Luc Montagnier radio interview with English subtitles: 'This is not a 100% Chinese job, there has been American help'
(1) Luc Montagnier radio interview with English subtitles: 'This is not a 100% Chinese job, there has been an American help'
(2) Dr.B. testomial - Andre: 'It was a remarkable recovery, going from a death bed to feeling almost 100%'
(3) Dr.B. testimonial - Elizabeth: "Now that I am nebulizing properly I feel 95% better!"
(4) Quinine & other drugs against Covid-19, not vaccines
(5) Light a Candle
(6) How to do News Aggregation
(7) COVID-19 hospital fears lead to spike in homebirth interest from pregnant women
(8) During coronavirus hospital surge, a midwife recommends home birth
(9) Scared of 'Covid Hospitals,' They're Giving Birth at Home
(10) Less likely to have C-sections, often have shorter labor
(11) The coronavirus can cause permanent damage to the whole body
(12) Coronavirus harms the brain & nervous system - stumbling, slurred speech and seizures
(1) Luc Montagnier radio interview with English subtitles: 'This is not a 100% Chinese job, there has been an American help'
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/g5mumv/bombshell_radio_interview_prof_luc_montagnier/
Posted byu/dubappaloolah
Bombshell radio interview - Prof Luc Montagnier - Nobel Laureate for HIV discovery says Coronavirus COVID-19 is man made in a laboratory in Wuahn
- China, but no, it's not a bio weapon. (2020-04-16 pourquoidocteur.fr ) SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH - Unedited audio - absolutely literal translation
{the English translation is in the subtitles; see link below - Peter M.}
Professor Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize laureate for the discovery of the HIV virus, world leader expert in virus genetic analysis, in collaboration with Jean-Claude Perez (https://twitter.com/jcperezcodex ), declare on radio interview in a french medical show ( https://www.pourquoidocteur.fr ), on April the 16th 2020, that
Coronavirus COVID-19 can't be naturally evolved, it must be man made, it clearly contains genome sequences of HIV virus (AIDS) among other strains like Malaria and it's origin is clearly traceable back to Wuahn high security laboratory in China.
I created a translated version of the radio interview with english subtitles, please note that the translation is ABSOLUTELY LITTERAL. The content of Prof. Montagnier speech had NOT BE ALTERED, EDITED, MISTRANSLATED OR CHANGED IN ANY POSSIBLE WAY, the audio is 100% original, not edited or altered in any way. Original sources down in the post.
In the interview he also points out that this is not a 100% Chinese job, there has been an American help, at least economically, that this virus must be escaped during the attempt to modify a Corona virus to build an HIV vaccine, so it is not a bio weapon.
He also explain that Chinese government is shutting down all research papers pointing to it's involvement and that must be held accountable for the error made, which in the end, was just the tragic result of a laboratory mishappening.
Prof. Montagnier also underline the fact that the virus is mutating at an exceptional speed, particularly loosing some of the HIV genome sequence fragments, because "nature doesn't admit random molecular contructs", and if we are lucky, maybe it will mutate itself into disappearance, but not before we'll have many more deaths.
Original interview page link (in french) https://www.pourquoidocteur.fr/Articles/Question-d-actu/32190-EXCLUSIF-La-these-d-un-virus-manipule-echappe-d-un-laboratoire-chinois-pave-mare-Pr-Luc-Montagnier
Original audio link (French):
https://player.acast.com/frequence-medicale-et-pourquoi-docteur/episodes/journal-du-160420
Radio interview with English subtitles is at https://www.reddit.com/user/dubappaloolah/comments/g5joax/bombshell_radio_interview_prof_luc_montagnier/
(2) Dr.B. testomial - Andre: 'It was a remarkable recovery, going from a death bed to feeling almost 100%'
https://www.drbrownstein.com/there-is-still-hope-out-there-andre:-it-was-a-remarkable-recovery/
There Is Still Hope Out There -
Andre: It was a remarkable recovery
Apr 17 2020
There Is Still Hope Out There- Andre: It was a remarkable recovery "It was a remarkable recovery, going from a death bed to feeling almost 100%"
This is a quote from my long term patient, Andre from Boston, who I diagnosed as COVID positive. Andre had a fever, severe diarrhea, and body aches that were painful to the touch. Watch Andre’s emotional testimonial as he talks about his recovery by taking high doses of vitamins A, C, D & iodine, nebulization, as well as at-home ozone therapy administered by his wife.
If you are interested in learning about our CHM COVID Consult Program email us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To All Our Health!
~DrB
David Brownstein, M.D. Corona Virus, Dr B's Holistic Medicine, Dr B’s blog, General Health, Natural Supplements, Natural Therapies, Ozone Therapy
(3) Dr.B. testimonial - Elizabeth: "Now that I am nebulizing properly I feel 95% better!"
Miss Elizabeth: "Now that I am nebulizing properly I feel 95% better!"
Apr 18 2020
Meet my patient Miss Elizabeth. She & her family had COVID-like symptoms to include severe headaches & extreme difficulty breathing. Elizabeth talks about her recovery through proper nebulizing with H202 solution and Lugol’s 5% iodine.
If you want to learn about our CHM Covid Consult program, please email us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To All Our Health!
~DrB
David Brownstein, M.D. Corona Virus, Dr B's Holistic Medicine, Dr B’s blog, Natural Supplements, Natural Therapies
(4) Quinine & other drugs against Covid-19, not vaccines
From: Eric Walberg <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> re
> Ian Frazer, who co-invented the HPV vaccine, > says COVID-19 may never have a preventive vaccine
The sooner we stop going the vaccine route the better.
it's what gates/ pharma want.
we should use quinine and the others to treat symptoms to prevent the extreme form, do rigorous testing to find infectees, and go for herd immunity.
a new health regime to strengthen immune system.
no more antibiotics always needing to be replaced.
Comment (Peter M.): One of the reasons state-endorsed scientists disparage Luc Montagnier, is that he made some anti-Vaxx statements. I'd like to know what they were - but I don't have time. Could someone else dig it up?
(5) Light a Candle
From: Mazin Qumsiyeh <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> Subject: [HumanRights] Light a candle Cc: Human Rights Newsletter <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
This blog and action call is posted at
http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2020/04/light-candle.html Tutti noi siamo collegati spiritualmente, biologicamente, mentalmente
Here is an inspiring video about the first hired staff member (Majd) of the museum and institute (palestinenature.org and still volunteering) titled "How to Survive the Apocalypse? [an Advice From a Friend]"
Why do I call Majd a bright candle?
Israel has over 13,000 COVID-19 cases and close to 200 deaths. Yet, the Israeli regime keeps thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in crowded prisons (and using them as guinea pigs to test drugs to profit its pharmaceutical industry). The regime shuts down a Palestinian clinic in occupied East Jerusalem (Silwan) that is fighting the pandemic. The "fined" people who were protesting (keeping distance) the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem.
Israeli colonial settlers continue to rampage through Palestinian towns and villages. Settlers with suspected virus were even trying to infect Palestinians they normally terrorize in other ways. Apartheid soldiers still go into Palestinian crowded areas to kidnap more native youth.
Yet, none of this made mainstream media (controlled by Zionists). The only thing that seems to make it in Israeli and International media is how "Arab-Israeli" (read Palestinians who are 10th class citizens in the "Jewish state") doctors and nurses are saving Jewish lives:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-war-coronavirus-arab-doctors-180057183.html
And to top it all off as Meretz party said:"Gantz destroyed the hope of a majority of Israelis and sold the mandate that the majority gave him to a corrupt inciter [Netanyahu]." The new Israeli government will be even more racist and implement more apartheid laws.
But I still am grateful for having made a decision 12 years ago to move back to Palestine from the USA (even under occupation and colonizations). The USA is in a catastrophic situation: nearly 2.5 million in prison (about same number of those infected with the virus worldwide), the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and the deep state that runs the affairs gives people choices of presidents that are truly repugnant (people like Trump, Clinton, Obama, Biden). The US health care system spends per capita more than any other country and yet ranks very poor compared to most countries (even Cuba and China have far better healthcare systems). Of course for the very rich, the US healthcare system works great (privatized, expensive). It does not work well for masses. Thus tens of thousands are dying or sick (some are friends and relatives). But we also have problems with other countries (e.g. China's occupation and ethnic cleansing in Tibet or Indiua's fascist government). We should all be angry and we should all challenge this anger against the idiotic leaders the masses supposedly elected (Modi in India, Netanyahu in "Israel", Trump in the US etc). I say supposedly because there is no true democracy in societies run by the power of money and controlled mass media. But being against these governments (they all lie), should not distract us also from being for something positive/helping.
We actually worry about all countries and not just because we (
palestinenature.org) have friends and acquaintances in over 100 countries but because this pandemic crisis gives us globally and opportunity to change the world in a better direction (still we have the major calamity of climate change and risk of nuclear war). I go back to the video of Majd cited above (and many other stories) and feel inspired, Life gives us thousands of examples of lights in the darkness (better light a candle than curse the darkness). Yes we reject the road of consumerism and of fascism globally but by acting locally and globally. The stakes could not be higher.
So today at the museum garden today we harvested a lot of thyme (probably enough to make 6-10 kg of Zaatar), ate the last edible green almonds, and harvested lettuce, tomatoes, kale, beans, peas, broccoli, sage and much more (also need to harvest some fish from the aquaponics).
Olive flours are ready to bloom, citrus trees are blooming, and the fruits of loquats, berries, walnuts, apricots and more are coming along.
Hamsters had babies. Chicken are laying more eggs. Life is still good and full of lights.
PS: if any of you are interested in environmental DNA work email me for an event tomorrow/Wednesday.
Stay Human, Stay safe, stay active and light a candle (physically and
metaphysically)
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director Palestine Museum of Natural History Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine http://qumsiyeh.org http://palestinenature.org facebook pages Personal https://www.facebook.com/mazin.qumsiyeh.9
Museum
https://www.facebook.com/Palestine-Museum-of-Natural-History-1454309858180882/
(6) How to do News Aggregation
From: Börries Wendling <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Subject: Re: [PM] Luc Montagnier says on TV: COVID19 was engineered, laced with parts of HIV; authorities tried to keep it quiet
Hi Peter,
thank you for sharing with us. It is so difficult for me to find credible information away from the mainstream sites. May I suggest that you tell us some time, how you do the news aggregation, so that others can learn how to surf the non-MSM web?
Regarding Luc Montagnier‘s theory, SARS-Cov-2 could be a probable
vaccine: Why would someone in Big Pharma try to work on a vaccine which infects 1000 times better than SARS? This would immediately destroy its economic value.
Best regards, stay safe
Börries Wendling
Germany
Reply (Peter M.):
Börries,
Firstly, I use multiple browsers. We have about eight browsers on our main computer, an iMac. My wife uses one, I use two, and sometimes a third. The third has no ad-blocker; I use it if a site is asking me to remove my adblocker.
I have Safari and Chrome, but never use them, because they are constantly 'phoning home' to Apple and Google. Instead I use ones you have probably never heard of - Yandex, Sea Monkey and iCab. These are the ones I use every day to harvest the news. My wife uses Firefox.
We also have Vivaldi and Opera, but generally don't use them.
If a visitor is using the iMac, I would allocate one of the unused browsers to that person.
If there were children using the iMac, each would use his or her own browser.
Each browser is set up for ONE gmail account. With multiple users, each user having a separate browser, there is no need to log out.
I have two gmail accounts; I use Yandex for one, Sea Monkey for the other.
I process mail for This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. using Eudora 6, on an old (2002) computer, which must be the most durable Apple ever made, the G4/933. It runs Apple's original operating system, 9.2, and has two monitors. I compose my newsletters on it using Word 98; I compose my website on it using Netscape Gold 3 (yes, 3!). Big Brother finds it difficult to hack this computer, because it's not intel-based, and I don't use it for browsing.
Each browser on the iMac has bookmarks (favourites) according to the users's interests. My wife has different bookmarks from me.
The bookmarks in the toolbar are arranged in folders, according to topic.
One of my folders is named 'N' for News; another is named '$' for buying & selling. Another is 'W' for weather. And so on.
In the "N' folder there are many sub-folders. There's "MSM", "Alternative", "S" for finance news, "Mideast" for mideast incl Zionism,"Au" for Australian items, etc.
I bookmark a large number of MSM sites and Alternative sites. In "$'
(finance news) for example I have Bloomberg, Zero Hedge, and many other finance news sites.
When bookmarking a site, I make sure that the link goes into the correct folder.
I usually cannot stand reading MSM sites such as the NYT, on account of their overwhelming propaganda. But I do visit them now & then. However, because I have so many of them bookmarked, I need only visit each one infrequently.
When setting the system up, I exported the bookmarks from one browser to the desktop, then imported them into the 2nd & 3rd browsers. Over time, I add, remove or rearrange booksmarks in my main browser, so the various browsers come to have different bookmarks.
When a site endorsed Trump's assassination of Soleimani, I removed it from the bookmarks in my main browser (so disgusted was I), but it remains in the other browsers.
When Australian sites endorsed the jailing of Cardinal Pell, I removed them from my main browser, but they remained in the other browsers.
When war in Syria was raging, I used to visit Moon of Alabama regularly.
On the coronavirus, I visit Zero Hedge. When I find an interesting article there, I follow it up by looking for the source from which Zero Hedge got its report.
I often used to find The Economist on the ball about the big picture, but on the coronavirus it is way behind, so I don't bother with it.
On my G4/933, I have a special folder called 'Coronavirus'. Inside it are a number of folders, each approximating to one newsletter. Folder 45 is called '45 Finance MMT'. Folder 47 is called '47 Luc Montagnier on TV'; folder 48 is called '48 Bat Woman playing God'. The next folder, 49, is called '49ns', where 'ns means 'not sent'. I am currently accumulating articles in that folder. When I am ready, I will change the folder's name, e.g. to '49 Home Births'; or I might call it '49 Montagnier radio interview'. Articles I do not use in the next newsletter will be moved to a new folder, '50ns'.
(7) COVID-19 hospital fears lead to spike in homebirth interest from pregnant women
By Elly Bradfield
Posted yesterday at 12:51pm
Australian women have called for "urgent" Medicare rebates for homebirth as an increasing number of women turn away from hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A midwifery practice is reporting a huge increase in women considering homebirth because they don't want to go to hospital during the COVID-19 crisis
>For many expecting mothers, however, the cost of giving birth at home
borders on unbearable, leading to calls for a Medicare rebate Medical experts have stressed that hospital is the safest place to give birth Hospitals around the country have implemented a range of measures to stop the spread of COVID-19, including limiting support people and visitors.
Queensland Health says it is not supporting water births and that hospitals can only administer gas for pain relief where an aerosol filter is fitted.
Mother Zoe Reynolds said amid "the chaos and uncertainty" she had decided to change her birth plan and stay at home.
"I felt like if I'd been in hospital I wouldn't have been able to birth in the way that I wanted to," she said.
"I'm sure their infection control is amazing, but at the same time you just can't help but want to stay away from that and keep your baby away from that as much as possible."
Ms Reynolds said, however, that the cost of staying home was a major consideration.
"With the homebirth you can't claim Medicare for the midwives, so you have to pay that out of your pocket," she said.
"Then there's a trip to Bunnings as well, to get to get things like drop sheets and things to birth-proof your house.
"So it just makes things a little bit more tight."
My Midwives, Australia's largest provider of continuity of midwifery care, quickly adapted to the number of women changing their birth plans.
"We've gone from having around about four per cent of women wanting to have baby at home to about 25 per cent," managing director Liz Wilkes said.
Ms Wilkes said pregnant women had expressed a diverse range of fears and were "generally very frightened".
"There's a range of issues surrounding what the hospitals are saying, around changes in birthing practices," she said.
"How many people they're allowed to have in with them, what that actual birth plan looks like."
A midwife sits at desk in front of computer doing telehealth consultation. PHOTO: Liz Wilkes said midwives had to work quickly to accommodate the number of women switching to homebirths amid the
COVID-19 outbreak. (ABC Southern Queensland: Lucy Robinson) Ms Wilkes has called for Medicare rebates for midwives who attend homebirths and said the cost is causing a great deal of angst for women making this choice.
"I have spoken to at least 15 women in the last two weeks who had said that they cannot afford to spend the around $3,000 to birth at home, and that they cannot get any sort of rebate," she said.
"So their decision has then been that they're going to take it into their own hands.
"We have 60,000 births (per year) in Queensland — we have no publicly funded home birth program in Queensland at all.
"If even a small portion of these women decided to take it into their hands at the last minute, you are looking at a disaster really."
Ipswich woman Amy Kyson, who is pregnant with her second child, considered freebirthing — giving birth at home without medical staff present — because of the cost of homebirth.
In the end she loaned $4,000 to pay for a homebirth with two midwives. [...]
(8) During coronavirus hospital surge, a midwife recommends home birth
https://theconversation.com/during-coronavirus-hospital-surge-a-midwife-recommends-home-birth-133866
March 22, 2020 11.21pm AEDT
Manavi Handa
Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Ryerson University
For many health-care providers who worked through the 2003 SARS epidemic, especially in epicentres, like Toronto, the COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder of the many lessons health-care providers learned at that time. Social distancing measures are the most effective way to "flatten the curve" and minimize the spread of the epidemic.
However, as a midwife working in Toronto for over 20 years, I can also speak about another important lesson learned during SARS that is often forgotten or overlooked: the importance of home birth and the role of midwives during an epidemic.
There is ample evidence from high-income countries like Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to demonstrate the safety of home births for healthy people who have a trained midwife. In fact, research shows that home birth may even be beneficial in terms of rates of unnecessary interventions, complications and associated cost to the system.
The evidence is so compelling that in 2014, U.K.’s NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence — the main body responsible for setting guidelines for health care in the U.K. — recommended home births for all low-risk healthy pregnant people. Since the selection criteria for home birth is vitally important to safety, being a low-risk pregnant person is an important factor. For people with high blood pressure, diabetes, preterm labour and other health issues, home birth would not be the safest option.
However, despite these recommendations, mainstream perception has not greatly changed regarding hospital as the preferred place of birth for the large majority. The reasons for this are numerous and complicated, and highly related to social norms, preferences and perceptions of risk.
I have seen many news articles, targeted campaigns, TV shows and even movies supporting home births. But in all my 20 years as a regulated midwife, nothing in my recollection came close to changing people’s minds about place of birth than SARS.
For midwives, this was not necessarily surprising, as we know the safety of a home birth. But it was one of the first times mainstream public perception was greatly altered.
During a pandemic, people quickly remember that hospitals are, and should be, for sick people; that is, those needing medical care.
Ironically, however, in Canada and the U.S., health-care systems the No.
1 reason people are admitted to hospital is for childbirth.
During a pandemic it soon becomes apparent what a bad idea it is to have healthy women and newborns in the same places and spaces as those who are unwell, and increasingly so as more get infected.
Suddenly — our high tech, bells and whistles "for the normal" starts to seem like a really poor idea. In fact, research shows all those bells and whistles lead to more intervention — more episiotomies, more use of forceps and vacuum, and more severe vaginal tearing — with no better outcomes for either the pregnant woman or newborn.
As soon as that babe is here, it becomes even more apparent what a bad idea it is to have a vulnerable new human in a place with lots of sick people.
Home birth starts looking better every second.
I fully appreciate all the bells and whistles — when they are needed.
But, like many of my colleagues, I personally prefer a home birth for low-risk births with a healthy uncomplicated pregnancy and normal labour. Not just because it can be very beautiful — quiet, intimate, family oriented — but also because it is actually safer for healthy people — at least during a pandemic.
Although I could talk about the great benefits of home births in general, I’m specifically advocating for home births, or out-of-hospital births, during a pandemic. So, as our health resources and hospital beds become more scarce, I hope we remember the importance of home birth. [...]
(9) Scared of 'Covid Hospitals,' They're Giving Birth at Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/nyregion/coronavirus-home-births.html
Pregnant and Scared of 'Covid Hospitals,' They're Giving Birth at Home
Midwives are seeing a surge in demand from pregnant women who want to deliver their babies at home or in birthing centers.
By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura
April 21, 2020
With less than three weeks to go until her baby was due, Aziza Hasanova packed her bags and prepared for what she expected to be a relatively smooth delivery at a Brooklyn outpost of one of New York City's leading hospitals.
But as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the city, all her planning was suddenly thrown into disarray.
When she was 38 weeks pregnant, the hospital, N.Y.U. Langone in Brooklyn, canceled her last checkup, and Ms. Hasanova said a clerk at the hospital discouraged her from coming in because of the risks of being exposed to the surging number of patients infected with coronavirus.
Ms. Hasanova, who lives in Midwood, Brooklyn, grew anxious.
"I was really scared just to go to the hospital because for pregnant women it's very risky getting the virus," Ms. Hasanova said.
The solution she landed on seemed the only option so late in her
pregnancy: giving birth at home. Luckily, she found an available midwife.
As the pandemic has battered hospitals across New York and other parts of the country, there has been a sharp increase in demand for midwives who can deliver babies at home or in facilities that are not part of the traditional health care system.
"People are reconsidering their birth plans and doing whatever they need to avoid hospitals,''said Sarita Bennett, president of the Midwives Alliance of North America.
Jeanette Breen, a midwife for over three decades who delivered Ms.
Hasanova's baby, described her business as "a whirlwind of activity.
We're getting late transfers.''
"They don't want to be involved with Covid and they would feel much safer at home,''she added.
Ms. Breen, who is based on Long Island, said she helped eight women deliver in the first three months of this year. But in April, she has had more than 25 inquiries, she said, nearly all of them women who had initially planned hospital deliveries with doctors.
"It's not that they don't want to be in hospitals; it's that they don't want to be in a Covid hospital," said a midwife in a recent Zoom meeting of New York City midwives.
On Monday, the Cuomo administration announced the creation of a panel to find ways to quickly authorize free standing birthing centers as alternatives to hospitals.
"Birth centers can serve as a safe alternative for low-risk pregnancies — relieving the strain on hospitals and providing a supportive environment for mothers during an already stressful time,'' said Melissa DeRosa, the top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. [...]
(10) Less likely to have C-sections, often have shorter labor
https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Pediatricians-update-home-birth-rules-as-woman-perceive-coronavirus-risk-with-hospital-births-569786761.html
Pediatricians update home birth rules as some women seek to avoid hospitals amid coronavirus
Updated: Mon 10:59 AM, Apr 20, 2020
(CNN) - As nurse-midwives report increasing interest in home births, pediatricians are releasing new guidelines.
Recent studies have found pregnant women don't have a higher risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19. Despite that, many expectant mothers are concerned about encountering sick people inside a hospital.
So the American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines for planned home births.
The guidelines say pregnant women are considered eligible for home births if they have no pre-existing diseases, including diabetes or high blood pressure.
The AAP also recommends that the best home birth candidates are carrying only one fetus and are at least 37 weeks pregnant.
On the positive side of home births, women are less likely to have C-sections and often have shorter labor.
But there can be increased risks for the baby. If there's an emergency, response times can be longer because of the pandemic.
Some doctors argue it's safer now to have a baby in a hospital because of COVID-19. But if the updated guidelines are an indicator, planned home births may become more common.
(11) The coronavirus can cause permanent damage to the whole body
https://www.mbs.news/c/2020/04/the-coronavirus-can-cause-permanent-damage-to-the-whole-body.html
April 19, 202001
For a world battling the new coronavirus (COVID-19), it is becoming increasingly clear that even when the pandemic is over, it won’t really end.
Doctors are already beginning to worry that the same may be true for patients who have survived COVID-19.
For the most ill patients, infection with the new coronavirus is an attack on the whole body which causes damage beyond the lungs. And even after patients who became ill had recovered and cleared the virus, doctors began to see evidence of prolonged effects of infection.
In a study published this week and cited by the Los Angeles Times, scientists in China examined the results of blood tests on 34 patients with COVID-19 during their hospitalization. For those who have experienced both mild and severe illness, researchers find that many of the biological readings "failed to return to normal".
Chief among the worrying results of the study were the data that showed that these visibly recovered patients continue to have impaired liver function. This was the case even after two live virus tests turned negative and patients could be discharged.
At the same time, while cardiologists struggle with immediate ones effects of COVID-19 on the heart, they ask what part of the damage can be long lasting. In an initial study of patients with COVID-19 in China heart failure was observed in almost 12% of survivors, including some that showed no evidence of respiratory problems.
When the lungs do a poor job of supplying oxygen to the body, the heart can be severely stressed and may weaken. This is enough for a disease that usually causes breathing problems. But when even those without respiratory problems have heart damage, doctors should wonder whether they underestimated the ability of COVID-19 to cause permanent damage.
"COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disorder," says Dr. Harlan Krumholtz, a cardiologist at Yale University, adding: "It can affect the heart, liver, kidney, brain, endocrine and circulatory system. "
There are no long-term survivors of this brand new disease. Even its first casualties in China are just over three months from the end of the ordeal they went through. And doctors are too busy treating seriously ill patients to closely monitor the progress of people around the world known to have recovered from COVID-19.
Doctors are still worried that upon recovery, some organs whose function has been disabled will not recover quickly or completely. This can leave patients more vulnerable for months or years to come.
"I think that there will be long-term consequences", said Yale cardiologist Dr. Joseph Brennan, and warned:" I don’t really know that.
Hello this disease is so overwhelming" that some of the recoveries may be facing continuing health problems.
Another question that may take years to answer is whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 can be available in the sleeping state in the body for years and to be activated later in different form.
(12) Coronavirus harms the brain & nervous system - stumbling, slurred speech and seizures
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8208417/In-half-severe-cases-COVID-19-affect-brain-nervous-too.html
Coronavirus 'harms the brain and nervous system of HALF of severely ill patients and a third of all cases' — causing symptoms such as stumbling, slurred speech and seizures
Neurologists studied 214 patients treated for coronavirus in Wuhan, China Of these people, 36.4 per cent were found to have brain and nerve symptoms Identifying these symptoms could help doctors identify higher-risk patients Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID
By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 01:04 AEST, 11 April 2020 | UPDATED: 01:26 AEST, 11 April 2020
Coronavirus harms the brain and nervous system of half of severely ill patients, a study on patients with COVID-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan has found.
Such impacts — which appear in a third of patients overall — lead to symptoms including headaches, stumbling, slurred speech, nerve pain and seizures.
The study — the first to characterise the brain problems associated with coronavirus infection — suggest that these symptoms could indicate patients at a higher risk.
In the study, neurologist Bo Hu of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and colleagues analysed 214 patients with COVID-19 from Wuhan, China, the city where the outbreak emerged, between mid-January and mid-February.
The patients were all treated in one of three dedicated special care centres in the university's Union Hospital.
The experts sorted neurological symptoms into one of three categories, the first of which was central nervous system manifestations — including dizziness, headache, impaired consciousness, acute cerebrovascular disease, ataxia and seizure.
The other categories were peripheral nervous system manifestations (taste impairment, smell impairment, vision impairment and nerve pain) and skeletal muscular injury manifestations.
'Overall, 78 patients (36.4 per cent) had neurologic manifestations,'
the researchers wrote in their paper.
'Compared with patients with non-severe infection, patients with severe infection were older, had more underlying disorders, especially hypertension, and showed fewer typical symptoms of COVID-19, such as fever and cough,' they added.
'Patients with more severe infection had neurologic manifestations, such as acute cerebrovascular diseases (5 vs 1), impaired consciousness (13 vs 3) and skeletal muscle injury (17 vs 6).'
'During the epidemic period of COVID-19, when seeing patients with neurologic manifestations, clinicians should suspect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection as a differential diagnosis,' the researchers said.
This, they added, will avoid delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis and losing the chance to treat [the patients] and prevent further transmission.'
'The observations of neurological complications in a subset of COVID-19 positive patients is worthy of note but should not distract from a focus on the main pathology of respiratory distress,' commented virologist Ian Jones of the University of Reading.
'Almost half of the patients described here had underlying health issues and there is no direct data given on the presence of virus at neurological sites.'
'Viraemia, the presence of virus in the bloodstream, from where it can access neuronal tissue, was described for SARS but not in all patients and then only transiently. It happens, but is generally not what coronaviruses do.'
'At the moment neurological complications might best be considered a consequence of COVID-19 disease severity rather than a distinct new concern.'
The full findings of the study were published in the journal JAMA Neurology. [...]
