Bharat Rakshak

DavidD

DavidD, thanks for the very informative post. Is there any reason why your hospital stopped administering Tocilizumab ? In India it is being touted as a "miracle drug" leading do shortages, price gouging, black marketing, and dangerously fake Tocilizumab being sold on the market. I am als...

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A comment I came across on Reddit regarding what was learned by physicians(outside India) in the past 6 months. For posters in the medical sector, how valid is this below quote very fact that this read up is available only on reddit should have alarm bell ringing! Virus is vasculotropic as much it ...

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A comment I came across on Reddit regarding what was learned by physicians(outside India) in the past 6 months. For posters in the medical sector, how valid is this below quote? ICU doc who treats COVID-19 and research on COVID, and published on COVID both original research and editorials in reputa...

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China mostly care about money. If copying makes money, they'll copy. If innovation makes money, they'll innovate. The Chinese since the cultural revolution do not have any guiding principle except for the pursuit of wealth.

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Question is whether she was already on HCQ 2x a week or did it start after diagnosis? If from before itself, it could have contributed to a low viral load but also, by itself it didnt prevent infection but reduced its severity. Quite possible that she was taking HCQ prophylactically. But you'll hav...

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Showing an immune response doesn't mean much, as that's something which is studied beginning in the earliest testing phase, starting with animal tests. A vaccine is usually only approved if the immune response translates to significant immunity, which is the primary focus of Phase 3 trials. Phase 1 ...

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Lol funny the former Mongolian president chimed in. He realizes that Mongolia uses Cyrillic, and only in Inner Mongolia can you find actual Mongolian characters, right?

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That sounds a little bit like saying, the Chinese are the Borg, they will assimilate everything and everyone, and all of our bases belong them. Maybe the Chinese want to be the Borg, and want all of our bases belong to them. But they are not the Borg. They are humans, and have to work with human sy...

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Good post DavidD. ... Chinese economy is so fudged, over leveraged, corrupt and export dependent that even a sustained 10-15% drop in demand over 4-5 years will make the whole facade collapse like a pack of cards. @CyranoDB - you may not be aware, but AFAIK DavidD is a Chinese poster. I can't speak...

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So much for the overland route vs Sea route to Europe. https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1291589366796582912 one wonders where is the market for such a huge dry port to service post COVID and also, post the growing wave of pent up resentment that is now starting to build against the hans. It won't...

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No, you have to see data proving its efficacy to believe it. All that mumble jumble about the concepts of allopathy and ayurvedic is not what makes one superior to the other, what matters is proven results. Run a RCT comparing allopathic and ayurvedic treatments for a specific disease, how well doe...

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All I have to say is: you have to experience Ayurveda first to believe in it https://www.softpowermag.com/why-how-and-where-ayurveda-differs-from-allopathy-prof-rama-jayasundar/ Why, How and Where Ayurveda Differs from Allopathy: Prof Rama Jayasundar Professor Rama Jayasundar, the head of the depar...

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WHO gives up on hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, stops trials All the data is pointing to the popular anti-malaria drug having no effect. Jun 17, 2020 The World Health Organization on Wednesday announced that it is abandoning use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in the Solidarity trial—t...

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I generally don't buy too much into media reports on either side. My assessment is that neither side has much to gain by escalating the situation, and it's also very odd that 20 - 40+ would die on each side in a non-firing brawl. I wonder if it's some sort of terrain related incident where a bunch ...

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Landslides??? Maybe, and it sounds like twice as many PLA soldiers died, maybe that's the real reason China won't release the casualty count. Either way, I just don't see how either side would benefit from a war there. I generally use analysis of motivations to help assess the situation, and I don'...

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nam wrote:Anyone can geo locate these Type15?

On one of the signs it says "高岭" district, which based on a Google search appears to be in Changsha, Hunan.

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I generally don't buy too much into media reports on either side. My assessment is that neither side has much to gain by escalating the situation, and it's also very odd that 20 - 40+ would die on each side in a non-firing brawl. I wonder if it's some sort of terrain related incident where a bunch o...

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battle rages on HCQ In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers concluded that hydroxychloroquine, or HCQ, does not prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 when administered to people soon after exposure to the virus . https://www.forbes.com/sites/coronavirusfrontlines/2020/0...

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Thanks, but both links just say "page not found" for me, not sure why. Maybe it's locked by region? Just google the article title sir. The article comes up. Edit: http://www.ijmr.org.in/preprintarticle.asp?id=285520;type=0 Abstract: Background & objectives: Healthcare workers (HCWs) a...

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Do you mean Chinese and Indians to be generally precise. However now that police dept is planned as public safety dept or something, not to disarm completely or partially but for real defence of people in general and not selectively, are people in general to be more safe or just enough (unless memb...

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Anyone has a link to the actual study? I couldn't find it on a google search, just articles about it. Healthcare workers & SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: A case-control investigation in the time of COVID-19 http://www.ijmr.org.in/temp/IndianJMedRes000-4255589_114915.pdf http://www.ijmr.org.in/d...

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mukkan wrote:The Lancet retracts study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/articl ... 3620313246

Good, I don't think I know a of a single physician who didn't raise his eyebrows at that study.

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brar_w wrote:What's the pace of their J-20 program? How many LRIP aircraft have they operationalized till date?

Last verified number was 8, I believe. Seems like a lot of effort has been made to change the engine to an indigenous type lately, so not sure if they're continuing production right now.

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I think a recent study didn't show any benefit for Favipiravir, I'd be interested in seeing what the Russian study showed. Hope it's published in English soon.

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Anyone has a link to the actual study? I couldn't find it on a google search, just articles about it. this is a preprint script. Waiting for publication. Thanks. Here in the states it's too politicized. Trump touted HCQ so libs are all detracting it. Most physicians are liberal too so many are play...

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80% dip in infection risk for health staff on HCQ: Study HCQ seems to be working in prophylaxis https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/80-dip-in-infection-risk-for-health-staff-on-hcq-study/story-4Btz0DoDQtM0qacOCWZn7I.html As many as 80% of the health care workers (HCWs) on six or more prophyla...

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Sounds fishy as hell, and I think it's way too premature for WHO to halt HCQ trials. Are there any HCQ RCTs running in India? I highly suspect that it's effective when given early and perhaps even as a prophylaxis, but a lack of evidence is both frustrating and puzzling. While I can see how in the ...

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Sounds fishy as hell, and I think it's way too premature for WHO to halt HCQ trials. Are there any HCQ RCTs running in India? I highly suspect that it's effective when given early and perhaps even as a prophylaxis, but a lack of evidence is both frustrating and puzzling. While I can see how in the U...

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That's an earlier trial, this is the latest one. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764 It shows a decrease in recovery time and a trend toward decrese in mortality mostly driven by the less severe cases. sir 4 days recovery benefit but no mortality benefit is very unimpressive for $60...

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The RCT results for Remdesivir was published on NEJM a few days ago https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2015301 it doesn;t show any definite advantage either. CONCLUSIONS In patients with severe Covid-19 not requiring mechanical ventilation, our trial did not show a significant difference b...

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Someone show me the light! When entire West is trying to isolate China, SkyNews UK is sending team to Chinese lab to mainstream Chinese vaccine, why? Don't they have confidence in Oxford vaccine? And why Chinese vaccine company wants to run phase III trial in UK/Europe? https://news.sky.com/story/c...

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Someone show me the light! When entire West is trying to isolate China, SkyNews UK is sending team to Chinese lab to mainstream Chinese vaccine, why? Don't they have confidence in Oxford vaccine? And why Chinese vaccine company wants to run phase III trial in UK/Europe? https://news.sky.com/story/c...

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The Chinese vaccine is the farthest along, the only one that has published peer-reviewed phase I results. Of course! You had like 2 or 3 months headstart over others? That shows. ...Since it uses a live virus that's well known to cause the common cold as the vector, its most common side effect is t...

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Some good news on vaccine development. 6 prototype DNA vaccine developed, showed remarkable efficiency in monkeys. All 6 developed immune protein and none of the monkeys had lung infection post vaccination. The ones which were not vaccinated, developed lung infection. Higher the level of immunity p...

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syam wrote:i saw a tweet about chinese planning to test 11 million wuhan people in 10 day sprint. the scale of testing is simply mind-blowing.

Probably batch testing. Swabbing will be labor and time intensive, testing probably won't be too overwhelming, maybe only a few hundred thousand tests actually run.

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Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-china-idUSKBN22G0BZ The United States is pushing to create an alliance of “trusted partners” dubbed the “Economic Prosperity Network,” one official said. It would...

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^^^ Possibly it did. But selling the same PPEs at eight times the original cost (Mexico case) will make even Shylock proud. Sure, but that's just economics, not a result of hoarding. Mask production world-wide pre-COVID was at about 20 million a day, of which about half were produced in China. By t...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Vh9yqu5Qo The U.S. intelligence report says China not only misled the world on the severity of the virus, but also stockpiled medical supplies and PPE. J9Vh9yqu5Qo Who isn't stockpiling PPEs these days? If China didn't stockpile them the story would be how the Chin...

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Why do so many people think COVID will speed up reshoring? Reshoring is happening mostly from AI/robotics eliminating the need for cheap labor, i.e. economic concerns, I don't see how COVID changes that. Reshoring was happening largely in manufacturing thanks to trade wars etc - the supply chain vu...

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Population density or lack of it shows up in R0 or transmission. Or rather in a given unit of time, x units will be infected vs. y units infected. However, once they are infected the death rates are to be compared. It helps to compare death rate even state wise and county wise. Using that, it has b...

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