https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html 3 New York youths died of an inflammatory syndrome that could be connected to coronavirus, governor says "We were laboring under the impression young people were not affected by Covid-19. ... We're not so sure that that is the fact anymore," Cuomo told reporters Saturday. State officials had warned earlier this week that dozens of children in the state had been hospitalized with a condition doctors described as "pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome," and that it could be linked to Covid-19. The children had fever and symptoms similar to toxic shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease, the state had said. Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in the walls of blood vessels, including those that supply blood to the heart, which in rare cases can lead to de
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-...-vaccine-researcher-covid-19-cure-60-minutes/ Trump administration cuts funding for coronavirus researcher, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure An American scientist who collaborates with the Wuhan Institute of Virology had his grant terminated in the wake of unsubstantiated claims that COVID-19 is either manmade or leaked out of a Chinese government lab. Peter Daszak: The breakthrough drug, Remdesivir, that seems to have some impact on COVID-19 was actually tested against the viruses we discovered under our NIH research funding. Scott Pelley: And so that testing would not have been possible-- Peter Daszak: No, it would not. Scott Pelley: --if it hadn't been for the work that you did with the NIH grant? Peter Daszak: Correct. Reporter in White House press briefing: There's also another report that the NIH, under the Obama administration, in 2015 gave that lab $3.7 million in a grant. Why would the U.S. give a grant like that to China? President Trump: The Obama administration gave them a grant of $3.7 million? I've been hearing about that. And we've instructed that if any grants are going to that area – we're looking at it, literally, about an hour ago, and also early in the morning. We will end that grant very quickly.
Yes. The United States cut off funding to the Wuhan Institute for the Advancement of Pandemics, and the lefties are howling because, hey, where would we get a pandemic to bring Trump down without them.
People with coronavirus are dying 10 years earlier than they would have naturally: Study The study disproved those who are dying were already close to the end. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/peopl...ars-earlier-naturally-study/story?id=70511494 Even as the global death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise, the impact of the virus may actually be understated, according to a new study from the University of Glasgow. Using a statistical measure called "years of life lost," researchers found that COVID-19 strips more than a decade away from a person's life, on average. For men, the viral infection takes away about 13 years of potential life lived. For women, it's more like 11 years. Both numbers account for underlying long-term conditions. The concept of "years of life lost," or YLL, is a mathematical equation that estimates the average time a person would have lived if they had not died because of some unforeseen health event, like COVID-19 infection. The study, which is still awaiting peer review to ensure accuracy and validity, confirms what should seem obvious, but is nevertheless sobering: COVID-19 is not killing people who are already near death, rather it's claiming the lives of many people more than a decade before their time. "YLL is a common, widely adopted public health statistic to assess the number of years lost due to premature mortality. It's used to assess resource allocation for research and health care delivery," said Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor. According to Dr. David McAllister, senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant at the University of Glasgow Institute of Health and Wellbeing, he and his colleagues embarked on the study to test the assumption that the impact of COVID-19 may have been overstated, perhaps because the people who are dying would have died soon regardless of their infection. "This paper is compelling in that it aims to provide a better understanding of the mortality impact of COVID-19," according to Brownstein. "Clearly, there has been a school of thought that individuals that succumbed to COVID-19 are already seriously ill with minimal years of life left to live. This quantitative assessment clears up that misconception showing that years of life lost is over a decade. "This finding holds even after adjusting for underlying chronic conditions," he added. Using a report on Italy's death count published on March 26, McAllister and his team compared deaths from COVID-19 to information about mortality from the World Health Organization and Secure Anonymised Record Linkage data, a health care database from the United Kingdom. Their results account for the typical number of chronic conditions normally found for men and women aged 50 years or older who died of COVID-19. "Among people dying of COVID-19, the number of years of life lost per person appear similar to diseases such as coronary heart disease," McAllister said, according to prepared remarks. The YLL ranges per person for other diseases in the U.K. are "8.2 for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 11.6 for coronary heart disease, 13.1 for pneumonia, and 21.6 for asthma," according to the study. "These findings parallel the impact of other well-known conditions, such as coronary heart disease and pneumonia," said Brownstein. "When compared to these benchmarks, these findings do suggest the substantial burden of COVID-19 and should help policy makers as they weigh their public health response decisions." Metrics like YLL can provide a useful glimpse into the destructive nature of this virus. As governments around the globe consider reopening, research can help inform decision-making and reveal exactly what's at risk.
Papaya has coronavirus infection. ventilate and collect $30,000? The Nigerian scams were not bad, but this is primo. The test was accurate, fer sure. Quarantines all around.
I question if any anti-body test is "100% accurate". Coronavirus: New 100% accurate COVID-19 antibody test approved for use in UK Boris Johnson has previously called antibody testing a "game-changer" as it may reveal how many people have had COVID-19. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...antibody-test-approved-for-use-in-uk-11987924 A new coronavirus antibody test has been found to be 100% accurate, public health leaders have confirmed. Public Health England (PHE) said scientific experts at its Porton Down facility had carried out an independent evaluation of the new blood test developed by a Swiss pharmaceutical company. The examination found that Roche's serology test was "highly specific" and had an accuracy of 100%. The test is designed to help determine if a patient has had COVID-19 and whether they have developed antibodies against it. The detection of these antibodies could help to indicate if a person has gained immunity against the virus. Professor John Newton, national co-ordinator of the UK Coronavirus Testing Programme, said: "This is a very positive development because such a highly specific antibody test is a very reliable marker of past infection. "This in turn may indicate some immunity to future infection although the extent to which the presence of antibodies indicates immunity remains unclear." Britain's junior health minister Edward Argar said: "This has the potential to be a game changer. "We are now moving as fast as we can to discuss with Roche purchasing of those but I can't give you an exact date when we'll be able to start rolling them out." A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said: "Antibody testing is an important part of our strategy to counter the spread of COVID-19 and to help us understand who has had the disease. "In addition to the recent huge expansion of the UK's swab-based coronavirus testing capacity, we are exploring the use of antibody testing across the NHS and ultimately the wider public. (More at above url)