Posted on 06/17/2020 2:38:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stocks cut earlier gains, and the S&P 500 and Dow turned negative, after new data showed further spikes in coronavirus cases in some densely populated U.S. states.
Texas’s virus hospitalizations jumped 11% in 24 hours, according to the state, marking the largest one-day jump since the beginning of the month. The state has in recent days been battling a resurgence in new and serious cases of the coronavirus after beginning to ease lockdown orders. Other populous states including Florida have struggled with similar trends amid their reopenings, with both it and Arizona posting record daily highs for new cases of the virus earlier this week.
Earlier in the session, prospects of more stimulus, as well as hopes of a Covid-19 treatment and speedy economic recovery, helped stocks extend gains. These catalysts included reports Tuesday of encouraging results from a trial showing that the generic drug dexamethasone helped reduce the death risk among patients with severe Covid-19 cases.
Meanwhile, earlier reports that the Trump administration was prepping a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package also provided a boost to risk assets.
More promising signs of a speedy economic recovery also contributed to the rally. New economic data Tuesday morning showed retail sales surged by a record 17.7% in May over April, with the pace of increase more than double the rate consensus economists expected. The sharp recovery in consumer spending after April’s record decline led at least some economists to pare back their gloomier economic expectations for the second quarter this year.
“The 17.7% m/m rebound in retail sales in May indicates that, as the lockdowns were eased in many states, activity started to recover more quickly than we – and others – had been anticipating,” Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist for Capital Economics, wrote in a note.
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My stock closed up today.
Drs on texags disagree with you
like this one
Dr Louis P Coates
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Coronavirus Update 6/17/2020 - BTHO COVID-19
So today at the time of this writing there are 25,450 new cases and deaths are at 849. Nationwide cases have been relatively steady for some time. Deaths and new cases are up a little but not significantly. We also have now had 903,401 people recovered from this virus and should now have some degree of immunity from this horrific disease.
Locally, in Texas cases are rising more rapidly over the past week relatively flat. We had 3,395 new cases which is the largest number by a long shot we have ever had in Texas. In addition we had 48 new deaths with a steady mortality rate of 2.2%.
There are 30,839 active cases in Texas. The number of active cases continues to rise at a steady rate. We have risen significantly over the past week now. Cases here in Texas along with hospitalizations have risen sharply in response to some of the openings and the large gatherings at the protests. Today is a sharp increase in the number of cases.
Here are the current numbers for just 8 Dallas hospitals for those concerned.
Total beds: 2,868
Beds occupied: 1,542
Total ICU beds: 361
ICU beds occupied: 204
Total ventilators: 342
Ventilators in use: 139
In addition we have 60,681 recovered now. For those concerned, we currently are still in excellent shape statewide with hospital and ICU beds.
Today in Dallas county with 306 new cases and 8 deaths. Harris county with 425 new cases and 5 new deaths. Collin county with 120 new cases and one new death being reported. Denton county with 36 new cases and no new deaths. Tarrant county with 308 new cases and 1 new death. Brazos county with 18 new cases and no new deaths. Travis county with 119 new cases and no new deaths. Fort Bend county with 17 new cases and no deaths being reported. Bextar county with 44 new cases and one new case.
So what can you do to protect yourself and others from this increase in cases? First and foremost wear a mask. We have discussed this many times and studies show that over 80% of people wearing a mask reduces the risk of transmission over 75%. In addition continuing social distancing and avoiding crowded places. With cases spiking don’t go places you don’t need to go. Take the supplements that you need from the discussions previously. Protect yourself and loved ones.
For the newbies we have been predicting an overall fatality rate somewhere in the 0.3 to 0.7 range when we finally correct the denominator.
There was a major breakthrough today with the news today on steroid use in severe Covid-19 cases.
So today we found out that a very cheap medication at about a dollar a dose called dexamethasone was found to potentially be very effective in treating the severe cases of Covid-19. It seems so logical since steroids are the most common treatment of other inflammatory processes and diseases. It is used in Arthritis, Lupus, Pneumonia, Asthma just to name a few. Knowing that Covid-19 in severe disease is because of the cytokine storm which is a major inflammatory process it makes sense that this would work. This seems like an easy answer to find.
So why did it take over 4 months to find out steroids are so effective?
Well a huge part of that is because a study published in the lancet in February from China stated that not only were steroids ineffective but they were likely harmful. Here is the direct quote in the conclusion of the study.
“Overall, no unique reason exists to expect that patients with 2019-nCoV infection will benefit from corticosteroids, and they might be more likely to be harmed with such treatment. We conclude that corticosteroid treatment should not be used for the treatment of 2019-nCoV-induced lung injury or shock outside of a clinical trial.”
So most doctors including myself were very scared of steroid use initially in the treatment of Covid-19. I didn’t give out steroids to many patients who potentially needed them in March and April for diseases like asthma, poison ivy or severe allergies just because of the fear of them catching Covid-19 and increasing patients’ risks. By late April we had some anecdotal information that came from other physicians using steroids that they are not worsening the disease and may be showing some potential benefit.
So what happened today?
Well we had the preliminary results of the Recovery trial released today from the UK. Which is one of the biggest efforts to evaluate whether existing drugs can treat COVID-19. This trial included 2104 patients given a relatively low dose of 6 milligrams of dexamethasone for 10 days. When their outcomes were compared with those of 4321 patients receiving standard care, the steroid reduced deaths by one-third in patients already on ventilators and by one-fifth in patients receiving supplemental oxygen. It did not show any benefit for patients who did not require any respiratory support but just as importantly did not apparently show any harm either. .
This is huge news because it is now a potential treatment that is extremely affordable and widely available. So while this preliminary information and the entire study has not been released yet it is extremely promising. For those that get severely ill there is a new option that shouldn’t be difficult to obtain. This is great news for everyone in every country.
Now the whole study has not been released or peer reviewed yet so we have to wait to verify the information but we all have reason to be relieved.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.06.20032342v1
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30317-2/fulltext
Here is a repost of the supplements we have discussed to have potential benefits.
Quercetin from 250mg up to 1g twice per day Remember this is a Zinc ionophore.
Vitamin D3 Take this for sure if you are deficient and I now recommend taking it as long as your values are not too high.
Sleep greater than 8 hours per night
CoQ10 100-300mg per day: a potent antioxidant that potentially helps balance oxidative stress, increase vasodilation, prevent clot formation and decrease vasoconstriction.
Zinc any amount is probably good but take what you can tolerate without making you feel bad up to 40mg. You do not want to be Zinc deficient as it is how many drugs like HCQ work.
Melatonin 0.1mg to 10mg at night. Take what you can tolerate and what helps you sleep without making you feel drugged or tired in the morning. If you are diabetic watch your sugars.
N-acetylcysteine (NAC) - 600mg twice per day shown to decrease severity of influenza, improve lung functions in COPD, antioxidant properties, potentially helps prevent clotting and with mental disorders. Caution for asthmatics as there is potential for bronchospasm.
Vitamin C 250mg to 500mg twice per day. Effects debatable in oral form but IV did help in China. But is proven to strengthen immune system
Green Tea either drink some or 1 pill per day alternate zinc ionophore if you don’t have or don’t take Quercetin
As always the information and understanding of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. This information is for education purposes only and you should never make changes to your health without consulting your personal physician. Make a virtual appointment with your physician and discuss your health and the best possible treatment plan for you. It is also important to reiterate that there are no clinically evidence-based integrative prevention or treatment strategies for COVID-19 infection.
Let’s all keep praying for all that are ill with this virus in the world.
Gig’em!
Our total cases in Placer County have gone from 217 to 432 since June 1. However, the number of hospitalizations has stayed about the same. I guess we need to wait another week or so to see if that holds as hospitalizations trail new cases by a few weeks.
this is an interesting post about problems with the hospitals
“Federale011:34p, 6/9/20AG
Take this as anecdotal but from someone who watched their love one help set up a statewide hospital system’s triage and response plan. My SO spent weeks...weeks.... working with a large team updating every thing needed to ensure seamless patient transfers within their hospital system. The capability simply was not there. Prior to this, it was a doctor at one hospital calling a doctor at another to see if they could take the patient who needed an extra-level of care the smaller hospital could not provide. There was no system wide entity tracking resources across the entire board. The best analogy I could come up with is the A&M system. If something happened at A&M in College Station, could we easily transfer records, students, teachers, supplies, within the A&M system as it is currently set up?
I have no doubt some systems were far more ahead of others, but many were not set up to act as a system-wide healthcare provider. They were a bunch of regional hospitals that were clobbered together and management at the system level did not track day to day patient activity. And that is even within the same system. There are multiple private hospital systems that definitely do not have the capability to share records, supplies, or other resources between each other.
NY and NO suffered because they were hit the hardest and were the first outside of the Seattle area, where we originally thought it was localized, for this to appear. While NY suffered, hospital systems every where were updating their plans and fixing the hurdles within their bureaucracy that prevented administrators from using the system to its fullest capacity. I have no doubt hospitals in NY fell victim to a system that very rarely needed to look at a response on a system wide level. The only thing we have had anywhere close to this has been mass casualty responses, but even those are more localized and short-lived. So this was really new territory for a lot of these systems.
While I only know about that one system specifically, my SO explained many systems in the region where taking the same steps because they lacked the ability to track and move folks easily.”
More testing = more cases discovered. Like clockwork, the minute the riots ended the media started beating the virus drum again.
there are going to be a spike of cases in some areas
look at this story
Oklahoma State linebacker tests positive for COVID-19
Oklahoma State football players began returning to campus this week, where they underwent testing for coronavirus upon arrival. Cowboys senior linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga announced via Twitter Tuesday that his test came back positive after attending a protest in Tulsa this weekend. This is the first-known positive case related to the Oklahoma State program.
“After attending a protest in Tulsa AND being well protective of myself, I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Ogbongbemiga’s tweet read. “Please, if you are going to protest, take care of yourself and stay safe.”
Stock market falls = covid 19 fears.
Stock market rises = good news regarding a vaccine.
Prog Fake News.
They have been pushing this propaganda for over a month.
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TexjbA&M7:39a, 6/14/20AG
“This is very antidotal, but I know one of the positive Hays county cases. They were at a protest in Austin. Wore a mask and gloves, was positive 4 day’s later.
That said, I don’t believe Hays county’s spike is 100% the sole result of the protests, there were not any more protests here than anywhere else. While the protests are a piece of it. I’d bet most of it is the DGAF attitude of half the town of San Marcos, in the 20-29 age range. The river had been packed, mask usage has been low, bars open and as full as they are allowed to be, how much social distancing can really be done at a bar once people are drunk? As a result and majority of the new case are in the 20-29 age range. On the bright side, that’s why hospitalizations and deaths will remain low, if it stays in the aged range.”
Funny how its “jumped 11%”. You test a few more people and you can get 132 instead of 120 case. Thats not meaningful. The trend is not up over the past month.
“Dad-O-Lot7:22p, 6/13/20AG
I am a mayor within Hays County and have been tracking this closely since March.
I am 100% convinced that this spike is due to the protests, both because of the timing, and because of the large percentage of 20 to 29 year olds in the numbers.”
Unless they're dead in their apartment or face down in the street like we saw in China and test postive for CV-19 then add them to the list.
The numbers you see are just CV-19 with or WITHOUT symptoms.
The one thing we think we know is that a large percentage of the population may have had the virus without symptoms and even may have antibodies for proof.
I'd like more info on the antibody tests not just continuous fear mongering based on increased numbers of tests.
for those that keep saying this is nothing more than more tests...pay attention to what a mayor is saying about break down in numbers
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3117931/4
“yes. 92 of those are 20 to 29 and 108 are from San Marcos.
This also represents a 50% positive rate from all test results posted in the last 3 days.
The overall rate of positive tests as of 6/10/2020 was 9.7%
Now, the overall rate of positive tests is 17.75%.
Something significant changed in the tested population on or about 6/10.”
It is NOT just more tests...although that is certainly part of it.
It is the DGAF attitude that is causing the spread among the young....and just plain carelessness.
There is a healthcare worker in Florida that got it when she went to a bar. Several workers there have it..customers have it.
Someone here posted that a Hooters server in Texas is in the hospital and gave it to some of the people she served
It **IS*** going to spread
the good news is that they seem to have a handle on how to treat it..and many of the new cases are the younger crowd
I am hoping this gives it a chance to mutate to a lesser version.
Protests, floating the local rivers and visiting bars packed with patrons have been three drivers of higher coronavirus cases in Hays County, according to the Hays County Local Health Department.
Dad-O-Lot4:42pAG
6/17 - 145 new cases
74 between 20 and 29.
96 from San Marcos.
Larger spread in ages and locations this time.
77% positive
Oddly I wish all and healthy to get infected. They will not die or perhaps even know they have the virus. At the same time we must isolate and protect those with co morbidity that make them at risk. Once enough have the disease and recover the transmission rate goes below 1 and the disese dies.
Sweden is right in their decisions about this virus.
It took me a sec or two to figure out "DGAF" but I think I got it.
;-)
For me its knowing that the media wants this crisis to get worse along with the riots to continue the PDJT coup attempts version 6.02.
Deaths vs Tests vs hospitalizations vs postive without symptoms.
It'll fit on a graph.
Keep up your good work.
Yes, they are okay with protests spreading the virus but lookout for trump’s rally.
Can’t have a rally but can have massive looting, arson, and Autonomous Armed Terrorist zones in Seattle.
Democrats are evil.
They were at 18,142.42 October 2016!
F* the left! F* the chicoms! F* these Yahoo bad news losers!
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