Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Consistently satisfying sleep may reduce your chances of dying from a worn out heart by 42%.  Epidemiologists at Tulane University followed a huge UK population of 408,802 patients over a 10 year period looking for correlations between sleep patterns and the development of congestive heart failure.

Over those 10 years, 5221 developed heart failure.  This disease incidence was 34% lower in those with no daytime sleepiness, 17% lower in those without insomnia, 12% lower for those sleeping 7 to 8 hours a day, and 8% reduced for early risers.

Congestive heart failure can be deadlier than cancer.  Its only cure is a heart transplant.  Protect your ticker by sleeping soundly and exercising consistently.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050792

#sleep #heartfailure

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/00KdCNwbiec

Consistently satisfying sleep may reduce your chances of dying from a worn out heart by 42%.  Epidemiologists at Tulane University followed a huge UK population of 408,802 patients over a 10 year period looking for correlations between sleep patterns and the development of congestive heart failure.

Over those 10 years, 5221 developed heart failure.  This disease incidence was 34% lower in those with no daytime sleepiness, 17% lower in those without insomnia, 12% lower for those sleeping 7 to 8 hours a day, and 8% reduced for early risers.

Congestive heart failure can be deadlier than cancer.  Its only cure is a heart transplant.  Protect your ticker by sleeping soundly and exercising consistently.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050792

#sleep #heartfailure

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/EaG0OrjId0U

Those who survive CoVid not only have more anti-viral antibodies, but those they do have are of higher quality.  Harvard immunologists draw this conclusion from their studies of 193 hospitalized CoVid patients comparing those surviving moderate to severe disease with those who perished.

Those who survived CoVid developed antibodies that could effectively bind to spike protein and prevent the virus from invading cell after cell. They also brewed  antibodies that bind to the Fc sites on killer lymphocytes and trigger them to flush away virus-infected cells that would release ever more virus.

This new information will guide vaccine developers to produce agents that evoke even more powerful protective antibodies.

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)31459-8.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420314598%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

#covid #antibodies #spikeprotein #killercells

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/EaG0OrjId0U

Those who survive CoVid not only have more anti-viral antibodies, but those they do have are of higher quality.  Harvard immunologists draw this conclusion from their studies of 193 hospitalized CoVid patients comparing those surviving moderate to severe disease with those who perished.

Those who survived CoVid developed antibodies that could effectively bind to spike protein and prevent the virus from invading cell after cell. They also brewed  antibodies that bind to the Fc sites on killer lymphocytes and trigger them to flush away virus-infected cells that would release ever more virus.

This new information will guide vaccine developers to produce agents that evoke even more powerful protective antibodies.

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)31459-8.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420314598%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

#covid #antibodies #spikeprotein #killercells

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Those who refuse masks, distancing, and crowding restrictions do so because they fear government intrusion more than the coronavirus.  This the conclusion of two interrelated Lehigh University studies determining the attitudes of 300 participants regarding the power and purposeful actions of CoVid, so called agency, and the acceptance of societal interventions against it.

Social conservatives tend to view the virus as less dangerous than government.  The minority of conservatives who do recognize CoVid’s danger were more likely to embrace public health measures to stop it.

We all must recognize CoVid to be a predator army biologically evolved to spread silently throughout the world.   Fear it and welcome control measures.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/711838

#covid #agency #conservatives #liberals #predator

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/YuH6PjKc4NU

Those who refuse masks, distancing, and crowding restrictions do so because they fear government intrusion more than the coronavirus.  This the conclusion of two interrelated Lehigh University studies determining the attitudes of 300 participants regarding the power and purposeful actions of CoVid, so called agency, and the acceptance of societal interventions against it.

Social conservatives tend to view the virus as less dangerous than government.  The minority of conservatives who do recognize CoVid’s danger were more likely to embrace public health measures to stop it.

We all must recognize CoVid to be a predator army biologically evolved to spread silently throughout the world.   Fear it and welcome control measures.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/711838

#covid #agency #conservatives #liberals #predator

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZsXw99moIUI

A CoVid tsunami is upon us.  N95 and KN95 filtration masks may be in short supply. You’ll want a way to recycle those you have.  To help us do it properly, the engineers at Tufts University distilled the result of 58 studies that look at methods employing heat, chemicals, and UV light and impact on viral decontamination and maintenance of filtration.

The best methods were dry heat, 160 degrees for 50 minutes, hydrogen peroxide exposure for 100 minutes on average, or UV exposure for more than 10 minutes.  Each of these drove a more than 3 log reduction in  CoVid concentrations on and in the mask while maintaining mask filtration, fit, fiber resilience and strap fit.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229880v1.full.pdf

#mask #recycle #heat #hydrogenperoxide #uv

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZsXw99moIUI

A CoVid tsunami is upon us.  N95 and KN95 filtration masks may be in short supply. You’ll want a way to recycle those you have.  To help us do it properly, the engineers at Tufts University distilled the result of 58 studies that look at methods employing heat, chemicals, and UV light and impact on viral decontamination and maintenance of filtration.

The best methods were dry heat, 160 degrees for 50 minutes, hydrogen peroxide exposure for 100 minutes on average, or UV exposure for more than 10 minutes.  Each of these drove a more than 3 log reduction in  CoVid concentrations on and in the mask while maintaining mask filtration, fit, fiber resilience and strap fit.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229880v1.full.pdf

#mask #recycle #heat #hydrogenperoxide #uv

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9fhkNewMDb4

People tweet and write that wearing masks, distancing, and avoiding contaminated surfaces won’t protect you from CoVid.  Doesn’t matter though since the virus isn’t that dangerous for young adults.  WRONG on both counts.

Precautions DO work. The University of Minnesota studied 489 health care workers, 22% docs or mid-level practitioners, 51% nurses, and the remainder techs and managers.  Though 40% of them were directly exposed to CoVid patients, not one of them tested positive for the virus by the gold standard PCR test.

The young don’t skate!  Of 3222 young Bostonians admitted for CoVid, 21% needed the ICU, 10% went on a vent, and nearly 3% died. Be careful!

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.20166066v7.full.pdf

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770542

#covid #ppe #masks #distancing

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/9fhkNewMDb4

People tweet and write that wearing masks, distancing, and avoiding contaminated surfaces won’t protect you from CoVid.  Doesn’t matter though since the virus isn’t that dangerous for young adults.  WRONG on both counts.

Precautions DO work. The University of Minnesota studied 489 health care workers, 22% docs or mid-level practitioners, 51% nurses, and the remainder techs and managers.  Though 40% of them were directly exposed to CoVid patients, not one of them tested positive for the virus by the gold standard PCR test.

The young don’t skate!  Of 3222 young Bostonians admitted for CoVid, 21% needed the ICU, 10% went on a vent, and nearly 3% died. Be careful!

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.20166066v7.full.pdf

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770542

#covid #ppe #masks #distancing