1:30 - Video of Covid vaccination 3:05 - Beginning of monologue 4:00 - patient updates 4:54 - The effects of shaming 5:57 - Schools 6:50 - Story of friends in the UK 8:13 - UK variant 8:38 - Vitamin D 9:56 - Ivermectin 19:05 - Is it likely we will have a double-blind study for IVM? 19:54 - Hilarious antivax post 20:34 - Vax prioritization 21:14 - Phase 1A of vax rollout for health care workers 21:55 - Vax prioritization changes 25:48 - Passive vaccination / monoclonal antibodies 39:26 - Vitamin D dosing
Continuing to detail the list ( ideally copy & paste the below into the lead post by jonathan hart) The American CDC Framework for prioritization of Vaccination www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations-process.html www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforce FULL DETAIL LIST of what is defined - under CDC America - as FRONT LINE ESSENTIAL WORK www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ECIW_4.0_Guidance_on_Essential_Critical_Infrastructure_Workers_Final3_508_0.pdf 23:12 - 24:38 _ Front Line Essential Workers _ Daniel Griffin talk through of the listing of what jobs in the economy have been defined as FRONT LINE ESSENTIAL WORK 24:38 - 25:03 _ High Risk Medical Conditions - a brief talking through the listing 25:03 - 25:28 _ EMPHASIS to ALL - Get BOTH DOSES (studies show that many have failed in the past with other vaccine programs to get themselves back to get the second dose - the effectiveness in the trials of the COVID-19 vaccines is with the vaccine regime they ran which for all so far - is a TWO DOSE regime - the 2nd dose DOES make for a better protection - get the second dose 25:45 - 28:17_ Monoclonal / Polyclonal Antibodies Therapeutics UPDATE _ Under-utilization problem - only 10% of the available product - is being applied to patients - some doctors may not be sufficiently aware or organized and facilitated to use this therapeutic. Daniel gives some very practical information of hotline phone number for the 26:42 _ NEW YORK Hotline for access to the ELI LILY Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutic_ Phone 516 918 6089 (for NEW YORK AREA) 27:10 _ NATIONAL Hotline for access to the ELI LILY Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutic_ Phone 1855 545 5921 28:17 - 28:52 _ UPDATE * OVERVIEW of indication & Contra-indications (watch out for co-infections) and a walk through of the timing (stage of disease) in regard to the use of the Anti - inflammatory medication - steroids 28:52 - 31:09 _ UPDATE * OVERVIEW of indications & Contra-indications and a walk through of the timing (stage of disease) in regard to the use of for use of Anti-Coagulants (VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION - AN ADVANCE in working out what dosage regime is best in most people) 31:09 - 32:35 _ Talk on the SECONDARY INFECTION STAGE ( WEEK 3) 32:35 - 33:22 _ A reminder to clinicians - to have a follow up program - for those who make through a hospital stay - many go on to have ongoing severe problems - have help there for them - have a follow up program is the advice 33:22 _ Fundraiser Talk - including that with the attention on COVID-19 we have lost a lot of ground - over this last 12 months - on other highly destructive infectious disease like HIV and Malaria - so please help financially is the request SECTION 2 Reading out & responding to Emails / Letters sent in 34:09 EMAIL 1 _ PCR Test Sensitivity shortcomings - Daniels talks through the stages of viral load put against sensitivity of test 38:17 EMAIL 2 _ A proposal to repurpose a drug as a particular therapeutic for COVID-19 neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/study-to-evaluate-antidepressant-as-potential-covid-19-treatment/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2773108 This drug is being investigated - but is it "Ready for Prime Time" says Daniel Griffin - Daniel is on the look out for further data on this topic and will give an update to us - when he sees anything compelling on this proposal to repurpose this drug as a therapeutic for COVID-19 39:26 EMAIL 3 _ More on Vitamin D - Good Advice Given Here & the Medcram Video - Excellent material - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ha2mLz-Xdpg.html - & check out reference list Interviewer: Kyle Allred, Producer and Co-Founder of MedCram.com REFERENCES: The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS)... 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Prof. Racanielllo should make an index like this. I think this would be a helpful reference for people to revisit stuff and also perhaps post on social media tidbits they recall during discussions. It would also have the side-effect of garnering more views and perhaps even drawing in more subscribers.
You guys have become my only family. I'm almost 80. I stay home in this house and watch virus shows. I am getting sick from being in lock down for a year. Unfortunately it is cold here so I can't get out and walk but I always feel reassured when I watch your videos.
I totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m totally into data driven methods which is what led me here but the welcoming non-superficial personalities of the experts really do make them feel like family.
Not sure if they clear the sidewalks where you live but if you can get out and walk even 15 minute a day it will be good for your mental health as well as physical. I have a treadmill with a piece of plywood across the guard rails that I use for a treadmill desk. Cheap Costco treadmill seems to work fine. I agree 100% that listening to intelligent people discuss issues while NOT being rude to each other is good therapy. If you’re 80, maybe you will get a vaccine soon and will be able to safely get out a bit more. I hope so!
I hope you have times of refreshing and that you experience the love of Christ who is our peace and hope for the future. He loves you dearly and watches over you ❤️.
I heard Dr Daniel say this a few times that "clapping people out" of the ICU is not the end. I'm a Home Healthcare RN BSN Bsc(Med Sci) HON and Ive had the privelege of looking after these clapped out patients after hospital discharge. The company I worked for hasnt done a great deal to teach us anything so I went out and educated myself, nothing new there. I was provided with adequate PPE btw. Anyway thanks to studying myself silly and watching TWIV I was ready for hypotension, blood clots, dehydration, utis and superinfectiions and found myself guiding the PCPs and providing references. My previously hypertensive patients enjoyed no drugs but within wks it was back. Having worked in ICU I was ready for partially collapsed lungs and how to reinflate. My mother is an opera singer and teacher and fortunately I absorbed her tecniques so I taught them these exercises. Together with one physiotherapist I believe we discharged 25 out of 25 alive and I told patients and families to reach out if they are worried. Three had UTIs we could manage at home, and the one patient I saw covid toes on and no anticoagulant post hospitlaization I had to send back to er for sob, really I knew it was a PE; she returned home and she was one of the 25. Oxygen Desaturation and insisiting upon oxygen home therapy with humidification was not easy. The silliest thing I saw was a covid toe case called diabetic ulcers rather than DTI but my colleagues accepted some help out with documenting. Anyway you should order Home Healthcare.
Aneta Integra, Thank you for your service. Have you also provided early, aggressive outpatient treatment at Covid onset? Are you or other nurses possibly administering the Regeneron or Eli Liily treatments Daniel mentioned?
@@melissajohnson5917 I'm really appreciative of my previous studies because it helped me understand what I was reading because I was often translating things for my colleagues, family and patients.
@@patriciahoke4722 Lungs are not completely reinflated after extubation, even following surgery parts might still need some help hence use of incentive spirometer, deep breathing and coughing and chest percussion all within scope. You can tell when blood starts moving back to those areas to pick up oxygen as o2 sat drops and then rises and you listen to lung area concerned and you can hear air move in and out
@Denise Skinner I thought chimps had SIV not HIV ? Also I would hope that they screen the chimps that they get the adeno virus from very carefully . Do they have a way to isolate the adeno virus to be sure that's all they are getting ?
@@jonnash5196 go to “pub-med”. Virus has 18 HIV inserts...yes, was used as a bio weapon, patented here in the US in 2003. RNA test - never created to test for virus (via Nobel peace prize winner, Kari Mullis, creator of the PCR test), Vaxxx - includes MNRA - synthetic dna, 2nd “booster shot” will assure these little microbes enter the human dna and replicate...welcome to the world of transhumanism.
@@sadiea4381 wow I'm still reading about Mullis and PCR . Interesting stuff . I very much doubt that as another person suggested the US would want the deaths of a large number of people . It's interesting that Mullis doubted that AIDS was caused by HIV . Whether or not that's true there may well be much that we do not know or understand about AIDS. Was Mullis someone who could think farther outside the box than his colleagues ? Did he get a little too far out sometimes ?
@@jonnash5196 he won the Nobel peace prize for the test and I’m sure “they” weren’t too happy about it. And he died in 2019 so he wasn’t around to let people know the truth...but he published articles and sent a letter to a colleague before he died. There is a video of him taking about the test. He said it was to “collect” DNAl” and “antibodies”. Wasn’t that what we were told we “needed” if we had the virus? The dna is going in to a huge database...will be used for tracking those who get the vaxxx. The virus and the vaxxx both have mNRA in them...do you know about that?
We veterinarians have been told we are in Phase 1B as frontline essential workers. PLEASE don't forget us, the poor redheaded stepchildren of the medical professions. #OneHealth #VeterinariansAreMedicalDoctorsToo #DontForgetUsFelinePractitionersAndTheCOVIDCats
Yup, friends still invite me to go eat in restaurants. One said I know you are covid cautious but we are inviting you anyway. No thanks. I will after I have my immunity.
Thanks for a honest discussion about Ivermectin Dr Griffin and also for acknowledging Dr Kory, Dr Marik, Dr Joseph who are working hard ‘ in the trenches’ as you aptly described.
Umh, most of the UK is in tier 4 or tier 3 and pubs and restaurants are shut. Not sure the comments towards the beginning about the UK are current or truthful. And before that, November, the whole month, it was the second national lockdown, all pubs and restaurants shut, everywhere.
you are both right. vitamin D3 works prophylactically and takes a week to take effect in the body. The Spanish used a different form of vitamin D which is active immediately and they did show an affect
@@SiegfriedEmme can take a lot longer than a week to correct a deficiency with D3. Calcifediol is probably much better to supplement with, there are reviews on this, but not on the market.
Ignoring for now the Spanish study that he has blown off on several occasions, his statement all but screams the follow up question: "Then why the hell aren't you telling mildly symptomatic, newly PCR+ patients to start taking significant quantities of D3?" Apparently, in Griffith's little universe, patients don't really exist until they are admitted. :(
@@SiegfriedEmme If people started taking large doses when they first became symptomatic, there would be enough time for serum levels to rise before the infection and inflammation become serious. Even if the positive effect is limited, it would be a harmless attempt to treat patients _before_ they show up at the hospital gasping and wheezing.
Thank you Daniel and Vincent for everything you do!!! In spite of everything, I wish you and the other TWIVlers & TWIPlers a Merry Christmas, happy holidays with good health for you and your families,!! Happy new year!!! Love the quote from Mother T. 💕🎄🎁🎄💜🎄☮💕
@@hoplite7644 11 RCT with 1700 patients already reported for IVM and COVID-19. Review by Andrew Hill, Liverpool Uni, 4/5 deaths averted swprs.org/who-preliminary-review-confirms-ivermectin-effectiveness/
I am NOT an anti-vaxxer, and I would jump the line if I felt safe about my reaction as a long hauler with autoantibodies. I believe long COVID becomes an autoimmune disease at some point. I would like to see some long term data on the vaccine's effect on this part of the population. Our numbers are growing. I also won't about people who get long COVID as a side effect of the vaccine. I hope they are doing adequate studies.
@Denise Skinner and there were 18 HIV inserts in the virus itself and now the vaxxx is being said to cause HIV. We were told it would not do this so not sure what Is true at all. There are lots of reports coming out and they are not good.
@@wk8000you may want to look up Anthony patch at www.Anthonypatch.com. Most of what he talks about is based on scientific evidence from papers published on “scientific” websites...then those who are interested can go and research the info for themselves. If you give me your email address I’ll send you some links to other info, as well...if you’d like. By the way, I’m not an anti-vaxer, I just know enough about this one (that it has never been used on anyone before now and we are just learning that both are having adverse effects, including death). As far as mRNA...I’ll email you about that as well. And..as far as fertility...I read yesterday that young men were being encouraged to freeze sperm before getting the vaccine. It’s just absolutely crazy...when has anyone “had to get it” to go to work or to do anything else....😏
Thank you Dr. for addressing both D3 and Ivermectin. I appreciate your recognition that there may be value in either or both, and your call for more data so that we may better understand exactly what is going on, is refreshing.
During November England was in lockdown. There were no pubs, restaurants snf cafe's were shut. The R rate was falling in all areas of the country except where the new varient was established. in those areas the R rate was rising exponentially. Please explain how this can mean there is no evidence of enhanced transmissability.
because you need a transmissibility study to have direct evidence. Also, people break rules all the time. If people weren't breaking the rules, even a virus with higher transmissibility wouldn't be transmitting.
Pre-Christmas shopping in damp or wet UK streets removing masks between shops then putting same masks on again on entering next shop, masks on chin or hanging on one ear, or stuffed into pocket or handbag between use. People who don't understand that disposable masks should not just be returned to the glove box for all members of the family to reuse. Teenagers swapping & sharing masks to enter the store to buy lunch or drinks before school. People who do not understand "disposable" infers "dispose of responsibly" after use, not reuse until too smelly to wear, nor drop it on the floor when you take it off for someone else to clean up. Cloth masks should be worn and washed at least after one daily use, not to be perpetually worn. Removal of masks by using the straps, not the outside of front of mask. The appalling mask hygiene, or lack of it, here in the UK since masks became mandatory, has probably meant people are infecting themselves, with their masks being the primary infective fomites. we would have seen less transmissibility if masks had not been mandatory in shops. Only masks worn within the guidelines published by the UK gov etc., are going to be preventative, not the way the UK population is using them in practice.
@@tikaanipippin -- I see a lot of claims like this. Attempts to defend mask use policy by essentially blaming the public for the fact that they dont seem to be controlling the epidemic anywhere. I dont buy it. The simple reason is that masks are only really intended to stop shedding, so wearing the same mask doesn't make a difference to the goal of stopping some viral shed indoors. Furthermore, in places like the UK, influenza has been almost completely suppressed this year. There are extremely low numbers of cases. Surely our non-pharma interventions are playing a part in that.. and yet COVID still spreads easily. The fact is it spreads easier than seasonal flu and there are more susceptible people to it. Hence, there is a limit to non-pharma interventions like masks. Take a look at Europe and see that countries which mandated widespread mask use in the summer or autumn saw massive spikes in cases in the winter instead. It was triggered by seasonal change and masks as public policy to suppress it didn't work.
The government was so concerned about things in the UK that they wrecked everyone's Christmas plans at the last minute. What did this lead to? A rush of people crowding onto public transport. A rush of people crowding into shops to get shopping done to account for their wrecked plans. The problem with the current situation in the UK is that to a large degree the amount of virus transmission is independent of the additional tier measures taken. Before measures are increased? Levels go up, levels stay the same or levels go down. After measures are increased? Levels go up, levels stay the same or levels go down. It is NOT the extra precautions being taken which are affecting the virus levels. The base level precautions are certainly needed and very much have a positive, reducing effect on controlling the virus transmission levels. However since the virus transmission levels are essentially independent of extra precautions taken the question must be asked: are the extra precautions actually worth it? The extra precautions cause critical damage to the economy. The extra precautions cause excess deaths through suicide increasing, and deaths from undiagnosed or misdiagnosed conditions other than COVID-19. There has also been a tsunami of serious mental health issues due to the extra precautions. The extra precautions have either an extremely weak or negligible effect on actual transmission rates. Given that situation are the extra precautions worth it? NO!!!! Then on top of the unnecessary destruction and death caused by the extra restrictions we also have the pervasive problem that the public health authorities are running into at the moment: no one believes them anymore! Why? Partially it's simple fatigue due to the length of time that this pandemic has been going on for. However, and much more critically it's because they have discredited themselves through their own actions. They have exaggerated, they have manipulated and they have outright lied. Therefore they have destroyed their stock of political capital for no good reason. Take Neil Ferguson for example. His horrendously bad modelling was used right at the start and proved utterly useless. He then decided that he wanted to get his leg over and violated the very restrictions that he had a part in crafting and triggering the implementation of. He resigned from his advisory position as a result. However what's happened in the last couple of weeks? Looky, looky! Back into town comes Ferguson. His "models" are again used to trigger extra restrictions. He is again treated as credible. He failed in the spring of this year. He failed during the Foot and Mouth epidemic towards the start of this century. He failed during the swine flu outbreak. Ferguson has utterly destroyed both his professional and personal credibility. As a result he should be ignored completely when formulating policy and seeking advice. Yet he isn't ignored and instead his advice is sought out. Instead he still holds a chair at Imperial College. Instead he is still treated as someone whose opinion actually matters. Take Dr Birx for another example. Oh she says, you musn't see your family over Christmas. What does she then do? She travels to go and see her family over Christmas. One rule for the elites. Another rule for the masses. Do as we say, not as we do. Going down that route is a VERY, VERY dangerous one. It is massively corrosive to societal integrity and produces a huge amount of hatred and resentment towards those elites. What happens when that hatred and resentment reaches critical mass? Revolution, violence and the deaths of a lot of those same, hypocritical elites. I wish I were exaggerating. I wish I were not discussing something that has happened again and again over history. However I am discussing a very real danger and a very real possibility. That is especially true in the current political climate when it is not just in the public health field where the same attitude has been displayed by snobbish, foolish, incompetent elites in the United States. Get on with it: chop, chop! That's a phrase which could acquire a much darker meaning if our current ruling elites are not very careful. I really hope they are very careful, and I really hope that nothing that horrible happens. However recent behaviour and their very attitude strongly aggravate towards the worst outcomes sadly.
you are very much hit the nail on the head. i tend to see political motivations in the government action beside itiotism. namely the capital-gov. opposition and the upcoming brexit itiotism. somehow experts not around the table anymore. and even many framed for the vaccine. there is no need to vaccinate entire populations. you need to vaccinate those who are in close peril and you should develop antibody threapies for those who has mid and severe symptoms. thats more cost effective on budget, economic and social sides. but less business.
@@motopeter2409 yes there is a need for vaccination of as much of the entire population as possible. Herd immunity only works if the herd as a whole overall is immune, whether through vaccination or exposure. Vaccination is very much prefered for herd immunity.
David, here's my question for you. So extra measures are put in place and transmission levels go up, go down, or stay the same. How do we know that without those extra measures, taken at that particular time, the levels would not have gone up more, gone down less, or instead of staying the same would have gone up? There's no control group. Just to be clear, I agree with your assessment of the non-covid damage being done by lock downs.
@@motopeter2409 Assuming everything else remains the same, right? Seems to me there are so many variables at play it's hard to draw any firm conclusions. For example, the new, more rapidly spreading variant might work against the moderating effect of extra measures, keeping the curve from breaking.
Dr Griffin, thank you for your comments on Ivermectin; especially mentioning the Texas group studying Ivermectin. I am looking forward to the study results which might be published in early 2021 concerning Ivermectin efficacy. Because there are many individuals who might be waiting months - to years for a vaccine, they need any assistance modern medicine can give them. Thank you, Dr Griffin and Dr Racaniello for sharing the updates and your knowledge. Happy Holidays to all.
Dr. Griffin, I pleased that you received the vaccine along with other healthcare workers. This is been my favorite podcast and I have come do you like and respect the core team and guests. Discouraging IVM when people are dying, Remdesivir results are immaterial and a tsunami of evidence supporting an FDA approved drug like ivermectin are dismissed is immoral. I just want to clarify that you are telling people not to take this medication? I have a prescription for the generic human formulation, I also have FDA/EUA Antibody and Antigen tests. What about the 99% of the Covid victims who are not vaccinated and have no antiviral therapy? I like your quotes, your ties, but you’re losing me as a viewer by suggesting extremely expensive medications proven to be of little or no benefit while Perpetuating the fear preventing docs & hospitals from using ditch medicine to save lives. Gandhi was quoted when asked why he allowed mother Theresa to remain in India that “If any of you would like to replace her And her sisters from digging maggots out of our brothers and sisters then we can have a conversation, now we thank the Blessed mother for being here”
@@scottzajac2542Tragically, the FDA hasn't bothered to change recommendations for administering *IVERMECTIN* since Aug 27, 2020 regardless of JAMA-CHEST & BMJ-OPENHEART taking note of the peer reviewed ICONstudy showing immunomodulatory improvement in severe Covid cases. Since we have major EUA's in place for vaccinations(*RIGHT?*) there is no excuse for the FDA to not take action. *NOW*!! ~3,000 deaths per day is not acceptable.
I live in the UK. Your comments on the UK are about 10% accurate and irrelevant to our situation. And that's being kind because shaming is not helpful. Can I suggest you stick with the facts please.
UK here. Schools are open with full classes, no masks in class, no barriers between students, full buses of children, no temperature checks that I know of locally, no mass testing so far of students. Wonder why the virus might be spreading so fast?
Tons of academics don't make money from it one way or the other. Off patent makes the study less expensive, and good results get you into journals and an actual moment of fame. There is no disincentive. Just paranoia.
@@thanesgames9685 As long as there is enough funding to do quick studies with very large number of subjects. That is my main concern. It must be all government grants then. I doubt many pharma companies would want to support such studies. It competes with them. That is a big problem with our current patent system. I definitely appreciate all the effort of academics. As long as the system doesn't put hurdles on their paths.
I do have a question. I will be getting my vaccine in a clinic and watched for 15 -30 minutes as I am an epi pen person(bee allergy) What are my chances of getting covid in a poorly ventilated clinic situation with covid19 virus around as I get my vaccine. If immunity takes 10 days, can you get covid 19 coming in for your shot? I will be masked as will the nurse but I am concerned about indoor clinic environments with no windows and a stream of sick people coming in and out.
Not so. Many parts of California are Great! Watch MedCram on youtube. That is Dr. S - he is fantastic and in SoCal (Inland Empire). I have watched both Medcram as well as TWIV for a well rounded excellent education on SARS CoV2. Excellent. UCSF has been on top of this as well.
I think it might help to memorize the important aspects of what Dr. Griffin says so they can be repeated clearly, verbatim, to the doctor you get. It would be a paragraph of information, and include Dr. Griffin's name and the Twiv podcast name. Or just say 'I want what he is recommending' and it has to do with the timing and conditions for giving the anticoagulants and steroids and anti-inflammatories. Me personally, I'll be sure to say don't give anything without randomized controlled double blind trials. Very conservative medicine is what I demand. That means no ivermectin, no Remdesivir (which is only might help briefly anyways at the very beginning of the treatment), no vitamin D, no antibiotics unless bacterial infection is proven with a blood test.
I just learned of a relative who tested positive for COVID-19 (today) who is in hospice recovering from chemo therapy and has COPD /Lung Cancer and has been administered Ivermectin as part of his treatment course. Of course it will only be anecdotal but it shows that it is getting prescribed in rural New Jersey.
My experience with Covid. I'm a dual degreed engineer with fairly extensive experience with medicine. I worked under contract for over a decade for a law firm that defended malpractice suits. I got involved when electromedical issues arose. I finally quit when I could no longer stomach defending what quacks were doing to their patients. So I have a healthy disrespect for the run of the mill MD. As my brother, a top DDS in the state likes to say "The lowest ranked student in the medical class still gets to call himself "Dr". Therefore before I believe anything my MD tells me, I extensively research it. In Feb I had a knee replacement which, as it turns out, was the last surgery at that hospital before they shut down elective surgery. I brought home Covid, counting back from the onset of symptoms, probably when I had my pre-op done. So I was recovering both from the surgery and Covid. I live in a very rural area and travel over 100 miles to get competent care so my likelihood of getting treatment here was slim. I dragged myself out of bed, to the computer and did the research. I saw many reports on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquin. which was very handy since my wife was taking the drug for Lupus. She did not catch Covid. I used the combination of Hydroxychloroquin, high dose Vitamin D, zinc and calcium. In 4 days my overt symptoms were gone (return of taste and smell, pulse dropped back under 200, etc). I was very weak for a couple of weeks but that could have been as much from the surgery. The result of a car wreck, I have severe lung damage. My left diaphragm muscle is paralyzed and my right muscle's movement is constricted by scar tissue. It was absolutely vital that I avoid any lung involvement which the above therapy achieved. So here are two more " anecdotal " examples of evidence of success.
@@beckmack1994 Zero appetite. I poured (can't call it drining) two bottles a day of Slimfast down my throat. A tasteless slimy fluid. As my taste returned, I decided I liked the stuff so now my daily meal consists of a Bagel with cream cheese and a snack cake of some kind in the morning and a cup of coffee. A snack cake for lunch. A Simfast and occasionally something out of the freezer at night. So far I've dropped a pesky 60 lbs and am 20 lbs away from my goal - my high school graduation weight. So overally, I can classify this experience as "good with risks".
@@beckmack1994 Appetite, yes. Amount eaten, No. My stomach apparently shrunk so that now I eat a fraction of what I did before. This is intentional to continue my weight loss program. I did not have very severe flu-like symptoms. First indications were weakness, headache (I NEVER get headaches) loss of taste and smell, followed the next day by a pulse around 230. My wife called my PCP who called in something that was supposed to slow my pulse. It had no effect.
UK transmission: no people aren't being that careful. Lots of people 'going topless' in mask wearing with their snout hanging out, for example. Thank you both for sensible views on our 'new variant' from a cabinet with ZERO medical/scientific background.
@Denise Skinner You have no idea what that article is saying, do you? It has zero to do with making any vaccines. It is about making non-infectious viral particles to use in neutralization assays, without using actual COVID viruses that require Class III biological hazard labs. Basically, a neutralization assay is a method to see if a given antibody or soup of antibodies is capable of blocking the function of the viral particle to bind - it is a quick way to test the products while develop monoclonal antibody treatments, for example. They are designing the system to work in only one specific cell line - the 293T cell line which was originally isolated from human kidney cells and then modified to work in this system. They are using the HIV retroviral system to add the spike protein segment to the genome of the cell line. Those cells then produce fake, non-infective virus particles covered with a part of the COVID 2 spike protein, including the part that interacts with ACE2 receptors. They isolate these particles and then use them to challenge different antibodies they have created or isolated, to see if they antibodies are binding to the important part of the COVID spike protein, or to a relatively inert part of the spike protein. All of this happens in test tubes, not in people. Nothing at all to do with the vaccine., unless perhaps they took antibodies from a person who had the vaccine and checked to see whether the antibodies they generated are blocking the important part of the virus.
Dr Pierre Kory recently announced, regarding the delta variant and the protocols on his Frontline Covid19 Critical Care website (FLCCC) , that treatment with ivermectin must start immediately upon infection. Else this delta variant replicates very rapidly and gets quickly out control.
3:08 "If you judge people you have no time to love them." 7:10 "what's going on there in the UK?" followed by Dr Griffin recounting the heartwarming tale about his silly English friends or should I say mockery of his "friends". 8:31"But they're being so careful when they crowd in the pubs..." cue big grins and laughter. Such fun...is this what you meant?
The mysterious case of increasing cases in the UK. In England during November there was a light lockdown and cases were falling. It was promised that if the cases continued to fall there would be some relaxation it the mitigation measures. This was done early December. This a poor decision because the cases were already increasing. So the restrictions were set back to what they had been during early November. The compliance (or lack of it) was the same, but the cases continued to increase and to accelerate. This was mainly in the South-east and in London, but was spreading North into areas where the changes in restrictions (either way) had not been made. So what has changed? The behavior was the same, so the UK health ministry investigated and were worried that the virus may have mutated and become more transmissible. So the UK government (and home nations) adopted the precautionary principle and implemented a much stricter lock-down. Investigations are being carried-out (at several sites including Portland Down, previously the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare Establishment) to find out if the variant is more transmissible or the increase in cases is due to other factors. Whatever the reason the Rt appears to have increased by 0.4 - 0.5. The only solution is to continue to do what we have done before, but more so; further restrictions and improved compliance.
Thanks gentlemen. Today, 12/26 in one of a "journalism-out-of-control" NPR daily broadcasts this morning ("weekend ed. saturday") was included a physician whose vaccine injection immediately gave him a Zero BP reading so he immediately injected himself with his epi pen. WTF does National broadcasting think they are DOING out there? Does the Public hafta hear this unfiltered single misfortune ?? Keep up your work and many many thanks ... I can and will contribute later. 🎄blessings
I didn't see the segment that you are referencing on NPR. I have never taken the flu vaccine and I just started leaning towards accepting the COVID-19 vaccination. Now that I read your post, I will be re-evaluating my decision. Thank you.
NPR weekend edition is a radio show. It’s usually reliable. I didn’t hear this edition today but just thinking, if a person has blood pressure of zero over zero that means their heart has stopped and they are dead. I’m not sure how they were able to pull their EpiPen out of their back pocket and stab it in their thigh. Weekend edition might be available online somewhere or on Spotify later today or tomorrow. It would be interesting to hear the episode and actually find out what the heck was said. It kind of sounds like the commentor you replied to may have misunderstood/mis-heard something. As far as taking the vaccine if Dr. Fauci and Dr. Dan Griffin can handle it, it’s good enough for me. I probably won’t get a chance to get it until summer so by that Time we will all be a lot smarter, won’t we :-)
@@solarwind907 I didn't hear the NPR episode, but I will search for it. But, even if I don't hear the episode, adverse reactions will not be uncommon. However, since learning about the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee several years ago, I don't generally take any injections, not even a flu shot.
@@RJM316 Tough to undo history. Like I said, if it's good enough for Fauci it's good enough for me. Doesn't make me want to sign up for classes at Tuskegee U though. "The Public Health Service started the study in 1932 in collaboration with Tuskegee University (then the Tuskegee Institute), a historically black college in Alabama. In the study, investigators enrolled a total of 600 impoverished, African-American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama.[6] Of these men, 399 had latent syphilis, with a control group of 201 men who were not infected.[5] As an incentive for participation in the study, the men were promised free medical care, but were deceived by the PHS, who never informed subjects of their diagnosis[7][8][9][10] and disguised placebos, ineffective methods, and diagnostic procedures as treatment.[11]" It's hard to believe that "Doctors" would treat their patients with placebos knowing it was not going to help them at all. And then let it go on for decades. Well, looking at our leadership in D.C. at the moment I guess it's not that hard to believe the level of amorality of some people. No matter what you decide to do, good luck to you,
The last lockdown in the UK was more like a lockdown in name only. In particular, the covid-secure schools are covid-secure in name only. Regardless of the best efforts of teachers, there has been little funding for schools to bring in new staff or find additional space. As a result, the ONS snapshot indicated 3+% of secondary school pupils and 2+% primary school children were positive. This compared with 1+% in other age groups. Given that the beginning of the current second wave coincided with the return of the schools, the circumstantial evidence suggests that the schools are fueling the spread of the new variant.
I agree about this part of England's "covid safe" social life. There was a brief lockdown November into early December but either side the south east was not under such stringent controls as parts of the north of England and a large proportion of the population in Scotland. Note that Wales has high rates but not with the same high proportion of the bogey variant.
Why dont you say nothing about possible longterm effects from a vaccine ... saying "hey after one day i dont have any unwanted effects" dont mean nothing , so i stopped watching the video right there cause i dont feel you tell the whole story.
@@neon-john Ha! Good one, you really got him... now how about contributing something to the discussion? What's the efficacy of the vaccine now? Lot of data coming out -- this "vaccine" is useless.
@@ReelJV *sigh* I guess you can't read. I just finished my second bout of Covid. I got Moderna about 9 months ago. It still worked. It doesn't promise 100% protection. What it did do was make this bout so mild I wasn't sure it was Covid. My home test kit came up positive so I started the Hydroxy again. My mild symptoms which consisted of a mild headache and a degree of fever were gone in 5 days. Can't ask for a much better outcome than that. Let's see if you can read and comprehend this "contribution".
One of my pandemic heroes, Cameron Kyle-Sidell talks a lot of serotonin syndrome and Covid. On his Twitter, he links a lot of other docs doing real work on this.
Yes. I host one of his early videos. I’m 5 weeks post CoVid-19 and seem to be left with hyperthyroidism. Very low TSH .012 and normal T4. Hoping this is transient. Having thyroid uptake scan this week.
Getting health care workers (while more likely to get sick off the clock) will help ensure you are healthy to deal with the rest of us. My dad is super high risk (+75 and with heart failure)- I am at a loss of how to not only get him vaccinated, but the family who cares for him - who may be lower priority. Thanks again as always Dr.G and Dr.V. You have been some lights in what could have been a very dark year. I’m glad I found your information- I will keep listening to these podcasts post (parasitology has always interested me a bit more - sorry Dr.V). I’m just realizing- that so many people have been suffering of very curable or manageable diseases- and yet I only became bothered when one came to my doorstep 😞
When the people who come in contact with the most people (police, etc) and the most vulnerable to covid (sick, old, ER room patients), they will be exposed to many workers who have been vaccinated. Since the vaccine turns workers who get infected into asymptomatic spreaders, this looks like a huge disaster. Asymptomatic transmission of the virus will go through the roof The vaccine trials did not track whether or not anyone had become contagious (Dr Mina’s self administered 20 minute test twice a week would have done this). Is there any data showing one vaccine is better than another in preventing asymptomatic spreading? If so, then that dictates the preferred vaccine
You seem awfully sure that this will turn people into asymptomatic spreaders. There is NO data suggesting that. It's complete speculation at this point!
Ivo yes ... just like Ivermectin, we need to stop vaccines until fully authenticated double blind studies prove we are not creating a huge self inflicted disaster that would make Dr Mengele blush.
@@douginorlando6260 no we just need to keep practicing the same mitigations that we've had for the last 10 months until every at-risk person is vaccinated at least. Stopping the vaccination campaign is insane.
If a person gets vaccinated, it doesn’t mean they throw away their mask and stop washing their hands etc. First responders will continue to mask up and follow physical distancing guidelines etc. The fact that they are vaccinated means there’s much less chance of them getting sick. That is all
Another Prejudice dispelled - People from the USA can do Irony just fine, as Dr Griffin demonstrates talking about the UK situation. :), Also important information on all the possible reasons why here we have seen the daily case count rocket up from the start of December.. Bruought and informed smile in troubled times, thank you Daniel and Vincent
CA VA Geri NP, ModeRNA aka Moderna 12/23/20. Only S\E sore inj site x3days. More vaccine quickly please for my elderly patients and parents. Interesting, more than 20% of my clinical team declined vaccine. More education needed. I will be continuing weekly testing, strong PPE and isolation.
Well then 20% of your clinic team need to be fired. They have taken a decision which is fundamentally incompatible with their continuing status as members of said clinical team. There need to be consequences for that decision.
I am a nurse with 3 jobs and 2 of them are not providing the vaccine. The 3rd is military and because I am a contractor, I am at the end of their list. Is there anywhere else a RN can get a vaccine?
A few years ago I took part in an experiment here in NZ re vitamin D. I found at the end I was taking the vit d. The conclusions seemed not very clear. However I was obviously younger (I'm 72) so perhaps now I will buy vit. D although there is less threat here (but anything can happen) it might be a good idea.
There is a component of the flu season and winter here too since hospitals are always full at this time. I don’t know why it’s difficult to get real data from city officials as to how many beds are actually occupied by covid patients vs other issues. Also how many are seniors. Are they coming from nursing homes? If government provided all this data you’d have a little more faith in their over the top hysteria. I’m certainly not a covid denier but give me data.
Based on info from friends who work in hospitals, ICU capacity has never been so strained as it has been this year, including during the flu season. But getting specific data is difficult and many people believe they are not accurate or outright fake.
So let me get this straight: shaming does not work. Physicians should ask what can we do to be helpful. Ok, provide more tests. And if that person tests positive, hopefully they will not go to that party. Hope is not a strategy. Love ya Dr G, but this is not my idea of physicians being helpful (and yes, I will continue to listen!).
At approx 8;30 ..... Daniel, for such an intelligent man that was a very ignorant, stupid & patronising comment about UK pubs.... the entire hospitality sector was shut down weeks ago, having been largely closed most of the year - pubs, clubs, bars, etc all closed !! restaurants have been largely closed for months - some were open for eating in with strict restrictions for a time, but it has been take-out or delivery only for some time now. If you want to comment on social behaviour in the USA thats up to you, but get your facts straight before criticising other countries please.
Great show ... hmm not a fan of mother Teresa though , she should have empowered women more and pioneered contraception she had the opportunity to change the world but fluffed it ... just sayin....
fist: the commonly used face masks protects nothing. it is an illusion. there were plenty of conversation about them at the begining but it seams all forgotten. 2. the virus is not necessarily more transmissable but less symptomatic. so it spreads under the hood. 3. in UK the fatality rate is more then 10fold lower then at spring. of course, there is improvement in healthcare but mostly the virus is less aggressive (see above) 4. the hospitals in UK are far less occupied then at spring and the age distribution is more elderly. 1/5 of the hospitals have higher cases but 1/2 has lower cases. together with the low fatality rate it all shows that this virus has different characteristic. its normal evolution is to be less agressive. 5. the fatality ratio is similar in many countries in Europe (UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden) while other shows up a bit differently but that could be explained by cultural, geopolitical, economical causes. 6. by September 13k mutations were described worldwide. now we decided to point to UK as mutation would be a surprise.
@@joefrancis759 that's an, exxagaration of course to convey the message. there are some use to collecg large droplets at talk although there is zero effect on filtrating beath in air. of course one can, spit in your moth directly thats true. when we talking about covid pretctio. we talk about the size of 0.3micron. the surgical mask has a linear wave breath out efficacy of 30% in that range while the ffp2/3, N95,KN95 stanards gives a protection of 90% or above. the problem with virus range particles is that they not heavy enough to sediment unlike the bacterial range droplets. so the small particles float around and with those maskes which cannot be fitted (surgical mask) or without filtration in that range give no protection to the wearer. although those mask which cannot be fitted air tight the linear airflow is delfected so direct cintamination is truely less, the air goes out in a, disperese manner and still contaminate all around. so when i say give no protection, i simply summarise this description. hope that helps. facemasks-uk.com/2020/04/10/face-masks-standards-filtration-effectiveness-ratings/
8:07.... Vincent references the latest reported variant , in an incredulous tone, and then states (I’m not quoting exactly but close) “something is amiss here, viruses don’t act like this, I hope they get this worked out...” What was he hinting at? Dr. David quickly responded with light hearted sarcasm and humor related to the story he just told about the foolish ignorance of a friend’s father in England...but I didn’t take Vincent’s statement as made in response to Dr. David’s story. Think about it: every single adult in London could be gathered in one gigantic pub for 24hrs, and there would surely be dire consequences, in terms of spread , infections , new cases , ultimately leading to disease and death. And this is what Dr David’s anecdote pertained to: further spread in the UK due to ignorance and public gathering. HOWEVER, it was NOT given as an explanation for the emergence of variants???? So then why would Vince make that statement??? What was he getting at????