Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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If you get CoVid, there is a 1 in 7 chance you’ll be hospitalized.  If you do, you’ll have a 1 in 4 chance of needing the ICU or a funeral.  Researchers at the University of Minnesota studied the fate of 7,578 CoVid patients across the midwestern US.

The results: 86% of the infected don’t require hospitalization.  Of the remaining 14% sick enough to require hospitalization, 23% are severe requiring prolonged ICU stays, 60% are serious, and only 17% are favorable.  Severe CoVid victims are 7 times more likely to die than those with mild infections.

So the 4 CoVid types: non-hospitalized; hospitalized mild, serious, and severe.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210402162941.htm

#CoVid #hospital #icu #ventilator

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Ks5mItzoaYQ

If you get CoVid, there is a 1 in 7 chance you’ll be hospitalized.  If you do, you’ll have a 1 in 4 chance of needing the ICU or a funeral.  Researchers at the University of Minnesota studied the fate of 7,578 CoVid patients across the midwestern US.

The results: 86% of the infected don’t require hospitalization.  Of the remaining 14% sick enough to require hospitalization, 23% are severe requiring prolonged ICU stays, 60% are serious, and only 17% are favorable.  Severe CoVid victims are 7 times more likely to die than those with mild infections.

So the 4 CoVid types: non-hospitalized; hospitalized mild, serious, and severe.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210402162941.htm

#CoVid #hospital #icu #ventilator

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lJ0hyWFJ0RE

All of us are getting cabin fever, and we want to get out and eat out.  You say, “I’m vaccinated so I can just eat at restaurants as I did before the pandemic.”  Do so at your own peril.

Even the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are at best 95% effective, the J&J fax is about 70%, and all work less well against variants. There’s a 50:50 chance you could get infected with a virus that might not kill you but could eat away your heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.

Forget about indoor eating.  It isn’t safe even with distancing and barriers!  The air ventilation and filtration is simply not good enough.

Eat outdoors in a ventilated, distanced enclosure preferably an individual hut or igloo.  A completely enclosed outdoor structure is no safer than indoors. 

Only eat in groups of 4 or fewer with other vaccinated people or those in your immediate bubble.  Keep your mask on when you aren’t eating and when interacting with servers.  Have hand sanitizer with you to use after touching the menus and before eating.  Use it also during a bathroom visit and after touching any door knobs.

Don’t forget about Xlear, the xylitol nasal spray, that can kill CoVid trying to get into your body via your nose.  A spray or two won’t hurt.

The pandemic isn’t over yet.  You’ve worked hard to stay healthy so don’t let down your guard during this 7th inning stretch.

#CoVid #restaurant #dining #outdoor #mask #sanitizer #xlear

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lJ0hyWFJ0RE

All of us are getting cabin fever, and we want to get out and eat out.  You say, “I’m vaccinated so I can just eat at restaurants as I did before the pandemic.”  Do so at your own peril.

Even the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are at best 95% effective, the J&J fax is about 70%, and all work less well against variants. There’s a 50:50 chance you could get infected with a virus that might not kill you but could eat away your heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.

Forget about indoor eating.  It isn’t safe even with distancing and barriers!  The air ventilation and filtration is simply not good enough.

Eat outdoors in a ventilated, distanced enclosure preferably an individual hut or igloo.  A completely enclosed outdoor structure is no safer than indoors. 

Only eat in groups of 4 or fewer with other vaccinated people or those in your immediate bubble.  Keep your mask on when you aren’t eating and when interacting with servers.  Have hand sanitizer with you to use after touching the menus and before eating.  Use it also during a bathroom visit and after touching any door knobs.

Don’t forget about Xlear, the xylitol nasal spray, that can kill CoVid trying to get into your body via your nose.  A spray or two won’t hurt.

The pandemic isn’t over yet.  You’ve worked hard to stay healthy so don’t let down your guard during this 7th inning stretch.

#CoVid #restaurant #dining #outdoor #mask #sanitizer #xlear

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9uxqJYd60yk

CoVid can spread silently table to adjacent though distanced table within a poorly ventilated indoor restaurant.  Chinese engineers and epidemiologists now report their study of a Wuhan restaurant where one CoVid-infected person spread disease to 9 others at the same and 2 nearby tables.

Tracer gas and computational fluid dynamics defined spread of droplets and aerosols from the infected person to others 3 tables in one end of the dining hall without fresh outdoor air.  None of the other 68 diners at the other 15 tables nor the restaurant servers and staff became infected.

It is dangerous to spend time eating indoors without a mask in a space without fresh, outdoor air.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132321001955

#CoVid #restaurant #indoors #aerosols #droplets #ventilation

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9uxqJYd60yk

CoVid can spread silently table to adjacent though distanced table within a poorly ventilated indoor restaurant.  Chinese engineers and epidemiologists now report their study of a Wuhan restaurant where one CoVid-infected person spread disease to 9 others at the same and 2 nearby tables.

Tracer gas and computational fluid dynamics defined spread of droplets and aerosols from the infected person to others 3 tables in one end of the dining hall without fresh outdoor air.  None of the other 68 diners at the other 15 tables nor the restaurant servers and staff became infected.

It is dangerous to spend time eating indoors without a mask in a space without fresh, outdoor air.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132321001955

#CoVid #restaurant #indoors #aerosols #droplets #ventilation

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/hLhD6BMb_r4

Working 55 hours a week or more following a heart attack drives a 67% higher risk of another coronary event including unstable anginal pain, another non-fatal heart attack, or a deadly MI.  Canadian investigators followed 967 first heart attack victims after their return to work.

The risk of another often deadly cardiac event was proportional to the hours participants worked each week.  While there were slight risk increases as weekly hours worked increased from less than 35 to 54, 55 hours a week was a level above which disaster lurked.  The other important variable was job stress with those under the greatest stress suffering a 2.5 fold greater risk.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735109721003764?via%3Dihub

#coronary #heartattack #overwork #stress #death #angina

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/hLhD6BMb_r4

Working 55 hours a week or more following a heart attack drives a 67% higher risk of another coronary event including unstable anginal pain, another non-fatal heart attack, or a deadly MI.  Canadian investigators followed 967 first heart attack victims after their return to work.

The risk of another often deadly cardiac event was proportional to the hours participants worked each week.  While there were slight risk increases as weekly hours worked increased from less than 35 to 54, 55 hours a week was a level above which disaster lurked.  The other important variable was job stress with those under the greatest stress suffering a 2.5 fold greater risk.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735109721003764?via%3Dihub

#coronary #heartattack #overwork #stress #death #angina

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/I2SYXphezPo

Patients regularly taking famotidine, sold as Pepcid, along with aspirin were 45% less likely to die with CoVid infections severe enough to require ICU-level therapy.  Researchers at the University of Virginia, collaborating with colleagues at Germany’s University of Berlin studied 1578 patients with severe CoVid.

The Pepcid alone reduced mortality 27% while aspirin alone reduced it 21%.  The investigators speculate that Pepcid and aspirin, both anti-inflammatory agents, help CoVid patients by squelching their deadly viral-induced cytokine storm.

This and other studies showing the therapeutic value of famotidine now trigger larger prospective trials.  The researchers suggest that aspirin should also be added to test a Pepcid cocktail.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.29.21253914v1.full.pdf+html

#CoVid #icu #famotidine #pepcid #aspirin

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/I2SYXphezPo

Patients regularly taking famotidine, sold as Pepcid, along with aspirin were 45% less likely to die with CoVid infections severe enough to require ICU-level therapy.  Researchers at the University of Virginia, collaborating with colleagues at Germany’s University of Berlin studied 1578 patients with severe CoVid.

The Pepcid alone reduced mortality 27% while aspirin alone reduced it 21%.  The investigators speculate that Pepcid and aspirin, both anti-inflammatory agents, help CoVid patients by squelching their deadly viral-induced cytokine storm.

This and other studies showing the therapeutic value of famotidine now trigger larger prospective trials.  The researchers suggest that aspirin should also be added to test a Pepcid cocktail.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.29.21253914v1.full.pdf+html

#CoVid #icu #famotidine #pepcid #aspirin