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Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle
Harvard Gazette ^ | May 6, 2020 | Alvin Powell

Posted on 05/07/2020 5:28:43 AM PDT by posterchild

That work, Harris said, has led to the current clinical trial, leveraging insights from research done at high altitude to design a treatment that, should it work, would kill coronavirus directly in the lungs and allow patients to be discharged from the emergency department to home. The key insight, he said, is that the lack of oxygen at high altitude mirrors the effects of COVID-19’s lung dysfunction on the cell’s mitochondria powerhouse. It is also well-known that nitric oxide, which improves blood flow in the lungs, is central to adapting to life at high altitudes and has antiviral benefits.

“If successful, this relatively simple therapy will give us the ability to treat and safely discharge patients from the ED to home, thereby reducing demand for the extremely limited supply of ICU beds,” Harris wrote in a recent letter to the division’s supporters. “This exciting work plays to our strengths of working in concert with the best minds on the planet to seek elegant and innovative low-tech solutions for complex problems.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid19; wuhancoronavirus

1 posted on 05/07/2020 5:28:43 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild

“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that, so that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with,” - Donald Trump


2 posted on 05/07/2020 5:36:32 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: Fred Nerks

Listen to Tibetans?


3 posted on 05/07/2020 5:46:47 AM PDT by Candor7
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To: posterchild

Superbeets supply nitric oxide in goodly quantity. Highly recommended by Dana Loesch.

Maybe there is a disinfectant that works directly in the lungs after all.


4 posted on 05/07/2020 5:52:35 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: posterchild
And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

This nitric oxide idea is about as developed as the disinfectant injection one.

He has notion it might work but it doesn’t sound like it’s ever been tried on a Covid patient.

5 posted on 05/07/2020 5:53:58 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: posterchild

They’ll have to kill this in its grave, like they did with HCQ. ‘Cause, Orange Man Bad.

And Gilead can’t make $900 per treatment.


6 posted on 05/07/2020 6:01:29 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 Collyer Report!!!)
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To: Candor7

Listen to anyone but Fauci...


7 posted on 05/07/2020 4:41:24 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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