Coronavirus

People who have had Covid-19 Coronavirus often never feel completely healthy again. Many of us cannot exercise as well or as often, and many have persistent fatigue of varying degrees. Our lungs don't work as well, and our muscles feel sore for no reason. Sometimes there are bodily aches and pains, perhaps as a result of kidney damage. Often these problems still exist for 3, 4 or more months after testing negative after having the virus.

We ask that the world's governments and scientists and health organizations investigate the following:

1) Heat and Humidity for clearing Covid-19 from the lungs once infected. Many cultures and individuals believe that wet saunas and / or dry saunas help the lungs. We want studies to be done which test the recovery of Covid-19 positive individuals with both heat and humidity (a wet sauna) and heat alone (a dry saune). Do recovery times improve? Is lung damage reversed? Please help those suffering from lung damage by testing these possible treatments. Also, should Covid-19 recovered people work their lungs a lot with aerobic exercises like running, fast walking, etc? Is this a good thing to do after recovery? Can strenuous aerobic exercise for 45 to 60 minutes or more help lungs recover, and possibly reverse coronavirus lung damage?  People: please do NOT do this while you are infected. And please be aware that the course of an infection can wax and wane. Often people who are positive for Covid-19 will feel much better after a week or 10 days, return to their "normal" lives, and then feel even sicker than how they felt with the original onset of symptoms, for a week or two. Sometimes this "cycle" repeats again! You need your strength to recover, so it is not advised to do any strenuous exercise until you are clearly in the recovery phase, and stop sleeping for abnormally long periods of time.

Be aware that transmission of Covid-19, Coronavirus, from animals to other animals and transmission from animals to people, and from people to animas is almost certainly occuring.

It has been established that covid-19 can infect and kill dogs, cats, minks, and other species. We need testing to be done to determine whether or not infected animals can pass the coronavirus on to people (it is believed that they can transmit the coronavirus to people), whether people can pass the virus to their pets (this is probably how pets become infected in the first place), and whether pets can pass the Covid-19 virus on to other pets of the same species and other pets and animals of different species.

Until such time as more is known about this; we must recommend that people take precautions with their pets; stop "kissing" their pets (this is never really a good idea, and no saliva should ever be exchanged between people and other species, including dogs and cats - please make your children aware of this), and stop getting their faces close to those of their pets so as to share the same air.

Please do not abandon pets because of this possibliity or probability of transmission; rather have pets with breathing difficulties tested, and enforce some social distancing, if necessary if people or pets in a household are infected. Some infecetd people who self-isolate do not stay away from their pets, and this is an error which can potentially be fatal for your beloved pets, so please include pets when isolating. The period of contagion does not, it is believed, last for more than 2 to 3 weeks, so any social distancing that is done between people and their pets is for a short period of time only.

Please respect these guidelines.

People who have had Covid-19 Coronavirus often never feel completely healthy again. Many of us cannot exercise as well or as often, and many have persistent fatigue of varying degrees. Our lungs don't work as well, and our muscles feel sore for no reason. Sometimes there are bodily aches and pains, perhaps as a result of kidney damage. Often these problems still exist for 3, 4 or more months after testing negative after having the virus.

We ask that the world's governments and scientists and health organizations investigate the following:

Be aware that a high temperature is NOT an accurate check for Coronavirus or Covid-19. Many people testing positive for Covid-19 will never have a higher than normal temperature. A presistant cough, difficulty breathing, combined with sore muscles and abnormal persistent fatigue is a more reliable check - but these also will neither show up in milder cases, nor in many asymptomatic cases, nor in cases of healthy people under the age of 40 or 50.

The only sure way to test if you have coronavirus, or Covid-19, is to be tested. Tests are available that determine present infections, using a nosal or throat swab, or saliva; and other tests are available which show past infections, using blood.

We advocate that every person be given one free blood test, and one free swab or saliva test if they have persistent symptoms.

Throughout the pandemic, health officials have been urging us to keep our hands clean. Why? To kill particles of coronavirus to prevent it from spreading.

Hand sanitisers are one way to do so, but not all of them are effective, as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has repeatedly warned.

This week, the FDA expanded the list of products it advises people not to use to about 100 brands and 150 varieties.

Of the new products added to the list, 20 were sanitisers that didn’t contain enough alcohol to be effective.

To kill the virus, hand sanitisers must contain a sufficient amount of alcohol, at least 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They must also be safe to use on the skin.

While most children who catch the coronavirus have either no symptoms or mild ones, they are still at risk of developing "severe" symptoms requiring admission to an intensive care unit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report released Friday.

Despite persistent rumors that children are "almost immune" from the virus, the analysis of 576 children hospitalized for the virus across 14 states found that one out of three was admitted to the ICU — similar to the rate among adults. Almost 1 in 5 of those were infants younger than 3 months. The most common symptoms included fever and chills, inability to eat, nausea and vomiting. The CDC concluded that it's crucial to continue prevention efforts wherever children gather, specifically citing schools and child care centers.

Check the Official U.S. Government site at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) department of the National Institute of Health (NIH).

People with symptomless Covid-19 can carry as much of the virus as those with symptoms, a South Korean study has suggested.

South Korea was able to identify and isolate asymptomatic cases through mass testing as early as the start of March.

There is mounting evidence these cases represent a considerable proportion of coronavirus infections.

But the researchers weren't able to say how much these people actually passed the virus on.

People with a positive coronavirus test were monitored in a community treatment centre, allowing scientists to look at how much of the virus was detectable in their nose and throat swabs.

They were given regular tests, and only released once they were negative.

Results of 1,886 tests suggest people with no symptoms at the time of the test, including those who never go on to develop symptoms, have the same amount of viral material in their nose and throat as people with symptoms.

The study also showed the virus could be detected in asymptomatic people for significant periods of time - although they appeared to clear it from their systems slightly faster than people with symptoms.

The median time (the number where half of cases were higher and half were lower) from being diagnosed to receiving a negative test was 17 days in asymptomatic patients and 19.5 days in symptomatic patients.

Because of the nature of the isolation centre, the study didn't include people with severe cases of the disease. They were also younger and healthier than average.

Most coronavirus testing focuses on people with symptoms, so there is little data on asymptomatic cases.

This study gives us some more information about what they look like in the body.

The researchers acknowledge their study could not "determine the role" that the presence of the virus in asymptomatic patients played in transmission, however.

Early in the pandemic, droplets from coughs and contaminated surfaces were seen as the main routes of transmission – which is why social distancing and hand washing were highlighted as vital measures. China denied for a long time (as did the WHO!) that the virus was being passed airborne, by breathing in the exhalations of infected people.

But the possibility of a third route - what’s called "aerosol transmission" – in which infectious virus particles linger in the air, was only recently acknowledged by the World Health Organization.  

Airborne virus particles probably play a role in "superspreading events" where the infection is passed to large numbers of people in poorly ventilated spaces such as churches and restaurants.

And while outdoors the virus can be scattered by the breeze, and weakened by sunlight, indoors it can survive in the air for up to five or more hours.

One recommendation is for people to wear masks to reduce how much virus they might release, and to reduce how much virus they breathe in. The less virus released the better, and the less breathed in, the better. Illness is less severe with lower rates of virus intake.  Wear a mask indoors and outdoors in crowds and even medium level population densities. 

A doctor who diagnosed early coronavirus cases in China has stated he believes local officials covered up the scale of the initial outbreak.

Professor Kwok-Yung Yuen, who helped to investigate in Wuhan, says physical evidence was destroyed and the response to clinical findings was slow.

"When we went to the Huanan supermarket, of course, there was nothing to see because the market was clean already. So, you may say that the crime scene is already disturbed because the supermarket was cleared we cannot identify any host which is giving the virus to humans," said Professor Yuen.

"I do suspect that they have been doing some cover-up locally at Wuhan. The local officials who are supposed to immediately relay the information has not allowed this to be done as readily as it should," he added.

China has been criticised for its initial response to the outbreak, and for penalising a doctor who tried to warn colleagues about the virus in late December. In response, China has repeatedly lied and denied accusations that it withheld information about the severity of its outbreak. Furthermore, China has never allowed Western experts to conduct their own local investigations.