Morning Tan Sri Dr @DGHisham ..
This is a good journal report published to show that ivermectin has no significance for sequelae of #COVID19 patients..
You learn something new everyday !! Meet #ghrelin .. the hormone secreted by our stomachs that control our Appetite & Hunger !! .. 1/n yourhormones.info/hormones/ghrel…
Conclusion was, there was no correlating, from a student t test ..
between #ghrelin hormone levels & patients having #COVID19 or not having..
[Caveat: sample size is small, n=50 for this positive & n=30 for control group who are negative] .. 3/n journaljpri.com/index.php/JPRI…
Now just to put things in context.. remember #COVID19 raging in #India just a month back.. with thousands of daily deaths, open cremation & bodies thrown into the Ganges.. article below is on 24th May 2021.. google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…
Now this a good ongoing study in South African, #SisonkeStudy .. published in @NEJM .. studying safety data of vaccinated health care workers (HCW), with breakdown of reported adverse effects thus far.. 1/n nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Results: out of total 288,368 HCWs who received the #johnsonandjohnson#vaccine fr 17th Feb 2021 till 12th Apr 2021.. ONLY 5,898 (2%) reported adverse events.. And even from these 5,898, 4,777 (or 81%) only reported mild to moderate reactogenecity.. 3/n nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…