Physician Group with Covid-19 Protocol

Frontline Critical Care Working Group

Their protocol includes:

1. IV Methylprednisolone
2. Vitamin C
3. Heparin
4. Thiamine, zinc, and Vitamin D
5. Oxygen (when necessary)

They start it immediately.

Fed corporate bond-buying - 

Buying corporate debt issues including BBB rated issues is new.

Blood Abnormalities

"We’ve also seen really interesting derangements in the lab work. We’re seeing thrombocytosis, we’re seeing super high levels of platelet counts. And, we’re also on the other side of things — very low levels of hemoglobin and anemia — there’s no one clear clinical picture. Very high levels of ferretin. Very sky high D-dimer counts, like in the 20,000s and 30,000s… You know, I think again it’s really interesting to think about what is the pathophysiology that’s causing these derangements in lab values, and how does that translate out to clinical correlation?"

Physician's Weekly 4/27/20

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A Path Out of this Mess

We could stop the pandemic by July 4 if the government took these steps

The Harvard plan lays out a way to stop the spread of the virus and get back to normal.  It requires massive testing and contact tracing.  

That massive testing would provide the foundational data needed to move to sewage monitoring to assess the level of infection within the region served by the sewage system. 

Wastewater could provide early, painless and localized data

about the rise or fall of coronavirus levels.

Evolutionary Process at Work

Researchers hypothesize that a highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is spreading

The Fed is buying junk

The US Federal Reserve is now 

Buying Junk-rated Debt

Years of near-zero interest rates led CEOs to gorge on cheap debt.  What did they do with the money?  There needs to be a rigorous study to know the details.  But some of it went to finance share buybacks to juice CEO pay.  

Now that debt is distressed, the Fed is stepping in to buy it up rather than let the bond-issuers default on it.  Just to be clear, the central bank is using fiat money to buy these junk-rated corporate issues so that bond-holders can trade this nearly worthless paper for spendable dollars.  Once again the financial industry pulls the levers and turns the dials of government to socialize losses.  Late empire corruption is in the air. 

Covid replicates in the intestine

Reinfection Question

Korea Herald 

Tests in recovered patients found false positives,

and not reinfection 

The Amazing Tools we have Compared to 1918

Poop may tell us when the coronavirus lockdown will end

 

In 1918 humans had not yet learned of the existence of DNA and RNA.  This sewage-sampling method will be an efficient way to approximate numbers of people infected if we can work out how concentrations of viral DNA in sewage correlate to the number of people who have the disease and are shedding virus.  The figures derived so far again suggest that the infection fatality rate may be lower than it appears because so many people who have it don't have symptoms.