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Originally posted by Chuck Perry:
British Cigarette company develops a vaccine

In short, British American Tobacco claims they have a workable vaccine ready to go, and can produce upwards of 3 MILLION doses per week.

Haha

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Originally posted by kx90:

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Originally posted by sdy:
Pennsylvania is predicted to be one of the early states with days about 16 April

We have a lot of people that work in NYC and live down here (SE PA).

I've been seeing a lot more NY license plates over the past couple of years. While we were going to see houses a couple months ago I noticed that there was at least one car showing up to the open houses that had NY plates and of the houses we had seen by appointment I would say 75% of the time there was another couple there from NY.

The NJ/NY diseased either commuting or fleeing to PA will be met with a very cold and/or hostile reception. The Poconos are being overwhelmed by them - stressing the medical and infrastructure. We have friends & relatives up there - let's just say the NJ/NY invaders are being shown a very unpleasant way back East.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Seeing a ALOT of anger directed toward China on social media today.

As well there should be. The world should band together when all of this is over and burn their economy to the ground.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:

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Originally posted by kx90:

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Originally posted by sdy:
Pennsylvania is predicted to be one of the early states with days about 16 April

We have a lot of people that work in NYC and live down here (SE PA).

I've been seeing a lot more NY license plates over the past couple of years. While we were going to see houses a couple months ago I noticed that there was at least one car showing up to the open houses that had NY plates and of the houses we had seen by appointment I would say 75% of the time there was another couple there from NY.

The NJ/NY diseased either commuting or fleeing to PA will be met with a very cold and/or hostile reception. The Poconos are being overwhelmed by them - stressing the medical and infrastructure. We have friends & relatives up there - let's just say the NJ/NY invaders are being shown a very unpleasant way back East.

Well, the shoobies were doing the same to the Cape May/Wildwood communities, so it goes both ways.

Well, Fredo now has Da Rona too.

Chris Cuomo tests positive for coronavirus
Maybe he'll lash out at the virus itself for being anti Italian by invading him.

To be fair, NY was the #1 fled state in the nation, long before this virus nonsense.

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Originally posted by triggertreat:
DocH or any one else.Has there been any preliminary reports out of New York on the trial treatments?

Have not seen yet, but initial trial is ongoing for chloroquine and remdesivir, and has shown success in reducing both transmission and shortening clinical course. We are currently engaging in probably the largest field trial ever conducted on drug therapies, so will shortly have lots of data to analyze.

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Originally posted by Chuck Perry:
British Cigarette company develops a vaccine

In short, British American Tobacco claims they have a workable vaccine ready to go, and can produce upwards of 3 MILLION doses per week.

The people who run cigarette companies are clearly some of the finest people on earth.

Plus they make really awesome ads...

(Seen in the latest American Rifleman)

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Originally posted by Chuck Perry:
British Cigarette company develops a vaccine

In short, British American Tobacco claims they have a workable vaccine ready to go, and can produce upwards of 3 MILLION doses per week.

So a cigarette company, British American Tobacco (BAT) comes up with the vaccine to kill a virus that originated in a bat and destroys the lungs.....I am not sure you could make that up!

a relatively small impact to my family

My daughter (married w kids) got very sick last night. The short version is she wound up in the ER. Everything now looks reasonably good.

No temp. lungs clear. very dehydrated. no flu.

No corona test because no temp. possible food poisoning. She will probably be released soon.

Her husband was not allowed in the hospital. He had to sit in his car in the parking lot and text to his wife. Place is locked down. Thank goodness she had her cell phone.

And I'm thinking Virginia hospitals will be dealing w this till July.

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Originally posted by slosig:[QUOTE]

41 posted an extremely positive report about midway down page 265:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...5/m/9320007564/p/265

Thanks I missed that

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:


Plus they make really awesome ads...

Now that is some damn fine marketing.

Cheers.

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Originally posted by TXJIM:

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Originally posted by Chuck Perry:
British Cigarette company develops a vaccine

In short, British American Tobacco claims they have a workable vaccine ready to go, and can produce upwards of 3 MILLION doses per week.

So a cigarette company, British American Tobacco (BAT) comes up with the vaccine to kill a virus that originated in a bat and destroys the lungs.....I am not sure you could make that up!

That is printed in a British paper on April 1. It's a joke. They do that.

I feel the need to go get a few packs of Lucky Strikes to help support BAT and the research. Grew up in tobacco country back when...

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Originally posted by Fenris:

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Originally posted by TXJIM:

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Originally posted by Chuck Perry:
British Cigarette company develops a vaccine

In short, British American Tobacco claims they have a workable vaccine ready to go, and can produce upwards of 3 MILLION doses per week.

So a cigarette company, British American Tobacco (BAT) comes up with the vaccine to kill a virus that originated in a bat and destroys the lungs.....I am not sure you could make that up!

That is printed in a British paper on April 1. It's a joke. They do that.

Cheeky bastards!

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Originally posted by TXJIM:

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Originally posted by Fenris:
That is printed in a British paper on April 1. It's a joke. They do that.

Cheeky bastards!

They've gotten me a few times.

You would think it would state somewhere at the end of the really long article that it was a joke. Not really something most would consider funny to joke about right now.

May not be an April Fool's joke, but when this is all over I may just have a few smokes and a glass of rye while watching a sunset anyways.

https://www.fool.com/investing...-close-to-a-pla.aspx

Nephew is an Oncology PA in Tampa. One of his patients showed up really sick, twice. Anyway, the patient tested positive so my nephew is in quarantine.

He has 4 young kids so his wife is kinda POed. He is basically doing nothing for 2 weeks.

HCQ Effective for COVID-19 in Small Randomized Trial

https://www.medpagetoday.com/i...isease/covid19/85753

Hospitalized patients in China with COVID-19 coronavirus treated with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an antimalarial also used to treat autoimmune diseases, had a shorter time to clinical recovery, as well as improved pneumonia, a randomized trial found.

Patients randomized to receive hydroxychloroquine with standard treatment had a significantly shorter time to body temperature recovery of about a day, as well as a significantly reduced time to cough remission of about a day versus patients receiving only standard treatment, reported Zhan Zhang, MD, of Wuhan University in China, and colleagues.

Moreover, a larger proportion of patients in the HCQ group had improved pneumonia compared with patients in the control group (80.6% vs 54.8%), they wrote in a manuscript posted on the medRxiv preprint server.

HCQ and chloroquine for COVID-19 treatment have been in the spotlight ever since President Trump first touted their benefits in a press briefing 2 weeks ago. The FDA said it was looking into conducting randomized trials of the drug in COVID-19 patients, though some hospitals have already opted for off-label use of these agents.

One person in Arizona died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, also sold for cleaning fish tanks, prompting the CDC to issue a warning against this practice.

Previous trials had explored in vivo activity of the drug, and one pilot study found no benefit in clinical measures or viral clearance compared with standard of care.

Still, the drug continues to be tested in ad hoc trials, including this one by Zhang and colleagues. They randomized 62 patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection in February. All patients received standard treatment, including oxygen therapy, antiviral agents, antibacterial agents, and immunoglobulin, with or without corticosteroids; patients in the intervention group also received oral HCQ sulfate tablets 400 mg/day on days 1-5.

Primary endpoint was time to clinical recovery, defined as "return to body temperature and cough relief, maintained for more than 72 [hours]." Mean patient age was about 45 and almost half were men, with no significant differences in the age and sex distribution between groups, the authors said.

Patients in the HCQ group had a significantly shorter time to body temperature recovery versus controls (2.2 days vs 3.2 days, P=0.0008). Similar results were seen for time to cough remission for the HCQ and control groups (2.0 vs 3.1 days, P=0.0016).

They noted four of 62 patients progressed to severe illness, all in the control group.

Two patients reported mild adverse reactions in the HCQ group, one with a rash and one with a headache.

Retinopathy is a known side effect of long-term therapy with HCQ -- often seen in lupus patients who may stay on the drug for years -- and patients occasionally experience arrhythmias and, more rarely, gastrointestinal reactions, cramps, and liver dysfunction. Patients should be monitored for these, but "short-term application of HCQ is relatively safe," Zhang and colleagues wrote.

While acknowledging a need for large-scale clinical trials and other research to clarify the specific treatment mechanism and optimize the treatment plan, the authors concluded that "considering that there is no better option at present, it is a promising practice to apply HCQ to COVID-19 under reasonable management."