Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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The CPSC and Global Home Imports announce the recall of HR Platform Frames.  These frames may collapse unexpectedly posing a crush hazard that may lead to a severe injury or death.  The models involved include HR33, HR46, HR50, HR60, and HR66 in all sizes sold though American Furniture Warehouse, Mattress Firm and other retailers. Immediately stop using HR platform frames and contact Global Home Imports at 888-550-4371 to obtain a free repair kit that will strengthen the frame.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/Global-Home-Imports-Recalls-Platform-Bed-Frames-Due-to-Serious-Injury-Hazard

#mattressframe #hrplatform #collapse #crush

Xvvid https://youtu.be/TSoditd8peU

The CPSC and Global Home Imports announce the recall of HR Platform Frames.  These frames may collapse unexpectedly posing a crush hazard that may lead to a severe injury or death.  The models involved include HR33, HR46, HR50, HR60, and HR66 in all sizes sold though American Furniture Warehouse, Mattress Firm and other retailers. Immediately stop using HR platform frames and contact Global Home Imports at 888-550-4371 to obtain a free repair kit that will strengthen the frame.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/Global-Home-Imports-Recalls-Platform-Bed-Frames-Due-to-Serious-Injury-Hazard

#mattressframe #hrplatform #collapse #crush

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/OVZRpWiYBFU

Concussion, dementia, and sleep deprivation produce similar changes to your brain’s architecture as determined by a novel MRI imaging analysis.  Oregon investigators now present data from their study of 56 Afghanistan war vets and suggest possible therapeutic approaches to TBI and dementia.

Their imaging data shows a correlation between battle brain trauma and enlargement of perivascular spaces that fill with metabolic waste as the result of brain cell damage.  This same material collects with advancing age and dementia, but sound sleep helps flush it away.

The researchers propose that their imaging technique provides a diagnostic and monitoring tool for brain injuries and a method for documenting improvement driven by improved sleep.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neu.2020.7447

#tbi #concussion #dementia #sleep #mri

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/OVZRpWiYBFU

Concussion, dementia, and sleep deprivation produce similar changes to your brain’s architecture as determined by a novel MRI imaging analysis.  Oregon investigators now present data from their study of 56 Afghanistan war vets and suggest possible therapeutic approaches to TBI and dementia.

Their imaging data shows a correlation between battle brain trauma and enlargement of perivascular spaces that fill with metabolic waste as the result of brain cell damage.  This same material collects with advancing age and dementia, but sound sleep helps flush it away.

The researchers propose that their imaging technique provides a diagnostic and monitoring tool for brain injuries and a method for documenting improvement driven by improved sleep.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/neu.2020.7447

#tbi #concussion #dementia #sleep #mri

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/MBhMynoyc9U

Should a pregnant woman contract CoVid, she is less likely to show initial symptoms but more than twice as likely to end up in the ICU on a ventilator and nearly twice as likely to die.  British investigators performed a meta-analysis of 73 studies covering 67, 271 pregnant women.

Pregnancy reduces chance of initial fevers, shortness of breath, and muscle aches by an average of 60%.  Even so, it increases odds of ICU admission by 2.1 times, the need for a ventilator by 2.6, times, risk of profound respiratory failure doubles, and death from any cause rises 1.8 fold.  Mothers with CoVid are 1.5 times as likely to have a pre-term birth and their babies are nearly 5 times more likely to require a NICU stay. 

Unvaccinated pregnant women who have not experienced a previous CoVid infection should be monitored extremely carefully and managed aggressively.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3320

#CoVid #pregnancy #icu #ventilator #mortality

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/MBhMynoyc9U

Should a pregnant woman contract CoVid, she is less likely to show initial symptoms but more than twice as likely to end up in the ICU on a ventilator and nearly twice as likely to die.  British investigators performed a meta-analysis of 73 studies covering 67, 271 pregnant women.

Pregnancy reduces chance of initial fevers, shortness of breath, and muscle aches by an average of 60%.  Even so, it increases odds of ICU admission by 2.1 times, the need for a ventilator by 2.6, times, risk of profound respiratory failure doubles, and death from any cause rises 1.8 fold.  Mothers with CoVid are 1.5 times as likely to have a pre-term birth and their babies are nearly 5 times more likely to require a NICU stay. 

Unvaccinated pregnant women who have not experienced a previous CoVid infection should be monitored extremely carefully and managed aggressively.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3320

#CoVid #pregnancy #icu #ventilator #mortality

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/d_M4-GECqyM

Vaccination with either the Moderna or the Pfizer mRNA vaccine reduces the already small incidence of asymptomatic CoVid infection by 44%.  Investigators at the Mayo Clinic report this vaccine protective after studying 39,156 asymptomatic adults. 

Asymptomatic CoVid infections as determined by PCR testing are uncommon only occurring in 3.2% of the unvaccinated.  Vaccination with an mRNA vaccine lowers that risk by 20% after the first dose of vaccine and by as much as 47% following the second vaccine dose.

Pfizer and Moderna report even greater protection against asymptomatic infections by their respective vaccines.  Their testing was completed at longer intervals following vaccination permitting stronger immunity.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab229/6167855

#CoVid #vaccine #asymptomatic #mrna #moderna #pfizer

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/d_M4-GECqyM

Vaccination with either the Moderna or the Pfizer mRNA vaccine reduces the already small incidence of asymptomatic CoVid infection by 44%.  Investigators at the Mayo Clinic report this vaccine protective after studying 39,156 asymptomatic adults. 

Asymptomatic CoVid infections as determined by PCR testing are uncommon only occurring in 3.2% of the unvaccinated.  Vaccination with an mRNA vaccine lowers that risk by 20% after the first dose of vaccine and by as much as 47% following the second vaccine dose.

Pfizer and Moderna report even greater protection against asymptomatic infections by their respective vaccines.  Their testing was completed at longer intervals following vaccination permitting stronger immunity.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab229/6167855

#CoVid #vaccine #asymptomatic #mrna #moderna #pfizer

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/U6KjQH1cROU

Last summer’s experience reassures us that children can safely attend day camps.  New York pediatric researchers draw this conclusion from their study of 8,480 campers and 3,698 staff at 23 camps.

CoVid cases only occurred in 2 camps. Only one camper and 6 staff members became infected.  Driving this success was near universal staff masking and select camper masking, regular hand sanitizing, focused testing, daily temperature checks, separation of campers into cohort bubbles, outdoor activities and meals, use of indoor facilities only for changing clothes, no field trips, and the use of distancing while eating. 

Critical to the success of these day camps were flawless communications between camp officials and parents.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.21253309v1.full.pdf

#daycamps #CoVid #mitigation

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/U6KjQH1cROU

Last summer’s experience reassures us that children can safely attend day camps.  New York pediatric researchers draw this conclusion from their study of 8,480 campers and 3,698 staff at 23 camps.

CoVid cases only occurred in 2 camps. Only one camper and 6 staff members became infected.  Driving this success was near universal staff masking and select camper masking, regular hand sanitizing, focused testing, daily temperature checks, separation of campers into cohort bubbles, outdoor activities and meals, use of indoor facilities only for changing clothes, no field trips, and the use of distancing while eating. 

Critical to the success of these day camps were flawless communications between camp officials and parents.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.21253309v1.full.pdf

#daycamps #CoVid #mitigation