Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/TmkLo6M6XTM

Calls to poison control centers have more than doubled during the CoVid pandemic, and the CDC now reports that 39% of more than 500 surveyed adults are engaging in dangerous and potentially lethal practices such as washing food with bleach, applying household cleanser and disinfectants to bare skin, or intentionally inhaling or ingesting disinfectants.

The good news is that 60% are taking additional care to clean and disinfect their homes, the bad news is that 25% experienced at least one adverse effect from their efforts including nasal and sinus irritations, eye pain, skin irritation, dizziness, nausea, and breathing problems.

Keep your world clean, but don’t poison yourself. Do mask, distance, and wash.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e2.htm

#covid #disinfection #poisoning

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/TmkLo6M6XTM

Calls to poison control centers have more than doubled during the CoVid pandemic, and the CDC now reports that 39% of more than 500 surveyed adults are engaging in dangerous and potentially lethal practices such as washing food with bleach, applying household cleanser and disinfectants to bare skin, or intentionally inhaling or ingesting disinfectants.

The good news is that 60% are taking additional care to clean and disinfect their homes, the bad news is that 25% experienced at least one adverse effect from their efforts including nasal and sinus irritations, eye pain, skin irritation, dizziness, nausea, and breathing problems.

Keep your world clean, but don’t poison yourself. Do mask, distance, and wash.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e2.htm

#covid #disinfection #poisoning

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/cq63U-eqU98

If you want to avoid CoVid and not give it to your mother, you’d better don a mask.  Look, the overwhelming evidence is that CoVid19 spreads primarily through the air.

Data shows that masks work: they already prevented 66,000 CoVid cases in NYC.  Those in China and Japan use them every year to stop the flu.

Cases are rising where people are careless and congregating without masks.  CoVid is like Russian roulette.  Even the young and healthy may get a nothing case or end up dead with devastating lung, heart, or kidney destruction. 

Wear a mask anywhere near strangers.  Multi-layered masks that filter virus are now available. Mask-it or casket!

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2009637117

https://www.amazon.com/Protection-Filtration-Anti-Fog-Dust-Proof-Adjustable/dp/B088CQGVMJ/ref=sr_1_33?dchild=1&keywords=face+masks&qid=1592143915&sr=8-33

#covid #mask #filter 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/cq63U-eqU98

If you want to avoid CoVid and not give it to your mother, you’d better don a mask.  Look, the overwhelming evidence is that CoVid19 spreads primarily through the air.

Data shows that masks work: they already prevented 66,000 CoVid cases in NYC.  Those in China and Japan use them every year to stop the flu.

Cases are rising where people are careless and congregating without masks.  CoVid is like Russian roulette.  Even the young and healthy may get a nothing case or end up dead with devastating lung, heart, or kidney destruction. 

Wear a mask anywhere near strangers.  Multi-layered masks that filter virus are now available. Mask-it or casket!

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2009637117

https://www.amazon.com/Protection-Filtration-Anti-Fog-Dust-Proof-Adjustable/dp/B088CQGVMJ/ref=sr_1_33?dchild=1&keywords=face+masks&qid=1592143915&sr=8-33

#covid #mask #filter 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/GOr3H64gQxw

The breastmilk of CoVid-infected mothers does not contain infectious virus.  Obstetricians, pediatricians, and virologists in Wuhan and Harbin China now report this finding in their study of 25 mother-infant pairs just reported online on the medrixiv.org pre-print site.

The breastmilk of the new mothers was analyzed for virus using quantitative PCR testing and for anti-CoVid19 antibodies via ELISA testing. All milk samples were  CoVid virus-negative.  IgM antibodies were detected in the breastmilk in all cases where that antibody was found in the mother’s serum.

This study confirms the safety of breastmilk from CoVid-infected mothers.  New mothers who are CoVid positive may safely breastfeed.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.30.20033407v1.full.pdf

#covid #breastfeeding #antibodies

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/GOr3H64gQxw

The breastmilk of CoVid-infected mothers does not contain infectious virus.  Obstetricians, pediatricians, and virologists in Wuhan and Harbin China now report this finding in their study of 25 mother-infant pairs just reported online on the medrixiv.org pre-print site.

The breastmilk of the new mothers was analyzed for virus using quantitative PCR testing and for anti-CoVid19 antibodies via ELISA testing. All milk samples were  CoVid virus-negative.  IgM antibodies were detected in the breastmilk in all cases where that antibody was found in the mother’s serum.

This study confirms the safety of breastmilk from CoVid-infected mothers.  New mothers who are CoVid positive may safely breastfeed.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.30.20033407v1.full.pdf

#covid #breastfeeding #antibodies

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/zQ4A9lO38kY

Two-thirds of children diagnosed with CoVid19 in Los Angeles had typical symptoms of a viral pneumonia.  This finding, reported by pediatricians at USC after their study of 35 children, contrasts sharply with other case series reported from China and elsewhere.

The median age of the kids was 12.5 years, and, as is typical, there was a preponderance of males.  The frequent symptoms were fever, congestion, cough, and shortness of breath.

Children under age 5 typically had more symptoms and a higher viral load in their bodies.

The western US variants of CoVid19 seem to produce more symptomatic disease in kids.  That may help prevent spread by asymptomatic carriers.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20104539v2.full.pdf

#covid #children #california

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/zQ4A9lO38kY

Two-thirds of children diagnosed with CoVid19 in Los Angeles had typical symptoms of a viral pneumonia.  This finding, reported by pediatricians at USC after their study of 35 children, contrasts sharply with other case series reported from China and elsewhere.

The median age of the kids was 12.5 years, and, as is typical, there was a preponderance of males.  The frequent symptoms were fever, congestion, cough, and shortness of breath.

Children under age 5 typically had more symptoms and a higher viral load in their bodies.

The western US variants of CoVid19 seem to produce more symptomatic disease in kids.  That may help prevent spread by asymptomatic carriers.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20104539v2.full.pdf

#covid #children #california

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/93kifz07DxM

Of the first 1000 New Yorkers hospitalized for CoVid19, about one-third suffered serious kidney injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.  Clinicians at Columbia University and the New York/Presbyterian Medical Center just published details on the largest American CoVid case series to date.

Focusing on the 24% of patients requiring ICU critical care, 90% had acute respiratory distress syndrome, 78% had kidney disease, 35% required dialysis, and 44% died. 

The bottom line: CoVid19 triggers a nasty disease that suffocates, damages all your vital organs, creates body-wide clotting, and hangs on and on.  You CAN avoid it with DMW: distancing, masks, and washing.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1996

#covid #nyc #kidneyfailure #dialysis

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/93kifz07DxM

Of the first 1000 New Yorkers hospitalized for CoVid19, about one-third suffered serious kidney injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.  Clinicians at Columbia University and the New York/Presbyterian Medical Center just published details on the largest American CoVid case series to date.

Focusing on the 24% of patients requiring ICU critical care, 90% had acute respiratory distress syndrome, 78% had kidney disease, 35% required dialysis, and 44% died. 

The bottom line: CoVid19 triggers a nasty disease that suffocates, damages all your vital organs, creates body-wide clotting, and hangs on and on.  You CAN avoid it with DMW: distancing, masks, and washing.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1996

#covid #nyc #kidneyfailure #dialysis