Concerns raised on face to face classes, monkey pox, and dengue

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Citizens have to face 3 fold concerns over 3 health issues:    face to face classes, monkey pox, and more cases of dengue.

1.  For covid 19, cases are rising and projected to be as high as 10,000 in October

2.  There is all ready a monkey pox case in the Philippines   Elsewhere in the world as in USA, there has been an increase in the number of cases

3.   An alarm has been raised over the increase in number of dengue and deaths from the said disease.  It seems to be reching an epidemic status

But #1 is sure is a great concern.  More infectious strains are spreading, And surely face to face classes are superspreader events.   While we try to revive the economy 10,000 cases per day is worrisome.   

In Japan and South Korea, there has been an upsurge in the number of cases.  In Jpan, it was as high as more than 100,000 cases per day.  

Rethinking on face to face classes at this point   The children are very vulnerable because most of them are  unvaccinated

Resurgence of Covid 19 in China CNN reports

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While we are relaxing our health protocols, China is experiencing massive resurgence with infection 

much worse than the initial outbreak than Wuhan.  CNN reports

High number of cases have been reported in Jillian, so with the Industrial City of  Shenzhen. Stricter lockdown measures have been imposed at city of Changchun.   About 26 million residents are prohibited from leving their homes.

Industrial production are either closed or limited. Public transport has been suspended and so are dining while public venues except for groceries and pharmacies are closed.   

This is in addition to Hong Kong which experienced an upsurge.  

What happens to our policy or unrestricted foreign travelling in?

If there is an outbreak in your locality you will be scared to your wits, you will not argue vs IATF nor with the police

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Rizal Philippines

3.26.2021.   

9,838  covid cases recorded today.  Record breaking   way way up vs the 8,000 cases a few days ago.

What do these numbers mean to to you?  For many it is just a number.

For us we are scared.  In our town, barangay, 30 cases were reported in a bread factory and they had to close the street.  And there were no reported mass gatherings.  What more if there were congregation.?

 Two days ago we underwent a RT - PCR test, to the tune of P5,000 each home service 

because we are not in the priority of the municipal free swab test.   

There is no point quarrelling with the IATF or police or barangay PUSO who merely do not want you to get sick or spread the disease.   I would pray that the church leaders see the light on why they should obey the publich health official order.  The hospitals covid capacity are filled up, there is a shortage of supplies, and the vaccine we have could be stopped (because of blood clot risks)

Stay at home Stay safe.  

Bizarre traffic rules to combat covid19

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Rizal Philippines

3.25.2021

Residents complain as Bucor closes road

In the one year period that we had the covid, this post wonders about some of the traffic rules formulated by the LGUs/and or the police.   

1.   No passing by the highways in some of municipality (or sometimes total closure of the municipality

      to outsiders.   

2.   Circuitous routes of traffic, one ways etc allegedly to help combat the spread of virus.

3.   The barricades, the concrete chb walls being erected in the middle of major thorough fare allegedly 

      to  stop the march of the virus;

      One can not help but to wonder the relevance of such moves and effectiveness vs covid19

As if the virus is a march of hordes of wild animals or insects that enter a territory.  But the virus is invisible and is spread by drop infection:  when people come together  in closed spaces for prolonged period of time that there is a virus load. within the airways and throat of the hosts.     

How can virus be spread in the 3 conditions mentioned above.?

The sad result is that such measures were not able to control  the surge of covid19 cases.   

The leftists and critics are right - the enforcers and the frontliners should understand the science of this pandemic rather than blindly following orders and or formulating ones that have no scientific basis.  

If you have been tested Covid19 negative, does it mean there is no reinfection, you cant infect others? Or that you are immune?

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Rizal Philippines
April 19, 2020

As countries prepare to end their lockdown,  (as well as Philippines in a week's time several interesting questions are coming out?

    *If you are asymptomatic and you become covid19 negative later on, what happens to the virus
      in you?  Are you no longer a carrier?

    *If you recovered after a bout with coVid19 and underwent treatment in a hospital and then tested nega-
      tive, does it mean you a covid19 free?

    *Is there a possibility of a reinfection for a fully recovered, covid19 negative patient?

No one seems to have a definite answer yet as per WHO (still remains the authority for the disease)

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/who-officials-say-its-unclear-whether-recovered-coronavirus-patients-are-immune-to-second-infection.html

1. But we hear anectdotes in SK wherein those patients who were Covid19 negative when retested
    became covid19 positive

2.  We hear of cases in Wuhan, who had

    1.  Reinfection

    2. Infection of others

3.  WHO said through Dr. Mike    Ryan, executive director of WHO emergencies prograrm

There are many reasons why we might see reactivation of infection either with the same infection or another infectious agent," he said. In general, "there are many situations in viral infection where someone doesn't clear the virus entirely from their system." Some patients can also clear the main infection but develop a secondary bacterial infection, he said. 

So with reservation in most cases we can say:   

1.  Reinfection of oneself is possible;
2.   Infection of others is possible
3.   That even if you have antibodies in your plasma, you may not have rid your body of the virus, and
      is therefore is a carrier
4.  That unless there is a vaccine, every body is a suspect virus carrier, and a second round of infection may
     ensue.

Thus wiithout a vaccine, we must  remain in a perpetual state of quarantine.   ie:
    1.  Physical distancing
    2.  Wearing of mask
    3.  Hand washing.
    4.  Border screening/contract tracing (as what they do in Taiwan using CP and similar apps.)

        Trace Together in Singapore  (It works using bluetooth and lists persons /phone number of people who came in close contact with you for the last 21 days.  The phone's content/data collected from Trace Together will only be examined if you tested ++.

For home service testing contact:   Archie:    0975 296 9114,   +632 8634 2645

Drugs being investigated for treatment vs. Covid 19

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Rizal Philippines
April 18, 2020

From Livescience - drugs vs Coronavirus being investigated

There are quite a number:

1.  EIDD 2081 published in Science Transnational Medicine can be an oral medicine just  like Tamiflu. Unlike remdesivir (given by injection) which kills virus entirely, EIDD introduces mutation into the RNA of the virus so that it stops reproducing itself.  The drug has been licensed by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Florida based, and has obtained license  for clinical trials

2.  Japan Anti Flu Drug -   Avigan (Favipiravir)  was an anti flu drug made by FujiFilm Pharmaceutical and works with mild to moderate  cases and was shown to be effective in 340 cases in Wuhan China.  However, of late, because of disruption in supply chain, Japan would not be able to cope up with the demand.

The drug prevents certain virus from replicating  and improves lung condition (Dr. Sultan reports that the action of favirapir is to disrupt the Corana virus from detaching the iron form the haema by competing with the same at the cell surface


3.  Chloroquine and hydroxycholoroquine

It works by blocking the aibility of the virus to enter into human cell and replicate.  (In our theory that it a blood disease, the medication competes with the virus from removing the iron from haeme.) The corona hairs from  reaching the ACE of the the cells  (see first picture)  Its efficacy was seen in anectdotal reports from France.   Pres Trump and Ellon Musk praised the drug to the heavens.  Its side effect, being toxic, however made some Euro countries dump the medication.  India banned the export of the drug, the country itself facing crisis with covid 19

4. Anti hypertensive drug.       Losartan it is an angiotensin receptor inhibitor and used mainly to reduce high blood pressure.  And works well when the covid 19 patient is hypertensive.   As an ACE inhibitor it may work to prevent the virus from attaching to the cell and multiplying.    Losartan is included in the protocol for treating coVid Patients (to lessen virus overload)   Persons whom we know of who were in Chinatown during Chinese New Year and who were on Losartan, and who developed the symptoms got better and were cured...

5.  Failed Ebola drug -  remdesivir. It is given to compassionate cases - ie those who are hopeless. However there has been a deluge of compassionate case and the said use is stopped.

6.  A combination HIV drug  Kaletra;  however the results of the trial was not conclusive, statistically significant.

7.  To counter auto immuno reaction  - cytokine reaction when the body overcome by infection goes into overdrive and attacks its own cells like in Lupus or arthritis. -  Actemra or tocolizumab. Mechanism of action it blocks cell receptor of Interlukine 6, a cytokine a protein that causes dangerous immune system reaction

The supportive treatment are Vitamin C, corticosteroid,  high flow oxygen,, and Zinc.

Maybe if we have zinc, we have people on Losartan, or safe ACE inhibitor we do not need the expensive vaccine they are developing (especially the the onebBill Gates Foundation is developing) as preventive  meds.  Those who are ill can be on Avigan.  

Is it now accepted that after preventing the findings of East Virginia, Dr. Sharif, that coVid19 is a cellular level oxygenation disease rather than a system respiratory disease?

For the former, we need more of hyperbaric chamber, blood transfusion, plasma pheresis (use of dialysis machine) and less of Ventilators and intubation.   Intubation is a dangerous procedure that infects the medical  practitioner and injures the patient...

N.B. The blogger  merely researches article and does not pretend to be a medical expert.   However, the articles are well referenced