Hospitals Lose Money During Pandemic; Healthcare Workers Face Layoffs, Cut Hours Faced with lost revenue from canceled elective procedures, hospitals laid off 1.4 million health care workers in April, including nearly 135,000 from hospitals.
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The Harvard Wyss Institute’s response to COVID-19: beating back the coronavirus
Diagnosing COVID-19 more quickly, easily, and broadly
With COVID-19 rapidly spreading around the planet, the efficient detection of the CoV2 virus is pivotal to isolate infected individuals as early as possible, support them in whatever way possible, and thus prevent the further uncontrolled spread of the disease. Currently, the most-performed tests are detecting snippets of the virus’ genetic material, its RNA, by amplifying them with a technique known as “polymerase chain reaction” (PCR) from nasopharyngeal swabs taken from individuals’ noses and throats.
The tests, however, have severe limitations that stand in the way of effectively deciding whether people in the wider communities are infected or not. Although PCR-based tests can detect the virus’s RNA early on in the disease, test kits are only available for a fraction of people that need to be tested, and they require trained health care workers, specialized laboratory equipment, and significant time to be performed. In addition, health care workers that are carrying out testing are especially prone to being infected by CoV2. To shorten patient-specific and community-wide response times, Wyss Institute researchers are taking different parallel approaches:
Health & Aging post COVID-19: Ole | Apollo, Aubrey | SENS, Sonia | 100 Plus Capital, Reason | Repair
Aubrey De Grey and Reason from ’ Fight Aging’:
How can the current public focus on health be leveraged to promote a focus on prevention of disease, and aging as root cause for diseases?
Ole mensching, apollo ventures aubrey de grey, SENS research foundation sonia arrison, 100 plus capital reason, fightaging
Zoom Session Transcriptions: https://otter.ai/s/2brwTOXwS4qcBOe8P_1Jhw
Hivemind | long-term futures in times of acute crisis.
How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health
TRANSCRIPT AND MP3: www.corbettreport.com/gates
Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert? This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realize that Gates’ unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development. And now that we are presented with the very problem that Gates has been talking about for years, we will soon find that this software developer with no medical training is going to leverage that wealth into control over the fates of billions of people.
Could Deep Breathing Exercises Protect You From the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19?
Deep Breathing alone will not create new lung cells, but combined with deep relaxation, guided visualizations, and therapeutic messages (Your stem cells are going to transform themselves into new lung cells to replace those lung cells infected by the Coronavirus. Your stem cells are going to change themselves into T-Cells, B-Cells, and Natural Killer Cells which are going to seek out, identify, attack, and destroy all the Coronavirus cells in your entire body), it will eliminate the coughing, fever, headaches, inflammation, and breathing problems.
While there is no hard evidence that lung exercises can help ease the discomfort and the progression of symptoms of COVID-19, there are techniques that will restore your lungs to optimal health.
Paradoxes of Probability & Statistical Strangeness
Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns. In this series we look at some of the common mistakes we make and how to avoid them when thinking about statistics, probability and risk.
You don’t have to wait long to see a headline proclaiming that some food or behavior is associated with either an increased or a decreased health risk, or often both. How can it be that seemingly rigorous scientific studies can produce opposite conclusions?
Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth of software packages that can readily analyze data and output the results of complex statistical tests. While these are powerful resources, they also open the door to people without a full statistical understanding to misunderstand some of the subtleties within a dataset and to draw wildly incorrect conclusions.
France’s first Covid-19 case ‘dates back to December’, flu retest shows
Murphy’s Law: Everything that can go wrong will in fact go wrong.
Here is how to set the table for Murphy’s Law and become the epic center in the world for the COVID-19:
A. Eliminate the entire global health security team at the White House. Their job? Managing pandemics like COVID-19.
B. Misidentify the origin of COVID-19 as China, when the evidence says it came from France.
C. Check all Chinese at the Airport, while letting all Europeans enter the USA without being checked, bringing the COVID-19 virus in with them.
A doctor in the Paris region says one of his patients who was diagnosed with pneumonia in December was, in fact, infected with Covid-19. The report, which is due to be published in detail this week, would make it the first known case of the disease in France – a month earlier than previously thought.
‘Unnecessary’ genetic complexity: A spanner in the works?
The breakthrough, which identified the location and function of every human gene, offered the promise of medical care tailored specifically to individual patients, based on their personal genetic makeup.
When researchers identified a gene associated with a 44 per cent risk of breast cancer in women, for example, it seemed that protecting them might be as simple as deactivating that gene.
But the promise of such personalized medicine has not fully materialized, say two McMaster researchers, because the full sophistication of the genetic blueprint has a more complex and far-reaching influence on human health than scientists had first realized.
Antibody prevents the COVID-19 virus from infecting human cells
Antibody found to block infection by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in cells.
The ‘47D11’ antibody targets the ‘spike protein’ of the destructive coronavirus.
It could alter the ‘course of infection’ or protect an uninfected person exposed.
Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19.
Scientists say they’ve discovered an antibody that blocks infection by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the current global health crisis.