1.Q/A on How to Fix COVID-19 Testing with Dr. Michael Mina: Cheap, At Home, Rapid Antigen Tests
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Dr. Michael Mina from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health answers questions about how cheap (approx. $1), at-home, COVID-19 tests (results in 15 minutes) could be utilized to dramatically slow the spread of this pandemic (and open up schools etc. in a faster and safer way).
Dr. Mina's research has shown that the sensitivity of these simple saliva paper antigen tests (the technology already exists) is high enough to detect the vast majority of infectious COVID-19 and could be utilized frequently at home.
Article featuring Dr. Mina's ideas published in Harvard Magazine on August 3, 2020
Dr. Mina's New York Times article about a new COVID-19 testing paradigm:
Dr. Mina's research paper (pre-print):
Michael Mina, MD, Ph.D.'s bio:
Follow Dr. Mina on Twitter:
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2. Ivermectin Gastroenterologist Professor Thomas Borody says Ivermectin used in conjunction with two other drugs is making it look like “corona is very simple to kill”. Dr. Borody’s general approach, discussed in his other interviews, makes a lot of sense to me. When a positive reading occurs they give everyone in the vicinity ["on the block"] a course of treatment utilizing Ivermectin. Then, those who were infected would have been given the effects equivalent of an immediate fire extinguisher type of counteraction and those not infected would have suffered no harm. [I, have often wondered if that approach had been taken to nursing homes --where all of the patient’s, staff, visitors could have received the treatment --whether the terrible death toll could have been avoided.]
Australian develops effective Triple Therapy to treat COVID-19 06 August 2020 |
Australian Professor: Ivermectin 'Amazingly Successful' in Killing Coronavirus
By Tauren Dyson |
An Australian drug known as Ivermectin, which is already in use throughout the world to treat parasitic conditions, is showing great results in killing coronavirus in studies involving patients, according to Sky News.
"Because I'm involved in developing these in the U.S. where all the patients are, there are a number of studies that are amazingly successful. We're talking close to 100%. In fact, we haven't seen a result yet under 100%. It looks like corona is very simple to kill," Professor Thomas Borody, medical director of Australia's Center for Digestive Disease. "It's available as a prescription medication. You wouldn't use it alone ... but you add two other things to it such as doxycycline and zinc."
Ivermectin is already approved by the FDA and is on the World Health Organization's list of model list of essential medicines.
"We had a 14-hospital trial in Bangladesh. We got [cured] 100 out of 100. In China, they tried to reproduce it. They got 60 out of 60 cured ... So I am behind the Ivermectin, doxycycline, zinc treatment because it has very few side effects and is a real killer of coronavirus," Borody said.
Borody said the Ivermectin tablet could cost as little as $2. He also suggested that to have a cure for the disease easily would do away with the need for people to be hospitalized.
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3. From HARVEY A. RISCH, MD, PHD , PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH …."The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists[ hydroxychloroquine]. We Need to Start Using It “
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines.
As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly.I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.
On May 27, I published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) entitled, "Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis." That article, published in the world's leading epidemiology journal, analyzed five studies, demonstrating clear-cut and significant benefits to treated patients, plus other very large studies that showed the medication safety.
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