This just now....

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12:54 (US) NY doctors find hydroxychloroquine did not help severe COVID-19 patients - press - Based on a review of records from 600 patients at 22 hospitals Related () - Source TradeTheNews.com

Ron

This from a bit earlier today....

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11:13 (US) Pres Trump: stimulus legislation will provide vital relief for families - signing ceremony comments - Just spoke to Apple CEO Cook; Apple is bringing jobs back to the US; Tim Cook said he thinks we'll have a V-shaped recovery - US virus deaths will be far below 100K - My question about disinfectants was sarcastic - Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be filled for the first time in a long while - Raises idea of buying fuel for the US in advance as well as airline tickets in advance - Banks should not discriminate against energy companies - Disinfectant on hands could have very good effect - Want a review of sun and heat effects on the virus within the human body - I am not encouraging people to ingest disinfectant - VP Pence: 5.1M in US have been tested as of today - Source TradeTheNews.com

Ron

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https://summit.news/2020/04/28/youtube-censors-viral-video-of-doctors-criticizing-stay-at-home-order/


Doctors who question official party line receive 5M views on youtube had their video deleted by YouTube Censorship Board (YCB)

ICU are empty

Volume down medical staff are being laid off

People with cancer, heart disease and serious diseases are not coming in for treatment for fear of contracting CoVId

Govt use of fear killing more than Covid

never seen quarantine the healthy - doesn't make scientific sense

5213 and 340 positive = 6.5% => widespread in population similar to the flu

12% of California positive

initial models woefully inaccurate - predicted millons of deaths = not happening

39.5 million and 1275 deaths California

Sweden with no lock-down no stay at home have developed herd immunity
deaths per million same as USA


https://summit.news/2020/04/28/youtube-censors-viral-video-of-doctors-criticizing-stay-at-home-order/

I was interested to see how we're doing on containing the virus.

Here is a rendering of the John Hopkins COVID-19 numbers for reported deaths for a number of Western countries, including the United States, as of yesterday, 4/28/20. The data is smoothed by a 7-day moving average.

Encouragingly, all the curves look like they have rolled over or are in the process of rolling over. Sweden, due to reporting lags, is shown with both the Johns Hopkins data and delayed official Swedish data; in both cases they also look to be rolling over.

This is pretty good news overall. I can't make any projections or predictions for the future, but it is looking better than I have thought.

European countries:



United States:



These charts are from a liberal blogger on a liberal website, but I'm making no statement on any political matter, just using the charts. ( )

Source: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/04/coronavirus-growth-in-western-countries-april-28-update/

Original Data Sources:

Johns Hopkins: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_deaths_global.csv

Public Health Agency of Sweden: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utbrott/aktuella-utbrott/covid-19/bekraftade-fall-i-sverige/

Bob.

US Government Report Concludes Wuhan Lab 'Most Likely Source' Of COVID-19 Outbreak



• In 2013, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected horseshoe bats at a cave 1,000 miles away infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
Stored away and forgotten until January this year, the sample from the horseshoe bat contains the virus that causes Covid-19. -WSJ

• Peng Zhou, WIV's head of Bat Virus Infection and Immunization, was researching "the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases," while a press release from his lab was titled "How bats carry viruses without getting sick."

• Zhou's colleague, Shi Zhengli, has been involved in bioengineering bat coronaviruses - co-authoring a controversial 2015 paper which described the creation of a new virus by combining a coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe bats with another that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice.

• In 2015, Nature magazine expressed concern over Zhengli's experiments with bat coronavirus. The same year, the US government suspended funding to the lab due to their concern over risks of experimenting with bat coronavirus.

• Meanwhile, the US State Department warned over safety standards at the Wuhan lab in a series of cables beginning in 2015, according to the Washington Post's Josh Rogin.

Feeling a little whipsawed on the remdesivir story, which a few days ago seemed a flop. It seems that there were a number of studies, and NIH is announcing a partial success in theirs:

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The F.D.A. plans to announce as early as Wednesday an emergency use authorization for remdesivir, an experimental antiviral drug that is being tested in treating patients with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to a senior administration official. Ahead of the announcement President Trump and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s leading infectious diseases scientist, on Wednesday hailed early trial results of the drug, holding out hope that it could help stem the rising death toll. Meeting with reporters at the White House, Dr. Fauci cautioned that the results of the study overseen by his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, still need to be properly peer reviewed but expressed optimism that it could make a difference in speeding up the recovery of some patients infected with the virus. Another study, conducted in China and published in the Lancet, questioned the value of the drug for treatment of severely ill patients but left open the possibility that it might be useful for others. The research was incomplete, however, because not enough participants could be enrolled. Dr. Fauci said the federal trial indicated that the drug remdesivir could shorten the time to recovery by about a third. “Although a 31 percent improvement doesn’t seem like a knockout 100 percent, it is a very important proof of concept because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus,” Dr. Fauci said. “This is very optimistic.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/coronavirus-usa-cases-deaths.html

Will need to stay tuned.

Bob.

Sell in May and go away?....or.....?

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It's just a guess....

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