There's a company in CA that claims it has a 100% effective antibody, and is ramping up a culture production. The procedure for culturing has been around for nearly 20 years. They make GMO yeast to produce human antibodies. So it is a preventive and a cure, but not a vaccine. I'm hoping for effective treatment, a vaccine may never come.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 5:49 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List; Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curt Raymond Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: The Bug was Re: Sticking my neck out Karl, Does anybody honestly believe the numbers coming out of China? I find them so low as to be a joke... I'm with Rick, we're all going to get this eventually, it's essentially a new, much worse, flu. Get used to the idea now. This who are waiting for a vaccine ignore the fact that the record for a vaccine release is 4 years. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:52 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Rick I won't tell either of them that you said they were fat or unhealthy :-) Picture very fit, active, healthy moms in their 40s and you will have the idea. My point is exactly that: many people (including me) want to minimize this thing by thinking that all the people getting sick are somehow not like them, but this is not the case. Statistically sure most young healthy people are not going to die from it. But it still makes normal, otherwise healthy, middle age people very sick in a way that influenza does not, over a much longer interval measured in weeks rather than days. I am talking about not being able to speak in full sentences for weeks, being short of breath talking on the phone. Having pain in your lungs when you breathe. For weeks. I think the flu comparison article I posted speaks to this. Covid deaths this year are multiples of influenza deaths even in a bad year. Exercise is always good, as is eating right, not smoking and not being fat. I am not trying to alarm anyone, or advocate for any particular response, other than to rank it higher on the list of threats in your thinking than the flu, take appropriate precautions, etc. Saying we are all going to get it is rather defeatist when it is clearly possible to suppress to virtually zero e.g. Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, S. Korea. I dont think any of us want to give it to our parents or elderly friends. Wash hands, wear a mask if you are close to vulnerable people for more than 30 minutes in a poorly ventilated space, these are sensible precautions that don't cost much. Maybe we will start to track it better so we dont end up shutting the whole economy down. Ok maybe I was silly to bring it up, especially for Euan in New Zealand where they dont even have any of this disease. Maybe the meth jokes arent so bad after all. As you were. On Fri, May 15, 2020, 2:28 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Karl inquires: > > >How many people do you know who have died of the flu? > > With or of? A few over the years with, none of. > I do have know someone who was very close to death from H1N1 in 2009. > From, not with. She is still not 100% a decade later. That is/was a VERY > nasty virus that directly killed a lot of otherwise healthy people. > > >The mom of my 3rd grader's classmate has been in >the hospital for about > 6 weeks and a colleague of >mine at the hospital was out of work for 5 > weeks >and still cant breathe well when she lies flat. 40yo RN > > Estimated BMI over 30? Other comorbidities? > > Sorry folks, if you are fat, out of shape, or have other health issues, > address what you can. The curve has been flattened, but the area under the > curve has not. Meaning whoever was going to get this virus is still going > to get it, just later this year or next. Meaning we will have to fight off > not only Covid 19, but influenza a or influenza b, AND Covid 19 > concomitantly. So, with that said, > > 1. If you smoke, quit. Now. I watched my mom and my brother pass from lung > cancer. I suspect death from this is similar. > 2. If you have a BMI over 30, lose fat. Now. Diet is key. Stop putting > garbage in your pie hole. > 3. If you can tolerate hard aerobic exercise, do it every day. (Increase > your VO2 max) This is a pulmonary disease. Increasing pulmonary function > can only help. > 4. Build some muscle. If you end up in the hospital for an extended > period, more muscle mass will help. > 5. Get some sunshine. Vitamin D is good for you. > > That's all I can think of off the top of my head. > Obviously I am not a doctor, just an uneducated rube, and if this advice > is offensive, so be it. If it is bad advise, please post credible links > disproving it. > > Rick > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
