re: OT: Alabama Coronavirus Thread (see link in OP for case numbers and death totals in AL)

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Granny might even have a remedy that work

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She did it was called white medicine or as others would know it as moonshine. When I was teething as a baby you would get a sugar tit or a little bit of the white rubbed on the gums. Home made peach brandy for a sore throat when young and dandelion wine/tea for the flu. Which is probably what many are drinking now if they have the symptoms.

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UAB Hospital is testing a new potential treatment for coronavirus on some of its sickest patients.

For the study, patients who are unable to breathe on their own and attached to mechanical ventilators are given a gas called nitric oxide, which is produced naturally by the human body and can help stimulate the lungs.

Inhaled nitric oxide is currently an FDA-approved treatment for newborn patients who have trouble breathing on their own, and doctors believe it may also help those suffering lung damage from COVID-19.

The trial builds on research conducted during the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003, when doctors found that not only did the nitric oxide gas help improve SARS patients’ lung functions, the gas also displayed some anti-viral properties.

UAB and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have already begun enrolling patients and LSU Health Shreveport will begin soon.

Other hospitals in Massachusetts and internationally are also participating but are not as far along in the process.

Clinical trials like this one usually take months to set up, but the doctors praised the efforts of UAB colleagues and federal authorities to get this one moving quickly.

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UAB testing new coronavirus treatment on its sickest patients

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Hey buddy, all I said was our government would have been able to pay more attention to this situation back in December, January and early February if they hadn't been consumed with partisan political bullcrap.

That's the truth.

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No it's not, it's an opinion that gives them cover for not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. The impeachment didn't distract our president from holding at least a dozen campaign rallies and log multiple rounds of golf.

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The impeachment didn't distract our president from holding at least a dozen campaign rallies and log multiple rounds of golf.

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I wasn't talking about the President though. In fact, I didn't mention him at all.

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Imagine how much attention the rest of the government could have given this virus if they weren't dead set on continuing that farce of an impeachment.

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I specifically said "the rest of the government." You know, the ones who spent thousands of hours putting together an impeachment proceeding that was absolutely destined to fail and they knew it. But, they still did it anyway.

Hence, the farce comment. Everyone knew it was going to be a waste of time and resources.

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I specifically said "the rest of the government."

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The federal agencies that would have been the ones to respond had no involvement in the impeachment.

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Alabama began paying the $600 FPUC stimulus benefit last night. More than $40 million was paid out yesterday. Click the link the see the news release.
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Despite the bad news/numbers, we ARE making progress. Every day, we are figuring out new ways to attack this thing and support patients like the nitric oxide treatment. We aren’t in the clear yet but things like survival rates should be improving daily. The key is to disseminate the info and weed out the good from the bad. I read where they’ve figured out patients do better resting on their stomachs.

Take this one with a grain of salt since it came from Facebook but supposedly Dr. Oz looked at insurance records and of 14,000 records looked at of people taking Hydroxychloroquine for lupus, ZERO have tested positive.

There’s also a proposed mechanism of action for hydroxychloroquine. It is well established now that COVID attacks hemoglobin in the blood and ejects the heme molecules from hemoglobin rendering it useless to transport oxygen. This free floating heme is actually very oxidative and damaging and is causing the organ damage to other systems since it overwhelms the body’s anti_oxidant systems. It also accounts for the high ferritin blood tests that are an early telltale of active infection. The coronavirus kicks out the heme and attaches itself to the hemoglobin and commandeers the cell to replicate itself. Malaria similarly attacks hemoglobin but actually eats the heme from the hemoglobin. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine binds to the receptors on the hemoglobin that the coronavirus does. It blocks the virus from attaching, preventing it from replicating. Then the immune system takes over and eliminates it.

That’s a reason I take issue with Faucci and others who were so against recommending it. I understand the need for caution and not raising false hope and the dangers of side effects and unintended consequences better than most being in healthcare and having seen some well intentioned errors. But when we’ve got nothing else and nearly ALL the “anecdotal” data is telling you it’s working, maybe you should say proceed with caution, but proceed. What other choice do we have??

About to social distance in my kayak. Look up Saenz vs Roe.

Surge, I totally agree. But here locally, hardly anyone yet qualifies to get tested. And in an effort to conserve our supply of hydroxychloroquine, the pharmacy chains like CVS, Walgreens, and Publix have stopped filling prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine without either a previous history of taking it for lupus or a positive test. So it’s a catch 22. It’s well intentioned since there has been way too many prescribers that just want to hand it out like candy or are writing for large quantities for themselves or family members so they had to shut it off. But it’s also preventing legitimate treatments.

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Holy frick. I'm done.

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