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Cases continue increasing daily in several regions of Mexico. Mexico City, Nuevo Leon, Mexico State, Jalisco, and Guanajuato report the highest number of active cases for the preceding two-week period as of October 6. The states reporting the highest rates of hospital occupancy are Nuevo Leon, Mexico City, Nayarit, Mexico State, and Colima as of October 7. All states have more than 50 percent hospital availability for COVID-19 patients.
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Mexico City, Mexico (October 8, 2020)
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MEXICOWANDERER
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With state controlled media it is difficult to get accurate clinical analysis of the Sputnik vaccine outcome. The efficacy and duration of the vaccine is not publically known. Worst case a decline of antibodies when the public is lead to believe otherwise and had relaxed personal safety guidelines causing a flare of tens of millions. The Sputnik vaccine has been offered to Mexico, but acceptance or rejection has not been published.
Russians are not the only ones subject to opaque revelations.
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MEXICOWANDERER
las peñas, michoacan, mexico
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Millions of rural and indigenous Mexicans have suffered Covid19 and been damaged or died by the infection. The panteon graveyard in El Habillal Michoacan has filled by over seventy fresh graves, which is outrageous for a town of 1,300. Many sites are from outsiders. Rural rancheros just haul the deceased to a special site and bury them with other family members. So statistics here face widespread disbelief in rural areas.
Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Indigenous Michoacan are standouts for this. Few rural IMSS Perifericos (clinics) even have one CPAP never mind anyone trained to use them. Sector Salud statisticians are very reluctant to visit extremely remote ranchitos and tiny pueblos. My family has a thermal temperature gun, a recording pulse oximeter an obsolete CPAP, and extra CPAP masks. They like papa remain in deep cuarantena. My son in law is a solo commerical diver and registered diver for lobster and oysters so the family remains financially stable and can afford IMSS insurance through the cooperativa and ejido.
The people need tourist money. That should be weighed against the risk.
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Johns Hopkins Newsletter
Persistence and Decay of Human Antibody Responses to the Receptor Binding Domain of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in COVID-19 Patients (Science Immunology) We measured plasma and/or serum antibody responses to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 in 343 North American patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 (of which 93% required hospitalization) up to 122 days after symptom onset and compared them to responses in 1548 individuals whose blood samples were obtained prior to the pandemic. IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 RBD were strongly correlated with anti-S neutralizing antibody titers, which demonstrated little to no decrease over 75 days since symptom onset. These data suggest that RBD-targeted antibodies are excellent markers of previous and recent infection, that differential isotype measurements can help distinguish between recent and older infections, and that IgG responses persist over the first few months after infection and are highly correlated with neutralizing antibodies.
Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report (NEJM) We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of intravenous remdesivir in adults who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and had evidence of lower respiratory tract infection. Our data show that remdesivir was superior to placebo in shortening the time to recovery in adults who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and had evidence of lower respiratory tract infection.
Tele?ICUs for COVID?19: A Look at National Prevalence and Characteristics of Hospitals Providing Teleintensive Care (The Journal of Rural Health) We found wide variation in the prevalence of tele?ICUs across HRRs and states. Future work should continue the evaluation of tele?ICU effectiveness and, if favorable, explore the variation we identified for improved access to teleintensive care.
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IMO
Nothing but good news. I did mot want to pollute the Johns Hopkins news post with my opinion but it sounds like 100% good news.
The Covid19 virus does not seem to mutate into another antigen and T cell resistant form easily. But it'll take several seasons with billions of subjects to confirm this.
Secondly if the price of Remdesiver can be sliced, it sounds useful for limiting the Covid damage in the lungs. $5,500 per course limits its availability.
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Masks serve two very specific purposes. They can not and will not filter dense storms of pathogens out of the air. Only a properly designed HEPA 2 filter can trap Covid and it's far and away to restrictive to breathe through. Treat a biohazard like it's radioactivity. Density of particles in a cubic meter of space and length of exposure. Only a bonafide Hazmat suit would protect you from an intense source of virus.
With a genuinely sick person I would refuse to enter a structure housing him. Not even for a moment.
Things are less intense in open air but the number of spreaders per thousand cubic feet influences adding distance and length of exposure. My open marketing is done in an open market with a breeze blowing through.
Touching an polluted surface then mouth nose or eyes will infect. When gel alcohol dries it becomes useless. I use surgeon's scrub which kills all virus for 48 hours. Guaranteed by FDA
IT GOES FURTHER. I treat my mask.
And then when I venture out I play the part of a maskless individual paranoid of everything and everyone. If I should encounter a maskless person I run. Being near, talking shouting screaming is insanely stupid. Adios.
And that's the best I can do.
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dturm
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report wrote:Summary
What is already known about the topic?
Community and close contact exposures contribute to the
spread of COVID-19.
What is added by this report?
Findings from a case-control investigation of symptomatic
outpatients from 11 U.S. health care facilities found that close
contact with persons with known COVID-19 or going to
locations that offer on-site eating and drinking options were
associated with COVID-19 positivity. Adults with positive
SARS-CoV-2 test results were approximately twice as likely to
have reported dining at a restaurant than were those with
negative SARS-CoV-2 test results.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Eating and drinking on-site at locations that offer such options
might be important risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2
infection. Efforts to reduce possible exposures where mask use
and social distancing are difficult to maintain, such as when
eating and drinking, should be considered to protect customers, employees, and communities.
What the report really says is that in facilities where COVID is present having areas where masks are removed (like eating facilities) is a risk factor for exposure. Removing a mask is the risk in these situations.
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edited 10/13/20 07:47am by dturm *
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Washing hands, distancing, and masking are three proven ways to help avoid contacting and spreading Covid. No one alone is perfect and neither are the three together. But until we have an effective vaccine, those ways do help. So, let's stop the argument and move on. Thanks.
p.s. We are NOT going to accept postings/quotes from liberal, and/or conservative, political publications. That should explain 'some' of the deletions which should not have been posted in the first place. If you have specific questions pm the moderators of those forums rather than complain within the forums themselves.
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The guide-on is Johns Hopkins. I am subscribed to all of their newsletters. Progress in serology is complicated but new announcements about testing advancements is very understandable. Boy I fell for a controversial statement and responded to it politely. Then I followed a link to the quoted magazine and read it. Dang I won't be doing that again.
The opinion of a thirty year old is far different than someone in their mid seventies. About the only issue I remain stubborn about is the limited time protection of hand washing. Explained.....when shopping wipe down hands every 10-15 minutes if I touch a lot of stuff. Living here in Mexico I try to plan intelligently. A lot of surfaces are ceramic tile and can safely withstand Clorox. With windows rolled up my car gets like a medical autoclave. 130+ degrees inside. I bought a nail brush to help scrub hands then I noticed doctors use them too.
I am just trying to make it until the vaccination goes into my arm. Then maybe I can relax.
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Here's What I wrote. The First Line....
I have talked it over with my doctor and have chosen the brand of vaccine for me when it becomes available here. If the influenza shotgun dose here in Mexico comes from the French Pasteur Institute then that's my choice.
MOISHEH REPlIED
Daveed. There are no approved vaccines yet. Could be spring before anything is available.
MOISHEH Would you prefer I post in Spanish instead? When the vaccine is approved in the mother country, then it will be approved in Mexico. The mother country for AstraZenaca is ENGLAND not the United States. Could be JANUARY or December when the AZ vaccine is approved in ENGLAND
This has been made CLEAR by Sector Salud COFEPRIS. COFEPRIS also condemned the USA influenza vaccine of 2019-2020 because of its utter failure.
It could be MID JUNE before the US investor financed MODERNA vaccine is approved. And they so not want to be number nine on approved vaccines. Outwaiting the US vaccine approval and getting COVID is not on my game plan. The British vaccine was far far ahead of its rivals until the FDA threw a spike strip in front of it. A couple of weeks later level 3 trials restarted in the whole world but not in the USA.
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