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Fatality rate is 6% on confirmed cases in NY state. Estimated cases do not count unless they become confirmed.
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Fatality rate is 6% on confirmed cases in NY state. Estimated cases do not count unless they become confirmed.
OK this is totally counterintuitive and it comes from France so...but it seems that nicotine protects against the coronavirus. Maybe it explains how well the Greeks have done :grin:!!
Frontline health workers and patients in France may be given nicotine patches after studies found that four times fewer smokers contracted Covid-19 than non-smokers.
It may sound counterintuitive that people who puff on Gauloises are less likely to catch a virus that can cause deadly attacks on the lungs. However, that was the statistical outcome of an in-depth study conducted by the Pasteur Institute, a leading French research centre into the disease.
The institute tested almost 700 teachers and pupils of a school in Crépy-en-Valois in one of the hardest-hit areas in France, as well as their families. The “highly accurate” tests found that only 7.2 per cent of smokers from among the adults tested were infected while four times as many non-smokers, some 28 per cent, were infected.
Arnaud Fontanet, an epidemiologist at the institute, warned that they were not encouraging people to take up smoking, remarking that those smokers who do catch the virus “risk suffering more complications” than others. Scientists suggested it could be the nicotine in cigarettes that was behind the surprising results regarding infection, although more research is needed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/smokers-four-times-less-likely-151203823.html
First nicotine and the next one I heard was 'an injection of disinfect' ....:06: #smartsolutions
^^This is what comes of not reading papers, or maybe not even knowing the difference between scientific papers and internet garbage.
^^This is what comes of not reading papers, or maybe not even knowing the difference between scientific papers and internet garbage.
BTW I was not accusing Northerner of anything. I was agreeing with him with respect to the injecting disinfectant which our esteemed president proposed.
See the following for a better way of factoring in density:
https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/02/theres-a-better-way-to-measure-population-density/552815/
You were not; I am. There's a huge difference between a paper published by an eminent institute and Trump's ramblings on the science, which everyone should know to ignore.
It was another attempt, imo, to take a cheap shot, and could have misinformed people about whether there is indeed a trial underway about nicotine.
We don't need that kind of obnoxious crap ever, but especially not now.
See my edited post.
The nicotine thing was studied/espoused/proposed by the Pasteur Institute.
The nicotine thing was studied/espoused/proposed by the Pasteur Institute.
One time Trump's ramblings might have a grain of truth...even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
It always made sense. Otherwise, why isn't it decimating India and Southeast Asia? Some will still get it, of course, especially if they have air-conditioning, but the percentages will be different.
I'm almost tempted to move to Florida full time, but living there in the summer months without airconditioning would be impossible for me.
Maybe new kinds of filters will be developed, and a buzzer would go off to let you know it's time to change it.
This is a great start up business for someone. Maybe someone who had restaurants. I don't think they're going to be very profitable anytime soon, especially in places like Florida with lots of people over 60 who didn't cook very much anymore.
BTW, I had a rather loud argument with a ER doctor friend of mine about hydroxychloroquine. He has been taking it prophylactically while working in the front lines of the disease. I tried explaining to him that he should not be taking an immunosuppressant without checking his cytokines since that leaves him open to the ravages of the virus. He did not want to listen. I guess even doctors are desperate for anything that anecdotally worked for people.
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