[SeekAndFind]

COVID-19 is, in many ways, proving to be a disease of uncertainty. According to a new study from Italy, some 43 percent of people with the virus have no symptoms. Among those who do develop symptoms, it is common to feel sick in uncomfortable but familiar ways—congestion, fever, aches, and general malaise. Many people start to feel a little bit better. Then, for many, comes a dramatic tipping point. “Some people really fall off the cliff, and we don’t have good predictors of who it’s going to happen to,” Stephen Thomas, the chair of infectious diseases at Upstate University Hospital, told me. Those people will become short of breath, their heart racing and mind detached from reality. They experience organ failure and spend weeks in the ICU, if they survive at all.

Meanwhile, many others simply keep feeling better and eventually totally recover. Kola’s friend Karan Mahajan, an author based in Providence, Rhode Island, contracted the virus at almost the same time she did. In stark contrast to Kola, he said, “My case ended up feeling like a mild flu that lasted for two weeks. And then it faded after that.”

This degree of uncertainty has less to do with the virus itself than how our bodies respond to it. As Murphy puts it, when doctors see this sort of variation in disease severity, “that’s not the virus; that’s the host.” Since the beginning of the pandemic, people around the world have heard the message that older and chronically ill people are most likely to die from COVID-19. But that is far from a complete picture of who is at risk of life-threatening disease. Understanding exactly how and why some people get so sick while others feel almost nothing will be the key to treatment.

[kiryandil]

I know a lot of people don't like your article posts, but you've been doing yeoman work in keeping us up-to-date on The Covid.

Reminds me of 2ndDivisionVet...

[politicianslie]

[montag813]

When you wake up in the a.m., before you do anything else, take 10,000 I.U. of D3. Preferably liquid drops in olive or other oil. Nothing is more important to maintaining immune strength.

Also helpful: Matcha green tea, which has EGCG, perhaps the most powerful anti-oxidant. Take with pure vitamin C or fish oil to enhance absorption.

DO NOT take any "multivitamin." They are useless, because they combine water- and fat-soluble vitamins and minerals in one tablet, thereby ensuring you will just pee almost of all it out. Instead take them separately. Take B12, B6, etc, with C, zinc and other water-soluble vitamins. Take D3 with E, K2, or A, which are fat-soluble.

[Truthoverpower]

To me - this bug or any bug ( virus bacteria etc ). it’s all about how much of a population It can get going in your organism

There are plenty of viruses just floating around in the air and in space

So what you want is a level of antivirals in your system all the time

and then take much heavier doses if the pathogen is attacking you

Viruses are tricky little bugs because they’re not alive

But they can reproduce they just have to do it at a parasitic fashion

It has to use your cells. To replicate

With this novel coronavirus then, if the population gets severe enough - then it can start doing his pulmonary attacks, and other attacks.

Like the robbing of the hemoglobin of it’s iron

So here’s what you do with viruses

you kill them , relentlessly.

[kiryandil]

I know a lot of people don't like your article posts, but you've been doing yeoman work in keeping us up-to-date on The Covid.

Reminds me of 2ndDivisionVet...

hat-tip retweet to 2ndDivisionVet

[volunbeer]

Informative article with some new stuff so thanks for posting. I think the last paragraphs with the politics detracted from the good information, but then again, it’s the Atlantic.

Obesity and diabetes are a big problem in the African-American community. It is a simple reality and it has NOTHING to do with public policy by government or social justice. The numbers will be skewed based on many factors, but underlying illness, old age, and overall physical health appear to be the dominant factors in mortality risks.

[mass55th]

"COVID-19 is proving to be a disease of the immune system..."

Read an article the other day about the virus having been altered with HIV:

COVID-19 Created in Lab with HIV”. Medicine Nobel confirms Indian Research disclosed by VT

There are many other immune system conditions as well. I was diagnosed by my Rheumatologist as having an "undifferentiated connective tissue disorder." My mother was diagnosed with Lupus in the late 60's. They really didn't know much about the disease back then. My doctor sent me for an anti-nuclear antibody screen test, and my numbers were high, but because I didn't have enough Lupus symptoms, they couldn't diagnose me with it. So, I fell into this grey area, and my doctor says a lot of people are in the same category.

[mass55th]

One other thing that has been in the news lately is that younger people who test positive for the virus are at a higher risk of blood clots and strokes. With that in mind, and with the substance of the article I just posted, I did a search for HIV and blood clots, and found several sources that state blood clots can be prevalent in HIV patients. Here's one article from 2008 about it:

HIV may cause dangerous blood clots

So is it possible that the HIV ribbon inserted in the virus, may be the cause for the blood clots that are occurring? My youngest son had surgery for cancerous polyps last year, and went through 7 months of chemo. He ended up with a blood clot in his lung due to the chemo, and had to go on blood thinners throughout the remainder of his chemo, and for a few months afterwards.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Good information. Thanks.

[Boomer]

With this article in mind; one wonders if that’s why the 3 drug cocktail works well if taken at the first onset of feeling ill from this virus.

Does the cocktail boost the immune system as well as attack and neutralize the cells infected?

[daniel1212]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html Below, the metro areas that have had the highest cumulative case and death rates since the start of the outbreak:

Cumulative confirmed cases

Metro or micro area		Population	cases	Per 1,000
1	Marion, Ohio	65,256	2,137	32.75
2	New York City area	20.0 mil.	330,117	16.52
3	Albany, Ga.	153,009	2,092	13.67
4	New Orleans	1.3 mil.	15,199	11.96
5	Fairfield County, Conn.	943,823	9,883	10.47
6	Edwards, Colo.	54,993	488	8.87
7	Trenton-Princeton, N.J.	369,811	2,753	7.44
8	Grand Island, Neb.	85,088	629	7.39
9	Pine Bluff, Ark.	89,515	656	7.33
10	Gallup, N.M.	72,290	519	7.18
11	Boston	4.9 mil.	33,039	6.78
12	New Haven, Conn.	857,620	5,811	6.78
13	Sioux Falls, S.D.	265,653	1,671	6.29
14	Detroit	4.3 mil.	26,385	6.10
15	East Stroudsburg, Pa.	169,507	1,015	5.99

Cumulative confirmed deaths

Metro or micro area		Population	deaths	Per 1,000
1	Albany, Ga.	153,009	152	0.99
2	New York City area	20.0 mil.	19,211	0.96
3	New Orleans	1.3 mil.	880	0.69
4	Fairfield County, Conn.	943,823	584	0.62
5	Detroit	4.3 mil.	2,371	0.55
6	Springfield, Mass.	631,761	285	0.45
7	Hartford, Conn.	1.2 mil.	527	0.44
8	Greenfield Town, Mass.	70,963	30	0.42
9	New Haven, Conn.	857,620	345	0.40
10	Trenton-Princeton, N.J.	369,811	133	0.36
11	Opelousas, La.	82,764	29	0.35
12	Torrington, Conn.	181,111	63	0.35
13	Flint, Mich.	406,892	138	0.34
14	Boston	4.9 mil.	1,566	0.32
15	East Stroudsburg, Pa.	169,507	48	0.28