Villain
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Faulty test for the virus that’s so dangerous you have to be tested to even know you have it. Quit the damn fear mongering, it’s seriously embarrassing.
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Can touching a barbell in the gym get you sick with the coronavirus?
- Thread starter Michael Scally MD
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Faulty test for the virus that’s so dangerous you have to be tested to even know you have it. Quit the damn fear mongering, it’s seriously embarrassing.
CDC’s current best estimates on Infection Fatality Rates
Scenario 5: Current Best Estimate
R0* 2.0 4.0 2.5
Infection Fatality Ratio† 0-19 years: 0.00002
20-49 years: 0.00007
50-69 years: 0.0025
70+ years: 0.028 0-19 years: 0.0001
20-49 years: 0.0003
50-69 years: 0.010
70+ years: 0.093 0-19 years: 0.00003
20-49 years: 0.0002
50-69 years: 0.005
70+ years: 0.054
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The chart on the CDC link is easier to read than what I posted
Scenario 5: Current Best Estimate
R0* 2.0 4.0 2.5
Infection Fatality Ratio† 0-19 years: 0.00002
20-49 years: 0.00007
50-69 years: 0.0025
70+ years: 0.028 0-19 years: 0.0001
20-49 years: 0.0003
50-69 years: 0.010
70+ years: 0.093 0-19 years: 0.00003
20-49 years: 0.0002
50-69 years: 0.005
70+ years: 0.054
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The chart on the CDC link is easier to read than what I posted
Skard
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Yes, this has been reported recently.
Basically a 99+ % survival rate for everyone except those over 70, for which it is something like 95%.
So all of us here who called bullshit on this scam last spring were RIGHT, and the ass-lickers were WRONG.
And some diaper loads are still trying to push this crap.
Trump's COVID-19 treatment :
Villain
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Interesting
[OA] Managing Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Testicular Germ Cell Tumour In A COVID-19-Positive Patient
Case Presentation
A 17‐year‐old young man with history of a congenital solitary left testis presented to our clinic in late April 2020 with left testicular swelling and discomfort over the preceding few weeks. The patient denied unintentional weight loss or nipple tenderness but reported new, mild left‐sided back discomfort. His medical history was notable for asthma and a congenitally absent right testis for which he underwent negative surgical exploration in childhood. Family history was negative for testicular cancer or cryptorchidism.
Given the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, which at the time of his initial presentation yielded over 2500 new cases and 300 deaths per day in New York City alone, the initial consultation was conducted by telemedicine and physical examination was not performed.
A scrotal ultrasound was obtained demonstrating a 4.2 × 3.3 × 2.4 cm vascular hypoechoic neoplasm of the left testis (Fig. 1). Serum tumour markers were elevated with an α‐fetoprotein (AFP) of 63.4 ng/mL (reference range 0–6.1 ng/mL), hCG of 5,215.5 mIU/mL (reference range 0–2.2 mIU/mL), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) of 469 U/L (reference range 130–250 U/L), consistent with a diagnosis of non‐seminomatous germ cell tumour (NSGCT).
CT of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis demonstrated bulky para‐aortic lymphadenopathy of 8 cm in largest dimension, without evidence of visceral metastasis (Fig. 2). Left radical orchidectomy with preoperative sperm banking was recommended. However, semen analysis demonstrated azoospermia on multiple samples, so ex vivo testicular sperm extraction (TESE) at the time of orchidectomy was planned.
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The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic has introduced unique barriers to the timely treatment of patients with cancer. Multiple series have reported an increased risk of surgical morbidity and mortality amongst COVID‐19‐positive patients [1, 2]. Although an alternate management strategy with deferred surgery was available in the case presented, it carried significant implications for systemic treatment burden and future fertility.
Without an urgent indication to initiate systemic therapy immediately, we were able to wait until the patient tested COVID‐19 negative before proceeding with radical orchidectomy and TESE, followed by induction chemotherapy for IGCCCG good‐risk disease. The management considerations raised by this case highlight the value of multidisciplinary care and the unique challenges that the COVID‐19 pandemic has introduced for cancer care.
Almassi N, Mulhall JP, Funt SA, Sheinfeld J. ‘Case of the Month’ from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA: managing newly diagnosed metastatic testicular germ cell tumour in a COVID-19-positive patient. BJU International 2020;126:333-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.15157
Case Presentation
A 17‐year‐old young man with history of a congenital solitary left testis presented to our clinic in late April 2020 with left testicular swelling and discomfort over the preceding few weeks. The patient denied unintentional weight loss or nipple tenderness but reported new, mild left‐sided back discomfort. His medical history was notable for asthma and a congenitally absent right testis for which he underwent negative surgical exploration in childhood. Family history was negative for testicular cancer or cryptorchidism.
Given the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, which at the time of his initial presentation yielded over 2500 new cases and 300 deaths per day in New York City alone, the initial consultation was conducted by telemedicine and physical examination was not performed.
A scrotal ultrasound was obtained demonstrating a 4.2 × 3.3 × 2.4 cm vascular hypoechoic neoplasm of the left testis (Fig. 1). Serum tumour markers were elevated with an α‐fetoprotein (AFP) of 63.4 ng/mL (reference range 0–6.1 ng/mL), hCG of 5,215.5 mIU/mL (reference range 0–2.2 mIU/mL), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) of 469 U/L (reference range 130–250 U/L), consistent with a diagnosis of non‐seminomatous germ cell tumour (NSGCT).
CT of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis demonstrated bulky para‐aortic lymphadenopathy of 8 cm in largest dimension, without evidence of visceral metastasis (Fig. 2). Left radical orchidectomy with preoperative sperm banking was recommended. However, semen analysis demonstrated azoospermia on multiple samples, so ex vivo testicular sperm extraction (TESE) at the time of orchidectomy was planned.
…
The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic has introduced unique barriers to the timely treatment of patients with cancer. Multiple series have reported an increased risk of surgical morbidity and mortality amongst COVID‐19‐positive patients [1, 2]. Although an alternate management strategy with deferred surgery was available in the case presented, it carried significant implications for systemic treatment burden and future fertility.
Without an urgent indication to initiate systemic therapy immediately, we were able to wait until the patient tested COVID‐19 negative before proceeding with radical orchidectomy and TESE, followed by induction chemotherapy for IGCCCG good‐risk disease. The management considerations raised by this case highlight the value of multidisciplinary care and the unique challenges that the COVID‐19 pandemic has introduced for cancer care.
Almassi N, Mulhall JP, Funt SA, Sheinfeld J. ‘Case of the Month’ from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA: managing newly diagnosed metastatic testicular germ cell tumour in a COVID-19-positive patient. BJU International 2020;126:333-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.15157
[OA] Gender Differences in Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus.
Social distancing and hygiene practices are key to preventing the spread of Coronavirus. However, people vary in the degree to which they follow these practices. Consistent with previous findings that women adhere more to preventative health practices,
in Study 1, women reported engaging in preventative practices regarding COVID-19 (e.g., social distancing, hygiene) more so than men.
In Study 2, across three different Northeast U.S. locations, we observed a greater percentage of women wearing masks in public than men.
In Study 3, U.S. counties with a greater percentage of women exhibited a higher reduction in movement as tracked by ~17 million GPS smart-phone coordinates.
These findings may partly explain the greater infection rates among men and suggest that preventive health messages should be tuned towards men.
Olcaysoy Okten, I., Gollwitzer, A., & Oettingen, G. (2020, June 10). Gender Differences in Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ch4jy
Social distancing and hygiene practices are key to preventing the spread of Coronavirus. However, people vary in the degree to which they follow these practices. Consistent with previous findings that women adhere more to preventative health practices,
in Study 1, women reported engaging in preventative practices regarding COVID-19 (e.g., social distancing, hygiene) more so than men.
In Study 2, across three different Northeast U.S. locations, we observed a greater percentage of women wearing masks in public than men.
In Study 3, U.S. counties with a greater percentage of women exhibited a higher reduction in movement as tracked by ~17 million GPS smart-phone coordinates.
These findings may partly explain the greater infection rates among men and suggest that preventive health messages should be tuned towards men.
Olcaysoy Okten, I., Gollwitzer, A., & Oettingen, G. (2020, June 10). Gender Differences in Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ch4jy
[OA] COVID-19 Infection in Men on Testosterone Replacement Therapy
Men who contract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) appear to have worse clinical outcomes compared to women which raises the possibility of androgen dependent effects. We sought to determine if testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is associated with worse clinical outcomes.
Through a retrospective chart review, we identified 32 men diagnosed with COVID-19 and on TRT. They were propensity score matched to 63 men diagnosed with COVID-19 and not on TRT. Data regarding comorbidities and endpoints such as hospital admission, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, ventilator utilization, thromboembolic events, and death were extracted.
Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis tests examined differences in categorical and continuous variables, respectively. Logistic regression analysis tested the relationship between TRT status and the study endpoints.
There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups and TRT was not a predictor of any of the endpoints on multivariate analysis. These results suggest that TRT is not associated with a worse clinical outcome in men diagnosed with COVID-19.
Rambhatla A, Bronkema CJ, Corsi N, et al. COVID-19 Infection in Men on Testosterone Replacement Therapy. The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Redirecting
Men who contract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) appear to have worse clinical outcomes compared to women which raises the possibility of androgen dependent effects. We sought to determine if testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is associated with worse clinical outcomes.
Through a retrospective chart review, we identified 32 men diagnosed with COVID-19 and on TRT. They were propensity score matched to 63 men diagnosed with COVID-19 and not on TRT. Data regarding comorbidities and endpoints such as hospital admission, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, ventilator utilization, thromboembolic events, and death were extracted.
Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis tests examined differences in categorical and continuous variables, respectively. Logistic regression analysis tested the relationship between TRT status and the study endpoints.
There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups and TRT was not a predictor of any of the endpoints on multivariate analysis. These results suggest that TRT is not associated with a worse clinical outcome in men diagnosed with COVID-19.
Rambhatla A, Bronkema CJ, Corsi N, et al. COVID-19 Infection in Men on Testosterone Replacement Therapy. The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Redirecting
[OA] Interplay Between Male Testosterone Levels and The Risk for Subsequent Invasive Respiratory Assistance Among COVID-19
A growing body of evidence has demonstrated higher age, male sex, and medical comorbidity as risk factors for COVID-19 mortality [1]. In particular, male sex, and older age were found to be significant determinants for severe SARS-CoV-2 phenotype supporting the hypothesis that hormonal constitution may be an etiology for both COVID-19 susceptibility and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) development.
Moreover, differences between male and female immune responses is well known establishing that genetics and sex hormones are important for the immunogenic sex-bias [2].
Higher serum total testosterone (TT) levels are associated with an immunosuppressive role on different components of the immune cell-mediated response [3]. Pozzilli et al. [4] hypothesized a role for TT in the clinical course of the SARS-CoV-2 leading to multiorgan failure.
We aimed to evaluate whether serum TT levels among a cohort of 29 COVID-19 men at the time of hospital admission were associated with the need for “invasive” oxygenation strategy (i.e., Ventimask, CPAP, intubation) and may allow for patient monitoring and predict disease outcome.
Salciccia S, Del Giudice F, Gentile V, Mastroianni CM, Pasculli P, Di Lascio G, Ciardi MR, Sperduti I, Maggi M, De Berardinis E, Eisenberg ML, Sciarra A. Interplay between male testosterone levels and the risk for subsequent invasive respiratory assistance among COVID-19 patients at hospital admission. Endocrine. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.1007/s12020-020-02515-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33030665. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12020-020-02515-x
A growing body of evidence has demonstrated higher age, male sex, and medical comorbidity as risk factors for COVID-19 mortality [1]. In particular, male sex, and older age were found to be significant determinants for severe SARS-CoV-2 phenotype supporting the hypothesis that hormonal constitution may be an etiology for both COVID-19 susceptibility and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) development.
Moreover, differences between male and female immune responses is well known establishing that genetics and sex hormones are important for the immunogenic sex-bias [2].
Higher serum total testosterone (TT) levels are associated with an immunosuppressive role on different components of the immune cell-mediated response [3]. Pozzilli et al. [4] hypothesized a role for TT in the clinical course of the SARS-CoV-2 leading to multiorgan failure.
We aimed to evaluate whether serum TT levels among a cohort of 29 COVID-19 men at the time of hospital admission were associated with the need for “invasive” oxygenation strategy (i.e., Ventimask, CPAP, intubation) and may allow for patient monitoring and predict disease outcome.
Salciccia S, Del Giudice F, Gentile V, Mastroianni CM, Pasculli P, Di Lascio G, Ciardi MR, Sperduti I, Maggi M, De Berardinis E, Eisenberg ML, Sciarra A. Interplay between male testosterone levels and the risk for subsequent invasive respiratory assistance among COVID-19 patients at hospital admission. Endocrine. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.1007/s12020-020-02515-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33030665. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12020-020-02515-x
ChiCubbie86
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Took my over used words right out my mouth lolol
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FACTS
Theworm
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Yeah, gotta see the politics behind all this. Scally is a dem, hence 91 pages of copying and pasting articles. Wish I had his amount of free time!
This, the rich get richer while the idiots wear their little masks and say "I protect u, u protect me, me love science, im aroused by camaraderie and helplessnes and being weak and cowardly ' were in dis 2gether', lets virtual orgy on zoom while mask wearing"
When President Trump got sick, I had this moment of deja vu back to when I first woke up in the hospital. I know what it’s like to be humiliated by this virus. I used to call it the “scamdemic.” I thought it was an overblown media hoax. I made fun of people for wearing masks. I went all the way down the rabbit hole and fell hard on my own sword, so if you want to hate me or blame me, that’s fine. I’m doing plenty of that myself.
The party was my idea. That’s what I can’t get over. Well, I mean, it wasn’t even a party — more like a get-together. There were just six of us, okay? My parents, my partner, and my partner’s parents. We’d been locked down for months at that point in Texas, and the governor had just come out and said small gatherings were probably okay. We’re a close family, and we hadn’t been together in forever. It was finally summer. I thought the worst was behind us. I was like: “Hell, let’s get on with our lives. What are we so afraid of?”
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Six infections turned into nine. Nine went up to 14. It spread from one family member to the next, and it was like each person caught a different strain. My mother-in-law got it and never had any real symptoms. My father is 78, and he went to get checked out at the hospital, but for whatever reasons, he seemed to recover really fast. My father-in-law nearly died in his living room and then ended up in the same hospital as me on the exact same day. His mother was in the room right next to him because she was having trouble breathing. They were lying there on both sides of the wall, fighting the same virus, and neither of them ever knew the other one was there. She died after a few weeks. On the day of her funeral, five more family members tested positive.
My father-in-law’s probably my best friend. ... He was on supplemental oxygen, but the doctors kept reducing the amount he was getting. They thought he was getting better. I hung up, and a few hours later I got a call from my mother-in-law. She was hysterical. She could barely speak. She said one of his lungs had collapsed and the other was filling with fluid. They put him on a ventilator, and he lay there on life support for six or seven weeks. There was never any goodbye. He was just gone. It’s like the world swallowed him up. We could only have 10 people at the funeral, and I didn’t make that list.
I break down sometimes, but mostly I’m empty. Am I glad to be alive? I don’t know. I don’t know how to answer that.
There’s no relief. This virus, I can’t escape it. It’s torn up our family. It’s all over my Facebook. It’s the election. It’s Trump. It’s what I keep thinking about. How many people would have gotten sick if I’d never hosted that weekend? One? Maybe two? The grief comes in waves, but that guilt just sits.
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