Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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If you’re one of the 44% with type O blood, you are significantly less likely to become seriously infected with coronavirus.  If you have type A blood, you are much more likely to contract it.

Chinese investigators studied infected persons in Wuhan and in Shenzhen.  Type O persons had a 33% lower infection risk.   Type A persons had a 21% higher infection risk. The AB group fared a bit worse than the A group, but the B group had no greater risk or benefit.

You can’t change your blood group, but you can avoid infection.  Those with A or AB groups should be even more obsessive about avoiding exposures.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1.full.pdf

#covid19 #coronavirus #abogroups #bloodgroups

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If you’re one of the 44% with type O blood, you are significantly less likely to become seriously infected with coronavirus.  If you have type A blood, you are much more likely to contract it.

Chinese investigators studied infected persons in Wuhan and in Shenzhen.  Type O persons had a 33% lower infection risk.   Type A persons had a 21% higher infection risk. The AB group fared a bit worse than the A group, but the B group had no greater risk or benefit.

You can’t change your blood group, but you can avoid infection.  Those with A or AB groups should be even more obsessive about avoiding exposures.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1.full.pdf

#covid19 #coronavirus #abogroups #bloodgroups

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CoVid19 remains viable in contaminated spray for up to 3 hours.  It can live on surfaces for up to 3 days.  This data, just reported in the New England Journal, comes from the NIH infectious disease unit in Montana.

The researchers tested the virus in 10 experimental scenarios.  The virus lived longest on plastics, 72 hours, and stainless steel, 48 hours.  No significant virus lived on cardboard after 24 hours or on copper after only 4 hours.

Keep this information in mind as you protect yourself from the virus.  Clean all surfaces frequently, including your phone.  Soap is an excellent virus killer  destroying its outer shell protein coat.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=RP

#covid19 #coronavirus #aerosols #plastic #steel #cardboard #copper

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CoVid19 remains viable in contaminated spray for up to 3 hours.  It can live on surfaces for up to 3 days.  This data, just reported in the New England Journal, comes from the NIH infectious disease unit in Montana.

The researchers tested the virus in 10 experimental scenarios.  The virus lived longest on plastics, 72 hours, and stainless steel, 48 hours.  No significant virus lived on cardboard after 24 hours or on copper after only 4 hours.

Keep this information in mind as you protect yourself from the virus.  Clean all surfaces frequently, including your phone.  Soap is an excellent virus killer  destroying its outer shell protein coat.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?query=RP

#covid19 #coronavirus #aerosols #plastic #steel #cardboard #copper

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AFC Distribution Corp. of Rancho Dominguez, California is voluntary recalling Cooked Butterfly Tail-On Whiteleg Shrimp, Lot #2019.10.02.  This shrimp may be found in various prepared sushi and other foods with sell-by dates ranging from 02/19/2020 to 03/13/2020.  The shrimp may be contaminated with Vibrio parahaemolyticus. This organism causes a severe gastroenteritis with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and chills.

The shrimp have been sold in products prepared at retail AFC sushi counters and distributed in some 40 states.  If you have a product containing these shrimp, discard it or return it to the point of purchase for a refund.  For more information, contact the AFC Recall Team at 1-866-467-8744. 

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/cooked-butterfly-tail-whiteleg-shrimp-sushi-ebi-lot-20191002

#recall #afc #shrimp #sushi #vibrio

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AFC Distribution Corp. of Rancho Dominguez, California is voluntary recalling Cooked Butterfly Tail-On Whiteleg Shrimp, Lot #2019.10.02.  This shrimp may be found in various prepared sushi and other foods with sell-by dates ranging from 02/19/2020 to 03/13/2020.  The shrimp may be contaminated with Vibrio parahaemolyticus. This organism causes a severe gastroenteritis with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and chills.

The shrimp have been sold in products prepared at retail AFC sushi counters and distributed in some 40 states.  If you have a product containing these shrimp, discard it or return it to the point of purchase for a refund.  For more information, contact the AFC Recall Team at 1-866-467-8744. 

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/cooked-butterfly-tail-whiteleg-shrimp-sushi-ebi-lot-20191002

#recall #afc #shrimp #sushi #vibrio

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The good ole nausea drug, Compazine or prochlorperazine, prevents tumor cells from hiding surface receptors that immunotherapy drugs require for the kill.  Oncologists at Australia’s University of Queenland studied this receptor hiding process called endocytosis in both human cells and a mouse model.

Studying human squamous cell carcinoma cells, they observed less endocytosis and more antibody binding sites in cells from patients responding better to cetuximab, an anticancer antibody to skin growth factor.  The endocytosis inhibitor Compazine demonstrably helped cancer immunotherapy in mice.  The drug turbocharged tumor cell killing by both the anti-tumor antibody cetuximab and the check point inhibitor avelumab.

Compazine may well be an effective antidote to immunotherapy failures. 

Hui Yi Chew, Priscila O. De Lima, Jazmina L. Gonzalez Cruz, etal. Endocytosis Inhibition in Humans to Improve Responses to ADCC-Mediating Antibodies. Cell, 2020; 180 (5): 895 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.019

#endocytosis #immunotherapy #compazine #prochlorperazine

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/y45ok4Y3Lig

The good ole nausea drug, Compazine or prochlorperazine, prevents tumor cells from hiding surface receptors that immunotherapy drugs require for the kill.  Oncologists at Australia’s University of Queenland studied this receptor hiding process called endocytosis in both human cells and a mouse model.

Studying human squamous cell carcinoma cells, they observed less endocytosis and more antibody binding sites in cells from patients responding better to cetuximab, an anticancer antibody to skin growth factor.  The endocytosis inhibitor Compazine demonstrably helped cancer immunotherapy in mice.  The drug turbocharged tumor cell killing by both the anti-tumor antibody cetuximab and the check point inhibitor avelumab.

Compazine may well be an effective antidote to immunotherapy failures. 

Hui Yi Chew, Priscila O. De Lima, Jazmina L. Gonzalez Cruz, etal. Endocytosis Inhibition in Humans to Improve Responses to ADCC-Mediating Antibodies. Cell, 2020; 180 (5): 895 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.019

#endocytosis #immunotherapy #compazine #prochlorperazine

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A simple lab test, the serum ferritin level, can help diagnose a deadly hyper-stimulation of the immune system triggered by coronavirus.  Each hospitalized CoVid19 patient should have the test, but some docs aren’t aware of it.

Chinese investigators, treating CoVid19 patients in Wuhan, found that the 13 most severely affected compared with 27 having milder disease had an overpowering  burst of immune system mediators associated with elevated ferritin levels.

Immunologists report that ferritin is elevated in auto-immune disease. A cytokine storm is the most extreme form of it.  Since a coronavirus-corrupted, raging immune system attacks all vital organs, recognizing and treating a cytokine storm is vital and lifesaving.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.16.20023671v2

#ferritin #cytokinestorm #coronavirus

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/O3ptZogfbiU

A simple lab test, the serum ferritin level, can help diagnose a deadly hyper-stimulation of the immune system triggered by coronavirus.  Each hospitalized CoVid19 patient should have the test, but some docs aren’t aware of it.

Chinese investigators, treating CoVid19 patients in Wuhan, found that the 13 most severely affected compared with 27 having milder disease had an overpowering  burst of immune system mediators associated with elevated ferritin levels.

Immunologists report that ferritin is elevated in auto-immune disease. A cytokine storm is the most extreme form of it.  Since a coronavirus-corrupted, raging immune system attacks all vital organs, recognizing and treating a cytokine storm is vital and lifesaving.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.16.20023671v2

#ferritin #cytokinestorm #coronavirus