**Official** COVID-19 Discussion

[vcs]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704

****'s sake

 

[Shri]

Lynch pigs

 

[vcs]

Lynch non-vegetarians

 

[Shri]

My way gives us bacon

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Lynch non-vegetarians

meat substitutes produced in sterile, food-safe, tyranny-free environments now

(literally! it's already in the supermarket!)

 

[silentstriker]

 

[Magrat Garlick]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/investigations/coronavirus-excess-deaths-heart/

WaPo has been doing some hobby epidemiology and found that a spike in heart disease deaths in corona-New York state was not caused by coronavirus but by "fear of seeking care in hospitals"

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Care or medical bankruptcy?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Pack it in losers, Trump's wonderdrug works.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext

 

[honestbharani]

An Indian medicine has started human trials this week. If at all it works, apparently they are looking to launch it by August 15. Is that too optimistic?

 

[Shri]

Depends. Is it a bjp homeopathy drug that has cow urine in it?

 

[honestbharani]

Lol.. its from Bharat Biotech and it is based on plasma of people who recovered or something. I just hope we have another actual independence day.

 

[silentstriker]

Lol.. its from Bharat Biotech and it is based on plasma of people who recovered or something. I just hope we have another actual independence day.

Intrigued. Got a source?

 

[honestbharani]

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/t...axin-to-be-launched-by-august-15-5501921.html


There is also a whatsapp forward of the pdf that is doing the rounds.

 

[honestbharani]

But why do you care, SS? There is always Hydroxychloroquine..

 

[silentstriker]

That has been shown not to help, and perhaps harm.

 

[honestbharani]

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...vid-vaccine-august-covaxin-1696444-2020-07-03


I saw another link that questions if it is indigenous at all and that it is some variant of Coraflu or something which is a US drug apparently... I don't intend to dive down this rabbit hold any further except hope and pray that someone somehow finds a cure to this ****.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Pack it in losers, Trump's wonderdrug works.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext

Predictors of mortality were age ≥ 65 years (HR, 2.6 [95% CI: 1.9, 3.3]), white race (HR: 1.7 [95% CI: 1.4, 2.1]), CKD (HR, 1.7 [95%CI: 1.4, 2.1])

so it kills old, white drunkards. not sure there's any intervention we can try here

 

[silentstriker]

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/t...axin-to-be-launched-by-august-15-5501921.html


There is also a whatsapp forward of the pdf that is doing the rounds.

Hmm, there is no details - is it a vaccine or treatment? The article seems confused. What's the PDF?

 

[honestbharani]

That has been shown not to help, and perhaps harm.

You forgot what means?