I saw a headline that some countries are looking at ibuprofen as a treatment for CV19 symptoms. It wasn’t that long ago when we were warned that anti-inflamatories might make conditions WORSE. A doctor friend posted, “The warnings against Ibu were never recommended in the US. They were based on some confounded data out of France.”
@“Cardinal Fang” – thank you for your post where you circled back to the questions you asked a month ago and sharing updated info. I found it very helpful.
It looks like the virus in California has found its punch again. Deaths are going up at an increasing rate, I’m sorry to say. Half the deaths are in Los Angeles County, which is not as skewed as you might think because a quarter of California’s population lives in Los Angeles County.
According to scientists who are sequencing and studying the virus’s genome, none of the changes (mistakes in replication) so far have changed the behavior (punch) of the virus.
Since there is no evidence for such a change, this is a purely hypothetical question:
Even if mutations in the virus in Italy had resulted in less serious disease, how do people think that translates to Covid in America? The people who are sick now did not get this from Italy.
Maybe people are thinking that SARS-2 will be like SARS-1, but that was on a much, much smaller scale. According to the CDC, 8,098 people worldwide got SARS-1. Eight of them were Americans who got it overseas. It never spread person-to-person here. In contrast, there are 6,724,516 confirmed SARS-2 cases worldwide, and 1,894,753 in the US. How would each of those suddenly acquire the same modifying mutation?
Maybe people just thought that if Italy’s virus became less virulent, that would be hopeful for the future of ours.
Some (now old) local news:
Who would have thought that an old vial of blood can hold some possibly promising leads?
Anyone else disappointed in themselves that they are blood type A?
I have no idea what blood type I am. Is that something that my doctor would have in file based on previous standard labs?
Type and screen is done as part of a normal prenatal exam when a woman becomes pregnant. Sometimes they will do type and screen upon hospital admission and usually before a surgery. It’s also done when you donate blood.
@silverpurple Type A is the second most common blood type in the USA. I think something like 40%. So lots of disappointed people…
Why on earth would I be disappointed in myself for my blood type? I had no control over it whatever.
Your doctor may not know your blood type if s/he hasn’t had any reason to have you tested. My doctor friends are tired of having to tell their patients this. But I second the recommendation to donate blood, the Red Cross will tell you.
I have a mental block about my blood type. I’ve been told several times over the years but it just doesn’t stick.
I can’t donate blood to find out because I don’t weigh enough.
I took that post as kind of joking about it, not that they are actually disappointed in themselves.
Type 0+ here. I first learned it in Bio class in 10th grade eons ago. Our Advanced Bio and Anatomy students still do their own tests in my school. It’s not in regular Bio - disappeared with dissections - both shifted into classes with more kids who are interested vs “everybody.”
I’d know anyway. As long as we haven’t traveled to off limits places we donate blood. I don’t recall ever finding out from lab work when that’s been done.
I’ve done all those things but still don’t remember… Heading over to the file cabinet to see if I can find some old records!
Regarding blood groups, you mean from these articles?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.31.20114991v1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v2
What is the second to the bottom positive blood type? That’s mine.
Article on people who have longer term effects from COVID-19, based on a survey of those who have them (contains link to survey results). Obviously, does not indicate risk of such, and not a random sample (probably quite unrepresentative; see demographics listed below), but may be of some interest.
A few highlights from the survey results:
- Survey respondents were 71% from the US, 12.7% from the UK, and the rest from various other countries.
- 15% of all respondents were from New York (city).
- 30% of respondents were age 30-39, and 32% were age 40-49.
- 77% of respondents were white, and 77% were cisgender female.
- Asthma (17%) and vitamin D deficiency (13%) were the most commonly reported pre-existing conditions. Overweight/obesity was reported at under 1% (seems very unrepresentative of a mostly US population, and/or respondents were not being truthful).
- Physical activity greatly decreased from before: sedentary 2%->45%, very active 25%->2%. Obviously, greatly decreased ability to exercise could have long term negative health effects as well as quality of life effects.
- 56% not hospitalized, 38% visited emergency or urgent care, 4% hospitalized.
- Large number of different symptoms reported.
Your blood type should be somewhere on your labs when you get an annual blood draw. Shouldn’t it?
I found out the first time I gave blood that I’m O+. Our twins were O- and A+ so H must be A+. I like being the “universal donor” but D2 with her O- is truly the gold standard of universality - if only she wasn’t borderline anemic and not able to give blood! Nothing serious, just a typical young woman with low enough hemoglobin to not be able to donate.
No, blood typing is not typically a test that labs do for your annual physical.
People are calling their doctors asking for letters saying that they must cancel their travel for medical reasons so that they get refunds. My friend that works in a medical office says the doctors used to do that kind of thing at no charge, but now they charge.
Makes sense to me. If the only reason you need the note is to get your money back, you can pay for it.