Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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The Consumer Products Safety Commission and Dick’s Sporting Goods have recalled 63,000 Field and Stream Safety Ropes sold at their stores or at Sportsman’s Warehouse stores.  These ropes can fail if used in freezing weather.  They are black with orange lines and were sold in one or three packs.  If you have these ropes, immediately stop using them and return them to the store for a full refund,  If you need more information, contact Dick’s Sporting Goods at 1-877-846-9997.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/DICKS-Sporting-Goods-Recalls-Safety-Ropes-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards

#recall #ropes #dicks #cpsc

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/PfoihCpP6jY

The Consumer Products Safety Commission and Dick’s Sporting Goods have recalled 63,000 Field and Stream Safety Ropes sold at their stores or at Sportsman’s Warehouse stores.  These ropes can fail if used in freezing weather.  They are black with orange lines and were sold in one or three packs.  If you have these ropes, immediately stop using them and return them to the store for a full refund,  If you need more information, contact Dick’s Sporting Goods at 1-877-846-9997.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/DICKS-Sporting-Goods-Recalls-Safety-Ropes-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards

#recall #ropes #dicks #cpsc

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The excess toilet paper rolls in your closet reveals that you are scared to death of CoVid.  Swiss and German investigators surveyed the buying habits and personality traits of 1029 adults from 35 countries.

The data shows that those most personally threatened by the CoVid pandemic shopped for toilet paper more frequently, bought more rolls per shop, and stocked more at home.  Toilet paper hoarding rises with age, female gender, and conscientiousness.  Americans and Europeans were no different.

Hoarding toilet paper won’t protect against CoVid unless you make toilet paper masks.  Instead buy and use one of the cotton masks with a filter insert that are now readily available online

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234232

#covid #toiletpaper #hoarding #masks

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/P4KtJMLowCk

The excess toilet paper rolls in your closet reveals that you are scared to death of CoVid.  Swiss and German investigators surveyed the buying habits and personality traits of 1029 adults from 35 countries.

The data shows that those most personally threatened by the CoVid pandemic shopped for toilet paper more frequently, bought more rolls per shop, and stocked more at home.  Toilet paper hoarding rises with age, female gender, and conscientiousness.  Americans and Europeans were no different.

Hoarding toilet paper won’t protect against CoVid unless you make toilet paper masks.  Instead buy and use one of the cotton masks with a filter insert that are now readily available online

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234232

#covid #toiletpaper #hoarding #masks

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Half of patients with CoVid19 infections suffer damage to their brains, spinal cords, and peripheral nerves.  This from an extensive international review by Northwestern University and University of Colorado neurologists.

When CoVid strikes, often headaches, dizziness, concentration deficits, smell and taste malfunction, and even seizures surface even before any fever or cough,  In those with the most severe infections, the virus can directly attack brain tissue producing encephalitis and meningitis, the spinal cord with myelitis, and peripheral nerves with paralysis.  CoVid triggers excessive clotting and ischemic stroke.  

The lack of mask wearing and distancing is evidence that many, especially younger males, fail to take CoVid seriously.  Do so at your own peril!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ana.25807

#covid #brain #spinalcord #stroke #seizure #smell #taste

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/B3jYrNMx19M

Half of patients with CoVid19 infections suffer damage to their brains, spinal cords, and peripheral nerves.  This from an extensive international review by Northwestern University and University of Colorado neurologists.

When CoVid strikes, often headaches, dizziness, concentration deficits, smell and taste malfunction, and even seizures surface even before any fever or cough,  In those with the most severe infections, the virus can directly attack brain tissue producing encephalitis and meningitis, the spinal cord with myelitis, and peripheral nerves with paralysis.  CoVid triggers excessive clotting and ischemic stroke.  

The lack of mask wearing and distancing is evidence that many, especially younger males, fail to take CoVid seriously.  Do so at your own peril!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ana.25807

#covid #brain #spinalcord #stroke #seizure #smell #taste

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As pollen counts rise in the spring and autumn, the incidence of viral respiratory disease significantly diminishes.  This from a Dutch analytic study just published online by the pre-print server medrixiv.org.

The investigators, noting that the seasonal flu incidence cannot be explained by weather alone, show that as both allergic and non-allergic pollen counts soar, the incidence of influenza and SARS decline.  They suggest that the immune activation triggered by seasonal allergies actually prevents invasion of respiratory tissues by viruses including CoVid19.

Whatever the reason, this phenomenon is yet another good reason to get out into the greenery of Mother Nature.  Put on your mask and go to the park.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.05.20123133v2.full.pdf

#covid #pollen #influenza

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/sfs_9FLNONI

As pollen counts rise in the spring and autumn, the incidence of viral respiratory disease significantly diminishes.  This from a Dutch analytic study just published online by the pre-print server medrixiv.org.

The investigators, noting that the seasonal flu incidence cannot be explained by weather alone, show that as both allergic and non-allergic pollen counts soar, the incidence of influenza and SARS decline.  They suggest that the immune activation triggered by seasonal allergies actually prevents invasion of respiratory tissues by viruses including CoVid19.

Whatever the reason, this phenomenon is yet another good reason to get out into the greenery of Mother Nature.  Put on your mask and go to the park.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.05.20123133v2.full.pdf

#covid #pollen #influenza

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MDW, MDW, Mask, Distance, and Wash,  I can’t say it often enough.  Now a just pre-published study from Thailand’s Topical Medicine Research Unit puts numbers on the value of these critical public health measures.

Studying 1050 subjects either CoVid-infected or not, the researchers show that mask wearing reduces risk of CoVid infection by 77%.  Distancing more than one meter cuts infection risk by 85%, limiting close contact to less than 15 minutes 76%, and hand washing 67%.  On the other hand, sharing a cigarette or a dish more than tripled the risk of infection.

In order to beat CoVid, we all must follow the numbers and mask, distance, and wash. 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.11.20128900v1.full.pdf

#covid #mask #distance #wash

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/7y_M8xSffv0

MDW, MDW, Mask, Distance, and Wash,  I can’t say it often enough.  Now a just pre-published study from Thailand’s Topical Medicine Research Unit puts numbers on the value of these critical public health measures.

Studying 1050 subjects either CoVid-infected or not, the researchers show that mask wearing reduces risk of CoVid infection by 77%.  Distancing more than one meter cuts infection risk by 85%, limiting close contact to less than 15 minutes 76%, and hand washing 67%.  On the other hand, sharing a cigarette or a dish more than tripled the risk of infection.

In order to beat CoVid, we all must follow the numbers and mask, distance, and wash. 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.11.20128900v1.full.pdf

#covid #mask #distance #wash