(H)CQ and radiation sickness patent.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050014785A1/en

The methods described herein generally involve the administration of effective amounts ofchloroquine compounds and/or chloroquine like compounds for the treatment and/ore prevention of DNA damage related disorders. The term “DNA damage related disorders” include, but are not limited to, cancer, aging, disorders caused by damage to DNA due to exposure to carcinogens, toxins, free radicals, like oxygen radical, or DNA damaging radiations like ionizing radiation and UV radiation. The chloroquine compounds are also useful for prevention of tissue injury resulting from ischemia, such as that which occurs following myocardial infarction or stroke. The effects of the chloroquine compounds used in the methods described herein include systemic, local, and topical effects. It is preferred that the effects of the chloroquine compounds in the methods described herein are systemic.

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In one embodiment, the chloroquine compounds are used as prophylactics to prevent DNA damage related disorders. The chloroquine compounds are useful in the prevention of cancers caused by toxins, carcinogens, DNA damaging radiations, and/or genetic mutations. For example, chloroquine compounds are useful in the prevention of cancers caused by exposure to toxins and carcinogens like aromatic hydrocarbons, cigarette smoke, acetyl amino fluorine, MTBE, etc. Also, chloroquine compounds are useful in prevention of cancers caused by DNA damaging radiations like UV and ionizing radiation. The ionizing radiations includes both natural and therapeutic radiation exposures. Examples of ionizing radiations are X-rays for diagnostics and radiation therapy used for tumors and unintended exposure to radiation as an act of terrorism or war. …

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Status = "abandoned".

Have to read the claims at the end to see what the patent application really covered.

Typically a patent application gets abandoned if the applicant can't prove it's patentable for various reasons during the back-and-forth prosecution process with the patent office.

>>>/qresearch/10313913

COVID Health Information

The Center for Infectious Medicine in Sweden and ~25 contributory doctors and scientists have published an extraordinary paper affirming “robust t-cell immunity” after mild exposure to coronavirus, blasting the whispers of potential resurgence. Happy to share the paper if desired.

New York yesterday had five fatalities (the entire state, not just the city). The positivity rate on testing is 0.83%, what statistician call “the same thing as zero.” Interestingly testing is still going up, which a part of me hopes is just because asymptomatic people are getting super duper sure they are clear as school and post-Labor Day work life draws closer.

With all of the talk of New York (because of its role in March/April’s peak level of distress) and the FACT states (because of the summer increase in cases), has led to many other geographies being somewhat ignored. Massachusetts General Hospital has 1,000 inpatient beds. 14 are currently being used for COVID patients, 1 in ICU – (one). There are two hospitalizations right now in suburban Cook County, IL.

The quadrant here is back for a day (it came Friday) but the chief economist at the firm who creates it is on a two-week vacation so just did this as a one-off. As he points out, total cases actually collapsing everywhere, and would show as much even more dramatically if it weren’t for California’s inexplicable data issues last week. That reporting backlog “catch-ups” pollute present data is perhaps one of the major events of all this I am most mortified by – simply no excuse for it in a country as modernized and capable as ours.

To present as clear and succinct of a summary as possible for everyone:

Cases are way down (though that is not very important to our national health or economic well-being)

Positivity ratio is way down

Hospitalizations are way down (down 10% week-over-week; down 20% last two weeks)

Mortalities are way down (down 9% week-over-week)

https://thebahnsengroup.com/covid-and-markets/daily-covid-markets-missive-weekend-edition-august-16/

>>>/qresearch/10317412

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/texass-record-high-covid-positivity-rate-falls-after-data-experts-investigate/287-ffc19167-0d47-4be9-8c06-8648229288ef?

CORONAVIRUS

Texas officials say record-high COVID-19 positivity rate was caused by coding errors, system upgrades

The state says coding errors from two labs and a system upgrade on Aug. 1 caused an artificial 24.5% positivity rate. The rate dropped to 16% Thursday and Friday.

by Teresa Woodard, August 14, 2020

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday the Texas Department of State Health Services had brought in a “data team” to determine why the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests spiked to record levels in the first two weeks of August, reaching 24.5% on Wednesday.

The positivity rate is the percentage of COVID tests that come back positive. The higher the percentage, the more alarming to public health experts.

Abbott has previously said he would consider a positivity rate of above 10% a red flag for spread of the coronavirus in Texas.

When he announced the reopening of Texas in late April, after a month-long shutdown of many businesses, the positivity rate was around 5%.

It steadily increased from mid-June through mid-July, reaching a high of 17.4% on July 16, then decreasing to 12% by the end of the month.

But on August 1, the positivity rate began a rapid two-week ascent.

DSHS press officer Lara Anton said the data experts discovered that a computer upgrade performed Aug. 1 meant multiple positives were uploaded to the state’s lab reporting system.

The data experts also discovered coding errors from one hospital lab and one commercial lab in the state.

Once those errors were resolved, tests from those sites were uploaded.

The resulting artificially high positivity rate could have been troubling for businesses.

Abbott said Thursday the positivity rate needed to “go back below 10% for a sustained period of time,” before he would consider reopening additional businesses.

The positivity rate fell to 16% Thursday and remained there on Friday.

The governor also said a decrease in demand for testing across the state has impacted the positivity rate.

When only people who feel sick are getting tested, the percentage of positives is likely to be higher.

According to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, most testing sites in the county are seeing fewer people.

He said Eastfield College is averaging about 200 tests per day – far below its 500-test capacity.

Capacity at Ellis Davis Field House is 1,000 per day and that hasn’t been met in a while, Jenkins said.

Dallas County Director of Health and Human Services Dr. Phillip Huang said he’s not surprised by data processing issues being experienced by public health tracking systems.

“We are still dealing with paper faxes of lab data and lab reports - hundreds of those a day that we’re having to deal with,” Huang said.

“The systems have not really been designed to handle this many numbers,” he said. “It’s an unprecedented situation we’re dealing with.”

According to Anton, the state expects the positivity rate to “generally be higher until testing demand increases and the backlog of cases smooth out.”

She did not give a timeline for when that might happen.

Huang said it is important to focus on trends from multiple data points, like hospitalizations and ER visits as well as the positivity rate.

“Data shows us what’s going on in our community - the spread, which populations it is affecting, what geographic areas are being most affected - all those things rely on the data,” he said.

“There’s not going to be perfect data, but we need to get as good clean data as we can.”