FEDS DISTRIBUTING REMDESIVIR AFTER STUDY FAILED 2020
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-doctors-struggle-to-decide-which-patients-should-get-remdesivir/

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND AZITHROMYCIN DON’T REDUCE MORTALITY
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766117

WUHAN TO TEST 11 MILLION PEOPLE IN NEXT 10 DAYS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-six-new-cases-wuhan-plans-to-test-all-11-million-residents-for-coronavirus/2020/05/12/9e245722-9411-11ea-87a3-22d324235636_story.html

DIGITAL DZ SURVEILLANCE - ETHICS & GOVERNANCE (NEW STUDY 5/11)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/11/science.abb9045

STUDYING PATHOPHYSIOLOGY IN MACAQUES
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2324-7

SD GOV NOEM WANTS TO SUE TRIBES OVER CHECKPOINTS
​https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/12/854333737/checkpoint-clash-escalates-between-south-dakota-governor-tribal-leaders
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BEWARE OF FRAUDULENT COVID-19 SALES AND PRODUCTS
​https://apnews.com/f7ab8d9f968905498cb3b31c9c753b1e

BREXIT CONCERNS INCREASED BY VIRUS
​https://apnews.com/2602a946ba128a9fa2550b0ee92e78f0

The graphs tell the tale.  Which countries have the dread virus under control?
https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries

Something to Share with Those Who Think it's Like the Flu
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86339
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Dr Jacob Schor on what we know about Meds and ACE receptors
​https://drjacobschor.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/falsehood-flies/

How Essential is Meat Really?
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-happened-when-health-officials-wanted-to-close-a-meatpacking-plant-but-the-governor-said-no
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Emotion Ruins Remdesivir Study, No Statistically Significant Benefit
(they just couldn't stand to give placebo, hence ruining the control group)
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/11/inside-the-nihs-controversial-decision-to-stop-its-big-remdesivir-study/

U.S. Cases Skyrocketing, Brazil Not Far Behind
​https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/brazil-coronavirus-hot-spot-bolsonaro/611401/
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DeBlasio Makes Controversial Choices Expanding NY Contact Tracing System
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/nyregion/coronavirus-contact-tracing-nyc.html

FDA Gave Emergency Authorization for Fast Antigen Testing 5/9
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-antigen-test-help-rapid-detection-virus-causes

Perpetuation of Racial Inequity in the U.S.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/

Medical Glass Shortage One More Hurdle to Vaccine Distribution
https://theweek.com/speedreads/913781/how-glass-shortage-could-slow-coronavirus-vaccine-development-distribution

Ukraine Struggles Under Impact (Photos)
https://apnews.com/2dd7c051b31659545ba6004c8d5434bb

The WHO Gets to Work on Pandemic Management (the U.S. is OUT)
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/11/global-pathogen-shield-health-security/

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How Long will Immunity Last?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30985-5/fulltext

Another Interview with Dr Zwickey about SARS-CoV2
https://www.naturalmedicinejournal.com/journal/2020-05/covid-19-insights-petanimal-transmission-male-mortality-and-more-about-antibody

List of FDA Approved Antibody Tests (Use Nothing Else)
​https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/serology/Serology-based-tests-for-COVID-19.html

Russian Doctors Falling From Windows after Complaining about PPE
https://time.com/5832752/russia-coronavirus-doctors-deaths/

Trump is the Virus Infecting U.S. Institutions: Diseased CDC is Ineffective
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/29/we-need-the-real-cdc-back-and-we-need-it-now/

FDA Explains Its New Stance on Antibody Testing
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/insight-fdas-revised-policy-antibody-tests-prioritizing-access-and-accuracy
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Remdesivir Approved for Use May 1
​https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-potential-covid-19-treatment

Bill Introduced that would Forgive Student Loans of Front Line Workers
https://maloney.house.gov/sites/maloney.house.gov/files/BILL%20FOR%20INTRO%20Student%20Loan%20Forgiveness%20for%20Frontline%20Health%20Workers_Maloney.pdf

​Health Disparities and COVID-19
https://www.naturalmedicinejournal.com/journal/2020-05/covid-19-shines-light-existing-healthcare-disparities

History and Pathogenicity of Coronaviruses
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01315-7

According to this study Over 30% of COVID-19 Cases are Asymptomatic
​https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30139-9/pdf

"Excess Deaths" Suggest Many Undiagnosed Cases and Perhaps Suicides?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/covid-19-death-toll-undercounted/?arc404=true

Too Bad He Cancelled, He was Showing his True Colors
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-briefings-idUSKCN22920I



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Taiwan gets the Gold Medal 
https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/events/april-24.html

1) Testing capacity must be developed and employed immediately upon detection of a new pathogen.  Testing accuracy must be continuously improved and testing must be repeated when accuracy is not good or the pathogen is already circulating in the community.  Nobody has to wait or wonder.  Even people who think they are not sick or have not been exposed are tested in order to detect and isolate asymptomatic  or pre-symptomatic cases.
2) Cases must be detected immediately and isolated.  Isolated means zero contact with other people and no shared spaces.  Sharing a bathroom or kitchen is not isolated.
3) All possible contacts of positive cases must be traced, located and isolated for more than the incubation period.  Contacts mean anyone who was in the same physical space with the infected person, not just people that they know.  People who were in the same line at the grocery store, and the person who sat in the same chair at the barbour shop later in the day, are contacts.  Tracing contacts requires the use of technology and specifically location monitoring.  A mobile phone app will work when people carry mobile phones.  Tracing won't be successful if you just count known contacts.  Some possible contacts will not be infected, but by quarantining everyone who might be infected you prevent contagion.
4) If the above steps are completed early enough then stay at home orders and economic shutdown are not necessary.

People are all worried about this particular virus and its economic and social aftermath.  Please remember that new infections continue to evolve and that another pandemic will come behind this one.  We should learn from this one, the way that Taiwan learned from the last few, and be better prepared the next time.

Americans are averse to thinking that the government knows where they go or who they associate with.  This is considered antithetical to "freedom".  But what if you could give up this information in exchange for our society being resilient?  What if we were able to shut down pandemics instead of shutting down business?  It's a compromise worth considering.

This virus disproportionately kills people who are older or are obese.  You can't stop the flow of years, but you can do something about obesity and the chronic health conditions that accompany it.  Here in Oregon a man who is more than 100 years old has survived the virus.  He is lean.

The next pandemic could be more deadly.  This is our chance to learn.

Zwickey on Antibody Testing: What's Going On?
https://www.heatherzwickey.com/articles/antibody-testing-questions

Cuomo on the Nursing Home Situation
​https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-audio-photos-rush-transcript-amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-announces-12

Animations Showing Cumulative and New Cases Worldwide
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/animated-world-map



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Updated 4/24

1/5 of New Yorkers have had the Dread Virus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-antibodies-test-ny.html

Vitamin C Reduces ICU and Ventilator Duration, Might Help Before That
​https://todayspractitioner.com/respiratory-health/is-vitamin-c-the-unsung-covid-19-hero/#.XqMVz9NKgiN

Parisian Poop Patterns Parallel COVID-19 Cases
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20062679v1

Arguments about ReOpening Especially Interesting Given the Politics
https://www.foxnews.com/us/americans-support-extending-coronavirus-stay-at-home-orders

Virus is Expanding in Navajo Nation
https://www.knau.org/post/northern-arizona-coronavirus-cases-grow-navajo-nation-infections-continue-surge

Hemostatic Derangement?  Washing Post Reports Clots Killing Pts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-blood-clots/

Antibody Testing (Serology) Strategy
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200422-national-strategy-serology.pdf

Accuracy of Current Serology Testing Variable
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/covid-19-antibody-testing-a-disaster-says-roche-ceo-as-its-diagnostics-sales-rise

Vaccination Rates in Freefall
​https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-measles-vaccines.html?referringSource=articleShare

Covid Patients Should NOT Discontinue ACE Inhibitors or ARB's 
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.317134

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India's First Spike, Government Doses Slumdwellers with Hydroxychloroquine
https://apnews.com/31c3c682c6ba37596c3e74cd1a6ce12f

Georgia's Impending Spike: Tongue In Cheek Laughs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/21/georgia-leads-race-become-americas-no-1-death-destination/

Situation Report from the WHO (4/22)
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200421-sitrep-92-covid-19.pdf

Evidence of Community Spread in California in Early Feb (maybe Jan?)
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-04-21-20-early.aspx

Transmission Before Symptoms, Infx before Positive Test, on USS Teddy R
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/theodore-roosevelt-covid-investigation-navy-cdc/index.html

In L.A. People Who've Had the Virus FAR Outnumber Those Diagnosed
https://neurosciencenews.com/covid-19-underestimated-16211/

UpToDate's Clinical Summary is Excellent
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-epidemiology-virology-clinical-features-diagnosis-and-prevention

New England Journal of Medicine NEJM has started a Covid Notes Series
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025

NY City Subway: Transmission Central
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27021

On Achieving Mass Vaccination--Faster
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20305302?via%3Dihub

Explains the Pneumonia and Why People are So Sick at Admission
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

Why We Need the World Health Organization
https://warontherocks.com/2020/04/the-answer-is-to-empower-not-attack-the-world-health-organization/
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I just heard resilient defined as "hard to kill".  That is what we all want to be. We want to be resilient, and we want our businesses and families and communities to be resilient also. This pandemic is revealing the weaknesses in our government, our healthcare system, and our lifestyles.  It kills people who haven't been able to quit smoking, or loose that extra 50 pounds, or get their blood pressure or blood sugar down.  This virus reveals just how poorly our so-called healthcare system builds resilience.

These conditions that cause the virus to devastate are all treatable by us, as individuals.  We can quit smoking, lose weight, lower our blood pressure and sugar.  We can start exercising.  We can eat right.  But it isn't easy.  And for some it is too late. 

I hope that this harsh warning will be enough to shock the survivors into a new way of thinking about health.  Health isn't good numbers on a lab, attained by way of popping pills.  Health is real vitality, a strong immune system, a lack of chronic health conditions caused by an all-too American lifestyle and diet.  We don't call the diet here SAD for nothing.  The Standard American Diet is a recipe for disaster, and disaster is upon us.

In the short term we simply need to get through it.  The Flu of 1918 lasted two years.  The Black Plague lasted six.  No matter what the politicians say, this experience will change us.  It will change us as individuals, and it will permanently affect our culture and institutions.  COVID-19 will change our approach to health and wellness, I think for the better.