Thread: Corona Virus

Latest on the News fillers... A certain bankrupt (?) Queensland millionaire has purchased squillions of doses of Trump's favourite medication for COVID-19.

Recent trials have produced mixed results, but none of them included adding zinc to the mix. HCQ has some anti-viral effects and is a potent Zn 'ionophore' - it drags zinc INTO the cells, where it's (Zn) hostility to viral replication is beneficial.

But, it comes with some deadly side-effects for cardiac patients (like me) and needs careful dosing even for the 'healthy'.

Anyway, a fine gesture, though there's a safer and less expensive alternative out there. A couple, actually.
Me? - I just drink lots more green tea and eat some oysters.

On the other hand, some of those incredibly $$$ purpose-made 'anti virals' have not produced the goods. Yet...

Experimental COVID-19 drug remdesivir ‘failed in human trial’ | Americas – Gulf News

Combating COVID-19 with Zinc and Quercetin – Nutritional Pharmacology - since this article, there has been a Quercetin/zinc trial started somewhere.


Clive Palmer buys 33 million doses of experimental, potentially dangerous COVID-19 drug

Originally Posted by vnx205

I'm not sure that any of that is possible with the data the app collects and the restrictions on who can access it.

According to COVIDSafe app | Australian Government Department of Health




(My emphasis)

So if you have been playing away from home, don't give permission for the data to be uploaded. Problem solved.

And ....

- you can delete all the app data on your phone whenever you want to
- you have to upload it to the government, they can't just take it and it can only be used for COVID tracing
- it's not a tracking app, just a contact app - so it doesn't know where you've been, just who you've been near for more than 15 minutes that also has the app on their phone - so if you're worried about who you're contacting with, switch your phone off or they switch theirs off

Originally Posted by windsock

Or... hope that the wife/girlfriend is not the operator on duty that gets tasked to follow the data if you or any 'contacts' get tested +ve...

It's anonymised, so wouldn't matter anyway.

A vaccine by September.?


Huge boost for coronavirus vaccine with test monkeys infection-free four weeks on

COVID-19, a 21st century solution.

COVID-19: Nanomachines to be deployed to fight next viral pandemic | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 28.04.2020

The New York Times coronavirus briefing.


Coronavirus Briefing: A Vaccine by Fall?

6 more symptoms to look for. [ the only sure way to find out is to have a test.]

Six more symptoms to watch for

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began by listing just three symptoms for Covid-19: fever, cough and shortness of breath. But we now know that the disease can hit one patient very differently from another. So the C.D.C. has officially added six more:

Chills Repeated shaking with chills Muscle pain Headache Sore throat Loss of taste or smell

Not everyone who is infected will have them all, and some people won’t have any. The only sure way to know if you have the virus is to get tested.

Warning of a virus tie to a rare children's condition. Back to school too early?



European Doctors Warn Rare Kids''' Syndrome May Have Virus Tie - The New York Times

Positive results from a coronavirus vaccine from Queensland.


Queensland COVID-19 vaccine shows promise