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Episode 47 offers a counterpoint to the optimism which is infecting the West and leading to dangerously premature conclusions.  New reporting from Spain suggests a death told double or triple what was officially recorded from Covid, more people in Korea are testing as reinfected, and we look at the suggestion hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, might be part of the problem resulting from the virus potentially interacting with hemoglobin, or red blood cells.  As promised, economics are considered as detail after detail shows how we're seeing the decoupling of finance from the real world of goods and services as we show food lines lengthen, grocery workers die, warehouses hampered, and worries grow.  Gold rising as stocks do the same hint at the fundamental disconnect.  We close with another glance into China where they are trying to internationalize internet kill switches as they claim zero infections in their military and charge Italy to get back the masks a more generous people once donated to the CCP.  From health to economics to geopolitics, the evidence makes clear this is only the beginning of what Covid hath wrought upon us.

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Spanish Courts find death toll far exceeds Covid case reporting suggesting many additional virus related deaths as most likely culprit: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4218938/0/enterramientos-coronavirus-castilla-la-mancha-casi-triplican-cifras-oficiales/

51 cases of "reinfection" lead to more questions from South Korea: https://www.the-sun.com/news/645016/fears-coronavirus-hide-cells-reactivate-recovered-patients-test-positive/

A theory that suggests hypoxia might be affecting Covid patients with viral bonding to iron depriving body of oxygen leading to respiratory failure: http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb

Former Fed Chair Yellen expects massive economic GDP decline and unemployment spike: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/janet-yellen-says-second-quarter-gdp-could-decline-by-30percent-and-unemployment-is-already-at-12percent-13percent.html

Commodity trading continues to fall threatening historic lows as predictor of future trouble:

For Episode 46, we reset and take a look at the current situation.  Good news about flattening curves in Spain, Italy, and elsewhere conceals that we are at the beginning of a long story.  We look at the modeling from US and the many missteps along the way as we ask if we're really turning the corner, using the South as having many examples of how the modeling that presumes distancing does not reflect the on the ground reality.  Then, we ask about the adaptability of the coronavirus, noting how it jumps species, closing with stories about mutations and recombination in this class allowing for greater transmissibility.

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Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for Covid treatment: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8191027/Coronavirus-hit-Boris-Johnson-hospital-amid-UK-crisis.html

Europe sees numbers begin to fall in response to social measures: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/europes-coronavirus-numbers-offer-hope-as-us-enters-peak-of-terrible-pandemic

An inside look at the Federal Response to this date: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/The-U-S-was-beset-by-denial-and-dysfunction-as-15179067.php

Coronavirus peak in US projected in 11 days: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189153/Coronavirus-peak-death-rate-strike-U-S-11-days-2-644-people-die-24-hours.html

University of Washington modeling site: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

Spared initially, the American South may suffer badly before much longer: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-rural-south-164225

How Americans are underestimated the duration of the Covid pandemic: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/03/americans-are-underestimating-how-long-coronavirus-disruptions-will-last-health-experts-say/

At least 8 strains of the coronavirus have been identified: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/491056-at-least-8-st

Episode 45 delves deeply into China, their response, and the evolving competition with the United States.  We start by looking at Latin America coming into crisis, promising a rising death toll and infection in countries from Mexico to Chile, peeking at Ecuador here.  We see nearly 7 million Americans now out of work as backdrop.  From there, we see the CIA reporting now that the CCP fudged the numbers.  China is friendly to some with new propaganda outlets and offers of masks to Italy and the UK, but won't even allow Taiwan to get near the WHO as they buzz them with war planes.  We look at the doctrine, how China continues to spend to gain influence, what 5G allows for standards and surveillance and ask as America gets sicker and withdraws, including with two aircraft carriers, what will China do?  Whether by chance or choice, the opportunities for the dragon seem to be rising in this year of the rat.

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Guayaquil, Ecuador hit terribly with death count exceeding bureaucratic capacity: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-01/coronavirus-in-guayaquil-ecuador-bodies-in-the-streetsMexico looks to be in major trouble due to poor policy start and extreme health care shortfall: https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-is-about-to-explode-in-mexico-its-time-to-secure-the-border/

6.6 million Americans file for unemployment last week: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-covid-weekly-initial-jobless-claims-march-28-165758189.html

Next virus hot-spots will be Michigan, Indiana, and Connecticut according to Dr. Birx: https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/next-virus-e2-80-98hot-spots-e2-80-99-seen-as-michigan-connecticut-indiana/ar-BB125NEr

China threatening pharmaceutical drug exports: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/17/china-threatens-restrict-critical-drug-exports-us/

CIA claims CCP lied about Chinese numbers from Wuhan: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/cia-coronavirus-china.htmlHong Kong paper talking about US losing influence in propaganda war: https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3077776/trump-losing-coronavirus-blame-game-china-and-its-costing-american

Chinese strategic doctrine of "Three Warfares" applied - public opinion, legal, and psychological in service of total informatio

Here in Episode 44, we look more deeply into the two to three times normal death rate of people who are passing beyond annual averages in Lombardy of whom only a third are being attributed to Covid.  A new study suggests ferrets and cats may carry the coronavirus, including the possibility cats exhale the virus.  Even with more ventilators coming online, shortages in doctors, drugs, and oxygen represent new problems, as nurses are more actively protesting being asked to work absent PPE.  Canada says to expect this until July, at best, as the Netherlands starts studying when herd immunity may come.  Food banks are seeing 40x their usage in Orange County, CA and we have only seen one in a thousand, if that, exposed as the crisis deepens.

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Susceptibility of various animals to Covid: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.015347v1

WSJ study of Italian death rates suggests many more deaths from both Covid and lack of access to medical care for other conditions: https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-coronavirus-death-toll-is-far-higher-than-reported-11585767179

Shortages of key ventilator drugs and staffing issues lessen ventilator efficacy, could cause major problems in the future: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/potential-coronavirus-shortages-focus-ventilator-operators-critical-drugs/story?id=69907976

Oxygen shortages for ventilators at NYC hosptials: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/hospitals-facing-oxygen-shortage-amid-coronavirus-crisis/story?id=69915446

Chicago Hospital bans nurses from wearing PPE: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/31/hospital-is-not-allowing-nurse-to-wear-masks-in-thick-of-covid-19-pandemic-furious-nurse-says/

National Nurses United protesting PPE shortages, reporting on massive shortfalls: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/rns-15-hca-hospitals-protest-lack-covid-19-preparedness

UK rethinking mask effectiveness as more options for aerosolization change assessment: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52126735

Best case scenario sees Covid response going un

Episode 43 starts with a troubling case of a woman from Detroit who suffered acute hemorrhagic necrotizing encephalopathy - or a bleeding brain - apparently related to Covid and the cytokine storm problem.  We look at a study from Los Angeles that showed only 5% of the suspected influenza patients had Covid, meaning both coronavirus spread is in the community there but also still likely has many more people to reach foreshadowing a longer interval.  That's bad news for doctors being silenced and fired for talking about a lack of PPE leading to situations like Boston and Spain where mass staff infection is becoming common.  In NY, the situation is seeing mass graves being predug by prisoners.  All this is happening as we see people under extreme psychological and economic stress and with a leadership vacuum in taking the fight to the virus promising instability and wilder days ahead.

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Covid-19 associated Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotizing Encephalopathy: CT and MRI Features: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201187

SARS-CoV-2/Influenza Study from LA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764137

Hospitals seek to silence doctors under threat of dismissal throughout US: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/hospitals-tell-doctors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press

Boston seeing major infection in hospital staff: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/30/824170756/four-boston-hospitals-report-significant-numbers-of-employees-have-the-coronavir

Spain also suffering major struggles to keep medical staff in the fight: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/spain-tightens-restrictions-week-lockdown-begins-200330191539568.html

US emergency medical supply dwindling: https://news.trust.org/item/20200401004741-7rc0u

Rikers Island prisoners digging future tombs on NYC island for pandemic victims: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/rikers-island-coronavirus-mass-graves/

Red Cross warns of impending civil unrest i

We seek the ultimate questions in Episode 42 as some of your inquiries are answered with the latest research.  We look at how not just cases, but deaths are likely being under reported especially as places with taxed medical systems make the decision to exclude high risk low survivability patients, substantiated by proving fatality numbers versus annual averages and Covid official casualty counts that are substantially beneath this discrepancy.  We learn that infants seem not to carry the coronavirus, although most had antibodies.  Japanese researchers show how microparticles could spread Covid in many more places with video that will astound.  In light of this, we see Austria's decision to mandate masks outside as sensible, as those places without protection get ill more quickly.  On the economic front, we see strikes and worker unrest building at Amazon, Whole Foods, in meatpacking and agriculture.  Tenants are planning not to pay, and Sicilians working under the table are now stealing their groceries.  Tensions build as the government response helps some but not all, and with restrictions likely until June as promoted in Virginia, the future will be a challenge.  Lastly, Brazil prepares as they see the virus is mutating there and a long fight is ahead.

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Death rate not counting many people dying at home in Italy and elsewhere: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/30/italys-true-death-rate-warning-britons-want-call-covid-19-lockdown/

Anitbodies in infants with mothers who have Covid: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763854

Japanese research reveals microdroplets produced by breath and conversation aerosolize the virus: https://bgr.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-update-new-research-suggests-we-should-be-wearing-masks/

Austria requires masks for all outside actions, reduces spread by 3/4: https://www.ft.com/content/f68f3063-5024-4654-9389-bcc7ee1efd8e

Amazon warehouse employee organizes strike for unsafe working conditions: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/amazon-workers-in-staten-island-plan-strike-over-coronavirus-safety.html

Amazon employee who organized strike fired for causing "unsafe" work conditions:

We begin our eighth week of coronavirus coverage with Episode 41 as we look to answer questions.  Exploring the confused immune response and cytokine storm effects may explain why certain people get more ill including critically so, offering new avenues for medical intervention.  We discuss the high mortality rate and the problems of ventilators.  Countries around the globe push back the timeframe as we see an unusually high unattributed number of dead people emerge from Wuhan questioning those numbers one urn at a time.  Italy sees the curve flatten but the pressure continue as some looting happens in Sicily.  New York has food banks under pressure as new hospitals arise.  But what is happening in NYC is spreading throughout America as we look at both small towns and a Midwestern city in Detroit to show just how fast Covid takes root once in a given area.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Dr. Ya-Chi Ho diagram for how immune suppression happens: https://twitter.com/HoLabHIV/status/1244409779667206145/photo/1

Microbiology of lungs study of immune response against Covid: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.23.20026690v1

Analysis of immune suppression from SARS in mice: https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(16)30006-3

India moving forward with antiviral drug testing and production: https://telanganatoday.com/anti-viral-drug-in-making-to-tackle-covid-19/amp

FDA approves hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for use: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095

Steep mortality rate from early cases in ICU questions effectiveness of interventions: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8164079/Mortality-rate-coronavirus-patients-intensive-care-close-50-shock-report-reveals.html

Russian population profile for Covid trends somewhat younger: https://www.rt.com/russia/484428-moscow-coronavirus-younger-patients/

UK lockdown to last until at least June: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/29/uks-coronavirus-lockdown-must-last-june-warns-governm

The fortieth episode looks at the second part of the health equation which is to delve into why the economic problem is so bad.  After a quick review of drug shortages, an exploration of a different pathway by which the coronavirus is harming people, and a glance into Russia getting sick and Italy having dead whose numbers are rising sharply in one town without an attributed reason, we look at the pending policy bill.  A pork-laden monstrosity that is conceived reactively as just another response in an unending line of new debts, it fails to solve the basic question of how to keep people whole and stop people from moving for a time sufficient to stamp out Covid.  The rush to satisfy debt versus public health means a bill not so concerned with ventilators, PPE, and medical support as it is inadequate loans, heavy bureaucracies, and promising a bigger problem later for many people.  We see 3.3 million Americans unemployed this week as the first harbinger of many more to come.  Inability to pay rent, then to pay mortgages, and then to pay lenders comes forward as small businesses shutter.  How does agriculture hold up especially with a severely at risk population for both spread and contamination in close quarters outside legal status still out there?  Absent these answers, we see truckers avoiding NYC, people in northern Michigan telling city folks to stay home, and Texas now quarantining people coming from hot spots being quarantined or heavily fined and incarcerated.  All this in a battle between finance, debt, and control, with economy, assets, and scarcity on the other side as people make rational health decisions toward safety, something our government seems to struggle on all sides to understand.

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Russia passes 1,000 cases: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/27/russias-coronavirus-cases-surpass-1000-in-biggest-one-day-jump-a69710

Bergamo Mayor reports on dead found at home without formal cause given: https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/21/italian-mayor-claims-the-true-death-toll-from-covid-19-likely-to-be-much-higher

Covid entering through C147 pathway study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.14.988345v1

Additional documentation on alternatives to ACE-II pathway infection: https://sanchakblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/18/are-we-barking-up-the-wrong-tree-with-respect-to-ace2-does-sars-cov2-use-cd147-as-a-receptor-as-a-chinese-study-stated/

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Episode 39 is the first part of an exploration about the dangers America faces and what we realistically should respect from this virus.  After a quick update in which it appears reinfection is less likely as good news but mutation more aggressive as bad news, we go into the action in New York's hospitals where life and death scenes are playing out right now as supply is being overwhelmed.  The stark relief comes into focus with two pieces by the New England Journal of Medicine that consider rationing of care, and ventilator protocols as what some will call triage and others will brand death panels because of our inaction.  We see morgue capacity now in question, officers calling off sick, and doctor breaking down as garbage bags are being used to supplement PPE.  This crisis may go on for many months, be a season event, and we look starkly at the potential of event that without much better action that seems improbable from not just policy makers, but our businesses and our people, where Americans are chancing a death toll into the millions by summer's end.  Tomorrow's second part will go into the equally troubling economic and survival implications of a society entering plague with disparity, distrust, and despair.

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Person infected with two different strains found in Iceland: https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/24/patient-infected-with-two-strains-of-covid-19-in-iceland/

Reinfection from the same Covid strain does not occur in monkeys: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1

Hospital surge capacity all devoted to Covid in NYC: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/its-all-covid-new-york-medical-staff-brace-for-a-surge-of-coronavirus-patients

Harrowing scenes like an apocalypse from Queens Elmhurt Hospital: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hospitals.html

NEJM Ethical Guideline suggestions for rationing of care: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2005114

NEJM suggestion for ventilator limitation issues involving life and death: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2005689

Hospitals forced to consider risks of resuscitation amidst PPE and ventilator shortages:

Episode 37 begins with a scathing critique of how America's determination to put finance, not economics, ahead of science and health is going to lead to this country experiencing the worst of all worlds with the utterly inadequate response by both the Executive and Legislative branches where it is increasingly clear everything but Covid is their priority.  We present a compelling case from Johns Hopkins as to why the science is bad and use an article about the peril to commercial mortgages with echoes of 2008 to hint at what is really going on in America.  In science updates, we have news about the increased risk about diabetics and hypertension, more details about how aggressively the coronavirus obliterates the nervous system, and information surface contamination may be longer in certain environments.  A tour through Europe and Australia shows how countries are being rewarded for more effective and immediate responses, as we see Italy trying to flatten the curve as Spain suffers from wider dispersal, the French deal with people ignoring social distancing measures, and the Germans testing early, often, and getting prepared.  The UK now has moved into lockdown, hoping to blunt the problem, and Australia is on the same page as the explosion has now hit down under.

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Trump ignores doctors and science for economic focus: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-doctors-want-shut-down-the-world-for-couple-years-2020-3

Thread from Johns Hopkins scientist on the choice US is making: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1242232846900756482.html

Assessing patient risk for diabetes, hypertension with Covid: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30116-8/fulltext

Looking into how Covid suppresses the immune system as a key unknown: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/theres-a-lot-we-dont-know-uw-researchers-look-at-how-coronavirus-turns-body-against-itself-and-kills/

Covid survived 17 days on surfaces on Diamond Princess: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/cdc-coronavirus-survived-in-princess-cruise-cabins-up-to-17-days-after-passengers-left.html

Italy underreporting cases as death toll seems to flatten: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/i