principiascientificinternational--2020-03-21--Coronavirus: A Perspective from Britain

Coronavirus: A Perspective from Britain

As of Friday the UK is on quarantine in an unprecedented medical lockdown due to Coronavirus , a generic term for a collection of related viruses .
The current variant causing all the media panic has been officially termed Covid-19 .
Below is a snapshot of the current situation , as viewed from a British perspective .
• Last week , England ’ s chief medical officer , Professor Chris Whitty , said the peak of the UK outbreak is most likely still 10 to 14 weeks away .
• More than half the cases – about 80,000 – are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in December .
• The British government ’ s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said there are probably between 5,000 and 10,000 people infected in the UK at this time .
• He also said that many people will no longer be tested if they are showing mild symptoms .
Only those with the most serious symptoms will be given a test in hospital .
• The main symptoms are described as ‘ a new continuous dry cough , headaches , shivering and sweating , laboured breathing ’ .
People with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seven days , by which time they will have either recovered or been admitted to hospital .
This website gives hourly updates to cases worldwide – https : //www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This one gives an overview of the UK , and there is a place to enter your postcode to check cases in your town – It seems those most at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying are the elderly with reduced immune systems , and those with underlying health conditions .
‘ Normal ’ healthy individuals will probably only have mild to moderate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will recover .
Many countries have now closed schools , universities , bars , cafes , restaurants , sports & entertainment venues , tourist attractions and many shops for indefinite periods , cancelled most airline flights & sporting events , severely cut back rail transport , closed their borders and prohibited residents from going out unless it is to buy food or medicines .
On the 14th , both the Daily Mail and the Guardian carried articles saying a ‘ secret report ’ from ‘ Public Health England ’ stated Britain will not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spring 2021 .
The Guardian says “ The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised.
” ( Emphasis added ) The Guardian article claims the report says The article quotes Paul Hunter , a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia : The article ends by saying Going by this article , it seems we should expect a minimum of a third of a million deaths in the UK by the end of this year .
It is interesting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the article to the actual report , or even a photograph of it , so we only have the word of the Guardian about what they claim to have seen .
The article can be seen here : - On March 15th , The Telegraph reported a document produced by the This effectively means almost no-one over 80 in Italy will be treated if they become ill from the Covid virus .
The article can be seen here : - On the 18th , Climate Change Dispatch carried an article revealing how more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid virus on ‘ carbon emissions ’ .
Quote from the article : There has been panic buying in most shops in the UK , with many now devoid of toilet paper , pasta ( ! )
canned & frozen goods and bottled water , liquid handwash and soap .
People are reporting some shops have massively hiked prices on certain essential products .
If the bans on sports events , pubs , restaurants etc remain in force in the UK for more than a few weeks , most of them will go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Already some British airlines and privatised rail companies are facing bankruptcy because of the dramatic drop in passenger numbers .
Tourist attractions and places like theme parks & heritage railways will most likely cease trading if they have to remain closed for several months , and may never open again .
The same will apply to pubs and restaurants .
I have been speaking to shop owners , and they all tell me pretty much the same ; that if they are forced to close for more than two or three weeks , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It has been reported that French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended prices of water bills , energy bills and rent across France , and has issued a pledge to support all French businesses so that nobody goes bankrupt as a result of the virus .
Norway , Sweden , and Denmark have announced measures to cover the incomes of employees and the self-employed during the containment phase .
The 2009 ‘ swine flu ’ is estimated to have infected between 700 million and 1.4 billion people worldwide , with somewhere between 150,000–575,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ examined .
A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness of the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than the yearly seasonal flu .
The 1918-20 ‘ Spanish Flu ’ epidemic infected approximately 500 million people worldwide , and deaths are estimated anywhere from 17 million to 50 million .
Both this and the 2009 epidemic are from the same H1N1 virus .
The World Health Organisation estimates there are between 290,000 and 650,000 global deaths from flu every year .
We did not have the panic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shut the world down , and we don ’ t have it every year about flu deaths , so why the hell are we doing it now ?
?
Something else to consider .
If the number of cases increases as many suspect it will , to a peak in around 12 weeks ’ time , and a large number of NHS staff become ill and are unable to work , what happens to those being treated in hospital with insufficient staff to look after them ?
What happens to those elderly people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for my parents who are in their late 80s and both disabled .
If they are to ‘ self-isolate ’ for several months , how will I be able to undertake my caring duties ?
Do I carry on caring for them , with the risk of infecting and possibly killing them ?
What happens to our electricity and gas if people in those industries become too ill to work ?
Should we expect gas to stop flowing and the lights to go out ?
What happens if the council refuse collection workforce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we expect the cessation of refuse collections ?
If so , what happens to the refuse , will it be left in the streets to pile up ?
What happens if delivery drivers become too ill to get food to shops ?
Should we start rationing our food now , and should we expect those who have been unable to get what they need because of selfish inconsiderate hoarders to begin starving to death when their food runs out ?
Should we expect food riots when the emergency services have their numbers severely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & order ?
Should we expect a state of martial law to be declared , and the Army deployed in the streets to maintain law & order ?
The Covid virus has effectively achieved what the climate crazies failed to do with their alarmism ; to shut down most of the world .
Almost no air travel , almost no cars or railway services , industry and shops shutting down , control over what and where we can eat , and people being confined to their homes .
As of the time of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been 3269 cases of Covid in the UK , with 65 complete recoveries and 144 deaths .
In Birmingham where I live , there have been 34 cases , but I can find no information on how many have recovered or died .
Worldwide the numbers are 254,798 cases , with 89,908 complete recoveries and 10,448 deaths since January .
It is interesting to note as of the time of writing ( Friday 20th March ) , worldometer notes China has had 80,000 cases , with 71,000 recoveries and 3200 deaths .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ out , their number of deaths is flattening , and the number of active cases has declined significantly .
I was reminded of this a few days ago , seems very relevant now .
This situation also brings to mind of two quotes by the late journalist and satirist H.L Mencken , who said In my view this is a stepping stone along the way to creating a single world Socialist / Fascist / Communist government .
The climate scam was the first step , this is the second .
Some are even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are ‘ a burden on society ’ .
Tim Ball has warned about this numerous times , saying declaring an emergency allows many governments to suspend constitutions and normal rules , regulations & laws , and allows countries to impose draconian measures like restrictions on movement , restrictions on food and energy availability , prohibiting public assemblies and imposing curfews & martial law , and threaten harsh punishments for those who dare to disobey .
I rather suspect governments and policymakers will come under tremendous pressure from the globalists and eco-fascists to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imposed in place after the ‘ crisis ’ has passed .
This is the perfect opportunity to make significant and probably permanent inroads into our rights and freedoms .
One of my Fb friends made me aware of this a few days ago .
The facility in Wuhan where Covid ‘ escaped ’ from is apparently owned by….George Soros… Coincidence ?
So , perhaps the virus was deliberately released as some suspect , to help the UN in its aim of reducing the human population by 85 % , and rid it of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
This video by Tony Heller on the 18th hits the nail on the head – https : //www.youtube.com/watch ?
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Coronavirus: A Perspective from Britain
Written by Andy Rowlands
As of Friday the UK is on quarantine in an unprecedented medical lockdown due to Coronavirus, a generic term for a collection of related viruses. The current variant causing all the media panic has been officially termed Covid-19.
Below is a snapshot of the current situation, as viewed from a British perspective.
Last week, England’s chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, said the peak of the UK outbreak is most likely still 10 to 14 weeks away.
More than half the cases – about 80,000 – are in China, where the virus originated in December.
The British government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said there are probably between 5,000 and 10,000 people infected in the UK at this time.
He also said that many people will no longer be tested if they are showing mild symptoms. Only those with the most serious symptoms will be given a test in hospital.
The main symptoms are described as ‘a new continuous dry cough, headaches, shivering and sweating, laboured breathing’. People with these symptoms are advised to self-isolate for seven days, by which time they will have either recovered or been admitted to hospital.
This website gives hourly updates to cases worldwide – https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This one gives an overview of the UK, and there is a place to enter your postcode to check cases in your town –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
It seems those most at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying are the elderly with reduced immune systems, and those with underlying health conditions. ‘Normal’ healthy individuals will probably only have mild to moderate symptoms, and probably 90{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}+ will recover.
Many countries have now closed schools, universities, bars, cafes, restaurants, sports & entertainment venues, tourist attractions and many shops for indefinite periods, cancelled most airline flights & sporting events, severely cut back rail transport, closed their borders and prohibited residents from going out unless it is to buy food or medicines.
On the 14th, both the Daily Mail and the Guardian carried articles saying a ‘secret report’ from ‘Public Health England’ stated Britain will not see the end of the crisis until spring 2021. The Guardian says “The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised.” (Emphasis added)
The Guardian article claims the report says
“As many as 80{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} (7.9 million people) may require hospitalisation.” (Emphasis added)
The article quotes Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia:
“A year is entirely plausible, But that figure isn’t well appreciated or understood,” and “I think it will dip in the summer, towards the end of June, and come back in November, in the way that usual seasonal flu does. I think it will be around forever, but become less severe over time, as immunity builds up.” (Emphasis added)
The article further states
‘A senior NHS figure involved in preparing for the growing “surge” in patients whose lives are being put at risk by Covid-19 said an 80{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} infection rate could lead to more than half a million people dying. (Emphasis added) If the mortality rate turns out to be the 1{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} many experts are using as their working assumption then that would mean 531,100 deaths. But if Whitty’s insistence that the rate will be closer to 0.6{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} proves accurate, then that would involve 318,660 people dying.’
The article ends by saying
‘After the peak, case numbers and deaths are expected to drop for 10 weeks or more, until they reach a fairly low level, which may not be zero. In the summer months especially, the case numbers are expected to reduce because people spend more time out of doors and are less likely to be confined at close quarters in small rooms in a house or office with people who are infected. (Emphasis added) There is still a worry that the virus could resurge in the autumn or winter months, which means planning for the long term will be necessary. Until a vaccine is developed, perhaps in 18 months, health planners cannot be sure of being able to protect people from the disease.’ (Emphasis added)
Going by this article, it seems we should expect a minimum of a third of a million deaths in the UK by the end of this year. It is interesting to note there is no link in the article to the actual report, or even a photograph of it, so we only have the word of the Guardian about what they claim to have seen. The article can be seen here:-
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised?fbclid=IwAR2WLR_HBfpdFm2lDB40hdDSn6abYZIJ1URLJUlGWH8ybwpeNiz8ruaHYfI
On March 15th, The Telegraph reported a document produced by the
‘…civil protection department of the Piedmont region…’ of Italy states ‘Should it become impossible to provide all patients with intensive care services, it will be necessary to apply criteria for access to intensive treatment, which depends on the limited resources available.’ and ‘The criteria for access to intensive therapy in cases of emergency must include age of less than 80…’
This effectively means almost no-one over 80 in Italy will be treated if they become ill from the Covid virus.
The article can be seen here:-
https://news.yahoo.com/italians-over-80-left-die-151225888.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb
On the 18th, Climate Change Dispatch carried an article revealing how more people are extolling the virtues of the Covid virus on ‘carbon emissions’. Quote from the article:
‘What an opportunity! Air travel curtailed, world trade slowed, fossil fuel use in decline, growth falling, people staying home and not using their carbon-emitting vehicles – a textbook demonstration of the benefits of carbon control policy.‘
There has been panic buying in most shops in the UK, with many now devoid of toilet paper, pasta(!) canned & frozen goods and bottled water, liquid handwash and soap. People are reporting some shops have massively hiked prices on certain essential products.
If the bans on sports events, pubs, restaurants etc remain in force in the UK for more than a few weeks, most of them will go out of business and never re-open. Already some British airlines and privatised rail companies are facing bankruptcy because of the dramatic drop in passenger numbers.
Tourist attractions and places like theme parks & heritage railways will most likely cease trading if they have to remain closed for several months, and may never open again. The same will apply to pubs and restaurants. I have been speaking to shop owners, and they all tell me pretty much the same; that if they are forced to close for more than two or three weeks, they will likely go out of business.
It has been reported that French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended prices of water bills, energy bills and rent across France, and has issued a pledge to support all French businesses so that nobody goes bankrupt as a result of the virus.
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have announced measures to cover the incomes of employees and the self-employed during the containment phase.
Comparison to previous epidemics
The 2009 ‘swine flu’ is estimated to have infected between 700 million and 1.4 billion people worldwide, with somewhere between 150,000–575,000 deaths, depending on which study is examined. A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness of the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than the yearly seasonal flu.
The 1918-20 ‘Spanish Flu’ epidemic infected approximately 500 million people worldwide, and deaths are estimated anywhere from 17 million to 50 million. Both this and the 2009 epidemic are from the same H1N1 virus.
The World Health Organisation estimates there are between 290,000 and 650,000 global deaths from flu every year.
We did not have the panic and hysteria in 2009 and attempts to shut the world down, and we don’t have it every year about flu deaths, so why the hell are we doing it now??
Something else to consider.
If the number of cases increases as many suspect it will, to a peak in around 12 weeks’ time, and a large number of NHS staff become ill and are unable to work, what happens to those being treated in hospital with insufficient staff to look after them?
What happens to those elderly people who need carers? I am carer for my parents who are in their late 80s and both disabled. If they are to ‘self-isolate’ for several months, how will I be able to undertake my caring duties? Do I carry on caring for them, with the risk of infecting and possibly killing them?
What happens to our electricity and gas if people in those industries become too ill to work? Should we expect gas to stop flowing and the lights to go out?
What happens if the council refuse collection workforce is depleted by the virus, should we expect the cessation of refuse collections? If so, what happens to the refuse, will it be left in the streets to pile up?
What happens if delivery drivers become too ill to get food to shops? Should we start rationing our food now, and should we expect those who have been unable to get what they need because of selfish inconsiderate hoarders to begin starving to death when their food runs out?
Should we expect food riots when the emergency services have their numbers severely depleted and are unable to maintain law & order?
Should we expect a state of martial law to be declared, and the Army deployed in the streets to maintain law & order?
The Covid virus has effectively achieved what the climate crazies failed to do with their alarmism; to shut down most of the world. Almost no air travel, almost no cars or railway services, industry and shops shutting down, control over what and where we can eat, and people being confined to their homes.
As of the time of writing, according to worldometer, there have been 3269 cases of Covid in the UK, with 65 complete recoveries and 144 deaths. In Birmingham where I live, there have been 34 cases, but I can find no information on how many have recovered or died. Worldwide the numbers are 254,798 cases, with 89,908 complete recoveries and 10,448 deaths since January.
It is interesting to note as of the time of writing (Friday 20th March), worldometer notes China has had 80,000 cases, with 71,000 recoveries and 3200 deaths. Their number of new cases has flattened out, their number of deaths is flattening, and the number of active cases has declined significantly.
I was reminded of this a few days ago, seems very relevant now.
This situation also brings to mind of two quotes by the late journalist and satirist H.L Mencken, who said
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” and “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
In my view this is a stepping stone along the way to creating a single world Socialist / Fascist / Communist government. The climate scam was the first step, this is the second. Some are even praising the virus killing the elderly because they are ‘a burden on society’.
Tim Ball has warned about this numerous times, saying declaring an emergency allows many governments to suspend constitutions and normal rules, regulations & laws, and allows countries to impose draconian measures like restrictions on movement, restrictions on food and energy availability, prohibiting public assemblies and imposing curfews & martial law, and threaten harsh punishments for those who dare to disobey.
I rather suspect governments and policymakers will come under tremendous pressure from the globalists and eco-fascists to keep many of the restrictions they have imposed in place after the ‘crisis’ has passed. This is the perfect opportunity to make significant and probably permanent inroads into our rights and freedoms.
One of my Fb friends made me aware of this a few days ago. The facility in Wuhan where Covid ‘escaped’ from is apparently owned by….George Soros… Coincidence?
So, perhaps the virus was deliberately released as some suspect, to help the UN in its aim of reducing the human population by 85{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}, and rid it of those who are burden to government coffers?
This video by Tony Heller on the 18th hits the nail on the head – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXU6tql1mnE&feature=em-uploademail
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-21--Dr Ron Paul’s Warning of ‘Coronavirus Hoax’

Dr Ron Paul suggests the coronavirus as a government-promoted hoax .
His warning warrants wide consideration , not only because of Paul ’ s political insight , but also because he is qualified to speak on this as a medical doctor .
He writes as follows : Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them .
After 9/11 , for example , Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act ’ s hollow promises of security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans .
Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday , President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and , as Politico writes , “ stop and seize any plane , train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.
” He can even call out the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or state .
State and local authoritarians love panic as well .
The mayor of Champaign , Illinois , signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas , water , or electricity to any citizen .
The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state .
The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci , head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health .
Fauci is all over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stir up even more panic .
He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu , a claim without any scientific basis .
On Face the Nation , Fauci did his best to further damage an already tanking economy by stating , “ Right now , personally , myself , I wouldn ’ t go to a restaurant.
” He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days .
Over what ?
A virus that has thus far killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 100 in the United States ?
By contrast , tuberculosis , an old disease not much discussed these days , killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017 .
Where ’ s the panic over this ?
If anything , what people like Fauci and the other fearmongers are demanding will likely make the disease worse .
The martial law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity .
The panic produced by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease , as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that last roll of toilet paper .
The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community .
The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus !
Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies ?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “ pandemic ” could be a big hoax , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic .
That is not to say the disease is harmless .
Without question people will die from coronavirus .
Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure .
But we have seen this movie before .
Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms .
When the “ threat ” is over , however , they never give us our freedoms back .
About the author : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1935 ) is an American author , physician , and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas ’ s 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985 , and for Texas ’ s 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013 .
On three occasions , he sought the presidency of the United States : as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate in the Republican primaries of 2008 and 2012 .
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Dr Ron Paul’s Warning of ‘Coronavirus Hoax’
Written by Dr Ron Paul
Dr Ron Paul suggests the coronavirus as a government-promoted hoax. His warning warrants wide consideration, not only because of Paul’s political insight, but also because he is qualified to speak on this as a medical doctor. He writes as follows:
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday, President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and, as Politico writes, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.” He can even call out the military to cordon off a US city or state.
State and local authoritarians love panic as well. The mayor of Champaign, Illinois, signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas, water, or electricity to any citizen. The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state.
The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu, a claim without any scientific basis.
On Face the Nation, Fauci did his best to further damage an already tanking economy by stating, “Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant.” He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days.
Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States?
By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over this?
If anything, what people like Fauci and the other fearmongers are demanding will likely make the disease worse. The martial law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity. The panic produced by these fearmongers is likely helping spread the disease, as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that last roll of toilet paper.
The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community. The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus! Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic” could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.
That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the “threat” is over, however, they never give us our freedoms back.
About the author: Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician, and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas’s 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate in the Republican primaries of 2008 and 2012.
Read more at ronpaulinstitute.org
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-22--Coronavirus: the definition of ‘cases’ is stoking the fraud

Coronavirus : the definition of ‘ cases ’ is stoking the fraud Public health agencies and the press are casting out a blizzard of confusing terms : presumptive cases , infected persons , asymptomatic persons , confirmed cases , containment measures , persons connected to persons who are infected… It is my understanding that , now , the CDC is lumping together presumptive cases and confirmed cases , and calling them : CASES .
Certainly , that strategy would immediately multiply the total number of CASES and also multiply fear among the uninformed population .
A presumptive case would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the coronavirus ; or he has been tested , but the results are not yet in .
Why is he a presumptive case in the first place ?
There could be several reasons .
He has ordinary flu-like symptoms , and his doctor suspects he might be infected by the coronavirus , for no particular reason .
He might have come in contact with a person who has been diagnosed as an epidemic case .
He might have recently traveled to China—and has or doesn ’ t have flu-like symptoms .
Maybe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see that “ presumptive ” is a quite shaky status .
It means next to nothing .
Nevertheless , in order to “ contain the spread of the virus , ” he is pinned with that label—and added to the total of CASES .
The press , looking for the next piece of click-bait , sees that , in a particular state or city , there are “ 25 CASES.
” A reporter writes an article .
The public is led to sense that , in that locale , a “ spread ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between confirmed case and presumptive case .
Suppose , in a nursing home , where a hundred residents have all sorts of long-term health problems—including flu-like symptoms and respiratory difficulties—two people have been labeled “ presumptive cases , ” because they were visited by a person who recently returned from China .
Now , there is an opportunity to label more residents of the nursing home “ presumptive , ” because they ’ re in daily contact with the two “ presumptive residents.
” Result ?
There are 13 “ presumptive cases , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they characterize the 13 as CASES .
But it gets a lot worse than that .
As I ’ ve been detailing in these pages , the basic test for the coronavirus is called the PCR .
A positive result is taken to mean the patient “ has the virus.
” He is now a confirmed case .
However , the PCR has many problems .
The procedure itself is tricky , and unless done perfectly , with great care to avoid contamination , the result is useless .
But even when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing about whether the patient is ill or will ever become ill. Why ?
Because the PCR never comes to a valid conclusion about how much virus is in the patient ’ s body actively replicating .
And in order to start talking about illness and disease , millions and millions of virus must be at work replicating inside the patient .
Going even further down the rabbit hole , how was the PCR test for the coronavirus developed in the first place ?
We seem to have an answer from the CDC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ February 28 press briefing .
A Dr. Messonnier , representing the CDC , said this in reply to a question : “ …please remember that our laboratories developed this [ PCR ] test kit before there were US cases .
We developed it based on the posted genetic sequencing , and it was this test kit that allowed us , to identify the first cases in the United States.
” What does this mean ?
It seems to means that the CDC accepted the genetic sequence of the “ new virus ” without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus itself .
Is that a problem ?
If the police receive a description of a car wreck on a local highway ( the sequence ) , should they travel to the scene and actually look at the wreck ( obtain an isolated specimen of the virus ) ?
Should they decide who was at fault ( diagnose the first US cases ) without investigating ( having the actual virus itself in their possession ) ?
Researchers claiming they ’ ve laid out the genetic sequence of a virus , and passing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what you would call proof of anything .
Those original researchers could have sequenced another virus .
They could have made mistakes .
Did THEY ever have an isolated specimen of the virus ?
Developing and using a diagnostic PCR test on humans , and then telling them whether they are “ victims of the epidemic , ” based on received genetic sequences alone , is more than irresponsible .
It ’ s entirely reckless .
If you ’ ve come this far in the article , and you ’ re beginning to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people with THE VIRUS is madness , I would agree with you .
Categories of cases are being deceptively juggled and merged , in order to inflate numbers .
The “ gold standard ” diagnostic test is fraught with difficulties , and is inherently useless .
And lurking behind all this is the question : who discovered the coronavirus in the first place , and did they ever have an actual specimen of it , a biological reality ; or , working from indirect “ markers , ” were THEY the PRESUMPTIVES , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an entity that actually exists ?
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Coronavirus: the definition of ‘cases’ is stoking the fraud
Written by Jon Rappoport
Public health agencies and the press are casting out a blizzard of confusing terms:
presumptive cases, infected persons, asymptomatic persons, confirmed cases, containment measures, persons connected to persons who are infected…
It is my understanding that, now, the CDC is lumping together presumptive cases and confirmed cases, and calling them: CASES.
Certainly, that strategy would immediately multiply the total number of CASES and also multiply fear among the uninformed population.
A presumptive case would be a person who has not been tested for the coronavirus; or he has been tested, but the results are not yet in.
Why is he a presumptive case in the first place? There could be several reasons. He has ordinary flu-like symptoms, and his doctor suspects he might be infected by the coronavirus, for no particular reason. He might have come in contact with a person who has been diagnosed as an epidemic case. He might have recently traveled to China—and has or doesn’t have flu-like symptoms. Maybe he has a slight cough…
You can see that “presumptive” is a quite shaky status. It means next to nothing. Nevertheless, in order to “contain the spread of the virus,” he is pinned with that label—and added to the total of CASES.
The press, looking for the next piece of click-bait, sees that, in a particular state or city, there are “25 CASES.” A reporter writes an article. The public is led to sense that, in that locale, a “spread” is occurring. No distinction is made between confirmed case and presumptive case.
Suppose, in a nursing home, where a hundred residents have all sorts of long-term health problems—including flu-like symptoms and respiratory difficulties—two people have been labeled “presumptive cases,” because they were visited by a person who recently returned from China. Now, there is an opportunity to label more residents of the nursing home “presumptive,” because they’re in daily contact with the two “presumptive residents.” Result? There are 13 “presumptive cases,” and when the press discovers this, they characterize the 13 as CASES.
But it gets a lot worse than that. As I’ve been detailing in these pages, the basic test for the coronavirus is called the PCR. A positive result is taken to mean the patient “has the virus.” He is now a confirmed case. However, the PCR has many problems.
The procedure itself is tricky, and unless done perfectly, with great care to avoid contamination, the result is useless. But even when the test is perfect, it says nothing about whether the patient is ill or will ever become ill. Why? Because the PCR never comes to a valid conclusion about how much virus is in the patient’s body actively replicating. And in order to start talking about illness and disease, millions and millions of virus must be at work replicating inside the patient.
Going even further down the rabbit hole, how was the PCR test for the coronavirus developed in the first place? We seem to have an answer from the CDC, offered up to reporters in a February 28 press briefing. A Dr. Messonnier, representing the CDC, said this in reply to a question:
“…please remember that our laboratories developed this [PCR] test kit before there were US cases. We developed it based on the posted genetic sequencing, and it was this test kit that allowed us, to identify the first cases in the United States.”
What does this mean? It seems to means that the CDC accepted the genetic sequence of the “new virus” without having an actual isolated specimen of the virus itself. Is that a problem?
If the police receive a description of a car wreck on a local highway (the sequence), should they travel to the scene and actually look at the wreck (obtain an isolated specimen of the virus)? Should they decide who was at fault (diagnose the first US cases) without investigating (having the actual virus itself in their possession)?
Researchers claiming they’ve laid out the genetic sequence of a virus, and passing the information along to colleagues, is not what you would call proof of anything. Those original researchers could have sequenced another virus. They could have made mistakes. Did THEY ever have an isolated specimen of the virus?
Developing and using a diagnostic PCR test on humans, and then telling them whether they are “victims of the epidemic,” based on received genetic sequences alone, is more than irresponsible. It’s entirely reckless.
If you’ve come this far in the article, and you’re beginning to feel that the whole system of diagnosing people with THE VIRUS is madness, I would agree with you.
Categories of cases are being deceptively juggled and merged, in order to inflate numbers.
The “gold standard” diagnostic test is fraught with difficulties, and is inherently useless.
And lurking behind all this is the question: who discovered the coronavirus in the first place, and did they ever have an actual specimen of it, a biological reality; or, working from indirect “markers,” were THEY the PRESUMPTIVES, blithely assuming their genetic sequences pointed to an entity that actually exists?
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-22--Italy Coronavirus: New explosive information

Read this carefully .
Many people who were diagnosed as “ coronavirus cases ” in Italy , and then died , were almost certainly put on antiviral drugs .
As you ’ ll see , below , a significant percentage of these people had prior heart conditions or high blood pressure .
But at least one of the antiviral drugs , called ribavirin , carries this VERY RELEVANT warning , from cardiosmart.org : High blood pressure is a circulatory problem .
Understand ?
Get it ?
LIFE-THREATENING .
So how many coronavirus patients have been killed by the administering of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s jump in…because there ’ s more .
Much more .
For those people who have any belief in the coronavirus… Here ’ s the basic situation : the Italian health agencies are reporting escalating COV deaths—big fear-story out front… But in the background , other Italian government researchers are combing through patient records , to take a much closer look…to see whether people are dying from the virus or other more obvious causes .
Are people dying coincidentally WITH the virus , or BECAUSE OF the virus ?
Is the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or is it the driving force ?
The Italian results are astonishing , to understate it by a mile .
Bloomberg News has the story : 3/18 , “ 99 percent of those whose died from virus had other illness , Italy says ” : “ More than 99 % [ ! ]
of Italy ’ s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions , according to a study by the country ’ s national health authority.
” “ The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fatalities [ so far , because it ’ s slow work ] , finding that just three victims [ !
! ]
, or 0.8 % of the total , had no previous pathology [ disease ] .
Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions.
” “ More than 75 % had high blood pressure , about 35 % had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.
” “ The average age of those who ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is 79.5 [ !
!
! ]
.
As of March 17 , 17 people under 50 had died from the disease .
All of Italy ’ s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.
” Average age of those who ’ ve died : 79.5 .
Are you kidding ?
Lots of prior medical conditions , weakened immune systems , and what this emerging study isn ’ t saying : all these people had obviously been treated for those prior conditions with toxic medical drugs .
Furthermore , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus , chances are many of them were put on highly toxic antiviral drugs .
Thus delivering the final blow .
Imagining the coronavirus was the CAUSE of death would be a ridiculous fantasy .
But these people are counted as “ coronavirus deaths ” by the other Italian reporting agencies , who are jacking up the numbers .
Does this remind you of any other reports I ’ ve been detailing ?
The elderly people with obvious prior diseases who died in Australia ; and the elderly people who were diagnosed as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ living in a long-term-care nursing home ?
Getting the picture ?
This death-numbers con—aside from covering up the real causes of death , including MEDICAL—is the forward spear being used to justify locking down and wrecking economies all over the world right now , and that means attacking the people in any way connected to those economies who have to work to make a living .
There are statistical vampires at work , using the elderly and sick and dying to feed numbers to health agencies around the planet .
Those agencies tap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emerge , and the unsuspecting public , in economic lockdowns , sit in front of the tube and watch these reports , and inhale the cooked-up fear .
Turn your mind to the highest setting , because nothing is riding on this whole deal except the immediate future of humanity .
And again , cardiosmart.org : “ Ribavirin may decrease the number of red blood cells in your body .
This is called anemia and it can be life-threatening in people who have heart disease or circulation problems.
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Italy Coronavirus: New explosive information
Written by Jon Rappoport
Read this carefully. Many people who were diagnosed as “coronavirus cases” in Italy, and then died, were almost certainly put on antiviral drugs. As you’ll see, below, a significant percentage of these people had prior heart conditions or high blood pressure.
But at least one of the antiviral drugs, called ribavirin, carries this VERY RELEVANT warning, from cardiosmart.org:
“Ribavirin may decrease the number of red blood cells in your body. This is called anemia and it can be life-threatening in people who have heart disease or circulation problems.”
High blood pressure is a circulatory problem. Understand? Get it? LIFE-THREATENING.
So how many coronavirus patients have been killed by the administering of ribavirin?
And with THAT, let’s jump in…because there’s more. Much more.
For those people who have any belief in the coronavirus…
Here’s the basic situation: the Italian health agencies are reporting escalating COV deaths—big fear-story out front…
But in the background, other Italian government researchers are combing through patient records, to take a much closer look…to see whether people are dying from the virus or other more obvious causes.
Are people dying coincidentally WITH the virus, or BECAUSE OF the virus? Is the virus a mere harmless passenger in the body, or is it the driving force?
The Italian results are astonishing, to understate it by a mile.
Bloomberg News has the story: 3/18, “99 percent of those whose died from virus had other illness, Italy says”:
“More than 99{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} [!] of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.”
“The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the country’s coronavirus fatalities [so far, because it’s slow work], finding that just three victims [!!], or 0.8{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the total, had no previous pathology [disease]. Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions.”
“More than 75{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} had high blood pressure, about 35{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.”
“The average age of those who’ve died from the virus in Italy is 79.5 [!!!]. As of March 17, 17 people under 50 had died from the disease. All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.”
BANG.
Average age of those who’ve died: 79.5. Are you kidding? Lots of prior medical conditions, weakened immune systems, and what this emerging study isn’t saying: all these people had obviously been treated for those prior conditions with toxic medical drugs. Furthermore, once they’d been diagnosed with coronavirus, chances are many of them were put on highly toxic antiviral drugs. Thus delivering the final blow.
Imagining the coronavirus was the CAUSE of death would be a ridiculous fantasy. But these people are counted as “coronavirus deaths” by the other Italian reporting agencies, who are jacking up the numbers.
Does this remind you of any other reports I’ve been detailing? The elderly people with obvious prior diseases who died in Australia; and the elderly people who were diagnosed as coronavirus cases in the state of Washington—all living in a long-term-care nursing home?
Getting the picture? This death-numbers con—aside from covering up the real causes of death, including MEDICAL—is the forward spear being used to justify locking down and wrecking economies all over the world right now, and that means attacking the people in any way connected to those economies who have to work to make a living.
There are statistical vampires at work, using the elderly and sick and dying to feed numbers to health agencies around the planet. Those agencies tap their press contacts, and horror reports emerge, and the unsuspecting public, in economic lockdowns, sit in front of the tube and watch these reports, and inhale the cooked-up fear.
Turn your mind to the highest setting, because nothing is riding on this whole deal except the immediate future of humanity.
And again, cardiosmart.org: “Ribavirin may decrease the number of red blood cells in your body. This is called anemia and it can be life-threatening in people who have heart disease or circulation problems.”
Read more at blog.nomorefakenews.com
[PSI Editor’s note: more about Ribavirin here]
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-22--Dr. David Agus: 5 things to know about coronavirus treatment

Dr. David Agus : 5 things to know about coronavirus treatment President Trump announced Thursday ( March 19 2020 ) that malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine will be made available “ almost immediately ” to treat coronavirus patients .
He also announced the FDA is looking at remdesivir , an intravenous drug created to treat Ebola , but would make it available for “ compassionate use , ” a way for doctors to use unapproved drugs to treat patients who are critically ill. 1 .
Hydroxychloroquine is “ hope personified ” for those with COVID-19 Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were approved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago and are widely available .
Dr. Agus told us that if a patient has tested positive for COVID-19 , he would advise them to talk to their doctor today about its potential role : “ This drug is hope personified to every person with disease , especially the people who are higher risk or elderly.
” Dr. Agus said the drug works in two ways : “ one is it blocks virus .
And the second is it tempers down inflammation , both of which play a role probably in how it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 .
People need to be treated “ as early as possible ” In addition to patients who have already tested positive , Dr. Agus advises the drug should be prescribed to people “ as they have symptoms , even before the test results are back , ” or to those who have been exposed to virus .
“ If we can intervene early , hopefully we can prevent the spread of this , ” he said .
3 .
There is “ remarkable data ” from other countries about the two drugs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on coronavirus have not been fully studied in the U.S. , Dr. Agus said countries in Asia “ routinely ” use them , “ and there ’ s remarkable data there about slowing the progress of the disease.
” 4 .
Sacrifices made to stop the spread of COVID-19 “ are going to pay off ” Three days ago the White House issued new guidelines to “ Stop the Spread ” of the virus with social distancing .
“ These sacrifices are going to pay off , ” Dr. Agus said .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ m hopeful with the behavior changes our country has made , as well as with these medications announced today that we ’ re really at a new point and a point where I could see , at some point light at the end of the tunnel.
” 5 .
On the urgent need for blood donations : “ other diseases aren ’ t stopping ” CBS News has learned that more than 4,500 Red Cross blood donations have been canceled since the coronavirus outbreak began , resulting in 150,000 fewer blood donations .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus outbreak is at the top of mind for most people , “ other diseases aren ’ t stopping .
People are still getting cancer and have low blood counts and need transfusions people are still getting in car accidents , people still are having the flu and other things and we need to keep the medical system going .
Having an adequate supply of blood is critical for that , so please everyone step up .
We are one community we have to work together to help each other.
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Dr. David Agus: 5 things to know about coronavirus treatment
Written by www.cbsnews.com
President Trump announced Thursday (March 19 2020) that malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine will be made available “almost immediately” to treat coronavirus patients.
He also announced the FDA is looking at remdesivir, an intravenous drug created to treat Ebola, but would make it available for “compassionate use,” a way for doctors to use unapproved drugs to treat patients who are critically ill.
CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus joined “CBS Evening News” to discuss the drugs.
1. Hydroxychloroquine is “hope personified” for those with COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were approved by the FDA more than 50 years ago and are widely available. Dr. Agus told us that if a patient has tested positive for COVID-19, he would advise them to talk to their doctor today about its potential role: “This drug is hope personified to every person with disease, especially the people who are higher risk or elderly.”
Dr. Agus said the drug works in two ways: “one is it blocks virus. And the second is it tempers down inflammation, both of which play a role probably in how it’s benefiting patients with COVID-19.”
2. People need to be treated “as early as possible”
In addition to patients who have already tested positive, Dr. Agus advises the drug should be prescribed to people “as they have symptoms, even before the test results are back,” or to those who have been exposed to virus. “If we can intervene early, hopefully we can prevent the spread of this,” he said.
3. There is “remarkable data” from other countries about the two drugs
While the effects of chloroquine and remdesivir on coronavirus have not been fully studied in the U.S., Dr. Agus said countries in Asia “routinely” use them, “and there’s remarkable data there about slowing the progress of the disease.”
4. Sacrifices made to stop the spread of COVID-19 “are going to pay off”
Three days ago the White House issued new guidelines to “Stop the Spread” of the virus with social distancing. “These sacrifices are going to pay off,” Dr. Agus said. “I’m optimistic, I’m hopeful with the behavior changes our country has made, as well as with these medications announced today that we’re really at a new point and a point where I could see, at some point light at the end of the tunnel.”
5. On the urgent need for blood donations: “other diseases aren’t stopping”
CBS News has learned that more than 4,500 Red Cross blood donations have been canceled since the coronavirus outbreak began, resulting in 150,000 fewer blood donations. Dr. Agus told us that while the coronavirus outbreak is at the top of mind for most people, “other diseases aren’t stopping. People are still getting cancer and have low blood counts and need transfusions people are still getting in car accidents, people still are having the flu and other things and we need to keep the medical system going. Having an adequate supply of blood is critical for that, so please everyone step up. We are one community we have to work together to help each other.”
Read more at www.cbsnews.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-22--Dr Vernon Coleman’s COVID-19 Warnings, Forecasts and Predictions

I really wasn ’ t going to write any more about the coronavirus , but a few things have happened that haven ’ t had much coverage in the mainstream media and which are worth sharing .
1 .
It occurs to me that the hoarding which is now commonplace in Britain is being made far , far worse by the media coverage .
It is pretty well established that papers and television don ’ t show pictures of streakers because it encourages more to follow suit .
So why hasn ’ t the Government issued a D notice telling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people with overloaded trolleys or of empty supermarket shelves ?
If you constantly show pictures of empty shelves then people will panic – and feel they have to stock up with everything they can find .
• A month ago it was predicted that 400,000 people might die from the coronavirus in Britain .
However , according to a story buried inside the Daily Telegraph , the experts who warned that the coronavirus could kill 260,000 Britons now appear to be predicting a death toll of 20,000 .
I may be wrong but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than 260,000 and also considerably less than the death rate which might be expected from a nasty strain of the flu .
Why wasn ’ t this news on the front page ?
• None Maybe health secretary Matt Hancock would like to calm the fear he created by predicting a possible death total of 500,000 .
• None Some ` experts ’ appear to have reported that 3.4 % of coronavirus victims will die .
But the World Health Organization has pointed out that the 3.4 % death rate is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the number of reported cases and does not account for the possibility that there may be lots more people infected with the virus – but undiagnosed .
I seem to have been making that point for half a lifetime ( and being abused for it ) .
It now seems that the death rate is probably rather less than 1 % .
This is not all that far off the death rate we get every year with the flu .
• None The death rate in China ( where the infection started @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• If the death rate in the UK is lower than originally forecast , the Prime Minister will doubtless claim it is because of the actions he has taken .
` But he would say that , wouldn ’ t he ?
’ • None A couple of aggrieved Wikipedians have asked Wikipedia to remove my Wikipedia entry .
It seems that I am unsuitable to be allowed a Wikipedia page .
( Their complaints about me – which I have taken screenshots of for evidence – were absurdly libellous and I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bob for charity if I sue Wikipedia and its editors . )
What the moaners perhaps don ’ t know is that I have previously asked Wikipedia to remove my page so that ignorant teenagers and malevolents with grudges can ’ t mess with it .
( Sadly , they refused .
Perhaps this time I will be lucky and my Wikipedia entry will disappear . )
• None I am told that if I sell advertising on this website I should be able to make $ 25,000 a month .
You will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no advertising here .
We could use an extra $ 25,000 a month but Antoinette agrees with me that our freedom and integrity is not for sale .
I note , by the way , that the Daily Telegraph is still hiding information about the coronavirus behind its paywall .
How public spirited .
• None It has been pointed out that the coronavirus might mutate again and become more deadly and/or more infectious .
That is true .
It might happen tomorrow , but we might have to wait years before that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay indoors and wait for a possible mutation ?
Weeks ?
Months ?
Years ?
And just how much damage to our society and economy will have been done by then ?
• When the Government asked retired doctors to help out , I wrote to the General Medical Council asking what I had to do to reinstate my licence to practise .
They wrote back to say that since my email address had changed they wouldn ’ t do anything until I had my passport scanned and sent to them by email @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is maintaining its reputation for bureaucracy .
We don ’ t have a working scanner ( the last three all died ) and anyway there is not a chance in hell of my sending a copy of my passport to anyone by email .
Still , the world will probably be a safer place if I stay at home .
And I have no idea where my stethoscope is .
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Dr Vernon Coleman’s COVID-19 Warnings, Forecasts and Predictions
Written by Dr Vernon Coleman
I really wasn’t going to write any more about the coronavirus, but a few things have happened that haven’t had much coverage in the mainstream media and which are worth sharing.
1. It occurs to me that the hoarding which is now commonplace in Britain is being made far, far worse by the media coverage. It is pretty well established that papers and television don’t show pictures of streakers because it encourages more to follow suit. So why hasn’t the Government issued a D notice telling the media not to print pictures of people with overloaded trolleys or of empty supermarket shelves? If you constantly show pictures of empty shelves then people will panic – and feel they have to stock up with everything they can find.
A month ago it was predicted that 400,000 people might die from the coronavirus in Britain. However, according to a story buried inside the Daily Telegraph, the experts who warned that the coronavirus could kill 260,000 Britons now appear to be predicting a death toll of 20,000. I may be wrong but I rather think that 20,000 is considerably less than 260,000 and also considerably less than the death rate which might be expected from a nasty strain of the flu. Why wasn’t this news on the front page? Maybe health secretary Matt Hancock would like to calm the fear he created by predicting a possible death total of 500,000. Some `experts’ appear to have reported that 3.4% of coronavirus victims will die. But the World Health Organization has pointed out that the 3.4% death rate is a result of measuring the number of deaths against the number of reported cases and does not account for the possibility that there may be lots more people infected with the virus – but undiagnosed. I seem to have been making that point for half a lifetime (and being abused for it). It now seems that the death rate is probably rather less than 1%. This is not all that far off the death rate we get every year with the flu. The death rate in China (where the infection started) has already started to fall noticeably.
If the death rate in the UK is lower than originally forecast, the Prime Minister will doubtless claim it is because of the actions he has taken. `But he would say that, wouldn’t he?’ A couple of aggrieved Wikipedians have asked Wikipedia to remove my Wikipedia entry. It seems that I am unsuitable to be allowed a Wikipedia page. (Their complaints about me – which I have taken screenshots of for evidence – were absurdly libellous and I might be able to make a few bob for charity if I sue Wikipedia and its editors.) What the moaners perhaps don’t know is that I have previously asked Wikipedia to remove my page so that ignorant teenagers and malevolents with grudges can’t mess with it. (Sadly, they refused. Perhaps this time I will be lucky and my Wikipedia entry will disappear.) I am told that if I sell advertising on this website I should be able to make $25,000 a month. You will note, however, that there is no advertising here. We could use an extra $25,000 a month but Antoinette agrees with me that our freedom and integrity is not for sale. I note, by the way, that the Daily Telegraph is still hiding information about the coronavirus behind its paywall. How public spirited. It has been pointed out that the coronavirus might mutate again and become more deadly and/or more infectious. That is true. It might happen tomorrow, but we might have to wait years before that happens. How long do we all stay indoors and wait for a possible mutation? Weeks? Months? Years? And just how much damage to our society and economy will have been done by then?
When the Government asked retired doctors to help out, I wrote to the General Medical Council asking what I had to do to reinstate my licence to practise. They wrote back to say that since my email address had changed they wouldn’t do anything until I had my passport scanned and sent to them by email. Good to see that the GMC is maintaining its reputation for bureaucracy. We don’t have a working scanner (the last three all died) and anyway there is not a chance in hell of my sending a copy of my passport to anyone by email. Still, the world will probably be a safer place if I stay at home. And I have no idea where my stethoscope is.
Read more at www.vernoncoleman.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-22--Why Vaccine Safety Studies Don’t Use a Control Group

Vaccine safety studies don ’ t use a control group .
I say this again : vaccine safety studies don ’ t use a control group .
Even if Vaxxed had shown a 9,000 % increase in black males getting autism after vaccination , even if Vaxxed showed the evidence that 99 % of people vaccinated got autism , this could still be fairly described as “ not evidence of anything , ” and the vaccine companies could testify in Congress to that effect and have no fear of being prosecuted for perjury .
This may seem ridiculous , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tie together the concepts by which this non-evidence result holds .
The gentle reader must understand that any proposed medical treatment must have a control , or else the treatment must be viewed with great suspicion .
I demonstrate with an example : I propose the following : “ People will recover from the flu in 2 weeks if we cut off their pinky fingers.
” All I need to get this finger-amputation treatment approved is a study showing it works .
The study I use is simple enough : I find people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fingers and come back in 2 weeks .
I find that , yes , every single one of them has recovered from the flu .
My study , I trust the reader will agree , is easily reproducible ( note : this makes it far superior to many , if not most , medical studies being published ) .
So , I pay the appropriate bribes fees to get the FDA to approve this treatment , backed by this study .
And I start making a fortune lopping off fingers with my FDA-approved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tens of thousands of people will tell me my treatment is worthless , but that ’ s just anecdotal evidence .
Besides , the FDA repeats the study a few times and shows my treatment works exactly as I ’ ve said .
( I emphasize : tens of thousands of parents are now saying their kids developed autism immediately after getting vaccinated , and this is treated as purely anecdotal evidence of no relevance , because of studies… ) The problem with my study , of course , is there ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the flu in 2 weeks , after all , lopping off fingers means nothing .
But since there ’ s no control , since I don ’ t look at what happens to people with the flu who don ’ t have their fingers chopped off , I don ’ t have that evidence in my study .
So Vaxxed ’ s harping on their correlation between black male vaccinations and autism is completely meaningless .
For all I know , all black males , all of them , come down with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get vaccinated , and the autism rates would be worse without the vaccination .
I ’ m not saying I believe this to be the case , but since there ’ s no control…it could be vaccinations are preventing autism , because there ’ s no study to tell me the “ baseline ” autism rate today is .
This illustrates how idiotic it is not to have controls .
I want to get to the big trick being played , successfully , here .
Tricks are far more effective on people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and lots of people fall for this “ all studies fail to show a link ” trick .
The trick doesn ’ t work on me because I ’ ve seen this one before .
I saw it with the tobacco companies .
For decades , the tobacco companies swore up and down , even in congressional hearings , that there was no evidence whatsoever that nicotine was addictive based on their studies , so that ’ s what they believed .
I ’ m not talking about the 1950 ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 1994 to this effect .
The tobacco companies were telling the truth , and pointed at many , many , studies that failed to show any possible nicotine addiction .
These studies were legitimate , and even humane and ethical : if you suspect nicotine was bad , then you can ’ t study its effect on humans , so these studies used animals .
Want to know why those studies always failed ?
Well , addiction was defined as a human condition , and all the studies were done on animals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ addiction , because the word was defined in such a way that it only applied to humans .
None of these studies could possibly show addiction , a purely human condition .
So the executives were never hauled in for lying to congress , as they were absolutely correct there was no evidence whatsoever that tobacco use was addictive , based on those animal studies .
Now , since vaccine safety studies have no control group , it is fundamentally impossible to show vaccines can be increasing the rates of *any* long term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of other health issues which are increasing dramatically in our population , such as severe allergies and asthma , also claimed to be related to vaccines .
But you can not say vaccines are causing this rise because…a rise compared to what ?
There ’ s no control group , and nowadays everyone gets these vaccinations , so there ’ ll never be a control group perfect enough to study ( well , not without rioting in the streets , anyway… ) .
“ Brawndo !
It has what plants crave !
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gentle reader to watch the movie Idiocracy , where the FDA determined a salty drink could be used as a substitute for water , even for plants .
Naturally this caused all the crops to “ mysteriously ” fail , leading to rioting in the streets .
Honest , I ’ m not the only one who ’ s figured out the problem here , and the inevitable result… And so yes , absolutely , there are plenty of studies which fail to show vaccines are causing any general rise in any health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the same reason there are plenty of studies which fail to show nicotine is addictive .
So at this point , the only response is to laugh when they say there are studies which fail to show any connection between autism and vaccines .
This is obvious , as no study can show this to perfect satisfaction at this point .
To be fair , there have been attempts to set up “ vaccinated vs unvaccinated ” studies by independent researchers .
These studies do seem to show a link , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” which is to say , the studies are declared invalid and the researchers ’ reputations are destroyed .
I again point out that around half ( possibly as high as 2/3rds or more ) of all “ perfectly scientific ” studies are demonstrably bogus in terms of claimed findings…and yet only this particular type of study seems to get this treatment .
We should probably consider why these very rare vaccine-autism link studies get this treatment when a bunch of other “ fake ” studies don ’ t , but I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : a bunch of official ( i.e.
, non-Wakefielded ) studies all have the same results , that there ’ s no vaccine-autism link , and we have every reason to suspect at least half of those studies are fraudulent in their results…so it ’ s a little odd that the fraudulent studies that we know are there are saying the same thing as the legitimate studies that we only theoretically think might exist .
The gentle reader is invited to make his own conclusions past this point.1 Also presented in Vaxxed is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to have a huge problem soon : we now have “ kids ” with autism who are closing in on their 30th birthday , and they ’ ll need lifelong care after their parents die .
This wasn ’ t a problem decades ago when autism was very , very rare , but now we ’ re getting around a hundred thousand new victims a year , and this number is sharply rising .
It will be a monster of a problem as these victims get even older .
What will happen–a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have 10,000,000 , possibly much more , people with this “ rare ” ailment heading to government-supported special needs homes ?
I don ’ t like the answer which comes to my mind at all .
I especially don ’ t like that the corporations which might , maybe , be responsible for this will be raking in profits while a new disease , SADS ( Sudden Autistic Death Syndrome ) hits the sizable autistic population shortly after they enter those special government homes .
Will there be rioting in the streets then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few weeks ago there was a chorus of dozens of “ different ” TV newscasters all saying the exact same thing…and we as a people knew this could not be random , that there had to be an underlying cause for it .
Vaxxed literally plays a chorus of parents who say the exact same thing regarding what happened to their kids right after vaccination , and it ’ s a much larger chorus .
Why is the official narrative here to consider this merely random chance with no underlying cause ?
Anyway @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vaxxed , I think it worth watching , even if it fails to raise many of the questions I ’ ve raised here .
• I didn ’ t want to mention this because it ’ s a bit of a distraction , but it ’ s really , really , striking that no “ official ” study has shown a link between vaccine and autism .
There ’ s something in statistics called a “ type 1 ” error , and , while unlikely , it can happen ( the actual chance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but it ’ d be like rolling two standard dice and getting a sum of 12 ) .
It is because of “ type 1 ” errors that you need to be able to replicate the result of a study , before trusting it .
With so many studies on this topic , it ’ s very , very , very , striking that no non-Wakefielded study shows a link , just on pure chance .
Just saying .
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Why Vaccine Safety Studies Don’t Use a Control Group
Written by professorconfess.blogspot.com
Vaccine safety studies don’t use a control group. I say this again: vaccine safety studies don’t use a control group.
Even if Vaxxed had shown a 9,000% increase in black males getting autism after vaccination, even if Vaxxed showed the evidence that 99% of people vaccinated got autism, this could still be fairly described as “not evidence of anything,” and the vaccine companies could testify in Congress to that effect and have no fear of being prosecuted for perjury.
This may seem ridiculous, but allow me some time to explain and tie together the concepts by which this non-evidence result holds.
The gentle reader must understand that any proposed medical treatment must have a control, or else the treatment must be viewed with great suspicion. I demonstrate with an example:
I propose the following: “People will recover from the flu in 2 weeks if we cut off their pinky fingers.” All I need to get this finger-amputation treatment approved is a study showing it works.
The study I use is simple enough: I find people with the flu, cut off their fingers and come back in 2 weeks. I find that, yes, every single one of them has recovered from the flu.
My study, I trust the reader will agree, is easily reproducible (note: this makes it far superior to many, if not most, medical studies being published). So, I pay the appropriate bribes fees to get the FDA to approve this treatment, backed by this study. And I start making a fortune lopping off fingers with my FDA-approved treatment for the flu.
Now, tens of thousands of people will tell me my treatment is worthless, but that’s just anecdotal evidence. Besides, the FDA repeats the study a few times and shows my treatment works exactly as I’ve said. (I emphasize: tens of thousands of parents are now saying their kids developed autism immediately after getting vaccinated, and this is treated as purely anecdotal evidence of no relevance, because of studies…)
The problem with my study, of course, is there’s no control group. Most everyone recovers from the flu in 2 weeks, after all, lopping off fingers means nothing. But since there’s no control, since I don’t look at what happens to people with the flu who don’t have their fingers chopped off, I don’t have that evidence in my study.
So Vaxxed’s harping on their correlation between black male vaccinations and autism is completely meaningless. For all I know, all black males, all of them, come down with autism at the age where they usually get vaccinated, and the autism rates would be worse without the vaccination. I’m not saying I believe this to be the case, but since there’s no control…it could be vaccinations are preventing autism, because there’s no study to tell me the “baseline” autism rate today is. This illustrates how idiotic it is not to have controls.
I want to get to the big trick being played, successfully, here.
Tricks are far more effective on people who’ve not seen the trick before, and lots of people fall for this “all studies fail to show a link” trick. The trick doesn’t work on me because I’ve seen this one before.
I saw it with the tobacco companies. For decades, the tobacco companies swore up and down, even in congressional hearings, that there was no evidence whatsoever that nicotine was addictive based on their studies, so that’s what they believed. I’m not talking about the 1950’s here, you can see congressional testimony from 1994 to this effect.
The tobacco companies were telling the truth, and pointed at many, many, studies that failed to show any possible nicotine addiction. These studies were legitimate, and even humane and ethical: if you suspect nicotine was bad, then you can’t study its effect on humans, so these studies used animals.
Want to know why those studies always failed? Well, addiction was defined as a human condition, and all the studies were done on animals: it was utterly impossible to show addiction, because the word was defined in such a way that it only applied to humans. None of these studies could possibly show addiction, a purely human condition. So the executives were never hauled in for lying to congress, as they were absolutely correct there was no evidence whatsoever that tobacco use was addictive, based on those animal studies.
Neat!
Now, since vaccine safety studies have no control group, it is fundamentally impossible to show vaccines can be increasing the rates of *any* long term ailment. There are quite a number of other health issues which are increasing dramatically in our population, such as severe allergies and asthma, also claimed to be related to vaccines.
But you cannot say vaccines are causing this rise because…a rise compared to what? There’s no control group, and nowadays everyone gets these vaccinations, so there’ll never be a control group perfect enough to study (well, not without rioting in the streets, anyway…).
“Brawndo! It has what plants crave! It has electrolytes!”
–I encourage the gentle reader to watch the movie Idiocracy, where the FDA determined a salty drink could be used as a substitute for water, even for plants. Naturally this caused all the crops to “mysteriously” fail, leading to rioting in the streets. Honest, I’m not the only one who’s figured out the problem here, and the inevitable result…
And so yes, absolutely, there are plenty of studies which fail to show vaccines are causing any general rise in any health problem in humans, but this is for the same reason there are plenty of studies which fail to show nicotine is addictive.
So at this point, the only response is to laugh when they say there are studies which fail to show any connection between autism and vaccines. This is obvious, as no study can show this to perfect satisfaction at this point.
To be fair, there have been attempts to set up “vaccinated vs unvaccinated” studies by independent researchers. These studies do seem to show a link, but they invariably get “The Wakefield Treatment,” which is to say, the studies are declared invalid and the researchers’ reputations are destroyed. I again point out that around half (possibly as high as 2/3rds or more) of all “perfectly scientific” studies are demonstrably bogus in terms of claimed findings…and yet only this particular type of study seems to get this treatment.
We should probably consider why these very rare vaccine-autism link studies get this treatment when a bunch of other “fake” studies don’t, but I’ll plant a seed for consideration: a bunch of official (i.e., non-Wakefielded) studies all have the same results, that there’s no vaccine-autism link, and we have every reason to suspect at least half of those studies are fraudulent in their results…so it’s a little odd that the fraudulent studies that we know are there are saying the same thing as the legitimate studies that we only theoretically think might exist. The gentle reader is invited to make his own conclusions past this point.1
Also presented in Vaxxed is a congressman pointing out we’re going to have a huge problem soon: we now have “kids” with autism who are closing in on their 30th birthday, and they’ll need lifelong care after their parents die. This wasn’t a problem decades ago when autism was very, very rare, but now we’re getting around a hundred thousand new victims a year, and this number is sharply rising. It will be a monster of a problem as these victims get even older. What will happen–a single generation from now!–when we have 10,000,000, possibly much more, people with this “rare” ailment heading to government-supported special needs homes?
I don’t like the answer which comes to my mind at all. I especially don’t like that the corporations which might, maybe, be responsible for this will be raking in profits while a new disease, SADS (Sudden Autistic Death Syndrome) hits the sizable autistic population shortly after they enter those special government homes.
Will there be rioting in the streets then?
It really is strange; a few weeks ago there was a chorus of dozens of “different” TV newscasters all saying the exact same thing…and we as a people knew this could not be random, that there had to be an underlying cause for it. Vaxxed literally plays a chorus of parents who say the exact same thing regarding what happened to their kids right after vaccination, and it’s a much larger chorus. Why is the official narrative here to consider this merely random chance with no underlying cause?
Anyway, though I have significant quibbles with Vaxxed, I think it worth watching, even if it fails to raise many of the questions I’ve raised here.
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I didn’t want to mention this because it’s a bit of a distraction, but it’s really, really, striking that no “official” study has shown a link between vaccine and autism. There’s something in statistics called a “type 1” error, and, while unlikely, it can happen (the actual chance depends on mathematical concerns beyond a blog, but it’d be like rolling two standard dice and getting a sum of 12). It is because of “type 1” errors that you need to be able to replicate the result of a study, before trusting it. With so many studies on this topic, it’s very, very, very, striking that no non-Wakefielded study shows a link, just on pure chance. Just saying.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-24--Coronavirus Update: Nobel Laureate Predicts A Quicker Recovery

Just like other researchers worldwide , Michael Levitt , a Nobel laureate and Standford biophysics , has been analyzing the number of the coronavirus cases in January and had rightly predicted that China would get through the worst of its COVID-19 outbreak .
Now , he has made a similar prediction for the U.S. and other parts of the world .
Several epidemiologists warn of moths or even years of massive social disruptions and millions of death .
But , Levitt ( photo , top ) opined that the data simply doesn ’ t support such a dire scenario , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practiced .
“ What we need is to control the panic .
In the grand scheme , we ’ re going to be fine , ” Yahoo News quoted Levitt .
Levitt , who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing complex models of chemical systems , has analyzed data from 78 different nations every day and sees ‘ signs of recovery ’ in many of them .
He has been focusing on the number of new cases identified every day rather than the total number of cases in a country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in China would stop around 80,000 with nearly 3,250 deaths .
His forecast turned out to be remarkably accurate .
The number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients has dropped to roughly 25 a day with no cases of community spread reported .
Although he acknowledged that his figures are messy , he forecasted that , even with incomplete data , a consistent decline in the number of cases can indicate that there ’ s some factor at work that is not just noise in the numbers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a biostatistician at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , commented that Levitt ’ s analysis was thought-provoking .
“ Time will tell if Levitt ’ s predictions are correct .
I do think that having a wide diversity of experts bringing their perspectives to the table will help decision-makers navigate the very tricky decisions they will be facing in the upcoming weeks and months , ” Yahoo News quoted Reich .

Coronavirus Update: Nobel Laureate Predicts A Quicker Recovery
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Just like other researchers worldwide, Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Standford biophysics, has been analyzing the number of the coronavirus cases in January and had rightly predicted that China would get through the worst of its COVID-19 outbreak. Now, he has made a similar prediction for the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Several epidemiologists warn of moths or even years of massive social disruptions and millions of death. But, Levitt (photo, top) opined that the data simply doesn’t support such a dire scenario, particularly where reasonable social distancing has been practiced.
“What we need is to control the panic. In the grand scheme, we’re going to be fine,” Yahoo News quoted Levitt.
Levitt, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing complex models of chemical systems, has analyzed data from 78 different nations every day and sees ‘signs of recovery’ in many of them. He has been focusing on the number of new cases identified every day rather than the total number of cases in a country.
Here’s what he stated:
Levitt had rightly predicted that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in China would stop around 80,000 with nearly 3,250 deaths. His forecast turned out to be remarkably accurate. The number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients has dropped to roughly 25 a day with no cases of community spread reported.
Although he acknowledged that his figures are messy, he forecasted that, even with incomplete data, a consistent decline in the number of cases can indicate that there’s some factor at work that is not just noise in the numbers, mentioned by Yahoo News.
Nicolas Reich, a biostatistician at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, commented that Levitt’s analysis was thought-provoking.
“Time will tell if Levitt’s predictions are correct. I do think that having a wide diversity of experts bringing their perspectives to the table will help decision-makers navigate the very tricky decisions they will be facing in the upcoming weeks and months,” Yahoo News quoted Reich.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-03-24--French researcher posts successful Covid-19 drug trial

Professor Raoult is an infectious diseases specialist and head of the IHU Méditerranée Infection , who has been tasked by – and consulted by – the French government to research possible treatments of Covid-19 .
He said that the first Covid-19 patients he had treated with the drug chloroquine had seen a rapid and effective speeding up of their healing process , and a sharp decrease in the amount of time they remained contagious .
Chloroquine – which is normally used mainly to prevent and treat malaria – was administered via the named drug , Plaquenil .
The treatment was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among the first to become infected in the south east of France , and who had voluntarily admitted themselves to hospital for the process .
Patients were given 600mcg per day for 10 days .
They were closely monitored , as the drug can interact with other medication , and cause severe side effects in some cases .
Professor Raoult said : “ We included everyone who was in agreement [ to be treated ] , which was almost everyone .
Two towns in the protocol , Nice and Avignon , gave us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet received treatment .
“ We were able to ascertain that patients who had not received Plaquenil ( the drug containing hydroxychloroquine ) were still contagious after six days , but of those that had received Plaquenil , after six days , only 25 % were still contagious.
” Chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine have previously been used to treat coronavirus patients in China , in ongoing Covid-19 clinical trials .
Kaletra , a US-based antiviral drug normally used to treat HIV , is another medicine that is being tested in the fight against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published on Friday March 13 by US scientific researchers , also said that chloroquine appeared to be an effective treatment , and appears to align with the findings in France .

Professor Raoult is an infectious diseases specialist and head of the IHU Méditerranée Infection, who has been tasked by – and consulted by – the French government to research possible treatments of Covid-19.
He said that the first Covid-19 patients he had treated with the drug chloroquine had seen a rapid and effective speeding up of their healing process, and a sharp decrease in the amount of time they remained contagious.
Chloroquine – which is normally used mainly to prevent and treat malaria – was administered via the named drug, Plaquenil.
The treatment was offered to 24 patients, who were among the first to become infected in the south east of France, and who had voluntarily admitted themselves to hospital for the process.
Patients were given 600mcg per day for 10 days. They were closely monitored, as the drug can interact with other medication, and cause severe side effects in some cases.
Professor Raoult said: “We included everyone who was in agreement [to be treated], which was almost everyone. Two towns in the protocol, Nice and Avignon, gave us [infected] patients who had not yet received treatment.
“We were able to ascertain that patients who had not received Plaquenil (the drug containing hydroxychloroquine) were still contagious after six days, but of those that had received Plaquenil, after six days, only 25% were still contagious.”
Chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine have previously been used to treat coronavirus patients in China, in ongoing Covid-19 clinical trials.
Kaletra, a US-based antiviral drug normally used to treat HIV, is another medicine that is being tested in the fight against Covid-19.
US academic study concurs
A new academic study, published on Friday March 13 by US scientific researchers, also said that chloroquine appeared to be an effective treatment, and appears to align with the findings in France.