According to this study:
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar ... 59/7660393Metformin reduced the odds of hospitalizations/death through 28 days by 58%.
Favorable Antiviral Effect of Metformin on Covid-19 Viral Load
Covid-19 News & Updates
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GroveHillWanderer
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FWIW, a recent study carries some interesting data showing that metformin, a safe, easily-available and cheap medication appears to have a favorable effect on COVID-19 viral load and subsequent outcomes.
According to this study:
Favorable Antiviral Effect of Metformin on Covid-19 Viral Load
According to this study:
Favorable Antiviral Effect of Metformin on Covid-19 Viral Load
Re: Covid-19 News & Updates (Thailand and Southeast Asia only)
Covid infections see sharp rise
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... sharp-rise
Covid-19 cases last week jumped by at least 900 on the previous week, with one fatality recorded each day, the Public Relations Department’s Covid-19 Information Centre revealed.
According to its report published on Monday, 2,762 people were hospitalised for Covid-19 treatment from June 2–8, an average of 395 people a day.
The number increased by 48.3%, from May 26–June 1, in which 1,863 hospitalised cases, or 266 cases a day, were recorded............
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... sharp-rise
Covid-19 cases last week jumped by at least 900 on the previous week, with one fatality recorded each day, the Public Relations Department’s Covid-19 Information Centre revealed.
According to its report published on Monday, 2,762 people were hospitalised for Covid-19 treatment from June 2–8, an average of 395 people a day.
The number increased by 48.3%, from May 26–June 1, in which 1,863 hospitalised cases, or 266 cases a day, were recorded............
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New highly-transmissible Covid strain will elude vaccines
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... nes-expert
The KP.2 strain of Covid-19 will become dominant in Thailand, according to a renowned virologist. It will be more transmissible and vaccines will be hard-pressed to keep up with its mutations, but its symptoms will not be more severe that those of previous strains of the virus......
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... nes-expert
The KP.2 strain of Covid-19 will become dominant in Thailand, according to a renowned virologist. It will be more transmissible and vaccines will be hard-pressed to keep up with its mutations, but its symptoms will not be more severe that those of previous strains of the virus......
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I think this finally puts to rest any theory that it originated in the Wuhan laboratory. More disturbing is that the wild animal trade is still flourishing unregulated, which makes a repeat pandemic of some kind almost a certainty.
Genetic ghosts suggest Covid’s market origins
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po
A team of scientists say it is “beyond reasonable doubt” the Covid pandemic started with infected animals sold at a market, rather than a laboratory leak.
They were analysing hundreds of samples collected from Wuhan, China, in January 2020.
The results identify a shortlist of animals – including racoon dogs, civets and bamboo rats – as potential sources of the pandemic.....
Genetic ghosts suggest Covid’s market origins
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po
A team of scientists say it is “beyond reasonable doubt” the Covid pandemic started with infected animals sold at a market, rather than a laboratory leak.
They were analysing hundreds of samples collected from Wuhan, China, in January 2020.
The results identify a shortlist of animals – including racoon dogs, civets and bamboo rats – as potential sources of the pandemic.....
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Personally, I don't think it truly puts anything to rest regarding the Wuhan Lab or numerous other potential sources of Covid or other diseases. The disease(s) originate (in the most part) from Mammals (Bats in the case of Covid) and the lab in Wuhan is widely known for making tests on these "Mammals" and (enhancing?) the diseases they carry.
This report simply highlights the huge dangers of the out of control "Animal Trade". The issue is massively unhygienic "Wet Markets" and Market places in the likes of China and Hong Kong (well, Kowloon really) - I won't go into the horrors I've seen in India, but China as a whole is worse mainly due to the corruption and Mafia wannabes involved in the Animal Trade, which in turn involves all Market places and hence the transition to humans via food. There's an infamous marketplace in Kowloon where exotic (and endangered) animals/mammals/birds/fish are sold - it's not in full view, Tourists will never know it's there (the police do, as do locals) and it's literally in the same building as a food market.
Nature created it, humans most certainly had a huge part to play in it's "enhancement" and spread.
When you look at the state of the World these days, the Wars, the Crime, the Politics, do you really think the whole "Wuhan Lab" thing was a Conspiracy Theory, or is there the likelihood of countries weaponising viruses?
This report simply highlights the huge dangers of the out of control "Animal Trade". The issue is massively unhygienic "Wet Markets" and Market places in the likes of China and Hong Kong (well, Kowloon really) - I won't go into the horrors I've seen in India, but China as a whole is worse mainly due to the corruption and Mafia wannabes involved in the Animal Trade, which in turn involves all Market places and hence the transition to humans via food. There's an infamous marketplace in Kowloon where exotic (and endangered) animals/mammals/birds/fish are sold - it's not in full view, Tourists will never know it's there (the police do, as do locals) and it's literally in the same building as a food market.
Nature created it, humans most certainly had a huge part to play in it's "enhancement" and spread.
When you look at the state of the World these days, the Wars, the Crime, the Politics, do you really think the whole "Wuhan Lab" thing was a Conspiracy Theory, or is there the likelihood of countries weaponising viruses?
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Here's another take on this......
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/0 ... for-covid/
This is just a short snippet from the short article.....sums things up nicely.
"The new paper’s reasoning demands that a single infected raccoon dog somehow souped up a bat virus enough to spark a global human pandemic without sparking even a single other case among, er, raccoon dogs – and then vanished into thin air."
"There are thousands of markets selling raccoon dogs all over China and south-east Asia. Yet by spectacular bad luck, the virus turned up only in the one city in the whole of Asia that has a laboratory focused on collecting, studying, growing and genetically manipulating SARS-like viruses and infecting humanised mice with them: Wuhan."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/0 ... for-covid/
This is just a short snippet from the short article.....sums things up nicely.
"The new paper’s reasoning demands that a single infected raccoon dog somehow souped up a bat virus enough to spark a global human pandemic without sparking even a single other case among, er, raccoon dogs – and then vanished into thin air."
"There are thousands of markets selling raccoon dogs all over China and south-east Asia. Yet by spectacular bad luck, the virus turned up only in the one city in the whole of Asia that has a laboratory focused on collecting, studying, growing and genetically manipulating SARS-like viruses and infecting humanised mice with them: Wuhan."