Editor’s note: I hesitated to post this, knowing everyone has made up their mind about Covid-19, or Covid-1984 as it should be known (the China Virus). What intrigued me is the depth of detail regarding the many different aspects of this disease. I might suggest scanning it, believe what you know to be true, and consider some of the points the author has made. I did NOT post this with the intention of changing anyone’s mind, because everyone’s mind is already made up as to whether it is real, or a government conspiracy, or simply a crisis to be utilized by TPTB (mine included). Having said this, about 1/3 the way through the article there are some great non-vaccine therapies, including Ivermectin, Resveratol, HCQ, etc that are discussed as preventatives/treatments, which are difficult to find elsewhere. Note: the author also discusses the different existing vaccines and the risks of each. Our family will not, under any circumstances, be taking any mRNA vaccine EVER, but this is only our opinion and not intended to be medical advice, as none of us have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express in recent history.
CORONAVIRUS GUIDE
A WORK IN PROGRESS
LEO GALLAND, M.D.
February 18, 2021
Approval of vaccines for prevention of Covid-19 is generating enthusiasm and pushback. I’ve summarized my present thoughts about the vaccines toward the end of this guide in THERAPEUTIC PROFILES. New mutations of the virus that causes Covid-19 are generating concern because they are increasingly more contagious and may be less responsive to existing vaccines. They are discussed in the sections on IMMUNITY, CORONAVIRUS BIOLOGY and MAKING SENSE OF THE MUTATIONS. As with everything else about Covid-19, the story is dynamic and may change with new information.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the world to a standstill for 3 reasons:
- It is highly contagious, spreading readily within groups of people[1].
- Covid-19 is often spread by people who have no symptoms[2] or have just developed very mild symptoms[3] [4].The CDC has concluded that 59% of cases have been infected by someone who was asymptomatic[5].
- Although 80% of infected people experience a trivial illness or have no symptoms at all, about 3.5% develop a catastrophic disease requiring hospitalization and intensive care, which is associated with severe complications. In the New York metro area, during the first 5 weeks of the pandemic, the mortality rate for hospitalized patients in the Northwell Health system was 21%; 12% received invasive mechanical ventilation, and 3% required kidney transplantation[6]. By late summer 2020, the hospital mortality rate for Covid-19 had dropped to 7.6%[7] , which is still high (discussed below in RATES, at the end of this guide). In early December, 2020, Covid-19 became the leading cause of death in the United States. It is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. for the year 2020, and is likely to continue in that same position during 2021, whatever changes are created by mass vaccination. These numbers are not inflated. During 2020, the total number of deaths in the U.S. was 12% higher than it had been in 2019. More than 80% of those excess deaths occurred in people with Covid-19 and the others appear to be deaths from chronic conditions like heart disease that went under-treated because of the pandemic. As of this writing, about 1 in every 800 people in the U.S. has died of Covid-19.
Unusual and mysterious manifestations of Covid-19 are increasingly common. Many people who recover from the acute illness are left with symptoms that last for weeks or months and may fluctuate from day to day. Covid-19 is clearly not just a bad case of the flu. Heart failure, circulatory problems, blood clots, digestive disorders, neurological and psychiatric symptoms, and autoimmune diseases may complicate Covid-19. People who have recovered from the infection often show long term deficits in cognitive function, even after relatively mild disease[8].
I began posting this guide to Covid-19 in February 2020, to organize my research into the emerging science and to cut through the deluge of false information on the Internet and the misleading information being repeated in news cycles. I have updated it periodically, as new data and new perspectives emerged. My goal is to help you make informed decisions for protecting your health and the health of those you care about and to be able to critically evaluate breaking news. I have been asked hundreds of questions about Covid-19 over the past year and have attempted to include all the answers in this document.
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