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30/03/2020

“My dad is a pulmonologist in the ICU. He works every day in the COVID Ground Zero.
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Today he called me when I was at my computer and I wrote down what he said:
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“You know, Natalie, you have to know the difference between fear and panic. Fear can be a good thing. It breaks through complacency. It makes people move; it motivates people to do something differently. I didn’t want to be drafted into the Vietnam War so you better believe I was going to make it into medical school, despite everyone else my age having the same ambition.
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But panic - well that’s like dropping ink in water - all the molecules go everywhere - and you have to recognize that you’re out of control. Panic is chaos.”
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Me: “What do you do if you start to panic in the ICU? Do you?”
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Dad: “Someone said something to me the other day - and I felt panic. Not fear. And I sat myself down. I recognized that I was the ink and I needed to come back to critical thinking... so I asked myself:
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What’s in my control?
What’s useful?
What are the things I can do to be able to do my work?
What are the things that I can do to be safe?
And I went through these things:
I can wear my mask. I can wear my gloves.
And I can be even more mindful of people - where they are, what they are doing, what I say and being aware of my own self in every moment.
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And I regrouped.
I’m not going to be the ink in the water.
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I can be motivated by fear, but never by panic.”
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My dad took this picture and shared it with the family to remind us that he’s okay - that he’s still smiling - that he HAS a mask (!) - and that he’s being safe.
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Thank you, Dad.
Thank you, Kathleen.
Thank you to all medical professionals.
Everywhere.
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16/03/2020

Coronavirus: HIV drugs can be used in severe cases, says ICMR

DURGESH NANDAN JHA
TNN | Updated: Mar 15, 2020

NEW DELHI: Anti-HIV drugs, Lopinavir and Ritonavir, can be used to treat Covid-19 patients in severe cases.

India’s top health research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has suggested this in the treatment protocol for Covid-19 published by it in IJMR, a medical journal.

Lopinavir and Ritonavir, the protocol suggests, can be used in adults over 18 years of age who are confirmed positive for Covid-19 and have complications such as: severe respiratory distress, very low blood pressure and new-onset organ dysfunction. It has fixed parameters to decide how severe the respiratory distress should be for the fixed dose combination to be used on a patient.

Similar parameters have been fixed for other possible complications as well, upon which the drug can be used to save the patients.

According to ICMR experts, the inclusion of the anti-HIV drugs for treating Covid-19 was based on earlier evidence about their effectiveness against SARS and MERS coronaviruses that led to outbreaks in different parts of the world in 2002-03 and 2012, respectively, as well as the docking studies conducted by National Institute of Virology, Pune.

“Use of IFN-B1b (a drug used for treating multiple sclerosis) and Ribavarin (an antiviral medication used to treat certain respiratory infections, hepatitis C and some viral haemorrhagic fevers) was not considered due to their reported toxicity whereas Oseltamivir (used to treat swine flu) was not considered due to its unproven efficacy against CoVs (coronaviruses),” states the treatment protocol published in Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR). The fixed dose drug combination (Lopinavir/Ritonavir 200 mg/50 mg) is to be given two tablets every 12 hours for 14 days or for seven days after becoming symptomatic, whichever is earlier, as per the protocol.

The anti-HIV drugs have been tried on some Covid-19 patients in India already, including the Italian national admitted at Sawai Man Singh hospital in Jaipur, with promising results, said sources.

Recently, in a draft report made public by World Health Organisation, the experts claimed Lopinavir and Ritonavir — either alone or in combination with IFNbeta was the suitable second option for rapid implementation in clinical trials among the repurposed drugs under consideration for Covid-19.

WHO experts claimed that Remdesivir, a drug developed for use against Ebola, is most promising for treating Covid-19.

“This is because the in-vitro (tests performed in test tube) and in-vivo (tests performed in living organism) data for the drug are available for coronaviruses.”

“Further, studies in mice using Remdesivir showed superior efficacy over Kaletra+IFNbeta,” they stated in the draft report. Remdesivir slows the infection of healthy cells by blocking viral replication.

09/03/2020

17/02/2020

"This is Jesse, he is a drifter who lives near the bridge in my area. He owns nothin but a bike, a bird and a bag of about 10 items!
Yesterday, while I was riding my bike down around the beach - which is about 5km from my house - I got a flat tyre. I had no choice but to turn around and wheel my bike the long walk home.
A few people rode past and didn't really pay me any attention and I didn't expect them too, but as I started walking, headphones in my ears, I noticed the homeless guy from under the bridge saying something to me. At first I thought he was going to ask me for something so I popped my headphones out and asked him what he wanted? He then replied "I don't want anything bra but I've got a new tube in my bag and you can have it if ya want !" Shocked at first I said no thanks but he insisted. So I walked over to his little clearing where he had his things and his pet bird sat in a busted cage.
He opened up his empty bag and gave me the tube (which was one of the very few things he had) helped me change the tyre, even pumped it up! I asked him how I could pay him back and he said to me "don't worry about it bra, this is what it's all about!"
The enormity of his situation and the fact that he went out of his way to help me was so humbling, I mean this guy was willing to give me his stuff and didn't want anything in return. To you and I, a bike tube would probably not mean much but to a guy with so little this item must hold enormous value!
I could go on and on about how selfless this guy was to give me, a total stranger, clearly in a much better position than him some of his possessions, while people like us are so selfishly attached to all our useless crap.
Anyway I just wanted to show you a pic of Jesse with his new Versace lenses, some fresh Sneakers, a full belly and a cold beer... Felt good to do something for the bloke. I also went up to woollies and got him a couple weeks worth of food and some seed for his bird lol...
Man he was ecstatic even had tears in his eyes and couldn't thank me enough, but amidst me sitting there proud of my good deed, and him singing me praises, I suddenly felt pretty bad because the truth is if he didn't go out of his way to help me, I wouldn't of done anything for him.
I ride past this guy all the time and never even think twice!
Really knocked me off my high horse!
Even tho we sit around with all our materialistic needs and pass judgment, this dude has something that none of us can buy!
I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks for the lesson in humanity champ!"

Via Tony Biggs.

17/02/2020

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