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Interestingly, the new board software understands footnites/citations that point to a URL.

Sadly, citation 38 points to a journal article which costs 36USD.

As I am approaching my very late youth, finding out that I will develop "an inverse CD4/CD8 ratio, loss of naïve T cells, increased numbers of terminally-differentiated T cells and oligoclonal expansions of virus-specific T cells," severely altered Natural killer (NK) cells, and that latent cytomegalovirus infection contributing to immunosenescence of T and NK cells just makes my day. Thanks, nitflegal. You are a ray of sunshine. 😒

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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770945
 

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Findings  In this cohort study of 1641 adult patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who were hospitalized, elevated RDW at admission and increasing RDW during hospitalization were associated with statistically significant increases in mortality risk. The association between the RDW at admission and mortality risk was independent of D-dimer (dimerized plasmin fragment D) level, absolute lymphocyte count, demographic factors, and common comorbidities.

Meaning  The findings suggest that an elevated RDW measured at admission and increasing RDW during hospitalization were associated with significantly higher mortality risk for patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection; RDW may be helpful for patient risk stratification.

 

 

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7 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Interestingly, the new board software understands footnites/citations that point to a URL.

Sadly, citation 38 points to a journal article which costs 36USD.

As I am approaching my very late youth, finding out that I will develop "an inverse CD4/CD8 ratio, loss of naïve T cells, increased numbers of terminally-differentiated T cells and oligoclonal expansions of virus-specific T cells," severely altered Natural killer (NK) cells, and that latent cytomegalovirus infection contributing to immunosenescence of T and NK cells just makes my day. Thanks, nitflegal. You are a ray of sunshine. 😒

If it helps, I'm being quite positive on this board.  Get some bourbon into me and THEN ask about my opinion on Covid vaccines. . . 

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6 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Not that we should stop producing a vaccine, but placing hope in it that it will end the crisis is delusional.

I really think herd immunitity and convalescent plasma are going to be the key to all this.

The gov't customer for my job is talking about maintaining work-at-home until there is a vaccine. Umm...

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https://scitechdaily.com/sufficient-levels-of-vitamin-d-significantly-reduces-complications-death-among-covid-19-patients/

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Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were vitamin D sufficient, with a blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at least 30 ng/mL (a measure of vitamin D status), had a significant decreased risk for adverse clinical outcomes including becoming unconscious, hypoxia (body starved for oxygen) and death. In addition, they had lower blood levels of an inflammatory marker (C-reactive protein) and higher blood levels of lymphocytes (a type of immune cell to help fight infection).

 

Here's a new one; Selenium.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/7/2098/htm

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We conclude that Se status analysis in COVID patients provides diagnostic information. However, causality remains unknown due to the observational nature of this study. Nevertheless, the findings strengthen the notion of a relevant role of Se for COVID convalescence and support the discussion on adjuvant Se supplementation in severely diseased and Se-deficient patients.

 

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On 9/28/2020 at 9:01 AM, Stargrunt6 said:

The summoning circle consisted of a 1911, a Napoleonic miniature and, ironically, a Bible.

I would do just about anything for a 1911...

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Sweden denying care to elderly?

 

http://sveanyheter.com/2020/08/04/dr-tallingers-letter-to-the-world-medical-association/

 

I am a 50-year-old specialist i allmänmedicin (general practitioner in Sweden with specific responsibilities) urgently appealing to the World Medical Association to officially approach the government of Sweden and make them accountable to my fellow medical colleagues in Sweden and worldwide, regarding a lack of ethics in 4 important issues which completely violate the Hippocratic Oath, Declaration of Helsinki and a declaration adopted at the 70th WMA General Assembly in Georgia during October 2019 against Euthanasia & Physician-Assisted Suicide:

  1. Official directives specifically focus on elderly in nursing homes and deny them oxygen and basic medical attention such as being sent to hospitals, but are remotely prescribed Morphine and Midazolam if they are infected with SARS-CoV-2 without actual examinations while withholding information about official directives affecting the elderly. This results in disregarding the wishes of their loves ones who eventually wind up with the anguish of losing their parent(s).
  2. Questioning and insisting on making public the statistics rendered confidential and not available to the Swedish public during this period of the pandemic, which definitely affects Sweden’s official approach on issues such as the extent of insufficient PPE, insufficient medical equipment including drugs for treating pneumonia, insufficient hospital beds, purchasing of testing reagents for Covid-19 tests, and withholding the journals of the elderly in nursing homes containing information to confirm unethical decisions and actions killing the elderly.
  3. Sweden’s official strategies are justified by state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.He has been wrong on too many occasions while refusing to provide necessary science to justify his experimental approach for months, and his pattern of consistent errors for months has made me question whether he understands the responsibilities and ethics of being an epidemiologist in public health. I can only conclude that Sweden’s official approach is forcing more than 10 million lives in Sweden to experience an ongoing process of herd immunity without a vaccine.

Swedish doctors being forced to obey official directives going against fundamental medical ethics as doctors while officially disregarding the lives and basic rights of patients and inflicting inhumane human rights violations, or being reported and then penalised if failing to adhere to such official directives, while the creators of such inhumane directives are still unidentified. Since a few days after my going public on the issue on 10 April, I have been on official leave from my medical duties, in order to try to collect as much information as possible to add to what I was forced to confront in the official directives I have been given to carry out.

 

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Attachment 1a is the official directive for the region of Gävleborg, with an English translation.

1b is the link to the official video by Swedish authorities of how to “care plan” patients with Covid-19, where oxygen is not mentioned at all.

Link 1c is an interview with nurse Latifa Löfvenberg, who has been quoted in articles by BBC & RT regarding what she has seen about the deliberate murder of elderly in nursing homes and what she had to do to the elderly when employed in a nursing home.

1d is the link to an article stating 16 regions within Sweden’s 22 regions have special directives for the elderly, and 9 of the regions explicitly forbid oxygen.

Attachment 2a is a link to an open letter I wrote in May, about senicide in Sweden.

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Sweden’s oxygen policy typically depriving people of such a necessity (especially during a pandemic involving a disease that causes major respiratory issues) is human rights abuse of the elderly and vulnerable, especially when 3 major oxygen-producing companies with manufacturing capabilities operate within Sweden, as detailed in my updated open letter.

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Campbell claims the UK average serum level of vitamin D is below 20 ng/ml;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B01ZlRfMnmU

 

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