Anonymous ID: 8b1ec3 Jan. 2, 2022, 7:05 p.m. No.15299014   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9043 >>9059 >>9068 >>9110 >>9401 >>9509 >>9577 >>9581

Nurse wakes from 28-day Covid coma after medics give her VIAGRA: Asthmatic double-jabbed mother-of-two was just three days from having ventilator turned off

 

A nurse who spent 28 days in a Covid coma fighting for her life has been saved after medics gave her Viagra as part of an experimental treatment regime .

 

Double-jabbed asthmatic mother-of-two Monica Almeida, 37, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was admitted to hospital on November 9 after testing positive for coronavirus on October 31.

 

She was moved to intensive care a week later before doctors put her into an induced coma on November 16.

 

Mrs Almeida says they were just three days away from having her ventilator turned off when her condition started to improve and she woke up on December 14.

 

When she woke up doctors at Lincoln County Hospital revealed they had given her a large dose of viagra as part of an experimental treatment regime that she agreed to before going into a coma.

 

The erectile dysfunction drug enables greater blood flow to all areas of the body by relaxing the walls of blood vessels, and Mrs Almeida says it caused her condition to improve in just a week and the level of oxygen she needed to drop by half as it opened up her airways.

 

More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362771/Nurse-wakes-28-day-Covid-coma-medics-VIAGRA.html

Anonymous ID: 8b1ec3 Jan. 2, 2022, 7:09 p.m. No.15299046   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9057 >>9401 >>9509 >>9522 >>9577

Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64

 

The Center Square) – The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

 

“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

 

OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.

 

Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

 

“And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.

 

“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

 

Davison was one of several business leaders who spoke during the virtual news conference on Dec. 30 that was organized by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

 

Most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as COVID-19 deaths, Davison said.

 

“What the data is showing to us is that the deaths that are being reported as COVID deaths greatly understate the actual death losses among working-age people from the pandemic. It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers.”

 

More at: https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-are-up-40-among-people-ages-18-64/article_71473b12-6b1e-11ec-8641-5b2c06725e2c.html

Anonymous ID: 8b1ec3 Jan. 2, 2022, 7:14 p.m. No.15299073   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9104 >>9401 >>9466 >>9482 >>9509 >>9577

Are some people naturally Covid-proof? Scientists around the world are studying the phenomenon of health workers and others who are regularly exposed to the disease but have yet to become infected

 

It's a common yet curious tale: a household hit by Covid, but one family member never tests positive or gets so much as a sniffle.

 

Meanwhile there are those who have had Covid and been double-jabbed and boosted, yet still pick up the virus again.

 

As infections continue to soar in the new Omicron wave – an astonishing one in 25 people in England have Covid, according to Office for National Statistics data – cases of people who managed to stay free of the infection become ever more remarkable. Is it sheer luck? Some kind of superpower?

 

Now scientists may have an answer: there is mounting evidence that some people are naturally Covid-resistant.

 

For reasons not fully understood, it's thought that these people were already immune to the Covid virus, and they remain so even as it mutates.

 

The phenomenon is now the subject of intense research across the world.

 

Experts hope that by studying these lucky individuals, they might unlock clues that will help them create a variant-proof vaccine that could keep Covid at bay for ever.

 

In America and Brazil, researchers are looking at potential genetic variations that might make certain people impervious to the infection.

 

And at University College London (UCL), scientists are studying blood samples from hundreds of healthcare staff who – seemingly against all odds – avoided catching the virus.

 

More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10360873/Mounting-evidence-suggests-people-naturally-Covid-resistant-virus-mutates.html

Anonymous ID: 8b1ec3 Jan. 2, 2022, 7:28 p.m. No.15299170   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9227 >>9270 >>9401 >>9509 >>9577

Influenza vaccine effectiveness in the community and the household

 

Abstract

Background: There is a recognized need to determine influenza vaccine effectiveness on an annual basis and a long history of studying respiratory illnesses in households.

 

Methods: We recruited 328 households with 1441 members, including 839 children, and followed them during the 2010-2011 influenza season. Specimens were collected from subjects with reported acute respiratory illnesses and tested by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Receipt of influenza vaccine was defined based on documented evidence of vaccination in medical records or an immunization registry. The effectiveness of 2010-2011 influenza vaccination in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza was estimated using Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age and presence of high-risk condition, and stratified by prior season (2009-2010) vaccination status.

 

Results: Influenza was identified in 78 (24%) households and 125 (9%) individuals; the infection risk was 8.5% in the vaccinated and 8.9% in the unvaccinated (P = .83). Adjusted vaccine effectiveness in preventing community-acquired influenza was 31% (95% confidence interval [CI], -7% to 55%). In vaccinated subjects with no evidence of prior season vaccination, significant protection (62% [95% CI, 17%-82%]) against community-acquired influenza was demonstrated. Substantially lower effectiveness was noted among subjects who were vaccinated in both the current and prior season. There was no evidence that vaccination prevented household transmission once influenza was introduced; adults were at particular risk despite vaccination.

 

Conclusions: Vaccine effectiveness estimates were lower than those demonstrated in other observational studies carried out during the same season. The unexpected findings of lower effectiveness with repeated vaccination and no protection given household exposure require further study.

 

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23413420/