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by DrRatnadip
17 Apr 2020 15:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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http://www.drugtodayonline.com/medical- ... itals.html

More than 70 percent of India's healthcare is dependant on private sector.. Many small and medium sized hospitals are finding it difficult to survive in present circumstances..
by DrRatnadip
16 Apr 2020 19:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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The person further states,“Domestic PPE production has increased to 30,000 kits a day, hitting the target a week earlier than scheduled, and is expected to touch 50,000 by the end of the month. Cumulatively, we have produced over 150,000 suits and should be able to manufacture an additional 100,000...
by DrRatnadip
15 Apr 2020 21:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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sankum wrote:
DrRatnadip wrote:
Sir , How HCQ is being used ?? Are doctors taking it prophylactically?
Doctors in rural Uttar Pradesh are taking one HCQ dose every 21 days.
I have taken it 400bd for two days and then weekly since 2 wks..
by DrRatnadip
15 Apr 2020 20:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Especially Indians who have been vaccinated with BCG in India, are they faring better than whites, blacks and hispanic people? No definite data yet. Anecdotally, not doing so well, at least in NY metro area. BCG is irrelevant so far, although the numbers are small. The two people - both desi docs -...
by DrRatnadip
15 Apr 2020 19:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707266

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Is the treatment with HCQ Combination working? Such dire situation in ER & Hospitals seems to raise doubt about effectiveness of HCQ. In normal course only 2%-4% patients seem to be seriously affected by COVID. So is it possible that HCQ is giving false sense of cure because it seems to treat p...
by DrRatnadip
15 Apr 2020 19:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Views: 2707266

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DRDO's contact list of individuals for counter CoVid-19 technologies plus the industry partner and contact number. Dr Ratnadip and other doctors, if you are running short of anything, contact these guys directly. They are authorized to put you in touch with the right people or even get you the gear...
by DrRatnadip
15 Apr 2020 02:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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An Update from UK. 90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom. They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of ...
by DrRatnadip
14 Apr 2020 14:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Local newspaper reported that multiple societies in pune have REQUESTED govt to keep doctors / nurses away from their neighborhood..
by DrRatnadip
14 Apr 2020 08:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/ch ... 2rJ1BJJPNo

Incidence like this will have widspread negative impact on morale of doctors and healthcare workers..
by DrRatnadip
13 Apr 2020 23:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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If dupatta saab is praising someone am super wary about following them BTW, Docs here looks like plasma/serum is the solid solution here ? We have enough people recovering so shouldnt be a problem getting blood from them, challenge would be to process it and then be able to send it across to differ...
by DrRatnadip
12 Apr 2020 14:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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I crossed Malegaon on day of Janta curfew.. mumbai Agra highway goes from outskirts of Malegaon.. I observed many open shops along highway.. People were not concerned about social distancing at all..Local MLA was involved in physically assaulting medical superintendent who was working for quarantini...
by DrRatnadip
12 Apr 2020 10:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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One of the surprising early finding from the intensive care deaths is that the commonest underlying condition in the patients who are dying is hypertension in almost upto 50% of cases. One would have thought on common sense grounds that you are going to find smoking as the commonest condition, it i...
by DrRatnadip
12 Apr 2020 10:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Please check QTc after intitiation of hydroxychloroquine as well. Just picked up prolonged QTc in a lupus patient after starting the drug. Reverted to normal after discontinuance. You are probably correct, however, millions of people take it (or chloroquine) without getting an EKG. Still, does not ...
by DrRatnadip
12 Apr 2020 01:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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https://twitter.com/kiranshaw/status/1248872344245776384 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw @kiranshaw A team from @iitbombay is working to develop a nasal gel using a new technology that can capture and inactivate the #coronavirus inside human beings. The team hopes that the nasal gel will be ready for use in ab...
by DrRatnadip
11 Apr 2020 20:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707266

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Hcq has NO benefits in late course of disease.. It will help in decreasing number of patients getting serious if given in early course of disease.. It seems due to political maneuvering, Liberal politicians in USA & Europe are preventing use of HCQ early and are then claiming that it has failed...
by DrRatnadip
11 Apr 2020 20:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707266

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Paper yet to be published in NEJM about a clinical trial shows HCQ when given after severe Covid19 has set in worsens outcome. Hydroxychloroquine administration to the hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive population was associated with an increased need for escalation of respiratory support. There were...
by DrRatnadip
11 Apr 2020 09:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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Sir, * It is not included in any Covid 19 protocol in India i am aware of..Treatment is mostly supportive.. * Effectiveness of zinc in Respiratory viral infections is not conclusively proven.. There is no harm in adding it though , multivitamin / trace minerals are routinely used in India for other...
by DrRatnadip
10 Apr 2020 22:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707266

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More than 1K cases coming just today, with 410 of them from Maharashtra. I am afraid Maharashtra may have got into the community spread stage. This is going to be really hard to contain now. https://www.covid19india.org/ I agree.. It will take heroic efforts to contain disease in Mumbai and Pune
by DrRatnadip
10 Apr 2020 21:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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re HCQ several trials , mostly involving small patient group case series type indicate HCQ works when started EARLY in the course of illness. Once disease is set in, nothing works, that is why ITU are struggling with mind numbing mortality figures. Here family doctors and general physicians have bi...
by DrRatnadip
10 Apr 2020 16:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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1) HCQ and Azee seem to work well early in disease.. Once patient detoriates NOTHING seem work.. Risk / benefit ratio is certainly in favor of using these drugs.. 2) Mumbai and Pune are huge populations with proportionately big population of morons , who are not co operating with govt efforts.. We ...
by DrRatnadip
10 Apr 2020 00:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Looks like HCQ+Azithromycin+Zinc is the best defence and works well when used at early onset of symptoms. Dr.Ratnadip and other doctors in India any updated anecdotal inputs from you. In the US the CNN and other idiots politicized it so much that even before trying Doctors(few of them) are saying T...
by DrRatnadip
08 Apr 2020 10:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Primus sir , Thank you for your inputs.. COVID 19 leads not only to SIRS but also CARS (counterregulatory anti inflamatory response syndrome).. It is also possible that Young previously healthy patients who suddenly detoriate are more likely to have SIRS.. This will explain presence of myocarditis ,...
by DrRatnadip
08 Apr 2020 01:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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If it's related to haemoglobin and iron, then why are men more susceptible? I thought women were more likely to be iron deficient. Or is it because men are more likely to have those toxic free radical iron ions? Also, I wish these guys wouldn't present their thoughts in such a glib and gleeful tone...
by DrRatnadip
08 Apr 2020 01:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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People came with very interesting theories regarding COVID 19 in last few days.. What they want to say is 1) Its not ARDS 2) It is some sort of pulmonary vasculitis leading to unusual microthrombi in pulmonary vasculature 3) problem is not with gas exchange at respiratory membrane i.e alveoli, but p...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 19:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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In India HCQ is given in all positive patients.. Prognosis is very bad in pts needing ventilator.. But Number of patients actually needing ventilator support seems less in India.. Even pts showing moderate symptoms are less.. This info I got from informal talk with someone actualy managing COVID ho...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 17:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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"Once on ventilator mortality is 50% + !" That's also what I heard from some people who have gone thru it and survived. This brings into question the usage protocol of CHQ + Azm. Assuming it is effective, the current ICMR guideline is to give it to patients in an advanced/critical stage. ...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 13:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Dr, after reading the above, I'm wondering if asymptomic patients and those who have shown symptoms will have the same levels of acquired immunity after getting cured? Are we in a position to know this currently? Thank you. Level of protection does not depend on symptomatic status of patient.. So e...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 13:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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I saw some discussions on herd immunity and I'm a bit confused. Absent a vaccine, it seems the way to get immunity is to get infected first and recover from it. So, the question is: if someone is infected and recovers, does that confer immunity to covid-19 (like in chickenpox) against re-infection ...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 10:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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To determine Exact efficacy of these drugs large study will be needed.. But in limited patients they seem to work fine.. Currently used protocol in all COVID positive pts in MH is as follows.: 1) asymptomatic but without comorbidities receive HCQ only 2) asymptomatic but with comorbidities receive ...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 10:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
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Dr Sirs how is Hydroxychloroquine+zinc+azithromycin doing ?Read a number of anecdotal accounts that emerged today that it is clearing it up in a few hours. Additionally, ivermectin, favipiravir, BCG studies also seem underway. Anyways, am pretty sure you are all reading up on all new emerging studi...
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 00:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707266

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https://m.timesofindia.com/city/surat/s ... 014061.cms

People assaulting doctors for treating covid patients..I have no words for this..
by DrRatnadip
07 Apr 2020 00:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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Not sure if this makes sense but there is a video from an ER doc at Maimonides in Brooklyn claiming we've all got it wrong and that the virus does not cause ARDS but a form of hypoxia similar to HAPE and that PPV is in fact more harmful. There is a paper out from China suggesting viral proteins bin...
by DrRatnadip
06 Apr 2020 23:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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Doctor, A hundred and fifty thousand children and healthy adults and old-timers die in road accidents on our roads every year. A lot of them die horrible deaths. As a nation, we should care for the families of the dead, but as for the dead themselves, "life's a bitch and then you die." It...
by DrRatnadip
06 Apr 2020 22:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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Which to me indicates we are way overreacting. Certainly the mortality monitor data from EU indicates there’re other concerns than public health afoot. Excluding TJ, the positive tests - even among likely carriers is just 2.5% (TJ attendees are under 5% positive). Dont just look at the numbers sir....
by DrRatnadip
06 Apr 2020 16:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
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This is prof Knut M Wittkowski. Impeccable credentials. https://www.linkedin.com/in/knutmwittkowski What does he say? Stop the lockdowns and let the population acquire herd immunity as that is the only way to stop it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg Ultimately lockdown has to be lifted....