said Captain W. Russell Webster, who is in charge of FEMA's coronavirus response in New England, in an interview with member station WBUR.

While he can't explain what happened to those masks, Webster said that FEMA is distributing critical medical supplies from the national stockpile based on need.

"There is a priority of distribution based on health care workers and other first-line people involved in the COVID-19 response," Webster said.

But state and local officials say they're baffled. They don't understand how distribution decisions are made. And they don't understand why FEMA is taking some of the supplies they'd already ordered.

We asked FEMA headquarters in Washington about that. In a written statement, a spokesman said FEMA does not seize or commandeer supplies that are already inside the United States. But the spokesman said that a supplier might decide to "cancel on a state contract in favor of [a] federal one."

"FEMA rightfully can say we didn't grab it from them. We just simply outbid them," said Juliette Kayyem, who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School. "And that's clearly what's happening."

During the Obama administration, Kayyem was an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, where it was her job to coordinate the federal and local response to disasters. She's also baffled by the Trump administration's coronavirus response.

"This White House thinks everyone before them was stupid," Kayyem said.

Until now, Kayyem says, the playbook has been that federal, state and local officials should all be pulling in the same direction. But not anymore.

"For decades, we have worked disasters the same way. The locals execute, the states coordinate and the feds support," Kayyem said. "The federal government under Donald Trump has decided it is going to essentially go to war, create a parallel response apparatus, and it's winning. That's the problem."

The federal government is winning the chaotic competition for scarce protective equipment, Kayyem says, and in the process it's driving up the price of those supplies for everybody. And leaving states and hospitals even more desperate to find what they need.

So this is something that's been going on. Chris Martenson pointed it out a while back, too, but I'm not sure which one it was. We're not just talking about tests. We're talking masks, and gowns, and various other PPE, and thermometers... and tests. The feds have given no reason for seizing any shipments, and in fact, according to the Apr 15 article from NPR, do not do that. But states and hospitals are saying otherwise.

All that is basically context. What got me is that it sounds like we've now arrived at the point where the states are using their National Guard and state police to guard and hide their shipments...from the feds!

[Dorjezigzag]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FJYEk1pTLIU

[shaberon]

The UK has gone this far with racial profiling in the Mail:

Covid death rate in Black African Britons three times white British population
Deaths in Pakistanis 2.7 times higher, for Black Caribbeans it is 1.8 times greater

The U. S. is "pressuring" Mexico Mexico to re-open, although one of the main reasons is that it closed is that people walked out of work from factories after co-workers died.

[greybeard]

Coronavirus: One of the UK’s richest men launches legal challenge over lockdown
Yahoo News UK Jimmy Nsubuga,Yahoo News UK

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronaviru...183107124.html

A businessman worth £142 million is launching a legal challenge against the government over the coronavirus lockdown.

Simon Dolan, 50, who owns Jota Aviation, intends to go forward with a judicial review if some of the restrictions are not eased.

He described the measures as ‘draconian’, bad for the economy and likely to cause more deaths than save lives.

Dolan, from Essex, said: “Too many people are losing their jobs; people can’t get cancer treatment, there is suicide, domestic violence. Why are we prevaricating?

“It’s like the government is now keeping this going to justify their original decision, whereas what they should do is say we did this and now we are doing something different.”


Dolan stressed he did not want to make things even more chaotic during the pandemic but he was eager for the public to choose if they wanted to self-isolate or not.

His lawyer Michael Gardner, who has delivered a “Letter Before Action”, has given a deadline of Thursday for a satisfactory response or he will request an urgent court hearing.
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Dolan, who claims to not support any political party, added: “The lockdown is telling us to stop living to avoid dying.

“To imprison people in their homes is an extremely dramatic decision to make.

“It is unprecedented and it would have been a brave Boris to say ‘no, we are not going to do that’, but it has gone on too long now, and we need to lift it or loosen it.”

Dolan is also requesting minutes from meetings from scientific advice group Sage since the pandemic began.

He added a crowdfunding page was only set up to raise money if the action became prolonged and said it was already funded to the court stage.

Dolan said crowdfunding would also test the support of people for the action depending on how much they contributed.

Boris Johnson said on Thursday Britain was now past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak and promised to set out a plan next week on how the country might start gradually easing restrictions.

Dolan’s court action is similar to that taken by Gina Miller over Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament last year.

[greybeard]

Britons will suffer health problems from Covid-19 for years, warn doctors
The Guardian Robin McKie,The Guardian

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/britons-su...141625362.html

Many people in Britain are likely to suffer from physical and mental problems for several years after the Covid-19 epidemic has subsided. That is the grim message from doctors and psychologists who last week warned that even after lockdown measures had been lifted thousands of individuals would still be suffering.

Some of these problems will be due directly to the impact that the virus has had on those it has infected, especially those who went through life-saving interventions in intensive care units (ICUs) in hospital. In addition there will be a considerable impact on vulnerable people affected by the lockdown and isolation.

As a result, there is a danger our society could become more anxious and risk-averse, say scientists who have called for a range of research programmes to be launched to understand the issues and to allow society to prepare itself for the physiological and psychological problems that lie ahead.

“This has been a national trauma like no other that we have experienced,” said psychologist Professor Dame Til Wykes, of King’s College London. “Consider the terrible flooding we had earlier this year. People watched river levels rise and listened to weather forecasts to find out if they might be inundated the next day or the day after. That was stressful.

“But it was nothing compared to this threat which has hung over us for weeks already and is likely to go on for much longer. Spending months looking over your shoulder all the time is going to cause considerable, lasting anxiety for many people. In addition, if you look at other natural disasters, you can usually find help or comfort from people around you. However, it is the people around you that are the threat in this case. So there is no consolation there.”

Many who were treated in ICUs for Sars and Mers had post-traumatic stress disorders months, sometimes years, after the event Prof Rory O'Connor

This point was backed by Rory O’Connor, professor of health psychology at Glasgow University. “Increased social isolation, loneliness, health anxiety, stress and an economic downturn are a perfect storm to harm people’s mental health,” he said.

“If we do nothing, we risk seeing an increase in mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, and a rise in problem behaviours such as alcohol and drug addiction, gambling, cyberbullying or social consequences such as homelessness and relationship breakdown.”

These are problems that face society in general. For those struck down by Covid-19 and who have been treated in ICUs, there are likely to be further issues, researchers have warned. These problems have been revealed in studies of those who contracted two other diseases caused by coronaviruses – severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) – and who also required intensive care in hospitals.

“Being in an ICU can be a horrible experience,” said Wykes. “Studies from those who were treated in ICUs for Sars and Mers reveal that many had post-traumatic stress disorders months, sometimes years, after the event, especially if they were put on ventilators. That can induce panic on its own. Later you get flashbacks, extreme anxiety – particularly about your family and your partner.”

In one study by Hong Kong University researchers of people who had contracted Sars, it was found that those who survived the disease still had, a year later, elevated stress levels and “worrying levels of psychological distress”. They also showed alarming levels of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic symptoms. “There is every reason to expect to see the same sorts of symptoms appearing in those directly affected by Covid-19,” added Wykes.

In addition to the psychological impact of the disease, it is also clear that lingering physiological problems are likely to be associated with Covid-19. “No one knows exactly what the disease will do in the long term to patients but we do know what impacts other forms of viral pneumonia – which Covid-19 can trigger – can have on patients,” said Professor Ian Hall of Nottingham University.

With these conditions, many patients suffer from significant lung scarring and are affected by a condition known as advanced respiratory distress syndrome which can require months of recovery. “There is some initial evidence to suggest that for Covid-19 patients, it may take even longer,” he said.

Hall added that there was likely to be impacts on other parts of the body. “For example, Covid-19 can cause serious inflammation that affects patients in the early stages of dementia and can leave them increasingly confused and stressed.”

Cardiologist Professor Tim Chico at Sheffield University also pointed to studies indicating that people hospitalised with Covid-19 were also at risk from blood clots in multiple locations, including their lungs, veins and brain. “Crucially, the risk of blood clots with Covid-19 appears to be even greater than the increased risk of blood clots seen in other severe illnesses,” he said. Such an effect would leave patients vulnerable to pulmonary embolisms, strokes and deep vein thrombosis.

[greybeard]

Commenting on the above post
I wonder if those who suffer blood clots etc-- strokes pointed to in that article lived near 5G towers.
That would explain why most get a mild case of this "virus" and recover fully and others get extreme reaction, including death in relativly healthy young people.
Young people are also heavily into mobiles-- they seem to be stuck to the ear metaphorically.

Basically those with compromised immune system are much more likely to be severely affected by flu, cold, virus.
So what compromises the immune system and what strengthens it.
Lockdown weakens, it fear weakens it, polluted atmosphere weakens it.
A sense of freedom strengthens it, good environment strengthens it, exposure to germs the cold the flu the virus strengthens it.
Meditation etc takes away fear and thus strengthens it.
Thats basically it.
Chris

[greybeard]

Dr Rashid Buttar Interview Why COVID 19 Is Not What You Think The Last American Vagabon

The Dr is a bit tired to begin with but when he gets going Wow!!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpnvhKewM8w

[Gwin Ru]

Beside a flood of serious, nasty side effects, the MSM boasted Remdesivir is a dud:


"Remdesivir Is Probably Worthless" - A Trauma Surgeon Exposes "Drug Company's Shenanigans"

by Tyler Durden
Sat, 05/02/2020 - 20:55

Markets got very excited (briefly) this week about a study finding a Gilead Sciences drug helped coronavirus patients heal a little more quickly.

But that was all the trial found: remdesivir isn’t the miracle cure that will get us all out of lockdowns tomorrow, unfortunately.

Worse, as Bloomberg's Faye Flam writes, the trial was rushed to get quick FDA approval, without getting helpful information on what kinds of patients it helps or hurts the most; and now that the study is over, we’ve forever lost a chance to help doctors treat virus patients better.

All of which raises a significant number of questions and Acute Care Surgeon (and Asst Professor of Surgery at Wash U.) Mark Hoofnagle warns

"I am truly sorry to say, Remdesivir is probably worthless..."

In an excellent Twitter thread, Hoofnagle details what he calls "some fascinating drug company shenanigans."

First, the pre-test probability that an infused, small-molecule inhibitor of a virus would improve mortality in symptomatic patients was already pretty low. Unfortunately, antivirals work poorly in acute disease. This has to do with their mechanism of action, and host response.

Antivirals usually target some aspect of viral replication/assembly/transmission. Remdesivir is a clever pharmacologic prodrug that inhibits a key piece of RNA viruses that mammals don’t have - the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and inhibits viral replication.

Unfortunately, by the time you are symptomatic with a virus, you are usually already high/peak viral load. So, when you give an antiviral to someone who is already ill, the damage from the virus is largely done.

It’s there in big numbers and in the cells.

Consistent with this, the Lancet paper on the remdesivir trial in China shows no impact on viral load clinically.

Pick your metaphor. The cat is out of the bag. The damage is done. At this point the host response to virus is activated, and your body is suppressing replication through a variety of mechanisms (which also make you feel terrible).

So how could inhibiting RDRP after the fact help? The answer is, it probably doesnt. It certainly didn’t in this trial - no difference, not even a trend in mortality, but in subgroup analysis maybe shortened disease duration in early/mild disease.


Now, critics of stupid drugs that should never have been stockpiled by govts say, “sounds like Tamiflu!”

Yes. This is the same as Tamiflu, which also maybe shortens flu by a day, but otherwise is a largely useless antiviral (and actually harmful with bad side effect profile).

Fortunately, side effects of remdesivir did not seem severe in this trial with only about 3x as many patients stopping than placebo, some rashes, nothing life threatening.

Where do the Shenanigans come in?

Well, remember how maybe this Chinese trial showed a shortened course in a subset of patients? Like tamiflu? But didn’t change mortality?

Well a month ago the NIAID trial changed their endpoints to remove death and instead look at dz duration.

No really.

They changed the destination half way through the race to match the only positive outcome of another trial, that they (or Gilead at least) certainly had a copy of the paper once it was submitted to Lancet.

Shenanigans! Get a broom!

Walid Gellad, MD MPH @walidgellad

Since NIH remdesivir trial is in the news...

was there an explanation about why the primary outcome (now positive) was changed last month to 'time until clinical recovery?' @matthewherper https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/history/NCT04280705?A=10&B=16&C=Side-by-Side#StudyPageTop …
9:35 PM - Apr 29, 2020

This is like declaring a race and then when you realize you’re not going to win, declaring the destination was actually wherever you are standing at the moment.

Then, even more fishy, *the same day* as this Lancet trial is release, Gilead and NIAID claim a “positive trial” and they’ve “shortened the course of the disease significantly”. Notably, the mortality benefit did not reach significance.

By the end of the day, reports that FDA is going to emergently approve remdesivir for treatment of COVID.

Gilead gets what they want. No one will want to be in a control arm in further trials and they will argue all future trials must be non-inferiority.

Before we have the answer whether this drug actually changes anyone’s destiny, it’s going to become the gold standard therapy. We will likely now never know if (the unlikely possibility) it changes mortality.

Absolute genius. You have to salute them. On the day a negative trial of their drug is reported, based on a press release they took over the news cycle, and with some midstream edits to their endpoints their now “positive” trial wins them FDA approval and a halted trial.

It’s an infusion, once symptomatic, you need an admission, a test, etc., really even symptoms are probably too late a goal for such a therapy to work. Prophylaxis (like Gilead’s Truvada/PreP) would be better - but unworkable in its current form.

Either way, a big win for Gilead, but I’m unimpressed with any if the evidence presented so far that this is a game changer.

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How long before Hoofnagle is banned from Twitter?

Hoofnagle is not alone in his skepticism.

Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith exclaims, it is disturbing to watch the push to con the public into seeing remdesivir as the only promising treatment for coronavirus, and points to a new study that found and tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus: Results show promising leads and a whole new way to fight COVID-19

[Delight]

Jack Carr was a SEAL and now apparently is a great author of fact based thrillers. They talks here about RFID chips being swallowed to monitor soldiers temps etc... then they talk about Covid-19. Not sure this is the thread for this but I respect Joe Rogan and this gentleman sounds straight up. I guess I would consider these important influencers?

from 26:18

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra4522ikFoU

[NewParadigmGuy]

Posted by Sarah Rainsong (here)
In spite of obvious bias in this article, it does raise some flags. Why are the feds going around seizing medical shipments? I have to yet to hear one good (i.e. justifiable or non-malicious) reason.

George Webb has made several videos about the strange situation in Maryland.

[onawah]

THEY ARE IMPLEMENTING THEIR FINAL PLAN, RIGHT NOW
5/3/20
reviewed by Alexandra Bruce of Forbidden Knowledge
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the...lan-right-now/

"The NWO is pulling out all the stops all over the world. They want you to shelter in place and go bankrupt while they prepare a vaccine for you and your family.

Crow777 joins Sean from the SGT Report, who says, “Everybody knew this was coming. We’re here. Here it is. You can call it whatever you want but it’s tyranny and it’s tyranny for the whole enchilada: The entire world.”

• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened to throw people in jail if they throw a party.

• Oregon Governor, Kate Brown (little sister of Governor Moonbeam) has extended the State of Emergency to July 6th. Kate has ties to the Clinton Foundation, she was involved in Uranium One and the decision to kill LaVoy Finicum during the Malheur Park standoff.

• Soros puppet, Gretchen Whitmer extended her stay-at-home orders amid major protests, causing Trump to tweet, “The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.” The good news is that the Michigan House and Senate plan to sue her.

• Globalist slave, Justin Trudeau banned 1,500 models of “assault rifles” in Canada.

• In Spain, the people have been on lockdown for over 6 weeks. All “non-essential” work has been shuttered by the government. Closed businesses are dying. Unless your work is deemed “essential”, you are only allowed out of your home, one person at a time to buy food or medicine. People are stopped by police and be asked for their receipts. People are fined $2,000 for talking to someone outside of the house, even with social distancing. (In Toronto, that fine is $5,000).

In Spain, the rules are getting stricter and the fines are getting higher by the day. Anyone who is under 18 is not allowed out, at all. Children have been locked in apartments for two months and police brutality has spiked. People call police when they look outside and see people on the street. The police arrive in a group and beat the person up. People on balconies clap.

The government keeps on promising fast release if everyone behaves but the day of prison release keeps getting pushed further and further out. It’s impossible now for people to to get together and protest.

Spain almost sounds like Michigan.

As Crow777, says, “To address the scale of what’s going on here, this is bigger than anything we have a historical reference for. This is touching more of the world than World War II did. If you want to go back to the stock market crash, that didn’t affect as much of the world as this is…

“But there is some good news. I was sent video twice today from people on the streets of Italy. There are big protests going on there and you’re not going to catch it on Fox and CNN and MSNBC, because they are at the enemy and they’re not going to tell you the truth.

“There were huge protests going on in California. Things are going on all over. You’ll just not hear about it and this is part of the information war. This is war in the modern era. We don’t use bullets and bombs in the modern era, because people have started to grow up too much for that kind of thing…This is an information war, where you control the information for those who don’t know any better than to turn off the damn television, because that is your worst enemy – and always has been since its inception. Use other sources to get information.

“You’re going to feel hopeless. You’re going to feel beat-down, because that information has been designed to do exactly that: to beat you down to the ground.

“But I would remind you: anyone who grew up in the United States of America, when I came up, we were told this was the home of the free and the brave. If we deserve that title, we’re gonna probably have to show it pretty quickly. If we can do it like adults, that would be great, because I suspect that the next thing coming is they’re starting to mess with the food supply chains.

“We saw this coming. Almost like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The first one is getting people sick second one is famine. You can see the games that get played.

“My point here is we’re in the majority, here and we have the right to demand a decent life. Hopefully, people won’t lose order to do that because I suspect if people lose order, an iron-fisted response will be right behind it…

“This is being pushed to a head. I think it’s going to come to a head and I think that’s part of the plan but if people conduct themselves like adults and just simply protest in an adult manner, I think that’s a critical thing to think about, because we’ve seen [the amount] of assets they’ve mobilized and we’ve seen that, regardless of what the presidents have sworn an oath to, nobody’s following the Constitution, which is a bit ironic, because the Constitution, if it was ever reinstated in a meaningful way, would collapse so much – even the Department of Homeland Security – it’s Unconstitutional…

“The Constitution has to totally go away for all this to work out in the direction we see it traveling. Will people let it?

“It’s pretty clear we’re looking at the largest coup d’état that the world has ever seen and it’s everything – all of it. Not just the enchilada – the restaurant that makes it, the factory that made the ingredients, the supply chain – everything, everywhere is what [they’re] going for, here.

“If they get their way, the people living best in the world will be in the middle of Africa, somewhere where they’re too remote to be messed with. That’s how bad it could get.

“Within a week of March 11, how was it that the Michigan Legislature had a pandemic budget approved in June of 2019? How are these things? I think we all know how these things are but what people need to keep foremost in their mind is there are many millions of people thinking exactly what you are thinking right now, so don’t be fooled that you’re all alone and that they’ve got you cornered and to lose your humanity and become one of those people who will rat out a neighbor, as if this was 1984 and your name was Winston.

“Come on we’ve grown past that. Now, there’s a lot of people who are fed up to their eyeballs so don’t don’t be fooled by the controlled information.

“And lastly, every one of us knows what right and wrong is. Nobody has to tell you what right and wrong is and I would just make this statement, ‘What good are rights if you’re going to accept wrongs?’ and that’s a critical thing to think about. I won’t be accepting wrongs and I will look out for the people around me and I will stand up to death if I have to for the things that I feel are right. I think it’s really that simple. And above all, act like an adult, don’t lose order.

“What’s going on here is a bid for a world takeover but each of us has freedom of choice. The divine spark of God in each of us. With that comes freedom of choice. Anyone who forcibly takes your freedom of choice is violating Universal Law and that’s why we see these games, to convince you to give up your own freedom to choose.

“And I’m here to tell you, if you give up your freedom to choose, then you never deserved it in the first damn place.

“If you can just remember that you’re carrying the divine spark, that this world was made for you and human beings as a whole are in charge of this place – keep in mind you were given freedom of choice and the divine spark – and you need to defend those things with everything you have.

“Just buck up, people. This is happening. What’s going on is happening. We’re going to get a reset but every time there’s a reset possibilities remain.

“Could be that a lot of the things we didn’t like about before could be started in a different direction. Don’t lose hope. Don’t let the damned controlled message make you believe that you’re all alone in this world, because let me tell you something, there are endless people thinking the same thing you’re thinking right now – and I’m one of them.

“I want to wish you all well. Take care of all the fellow human beings around you.” "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I51CYFBEItQ

SGTreport
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"Justin Trudeau, the hand of the Queen, just banned assault weapons in Canada. Lockdowns around the world are becoming increasingly more draconian with each passing day. And they want you to accept all of it while they prepare a vaccine for global distribution. Crrow777 joins me to break it all down."

[shaberon]

A "long time ago", Sweden already said 1/3 of its nursing homes were hit.

In U. S. prisons, it is like this:


"The federal Bureau of Prisons, which has 152,000 inmates and 36,000 staff, found outbreaks in more than half of its 122 facilities.

On Thursday alone the bureau reported three deaths at the low security Terminal Island prison near Los Angeles, where some 60 percent of the roughly 1,050 inmate population has registered positive.

CoreCivic, a private company which operates dozens of prisons nationwide, tested all the 2,725 inmates and staff at its Trousdale Turner facility in Tennessee, and found 1,299 inmates and 50 staff positive, nearly all without symptoms."

It is in more than half of the prisons, and we're going to do some tests and slow the spread??

Over 1,300 positives--half of a facility--have no symptoms.

This is already everywhere, bothers almost nobody, is unlikely to have come from China, and they think they can sue Beijing?

With all these various reactions, it still seems evident to me that everyone is really not "one", but is poised behind a thin veneer ready to attack or repress everyone else, to a significant extent. I can defend our yard, but, I cannot do much about millions of others who like to exploit and make all the decisions.

[Sue (Ayt)]

This woman appears to me to be very "real" and very brave. It shocked and saddened me to see this video, must admit.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CvhTQV5FNUE