@afneil The focus on ventilators is about as useful as focusing on whether we have enough coffins. There are more valuable interventions that are being totally ignored in uk at present. Let's run through them:
@afneil 1. Early intervention at home for ALL who develop mild #COVIDー19 symptoms - give them ALL a 5 day course of #chloroquine or #Hydroxychloroquine - this will prevent vast majority of severe cases needing to anywhere near a hospital
Mar 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#coronavirusuk #covid19
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Advice for COVID19: 1. Treat early when upper respiratory infection don't want it to become a lower respiratory infection. 2. Have a steamy shower daily or steam inhale - helps breathing and may counter virus in throat.
3. Brush teeth and gargle with warm water - as warm as you can - again trying to inhibit virus in throat. 4. Vitamin D3, vit C, and zinc daily as supportive. 5. Povidone iodine 1% + water 99% gargle frequently during day. 6. Quercetin supplements if you can get them.
Mar 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@AlexRuebben Better solution. Give large chunk of low / medium risk population a treatment course of HCQ and Azythromycin plus couple of finger prick antibody tests. At scale that's maybe £15 per person. Let them work and play in offices, pubs etc. ...
@AlexRuebben As they pick up the virus, if symptomatic, they promptly take HCQ / Azithromycin at home and recover with very low rate of complications that won't flood hospitals. Antibody test diy confirms that you've been infected so you can now have a special wrist band confirming your...
Mar 8, 2020 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
@EGrafenschnell@Sativa888@alessabocchi@434Italo I think Twitter is the best public billboard we have for now. Other practical tips; wear a nitrile 🧤 when holding onto straps or bars on tube or buses carefully remove when no longer needed and throw away. 1/n...
@EGrafenschnell@Sativa888@alessabocchi@434Italo Make your own alcohol based hand gel - rubbing alcohol and aloe Vera gel in correct proportions - google it. Vicks first defence or generic equivalent from Boots - spray up your nose as directed. Evidence shows it reduces viral load with seasonal cold - might do same for....
