That first part of the title comes at the end of this post at PJ Media about what most of the public may not know because not much of it is coming out in the MSM. I’ve known about most of them but this post encapsulates most of the information that the evening news just skips over. I’m going to condense / bullet point each.
Before I do, however, I’ve been telling TMEW most nights when she watches the MSM evening news and gets upset with the “rising COVID rates:
- There’s a lot more testing going on – that is a lot of the rise being reported
- The protesting didn’t help to keep the rise down.
- The CDC is now admitting that the actual infection rates may be 10 to 20 times what has been talked about
- Yes, some States ICU bed utilization are going higher (like to 90%). Sorry, but in some places, that’s just a bit over average. What entity is going to spend millions of dollars just to have unused capacity sitting around day after day. ANY company is going to do the “just enough” capacity planning over the long term. You want that equipment being utilized at least often enough to pay for itself and get a reasonable ROI on the investment (otherwise, that money is just wasted).
- Because of that, the IMPORTANT numbers aren’t the infection rate, it is the Hospitalization Rate and the Death Rates that need to be watched.
After all, the lockdowns were supposed to “flatten the curve” so as to not overwhelm the system like what happened in Italy. We succeeded in that here in the US. We’ve also proved that if we need more medical resources, we can “surge” them (even as we didn’t need them the first time).
Back to the article (reformatted, emphasis mine):
- Many commentators have noted that rising case numbers are not necessarily a reason to sound the alarm. The fear with COVID-19 was always of overwhelming the hospital system. The correct numbers to look at are COVID-19 hospitalizations, the percent of positive tests, and the age breakdown for severe disease.
- people who are testing positive do not appear to be getting as sick as they did earlier in the pandemic…positive case rate was about one in 400
- improved treatment protocols and some success with Remdisivir and other medications. Effective treatment is in addition to some success protecting the elderly and a much younger patient load testing positive.
- Hydroxychloroquine – He only looked at studies where the treatment was given early in the onset and found it was effective. Specifically, he recommended it be given in the first five or six days of symptoms, especially to those over 60 or with a preexisting condition…Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy.
- For every one person confirmed, serology for antibodies indicated ten had had it. Establishing this infection rate is a game-changing finding.
- The U.K. reported excellent results with the generic, inexpensive drug dexamethasone. This finding confirms the work done by Dr. Thomas Yadegar at Providence Cedars-Sinai. An overactive immune system response that can be addressed with corticosteroids and other immune suppressants is what is making some patients severely ill. Clinical protocols to treat this syndrome, a cytokine storm, already exist and need to be widely communicated to clinicians.
We blogged about this last point early on where it seemed that the virus was releasing the ferrite (iron) molecule from hemoglobin. That ferrite is responsible for carrying oxygen through your body – eliminate it and that O2 transfer system breaks down with resulting low O2 levels all over the body with no signs of other distress (at least for a bit). The released ferrite then becomes a free radical and the immune system attempts to fix the damage but ends up in that cytokine storm that attacks EVERYTHING.
So the question is, how much have you heard that I haven’t on improved treatments and drug trials (I’m not touching the vaccine efforts as of yet)?