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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2020 2:24:53 GMT
Acute Myocardial Injury of Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031591v1Abstract "Background: Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, respiratory manifestations of the disease have been observed. However, as a fatal comorbidity, acute myocardial injury (AMI) in COVID-19 patients has not been previously investigated in detail. We investigated the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients with AMI and determined the risk factors for AMI in them. Methods: We analyzed data from 53 consecutive laboratory-confirmed and hospitalized COVID-19 patients (28 men, 25 women; age, 19-81 years). We collected information on epidemiological and demographic characteristics, clinical features, routine laboratory tests (including cardiac injury biomarkers), echocardiography, electrocardiography, imaging findings, management methods, and clinical outcomes. Results: Cardiac complications were found in 42 of the 53 (79.25%) patients: tachycardia (n=15), electrocardiography abnormities (n=11), diastolic dysfunction (n=20), elevated myocardial enzymes (n=30), and AMI (n=6). All the six AMI patients were aged >60 years; five of them had two or more underlying comorbidities (hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) severity was higher in the AMI patients than in patients with non-definite AMI (p<0.001). All the AMI patients required care in intensive care unit; of them, three died, two remain hospitalized. Multivariate analyses showed that C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, NCP severity, and underlying comorbidities were the risk factors for cardiac abnormalities in COVID-19 patients. Conclusions: Cardiac complications are common in COVID-19 patients. Elevated CRP levels, underlying comorbidities, and NCP severity are the main risk factors for cardiac complications in COVID-19 patients."
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2020 11:05:54 GMT
The ‘Christine Lagarde Memo’ FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, from 'the Coalition' Posted Oct 09, 2018 by Eds. and Margaret M. Gullette mronline.org/2018/10/09/the-christine-lagarde-memo/Old people live too long and this is a risk for the global economy. We must do something, urgently. —Christine Lagarde, Director of the International Monetary Fund (Translated from the Spanish)
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2020 20:13:45 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2020 20:47:20 GMT
Coronavirus and the crisis of capitalismThe viral pandemic is exposing the weakness and unsustainability of the global economic system, suggests New Frame: ‘In 1895, the New York City health commissioner Cyrus Edson published an article titled 'The Microbe as a Social Leveller'. Edson, echoing the language of 17th-century English communist Gerrard Winstanley, wrote that 'the microbe of disease is no respecter of persons'. He explained that while impoverished people would be most at risk from disease, the rich would never be entirely safe from infection. For Edson, the 'socialism of the microbe … is the chain of disease, which binds all the people of a community together.' In moments of collective threat, a clear political choice emerges. Either the rich try and separate themselves from the poor and secure their own safety, or there is a recognition that we have a collective interest in working for the good of all. Edson’s point was that when it comes to infectious disease, only the latter course of action is rational. Pandemics have a long history. But in a globalised economy, they spread at previously unimaginable velocities. As we have seen with SARS, avian and swine flu, viruses can move rapidly through networks of trade and travel. Unscrupulous airlines are offering cheap flights to countries with high infection rates. And the ultra-privileged are trying to insulate themselves from the epidemic, with reports of the super-rich fleeing to yachts and remote holiday homes. In China, it costs $6 (about R100) to test for the virus. In the US, the test costs $2 600 (about R42 800). The dangers of a medical system rooted in private profit are clear. In South Africa, the outbreak poses a severe challenge to an already dysfunctional and systemically underfunded public health sector. A recent survey showed that only 46% of people living in South Africa have access to running water in their homes. In many shack settlements, hundreds of people share a single tap. The situation is urgent and reminds us that despite the inequalities that scar our society, our lives and futures are ultimately entwined. We have a shared interest in ensuring that everyone has access to decent municipal services and healthcare. Since the financial crash of the late 2000s, rather than enacting structural reforms to create inclusive economic growth and stability, governments responded with corporate bailouts, tax breaks for the uber-rich and austerity programmes. These, among other disastrous social costs, have degraded public health systems. Now, the microbial world is landing like a bomb on the political economy of global capitalism." www.newframe.com/coronavirus-and-the-crisis-of-capitalism/
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Post by Admin on Mar 14, 2020 3:13:35 GMT
MARCH 13, 2020 Roaming Charges: Going Viral by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR We are witnessing what happens to a country (this one) that faces a pandemic after it has privatized almost every aspect of its public social welfare and health systems & gutted the teaching of science in public schools so thoroughly that most people can’t even understand what’s coming at them … www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/roaming-charges-going-viral/
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Post by Admin on Mar 14, 2020 20:53:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 13:29:00 GMT
I am quite happy not watching the news on Coronavirus. I hear about it anyway.
I'm not worried about it at all.
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2020 15:31:14 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2020 15:44:38 GMT
Tibetan Medicine and Covid-19 Updated: 4 hours ago What does Tibetan Medicine have to say about Covid-19, the novel coronavirus that has infected over 120,000 people and claimed 4,300 lives? Cases in China were largely treated with a combination of allopathic and traditional therapies, which has led to quicker control and lower mortality rates than in outbreaks outside of China, so it's worth asking what traditional medicine has to offer our understand and approach to infectious diseases. www.shrimala.com/post/tibetan-medicine-and-covid-19
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 17:13:45 GMT
Maybe I don't understand. It's like the flu, not deadly unless you're already vulnerable somehow.
Why are people panicking about this so much?
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Post by snowstorm on Mar 15, 2020 18:26:47 GMT
Maybe I don't understand. It's like the flu, not deadly unless you're already vulnerable somehow. Why are people panicking about this so much? It's the vulnerable that a caring society tries to protect. Some of the sobering comments I was reading under one article were from people over 65 getting their affairs in order because they know the risks. I hope people will take it seriously and look after each other whatever their age/situation.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 18:32:46 GMT
Maybe I don't understand. It's like the flu, not deadly unless you're already vulnerable somehow. Why are people panicking about this so much? It's the vulnerable that a caring society tries to protect. Some of the sobering comments I was reading under one article were from people over 65 getting their affairs in order because they know the risks. I hope people will take it seriously and look after each other whatever their age/situation. I completely understand the desire to protect those most at risk. But many who aren't liable to die are acting as if they are. That, I don't understand.
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2020 19:06:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 19:12:55 GMT
I think Coronavirus really threatens people's sense of control more than anything.
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2020 19:12:56 GMT
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