Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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HERE IS AN APPROACH I NEVER THOUGHT OF!

Researchers are studying radiotherapy to determine if it might cure some of the sickest of the sickest COVID-19 patients, the ones on their deathbed. I guess it might make some sense in a way. One of the ways COVID turns deadly is creating a cytokine storm to the lungs that overwhelms our immune system. Normally our bodies immune system is activated by a threat such as a viral or bacterial response.

But IMHO, humans have another immune system that protects us from the effects of low dose radiation. It is one of the reasons that those who survived the atomic bomb blast in Japan had longer lives rather than shorter lives compared to their fellow Japanese. Low-dose radiation from A-bombs elongated lifespan and reduced cancer mortality relative to un-irradiated individuals And like any immune system it needs to be periodically exercised to keep the immune system healthy. That is probably why many Japanese go to hot springs that emit high levels of radon gas because they believe in its therapeutic properties. Some Japanese Put Faith in Radon So I guess it would make some sense that if one of your immune systems is in overdrive, you rev up another system to distract it.

So I guess in a strange fuzzy logic perspective it makes some sense. Radiation therapy was used over a hundred years ago as an adjunctive treatment for cases of pneumonia that had failed to resolve by themselves.

Anyways I came across an article this morning that discussed research in this area:
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A Phase I/II trial was conducted at Emory . Let me remind you that these trials are meant to look at safety, not efficacy. The researchers identified nine possible candidates, but to give you a sense of how critically ill these patients were, four died before treatment could be initiated. All patients had COVID-19 based upon nasopharyngeal swabs, none had any other COVID-directed drug therapy the day before or for three days following treatment, and all were clinically deteriorating. Five patients underwent low-dose pulmonary irradiation. All were elderly, with significant co-morbidities, requiring supplemental oxygen, all demonstrating changes in their mentation; four were African-American, one Caucasian. Certainly not a random sample, more a group receiving a “hail-Mary” treatment. Each patient received 1.5 Gy of radiation (this is equivalent to about 1500 chest x-rays). [ In perspective, 1.5 Gy is considered a small dose compared to the 60.0 Gy dose used in radiation therapy for cancer.] Of the cohort, four survived, with prompt improvement in the mentation as well as the inflammatory biomarkers. In three of the cases, significant improvement was seen within 24 hours.

The second study was a matched controlled study, again from Emory. The criteria for inclusion were unchanged as was treatment, but in this case, ten matched controls were identified from participants in another COVID-19 outcome study. The groups were reasonably matched, all requiring oxygen, with multiple co-morbidities. They differed in being younger than the Phase I participants, with an average age of about 75 rather than the late ’80s, and there was not as significant mental status changes, an indirect sign of sepsis, in either group compared to the prior study participants. As in the first study, these patients were critically ill, with three of the thirteen recruited dropping out before radiation because of death or the need for intubation. The treatment arm all received radiation, but in about half, the cases received additional therapy, including steroids and remdesivir. The control group was also a bit of a therapeutic mess, with some receiving steroids, remdesivir, azithromycin, or hydroxychloroquine. Those patients receiving radiotherapy showed “a median time to clinical improvement” of 3 days versus 12 days in the control. While the authors present associated p-values, given the small size of the study, they are more decorative than informative. Radiation therapy shortened the hospital stay with no effect on mortality.

Source: Treating COVID-19 With Radiotherapy

https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/29/fir ... mperatures
The same article's Official Hungarian version also adds that green organizations attack the city for wasting lots of water this way, plus they mention that more and more citizen can hardly allow running their air conditioner these days.

Talking about the economical effects of the pandemic, what about the world's Giga projects?

So far I only read that Google's sister company Side Walk Labs stepped back from its Neighbourhood developing project in Toronto.
https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/why-we ... 61de3fee3a

Yep. It has been a “tradition.”

The loss of water is offset somewhat by firehouses providing sprinklers.

People cool off better with sprinklers than with unsprinkled open hydrants, anyway.

A few countries in Europe have numbers going back up again. Lots of chat about whether it is a 2nd wave or just a small spike.

It’s in our county nursing home,
fifty some odd patients and several staff.It only holds seventy people.

Good luck everyone with the second wave/continued first wave of deaths in the United States. Florida, Texas, and other states are lighting up. My wife's grandfather lives in south Florida.

It’s in our county nursing home,
fifty some odd patients and several staff.It only holds seventy people.

Reopening New Jersey: Coronavirus cases on the rise, could qualify for own quarantine list

Partial lockdown brought back into play in Greater Manchester (north west England)

It's only 1 month remained from the summer so the governments have to decide how they are going to start the year.
One of my two stepsisters work at the ELTE University in Budapest as a Student Council Member and she says they are thinking a hybrid teaching method which might mean small classes planned to held in the university's great classrooms following the safety rules (social distancing, mandatory mask-wearing etc, while bigger classes remain online.

Three deaths in the local nursing home.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/202 ... me/?latest

To add to above thought as it was incomplète i think visitors and testing = testing has shown time and time again to be inconsistent in reliability... For example yesterday one of mt sons nurses told me her friend was said to have it per test but lives in a big family lots of relatives under one roof- not just her - and nobody else tested positive for it
Tested again n by the time result came back then
She had recovered from symptoms but then they told her she didnt actually have it-- the first test result was wrong to begin with. Which explains why from all those ppl in her home tested only she was said to have a positive test ...

Similar but flipped ppl who have it keep getting negative tests n their dr says u have ut but it was a false result .they stay home the entire time. So next test shows they are positive


So visitors will inevitably bring it in if we rely on tests... As (for coming year,) schools and care homes have no other option but to do.

Second... I read that people who had been denied treatment for a condition they had prior (eg heart condition, chemo needed, etc) denied..died. Now if staff is short-handed and care homes have to scrounge for ppe too.. Then once virus is in, the staff diminishes in number too as all those who dont have it want to stay away esp with inadequate protection
..so inadequate care might also contribute to increased deaths... ?
Idk that its the same but seems to me visitors will carry it in no matter what which includes staff