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Great post man. The main thing is people should be helping and caring for eachother. Biggest thing right now.

There was a problem with the test kits from CDC. Not blaming anyone just wished they worked. I think they got workable ones now. (not for sure)

Read online there is 65 or 66 million people in USA age 65 or older

Not panic myself. Just sharing.

That is bad how people are living. It's why really don't like Pelosi. Never take care of her own problems or people but willing to do anything to go after others. Sad.

Thanks man stay safe. and everyone. Right on with parents. My parents not healthy. One in nursing home and living with my mother. Know a few older people who smoke. Smoking esp older people is a bad thing with this virus. So many other factors with older people.

Hey hope you and everyone doing ok. Take good care of you're self. Question is i'm asking if you're brother knows if meds helping people out with covid-19? What happens if meds run out? Just seeing meds helping lots people out. Just wondering on this.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/why-some-covid-19-cases-are-worse-than-others-67160 Elderly and sick people are most susceptible to severe forms of COVID-19 The latest data from China stem from an analysis of nearly 45,000 confirmed cases, and on the whole suggest that the people most likely to develop severe forms of COVID-19 are those with pre-existing illnesses and the elderly. While less than 1 percent of people who were otherwise healthy died from the disease, the fatality rate for people with cardiovascular disease was 10.5 percent. That figure was 7.3 percent for diabetes patients and around 6 percent for those with chronic respiratory disease, hypertension, or cancer. While overall, 2.3 percent of known cases proved fatal—which many experts say is likely an overestimate of the mortality rate, given that many mild cases might go undiagnosed—patients 80 years or older were most at risk, with 14.8 percent of them dying. Deaths occurred in every age group except in children under the age of nine, and, generally speaking, “we see relatively few cases among children,” World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week. This pattern of increasing severity with age differs from that of some other viral outbreaks, notably the 1918 flu pandemic, for which mortality was high in young children and in people between 20 and 40 years of age. However, it’s broadly consistent with records of the SARS and MERS coronavirus outbreaks, notes Lisa Gralinski, a virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “If you’re over fifty or sixty and you have some other health issues and if you’re unlucky enough to be exposed to this virus, it could be very bad,” she says. Scientists don’t know what exactly happens in older age groups. But based on research on other respiratory viruses, experts theorize that whether a coronavirus infection takes a turn for the worse depends on a person’s immune response. “The virus matters, but the host response matters at least as much, and probably more,” says Stanley Perlman, a virologist and pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Iowa. Once SARS-CoV-2 gets inside the human respiratory tract, it’s thought to infect and multiply in cells lining the airway, causing damage that kicks the immune system into action. In most people, it should trigger a wave of local inflammation, recruiting immune cells in the vicinity to eradicate the pathogen. The immune response then recedes, and patients recover. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, some people—especially the elderly and sick—may have dysfunctional immune systems that fail to keep the response to particular pathogens in check. This could cause an uncontrolled immune response, triggering an overproduction of immune cells and their signaling molecules and leading to a cytokine storm often associated with a flood of immune cells into the lung. “That’s when you end up with a lot of these really severe inflammatory disease conditions like pneumonia, shortness of breath, inflammation of the airway, and so forth,” says Rasmussen. Local inflammation can turn into widespread inflammation of the lungs, which then has ripple effects across all organs of the body. This could also happen if the virus replicates faster than the immune system can respond, so that it then has to play catch-up to contain the pathogen—a situation that could also cause the immune defense to spiral out of control. “With mice, we know that in some cases, particularly for SARS and MERS coronaviruses, virus replication is very rapid and in some cases overwhelming” to the immune system, says Perlman. It’s harder to explain why young, healthy people also sometimes die from the disease—for instance, Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old doctor who first sounded the alarm about the virus. He died a few weeks after contracting the pathogen. Genetic and environmental risk factors might help explain the severity of infections. Though it’s clear that genetic factors can strongly determine the outcome of viral infections in mice—as some of Rasmussen’s work has shown for Ebola, for instance—researchers haven’t yet been able to tease out specific genes or variants in mice, let alone in people, that are responsible for varying degrees of illness. Environmental factors, such as smoking or air quality, may also play a role in disease severity, Rasmussen adds. A lot of research has gone into understanding what causes respiratory failure that results from systemic inflammation of the lungs—also called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)—that can occur from coronaviruses and other infections. Yet researchers still don’t know how it occurs exactly, let alone how to treat it, Gralinksi notes. “It’s still a really poorly understood issue.”

I'm really feeling for those older people or those with health problems around the world. Coronavirus hit's the lungs witch makes sense for lots. Older lungs lungs or bad lungs get's hit badly with poor immune system among others. Really think this for older people or those with health problems

A joke to lighten the mood

Sounds like a sick fetish fantasy lol.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-patient-in-spain-reportedly-recovers-after-being-treated-with-hiv-drug/ 62-year-old man who became Spain’s first coronavirus patient is believed to have made a full recovery after being treated with an HIV drug, according to a report. Miguel Ángel Benítez was hospitalized at the Virgen del Rocio Hospital in Seville, where he received lopinavir-ritonavir, an antiretroviral drug sold under the brand name Kaletra, according to Metro UK, which cited El Pais. Don't understand why hiv drugs are healing people. Not just for this person but for lots of people.

That's great on the first link lol. That's a positive. Drinking can be ok (maybe not for coronavirus)but can be bad doing it everyday. That liver needs a break. Among other stuff. Plus i'm a bad drunk told myself quitting today.

Alright thanks

haha. In Fall 2012 a new coronavirus appeared on the global public health radar. The virus has caused 17 cases of severe respiratory disease in the Middle East and Europe, and 11 of these people died. This new virus attracted immediate attention because of the high fatality rate—and because it was in the same family as the virus that caused the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, which sickened more than 8,000 people. A team here at the virus ecology unit at NIAID got a sample of the virus, called nCoV, from The Netherlands in November. By December they had developed an animal model to study how the virus behaved and caused illness. Now, just a few months later, they report that two antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, will stop nCoV from replicating in cells grown in the lab. Clearly more studies are needed to figure out whether the treatment will translate to humans, but it’s an important first step. That’s virus to treatment in about four months—pretty impressive. https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2013/04/23/promising-treatment-for-new-human-coronavirus/#comments http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2020-02-10/cuban-medication-interferon-alpha-selected-among-drugs-to-combat-coronavirus Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel noted the Chinese government's determined efforts to confront the coronavirus 2019-NCOV epidemic, with positive results now becoming evident, including the recovery of more than 1,500 patients. Díaz-Canel tweeted: "Interferon alpha 2B: Cuban drug used in China against coronavirus. Our support to the Chinese government and people in their efforts to combat the coronavirus," while noting the use of an anti-viral product from the country’s biotechnology industry. The drug, IFNrec, is one of about 30 medications selected by the Chinese National Health Commission to treat the respiratory condition and, according to statements on Cuban television by Dr. Luis Herrera Martinez, scientific and commercial advisor to the President of BioCubaFarma, its selection was based on effectiveness shown previously against viruses with characteristics similar to those of this coronavirus. "It has the advantage, in situations like these, of functioning as a protective mechanism, preventing patients from getting worse, reaching a severe stage, with death as the outcome," the specialist explained. Dr. Herrera noted that Cuba shared the technology to produce the drug some years ago, with the opening of the ChangHeber joint Chinese-Cuban facility in the town of Changchun, Jilin province. This plant makes "the same product we do,” he noted, “with exactly the same technology, meeting quality standards approved by Chinese and Cuban regulatory authorities." The Cuban embassy in China reported on its Twitter account, "The Chinese-Cuban Changheber plant in Jilin has been producing Interferon alpha (IFNrec) with the use of Cuban technology since the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Chinese Health Commission has selected our product among those used in the fight against coronavirus." February 10th cured 1,500 patients. Looks like helping everyone out. Like in 12 (year) cured. Same drug.

https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/miscellaneous/is-cuban-drug-key-to-treating-coronavirus/ RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Cuban drug "Recombinant Interferon alfa 2b (IFNrec)" is one of 30 drugs selected to fight the coronavirus Covid-19 in China. According to media reports, it has already cured more than 1,500 patients. Since January 25th, it has been produced in the Chinese-Cuban plant Chanheber in the province of Jilin, according to the Cuban embassy in China. According to specialists, it has so far been used to treat viral infections such as HIV/AIDS, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, a respiratory tumor, and hepatitis B and C. Developed in 1986 by Cuban researchers at the . . Reading lots things online. Lots been treated by hiv drug (different drugs fight one thing off). The respiratory ( coronavirus thives on) this Cuban drug fix or fight them both. This drug makes sense now for world. Should be everywhere.

If all the doctors using that drug in China. Looks like working badass with it. All countries should have it.

At this point we all have to protect those over 50, those with health problems among other things. We all should help them. They are the most easy to this virus. We all should come together for them and help them out.

Sorry to all last night was drunk. But this is damn numbers. Older people , people with health or immune problems or just people? L type coronavirus? https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1236704475554988033 BREAKING: Italy reports 1,492 new cases of coronavirus and 133 new deaths, raising total to 7,375 cases and 366 dead Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline - BNO News The tables below show confirmed cases of coronavirus (2019-nCoV, officially known as SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) in China and other countries. To see a distribution map and a timeline, scroll down. There... bnonews.com 1:24 PM · Mar 8, 2020·TweetDeck Grr for some reason not posting whole tweet. https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1236706833278132224 All but 2 of the new deaths in Italy were 60 or older and most had underlying health conditions - CNN

What about the older people, those with poor immune or disabilities and other stuff. (highest death rate with this virus). They have no say in this? Jesus Christ people don't care about them. Only about politics. It's soo damn sick.

This! All this post is what iv'e been seeing as well. This one as well.