COVID Advisor

PART 1 - As a now renowned (infamous?) U.S pulmonary & critical care specialist with numerous co-authored publications and extensive experience treating COVID-19 in all it’s phases, almost every day of this pandemic, and sometimes multiple times a day, I am contacted by someone in my ever-widening circle of friends, family, or colleagues asking me to help a loved one who is deteriorating from COVID in the hospital. The case is invariably one of an often older (but not always) patient mired on a hospital ward or in an ICU, whose illness has progressed to the point where they require near maximal or maximal oxygen/ventilator settings and the patients and family members begin to question whether “enough is being done” or “is there more the doctors should be doing?” So they reach out.. desperate for help. The therapeutic regimen that their loved one is on is nearly identical in almost all cases, especially on the hospital wards where a generally anemic dose of a corticosteroid called

Do nasal sprays actually work against COVID-19? There has been quite a lot of activities in the COVID nasal spray space. Below, we look at some of the best nasal sprays for COVID-19 and summaries of the rationale and evidence for each category. Do note that some of them are available as an over-the-counter medication but some are still under clinical trial stage.   McCullough et al. Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020 Best Nasal Sprays for COVID-19 2022 There are lots of great nasal sprays out there, and this list is by no means complete. We’ve included nasal sprays with proven anti-COVID-19 ingredient, you can buy over the counter or online. 1.   Iota-Carrageenan Nasal Spray   for COVID-19 Marinomed Biotech AG (VSE:MARI), an Austrian science-based biotech company with globally marketed therapeutics derived from innovative proprietary technology platforms, announce

Hydroxychloroquine was discovered during efforts to synthesize alternatives to quinine as anti-malarials. Is quinine similar to hydroxychloroquine? Hydroxychloroquine and quinine are both anti-malarial drugs. However, hydroxychloroquine is not the same as quinine as hydroxychloroquine is a synthetic drug while quinine is a naturally occurring compound found in cinchona bark.  Quinine, was first recognized as a potent antimalarial agent hundreds of years ago. Since then, the beneficial effects of quinine and its more advanced synthetic forms, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, have been increasingly recognized in a myriad of other diseases in addition to malaria. Hydroxychloroquine, developed in the 1950s from chloroquine, an old anti-malarial drug, is registered in around 60 countries under trade names such as Plaquenil, Quensyl and Plaquinol.   Hydroxychloroquine,  a less toxic derivative of Chloroquine  is a widely used medication by people with lupus or arthritis.  Hydroxychloroqui

Approximately 10% of people who’ve had COVID-19 experience prolonged symptoms — that is, longer than the typical two weeks. In some cases, weeks and months longer. There are people who experience relapses after they’ve appeared to make a full recovery. Long Haulers Symptoms Their typical symptoms can include:  Cognitive issues Erratic heartbeat Fatigue Gastrointestinal issues Intolerance to physical or mental activity Low-grade fever Muscle and joint pain Shortness of breath NB: A syndrome is not a disease. It’s a group of signs and symptoms that may accompany more than one specific disease. In this case, the syndrome affects some people who have contracted the virus that causes COVID-19 and can mimic the symptoms of other, seemingly unrelated diseases. COVID-19 long haulers report that these symptoms flare up unpredictably. They are often in different combinations and can be debilitating for days and