I had a chat with Brad Johnson about the fog of war which is trying to establish what the facts are on the Wuhan Flu, or Corono Virus V3.0
This Doctor also seems very reasonable:
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
First an 85% infection rate and a15% kill rate !
Second I have heard the reduce the population theory before but this is the first time I have heard the idea that it is aimed at Hong Kong. If this is true is Macau is a secondary target with the weakening of their neighbors a welcome side effect. If the report that I heard about the peak of the pandemic coming in April or May things are going to get interesting in the Far East and probably all around the world.
The medical analysis by this fellow is exact. It was funny that I too was wondering why the hell they dropped his fever (using paracetamol; and Ibuprofen) as “sweating it out” is always the quickest way to overcome a viral infection and he was in no danger. I also curious about how exactly they defined “diarrhoea” which is a function of frequency NOT consistency, despite what we all think. The abdominal pain was certainly a function of the “diarrhoea” so I would guess that it was “frequency”, Nice to see some sanity in a report and that rubbish about HIV insertion seems just that. This virus might be highly infectious but unless you are old, debilitated, have lung problems it does not seem a real killer any worse than Influenza. It will kill the odd healthy person just as does Influenza but I think that we can all reduce panic mode somewhat, Thank you for that video as it was very timely and I can put my Niosh N95 surgical respirator away for the time being : ).
Lowering fever is routine in hospitals around here. Making the patient comfortable trumps all else. (Including recovery, it seems.)
They started vancomycin and cefepime when the patient’s condition deteriorated. On suspicion of an iatrogenic pneumonia. (Extremely common in this institution, they always start treatment just in case.)
Next day they threw in remdesivir, an experimental protease inhibitor that might inhibit replication of the virus itself. The actual patient was very much the test rat.
He recovered despite all this junk. Lucky he didn’t contract C.diff. (Yet.)
The HIV-insertion is an infectious social media conspiracy theory. Binding sights common to hundreds of known viruses, some random Indian critter pulls HIV out of the NCBI database.
He made his article sexy by citing recent, high-profile cases of Chinese espionage in virology.
I once had 3 weeks of vancomycin through a port – all I got was a fever and a yeast infection – no C. diff. I bet that C diff wasn’t so common then. There was a nurse who kept at a distance, wearing a veiled mask like one here: https://sites.google.com/site/cwmichaelsen/unit-4-viruses This was in the US and I had a mystery bug (until the culture came back!)
A short spell working in a respiratory hospital now makes me reflect that wearing reading glasses defeats the purpose of wearing a mask: you need to keep the hands away from the face, mask or not!
This https://www.boston.gov/news/first-case-2019-novel-coronavirus-confirmed-boston
Facial hair is also (mostly) out:
To Beard or not to Beard? That’s a good Question!
https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2017/11/02/noshave/
See if I did journalism the way the CBC or CNN did, I would headline it as: “CBC endorses Hitler Moustache”.
I may tweet it out that was for a laugh anyway