{"id":179521,"date":"2021-02-22T12:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=179521"},"modified":"2021-02-17T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:00:07","slug":"covid-quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/covid-quick-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Quick Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

16 Feb 2021 – <\/strong><\/em>Some quick covid updates on early treatment, face masks, vaccines, and more.
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Vitamin D<\/strong>: Another Spanish prospective study<\/a> with 930 hospitalized covid patients found that high-dose vitamin D (calcifediol) reduced ICU admissions by 80% and mortality by 60%.<\/p>\n

Ivermectin 1<\/strong>: A large Indian prospective study<\/a> with 3,500 health care workers found that just two doses of Ivermectin reduced the risk of infection over a one month period by 83%. This confirms the results of an earlier Argentinian study<\/a>, which found that a weekly dose of ivermectin reduced the risk of covid infection by 100% in 1200 health care workers.<\/p>\n

Ivermectin 2<\/strong>: An Israeli placebo-controlled, double-blinded randomized trial<\/a> led by professor Eli Schwartz found a highly significant effect on viral clearance in 94 mostly young patients.<\/p>\n

Face masks<\/strong>: The European CDC has updated its face mask policy recommendations<\/a>. The ECDC acknowledges that after more than one year since the beginning of the pandemic, there is still no evidence<\/em> supporting the effectiveness of medical and non-medical face masks in the community. Furthermore, the ECDC advises against<\/em> the use of FFP2\/N95 respirators by the general public. However, based on the \u2018precautionary principle\u2019, the ECDC does recommend the use of face masks in some situations and for some people.<\/p>\n

Vaccines<\/strong>: Data from Israel confirms very high short-term effectiveness<\/a> of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. On the other hand, according to adverse events reporting systems in the US, the UK and the EU, there are now over 2,000 confirmed post-vaccination deaths<\/a>. Israel\u2019s main problem was that its vaccination campaign ran in parallel to its largest covid wave, producing many infections in partially vaccinated people, which could increase the risk of vaccine-escaping virus strains.<\/p>\n

Down Under<\/strong>: After local outbreaks, Auckland and Melbourne are once again under lockdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

USA<\/strong>: Drug overdoses increased by 45%<\/a> in 2020, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n

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