Anyone seen substantiated claims either way yet on whether this virus is mosquito borne?
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Florida Man. No longer âfunnyâ.
[Florida] state officials have stopped releasing the list of coronavirus deaths being compiled by Floridaâs medical examiners, which has at times shown a higher death toll than the stateâs published count.
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Apparently Sweden is spreading manure in its parks to discourage traditional Walpurgis and May Day gatherings.
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Link identified between dietary selenium and outcome of Covid-19 disease
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/link-identified-between-dietary-selenium-and-outcome-covid-19-disease
Examining data from provinces and municipalities with more than 200 cases and cities with more than 40 cases, researchers found that areas with high levels of selenium were more likely to recover from the virus. For example, in the city of Enshi in Hubei Province, which has the highest selenium intake in China, the cure rate (percentage of Covid-19 patients declared âcuredâ) was almost three-times higher than the average for all the other cities in Hubei Province. By contrast, in Heilongjiang Province, where selenium intake is among the lowest in the world, the death rate from Covid-19 was almost five-times as high as the average of all the other provinces outside of Hubei. Most convincingly, the researchers found that the Covid-19 cure rate was significantly associated with selenium status, as measured by the amount of selenium in hair, in 17 cities outside of Hubei.
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Letâs just hope people donât overdo it. Selenium in small quantities is an important nutrient, but in larger quantities it becomes a vile poison.
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That is a very true statement. This is the first I have heard of this particular constellation of symptoms. Scary as hell! You could leave out the âpediatricsâ in your summary though. We donât know shit about it overall, but that is slowly changing. Given the (increasingly inaccurate) attitude that peds donât get COVID, they only spread it, there has been precious little effort spent understanding the presentation in kids.
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Iâve seen it touted in multivitamins in the US, even though as I understand it, an ordinary US diet provides plenty of it.
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Indeed, garlic will do quite nicely as a source of dietary selenium - as pointed out by one of Derek Loweâs articles about a rather nasty selenium compound.
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I had a mentor who underwent a thorough nutritional and health review (just because he liked to stay on top of things) and was found to be deficient in selenium. Itâs nice to think that saved him some trouble.
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They shouldâve started eating out at Korean restaurants! (Where garlic is in nearly everything.)
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The Daily Mail should be smacked with the rolled-up newspaper of justice for printing this quackery.
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Yeah, I ranted about these guys back when vaccines were my biggest issue. They suck on every possible level, and some that are probably not possible. But they dress up their site to look like a legit medical reference and allow right wing nuts to cite âsupport form recognized medical organizationsâ when spewing antivaxx, anti-LGBTQ, anti-minority positions or specious and dangerous claims of effectiveness of ineffective chemical compounds. They fucking suck.
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In âGOP happily willing to kill itâs own baseâ news
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