Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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The CPSC and Anker Play Products are recalling 10-In-1 Incredible Inventions Science Kits. The paint on the red and blue magnet included with this kit exceeds safe federal lead levels.  The labelling on this product also lacks mandated warnings for magnets and balloons. If you bought this kit for your child, do not permit them to use the red and blue magnet.  Contact Anker at 1-877-236-1945 to arrange for a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/anker-play-products-recalls-10-in-1-incredible-inventions-science-kit-due-to-violation

#sciencekit #lead #magnet #balloons #recall

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The CPSC and Anker Play Products are recalling 10-In-1 Incredible Inventions Science Kits. The paint on the red and blue magnet included with this kit exceeds safe federal lead levels.  The labelling on this product also lacks mandated warnings for magnets and balloons. If you bought this kit for your child, do not permit them to use the red and blue magnet.  Contact Anker at 1-877-236-1945 to arrange for a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/anker-play-products-recalls-10-in-1-incredible-inventions-science-kit-due-to-violation

#sciencekit #lead #magnet #balloons #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZQJThGWhf1c

The CPSC and Primark announce the recall of  two Primark piercings: 5-Pack Nose and Body Bar Piercing.  These items have elevated levels of the mineral nickel which can and often does induce an allergic-type skin irritation.  If you have these, stop using them immediately and return them to the place of purchase or a Primark store for a refund.  If you require more information to determine if your particular piercings are implicated, call Primark at 1-617-946-3236.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/primark-recalls-nose-piercing-and-body-bars-due-to-high-levels-of-nickel-risk-of-skin

#piercings #primark #nickel #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZQJThGWhf1c

The CPSC and Primark announce the recall of  two Primark piercings: 5-Pack Nose and Body Bar Piercing.  These items have elevated levels of the mineral nickel which can and often does induce an allergic-type skin irritation.  If you have these, stop using them immediately and return them to the place of purchase or a Primark store for a refund.  If you require more information to determine if your particular piercings are implicated, call Primark at 1-617-946-3236.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/primark-recalls-nose-piercing-and-body-bars-due-to-high-levels-of-nickel-risk-of-skin

#piercings #primark #nickel #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lEjT1k3ouG4

CoVid can trigger autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune, muscle inflammation, and so-called CoVid toes.  For the first time, radiologists at Northwestern University release images of these CoVid-induced maladies.

Using multi-modality imaging including conventional radiography, CT, MR, and ultrasound, the investigators assembled pictoral proof of CoVid attacks on muscle, nerves, joints, bone, and soft tissues including skin.  As radiologists begin to image more patients with CoVid, their abilities to detect viral-induced tissue and organ damage increases.

If you or yours have a CoVid infection with symptoms that are dragging on besides the usual respiratory ones, suggest imaging to search for CoVid-triggered rheumatic and autoimmune type damage.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00256-021-03734-7

#CoVid #autoimmune #rheumatic #arthritis #neuritis #myositis

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/lEjT1k3ouG4

CoVid can trigger autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune, muscle inflammation, and so-called CoVid toes.  For the first time, radiologists at Northwestern University release images of these CoVid-induced maladies.

Using multi-modality imaging including conventional radiography, CT, MR, and ultrasound, the investigators assembled pictoral proof of CoVid attacks on muscle, nerves, joints, bone, and soft tissues including skin.  As radiologists begin to image more patients with CoVid, their abilities to detect viral-induced tissue and organ damage increases.

If you or yours have a CoVid infection with symptoms that are dragging on besides the usual respiratory ones, suggest imaging to search for CoVid-triggered rheumatic and autoimmune type damage.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00256-021-03734-7

#CoVid #autoimmune #rheumatic #arthritis #neuritis #myositis

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/RMPpAQAprE4

Reports on the two mRNA vaccines Americans are receiving were published just days ago in the New England Journal of Medicine by Moderna and Pfizer with their academic collaborators.  Both vaccines trigger antibodies that neutralize the original predominant Wuhan strain and the British B.1.117 variants but have reduced though still lethal activity against the South African B.1.351 variant.

Using sera from vaccinated Americans, the Moderna-NIH team demonstrate equally effective neutralizing antibody levels for the prevalent original strain and the British B.1.1.7 variant.  Moderna-induced antibody is nearly 10-fold less effective against the South African B.1.351 variant, but it does neutralize.

The Pfizer-BioNTech-University of Texas team report the effectiveness of their vaccine-induced antibodies against the prevalent CoVid strain as well as against the South African strain.  The antibody strength against the latter was reduced by two-thirds but still effective.  

As yet, there is no compelling study data on either vaccine for the Brazilian P1 variant.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2102179?query=pfw&jwd=000013110419&jspc=MPD

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2102017?query=pfw&jwd=000013110419&jspc=MPD

#CoVid #moderna #pfizer #vaccine #wuhan #b117 #b1351

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/RMPpAQAprE4

Reports on the two mRNA vaccines Americans are receiving were published just days ago in the New England Journal of Medicine by Moderna and Pfizer with their academic collaborators.  Both vaccines trigger antibodies that neutralize the original predominant Wuhan strain and the British B.1.117 variants but have reduced though still lethal activity against the South African B.1.351 variant.

Using sera from vaccinated Americans, the Moderna-NIH team demonstrate equally effective neutralizing antibody levels for the prevalent original strain and the British B.1.1.7 variant.  Moderna-induced antibody is nearly 10-fold less effective against the South African B.1.351 variant, but it does neutralize.

The Pfizer-BioNTech-University of Texas team report the effectiveness of their vaccine-induced antibodies against the prevalent CoVid strain as well as against the South African strain.  The antibody strength against the latter was reduced by two-thirds but still effective.  

As yet, there is no compelling study data on either vaccine for the Brazilian P1 variant.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2102179?query=pfw&jwd=000013110419&jspc=MPD

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2102017?query=pfw&jwd=000013110419&jspc=MPD

#CoVid #moderna #pfizer #vaccine #wuhan #b117 #b1351

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/3PyyXUDX9m8

Asthmatics are less likely to contract CoVid.  So say Australian researchers after their meta-analysis of 57 worldwide studies that encompassed 587,200 persons.

The data show that about 7 per 100 asthmatics develop a CoVid infection but 8 per 100 in the general population do so as well.  Asthmatics were 14% less likely to become infected and 13% less likely to require hospitalization.  Once in the hospital, progression to needing the ICU or a vent was not more likely for asthmatics.  Asthmatics are not more likely to die from CoVid.

The investigators conjecture that inhalation therapy including steroids taken by asthmatics reduces the numbers of ACE2-CoVid binding sites in their respiratory linings.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02770903.2021.1888116

#CoVid #asthma #steroids

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/3PyyXUDX9m8

Asthmatics are less likely to contract CoVid.  So say Australian researchers after their meta-analysis of 57 worldwide studies that encompassed 587,200 persons.

The data show that about 7 per 100 asthmatics develop a CoVid infection but 8 per 100 in the general population do so as well.  Asthmatics were 14% less likely to become infected and 13% less likely to require hospitalization.  Once in the hospital, progression to needing the ICU or a vent was not more likely for asthmatics.  Asthmatics are not more likely to die from CoVid.

The investigators conjecture that inhalation therapy including steroids taken by asthmatics reduces the numbers of ACE2-CoVid binding sites in their respiratory linings.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02770903.2021.1888116

#CoVid #asthma #steroids