MoA—hen John Burn-Murdoch created that daily updated chart he did not anticipate that any country would have more than a 100,000 total cases. That was a reasonable assumption as China, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, stopped the epidemic with less than 85.000 total cases even when it was surprised by the outbreak. As of now the U.S. has 164.435 known cases. It will reach a total number of several dozens of millions and will have several hundreds of thousands of dead caused by the covid-19 disease.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
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Living Clean and Reducing Risk of Infection
17 minutes readROWAN WOLF-I am so outraged about the testing, and the drumbeat of “if you feel sick” … What we now know from China is that of folks who tested positive for the virus 4 out of 5 (80%) were exposed by contact with people WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE HEALTHY!! This was discovered by tracing the contacts of those who were initially tested. This means that you can be positive for Covid-19 and be spreading it to everyone you encounter, without feeling ill. The current restrictions on testing are because the government has totally failed to get enough tests where they are needed, or to even test front line workers and those who are seriously ill.
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Below we reproduce a press release from Gilead Sciences, one of Big Pharma’s more notorious firms for their aggressive marketing of extremely expensive drugs such as Harvoni to treat, for example, the Hepatitis C virus. Indeed, this is the company’s chosen turf, antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi. In 2018 the company had a net income of $5.5 billion, on an admitted total revenue of $22.1 billion. This is a very high profit margin, but we believe that this firm, like all of Big Pharma units, hides its true level of profitability for public relations reasons.
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False Claims About The Novel Coronavirus And How To Debunk Them
22 minutes readMoA—Our first post on the issue was headlined The Coronavirus – No Need To Panic. It discussed the infectiousness and fatality rate of the novel coronavirus disease in comparison to other virus caused diseases. We pointed out that it is less infectious and less deadly than for example SARS but never said that it is not dangerous at all. In fact the numbers we pointed out said the opposite.
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We Have Met the Enemy: It May Turn Out to be Us and Not a Virus
19 minutes readDAVE LINDORFF-There is an element of panic, since it’s becoming clear that this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic is looking potentially much worse than people up until now had been led to believe. In this so-called “epicenter,” for example, the number of “presumptive” cases of COVID-19 infection is currently 17 (since testing kits are scarce in the US, only six of the PA cases have been tested and they were all positive). That’s just about half the state’s total of 33 as of today. One MontCo resident has died so far, in a hospital in Philadelphia.