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RangerRickL
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
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Our best hope to turn the tide of the coronavirus is antiviral therapies...until vaccines can be innovated and tested in 2021. A couple of days ago, our dear friend, @craigo3154 posted the first news of the efficacy of two existing drugs in curing Covid-19. I'm a skeptical lawyer, so I tried to dig deeper and make sure that the news was true.
Yesterday, there was an announcement of a 'renowned French epidemiologist's peer reviewed test of 45 Covid-19 patients in Italy. It was reported that all 45 had recovered. I went searching for more on that claim.
Here it is https://www.businessinsider.com/malaria-pill-chloroquine-tested-as-coronavirus-treatment-2020-3
This is the best news we could hope for at this moment. It's much easier to ramp up the production of existing drugs that try to test and get approval of new ones.9 -
@RangerRickL - Like you I must dig in as I typically do not trust the first thing I hear, read, or watch. I am a data analyst so I attribute my profession to my need to know more. My strength is spotting patterns which requires a lot of information.
I am extremely fortunate to be employed by a company already set up for remote workers. 75% of our staff was already remote and the office folks began working remote on Tuesday. The office will remain open for those who start to feel stir crazy, but it's my thought it is best to remain hunkered down.
The long and short of our current situation is it is up to us to stop the spread. I keep reading how folks are going out for that one last thing on their lists, going to the gym, socializing, etc.. For the love of humanity we must do our parts. The only way to slow this virus is for us to remain hunkered down, if possible.
The less people out and about the quicker we will be able to slow this thing. If it is a want you do not need to be out. Let's pull together and allow those who are providing services, are healthcare providers, must physically be at work, are helping others, etc. be around less people. Use delivery and/or pick up services, if possible.
Many of us are already carrying this virus. You may not be symptomatic. You could be a carrier. Please, again, for the love of humanity and all of the freedoms we cherish - stay the heck home unless it's a need.
All we have to do is look at what is currently going on in other parts of the world and our bigger cities. Many of those folks now wish they remained home and practiced social distancing. Do we really want to be locked down through the summer? I know I do not.
Even if there is a promising treatment it will literally take years for testing, production, approvals, etc.. And, that is if it is fast tracked. There will not be some "miracle" cure/vaccine within the next few weeks or months.
So I beg all of us to do our part. If you are able to hunker down and are not servicing others, stay home! We have the technology to stay connected, do virtual workouts, and see other's faces while in our homes. It really is up to us and only us.9 -
More on social distancing.
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You're quite right @SuziQ113. It's because too many French people didn't stick to sensible and voluntary guidelines about their behaviour, the French government had to force people, hence the lockdown. Our libraries are closed too. Family gatherings are out. Visiting friends is out. Walking strictly limited. Hiking is out. Beaches are now closed too.6
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As much as I hated to do it I made the decision to stay home from a funeral today. I sent my regrets for not attending, and I'm sure the family understands, but it's so hard to not be there in person to offer my sympathies to them.8
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on a non-health and Up topic .... today is the astronomical Vernal Equinox (first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere .... @craigo3154 does that make it the first day of Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere?)
Today, we spotted sprouts from a third type of bulb. Another week or two, and sufficient snow will be gone to allow Stay-On_Our-Property puttering in the garden.5 -
Daily post 3/19
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
So much in life is how you frame it. I just found two threads you might consider bookmarking - about making a point of looking for positives / silver linings in the situation instead of over-focusing solely on the negatives /danger aspect.
This is not about denial. This is about respecting that both the threat and situation are real, and taking appropriate actions/precautions - but not allowing it to consume you. Acknowledge what you have no control over, then focus your attention on what you CAN control - your responses.
Things like :- getting better at scrabble
- dog / cat certainly happier to have everyone home all the time
- not having to commute in bad weather
- appreciation of grocery store staff and others you never really thought about as being in a "relatively dangerous job segment"
- getting creative about "play-time / socializing while respecting social distancing" (I saw a video of two college aged guys playing Battleship by shouting the moves to each other from separate balconies ... filmed by a third person on a third balcony)
- pace of life slowing down and allowing space to consider what changes in attitude and life habits one could carry forward even when "back to normal" life resumes
I will copy/paste the links both here and on the What's On Your Mind? thread for easy future reference.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10789351/positivity-from-coronavirus#latest
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10789092/silver-lining-of-the-coronadovirus#latest
Personally, I LOVE the hour-later alarm clock setting now that "commuting" means walking up one flight of stairs to the home study. I am in a position to keep right on working from home (which I realize not everyone will be)6 -
3/19
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes5 -
March 19
Exercised: Yes (5km walk in 38 mins - hills)
Tracked: Yes
Budget: Yes
Bit more up to pace today.
My walk in the hills is very COVID-19 measure friendly. I touch nothing, I get (or stay close) to no one.
No reason it cannot continue.
I urge people to follow the authorities local guidelines during this tough time. Those in regulatory positions making decisions are not doing them lightly and are being advised by people with more information, expertise and experience than any individual member of the general populace.
(somehow, my post did not get sent last night so adding more).
The news I am most avidly searching for an following is the development of an effective cure.
A cure for those with complications will come first. Less trials required. If the mortality rate of patients with severe symptoms can be reliably reduced to near zero, then all the quarantine measures become unnecessary. This is actually likely in weeks given the research focus.
Medical teams worldwide are testing many different on-the market anti-virals and anti-symptom medications to get a combination, any combination that works. Any non-sensationalised media articles I find on this I will post.
Next will be a preventative. This is different to a vaccine in that it will likely be short term and need re-application. A preventative is an addition to the body immunity, instead of building the body's normal virus anti-bodies.
Last will be a vaccine. This will take months. Likely September to November time frame at a minimum.
There is also talk of "herd immunity". This is concept where if a certain percentage of the population has HAD the disease, and developed immunity, then the virus will have no viable means to maintain enough strength to get through to the "non-immune" population and will die out. This in effect, is what happened to small pox.
The problems I see with this approach are:- COVID-19 has not yet proved it develops a sufficient anti-body response to create immunity is a person who has had the virus (cases of re-infection still being investigated).
- For COVID-19, it anticipates and accepts a level of mortality within the population while immunity is being developed (concept of "acceptable losses").
- It takes quite a while to develop within a population as immunity levels needs to get well over 50% to be effective (numbers quoted have been from 60% to 85%).
"herd immunity" for COVID-19 may eventually occur in a number of years in most countries. By this time there is likely to be a vaccine (or multiple vaccines) for it too.6 -
Exercised? Yes, did Kathe Pure Strength Strong Legs DVD
Track? Yes
Under Calories? Yes
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craigo3154 wrote: »...
The news I am most avidly searching for an following is the development of an effective cure.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-03-19/coronavirus--drugs-and-vaccines-to-treat-and-prevent-covid-19/12067496
Summary:- Immunity from COVID-19 after recovery from infection likely, but not 100% confirmed.
- Existing drugs trialled for "cure" of symptoms in progress. Worldwide teams are in a race to prove efficacy or treatments so they can be made widely available as soon as possible.
- Widely available vaccines still a long way off.
Immunity from COVID-19 after recovery from infection likely, but not 100% confirmed.How does your body's immune system fight COVID-19?
Australian researchers have found that our immune systems respond to this coronavirus in the same way as to influenza.
The immune cells that emerge in the blood before patients recover from COVID-19, are the same cells we see in people before they recover from the flu.
Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity were able to work this out by looking at multiple blood samples from one of Australia's first patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
Importantly, the research published in Nature Medicine is "the first paper that shows the body can give immunity and fight back and recover", researcher Carolien van de Sandt said.
Based on their experience with influenza patients, it also allowed the researchers to accurately predict how long the patient would take to recover from COVID-19.
But it's still too early to tell whether contracting coronavirus once would give you immunity to prevent you catching it again.
Existing drugs trialled for "cure" of symptoms in progress. Worldwide teams are in a race to prove efficacy or treatments so they can be made widely available as soon as possible.Could existing drugs treat COVID-19 infections?
Early signs are promising, after Australian researchers this week revealed they are ready to begin clinical trials of a potential treatment for COVID-19 — using two existing drugs.
The drugs in question are an older HIV drug and an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine, which is rarely used now as the malaria pathogen has become resistant to it.
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This phase of the trial could be as short as three months, Professor Paterson said, but it would take longer to roll the treatment out in the community, if it did prove effective.
Worldwide, Chinese doctors are completing clinical trials looking at the effectiveness of a combination of two HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir, at treating COVID-19, New Scientist reported.
They are also soon to start testing a drug called remdesivir which was originally developed for Ebola.
Widely available vaccines still a long way off.When will we get a vaccine for COVID-19?
Lots of different groups around the world are working on possible COVID-19 vaccines.
"There are now 15 potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline globally using a wide range of technolog[ies]: mRNA, DNA, nanoparticle, synthetic and modified virus-like particles," said microbiologist Ian Henderson of the University of Queensland.
The US National Institutes of Health announced that they have funded phase 1 clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, called mRNA-1273, which began this week.
The vaccine was able to be brought to clinical trials so quickly because researchers had already been working on a vaccine to protect against another coronavirus, which causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
While results from this first trial may be available within three months, it will still take at least a year and likely longer for a resulting vaccine to be widely available to the public.1 -
We have been social distancing for over a week now, and are fortunate that we have outside space.
Thurs 19:
Exercise: 81 mins, HIIT/walking/gardening
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
2️⃣ pass days left
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Yes x3 🏋️♀️4
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@MadisonMolly2017 Sorry, I didn't notice your post yesterday so I am glad that I look back once in a while. Thanks for asking. Now I gotta track a little more exercise before closing the day.
Take care all!3 -
Exercise 20 minutes? Yes! Got about an hour in walking at work, but didn’t close that Move ring, so went in and played Beat Saber for thirty minutes and made quick work of that ring.
Come in under calorie goal? Yes! I splurged on French toast and 3 bacons for breakfast, had a 400 calorie Chicken pad Thai for lunch and snacked on healthy things for the remainder. I have just over 100 to spare, but I closed out my diary, so I’m done for the night.
Logged everything? Yes, even that bit of tuna salad I made for my dh.
I’m glad I have my passes left, because now that my routine is all out of whack, I just want to eat more, since I’m at my desk more.
They closed off the 7th floor for isolation patients. I’ll try and get the images in here. Imagine my surprise when I took the elevator all the way up, got out and instead of wide open spaces I was confronted with this:
My full tanks are in a clean room behind those doors, sooooo, not going to be inventorying those. Not terribly sure I want to be messing with the empty tanks in the soiled room, which IS still accessible.
I hung in with a smile most of the day until someone stole a brand new box of gloves and our last pump bottle of hand sanitizer from our desk in Admitting. 🤬 I lost over half of my productivity time, spent in the police department’s area reviewing footage.
There are so many more changes that I won’t waste y’all’s time with them. Suffice it to say that the enormous amount of changes in just the past few days have me like 😱😨😭
I love my job, but now dread going through the “3-questions, let us take your temperature“ station going in, the sending home of half my staff because the census is so low that we are over-staffed (and because they haven’t wanted or been able to shore up their PTO don’t have much left in order to be paid for the time off), so I feel guilty about that.
I’m sick of stressing over things like, “crap! Did I touch my face just now without clean hands,” or, “what kind of crap am I bringing home to J, who is recovering from the flu,” and am more slipping into the thought pattern of, “if I get it, I get it,” and “ if it’s gonna kill me? It’s my time to go, just make sure it doesn’t hurt too much.”
Realistically, I know I’m probably in one of the safest places, doing one of the more safe jobs than anyone else under the patient care umbrella, but more and more often, I’m having my moments.
Send chocolate, Lysol spray/wipes or prayers. Just saying. ❤️10 -
Yes times three.3
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Exercise? 34 minute walk. Fell asleep afterwards. Still in recovery.
Within my calorie plan? Yes. Missed afternoon snack due to nap, so didn't get extra calories like I was planning, but okay.
Tracked everything? Yeah.3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, the gym remains open. They require everyone to carry antiseptic spray and to spray ever surface before and after touching, no exceptions. No one with any cold of flu symptoms is allowed in, and there is hand sanitizer everywhere. I count and the most people I have seen in the gym at one time was 8, and we keep our distance from each other. It seems safe to me, what do y'all think?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes1 -
3/19
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, walk in park at neighboring village
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
@RangerRickL and @craigo3154 I became aware of the possible hydroxychloroquine treatment about 6 days ago by watching the following Medcram video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww1nIIoqmw
Our son is associated with Thermo Fisher Scientific, on the forefront of Covid-19 testing. Unlike the tests used in Asia with only 70% accuracy with many false positives and false negatives, we can expect better test results here in the U.S.
There's hope for the future here in the U.S. with diagnostic testing, treatment and vaccination. We all need to do our part and be vigilant to minimize the spread of the virus. Stay positive!2
