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Singapore reports an increase of 13,794 covid cases on 19 July 2022
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On 19 July 2022, the Ministry of Health (MOH) states that there is an increase of 13,794 covid cases including 516 inbound cases and 13,278 domestic cases. 3 more covid patients have passed away while the week on week infection ratio has increased to 1.36.
In contrast with average daily increase of 8881 local covid cases reported on 17 July 2022, 9,121 local covid cases on 18 July, MOH says the average daily increase of local covid cases in the last one week has increased to 10,197, the highest so far in a fortnight.
Over the last 28 days, 99.7% of the 217,863 patients have asymptomatic or mild symptoms, 0.2% (78 patients) require oxygen supplementation and 0.03% (13 patients) are in ICU and 9,036 more covid patients have discharged while 795 patients are hospitalized on 19 July.
As of 19 July 2022, Singapore has a total number of 1,616,067 confirmed covid cases and 1,460 covid fatalities.
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Zhang Wenhong's team issued a document: Oppose wearing protective clothing in the sweltering heat
Reporter Luo Tingting / Editor : Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/18/a103481529.html / Image : A health worker collects a swab sample from a man to test for covid in Jing'an District, Shanghai, 5 July 2022. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
Many places in China are still implementing epidemic prevention measures such as lockdown and nucleic acid testing in high temperature weather. The team of Professor Zhang Wenhong from Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai recently issued a document against the continued work of epidemic prevention personnel in protective clothing (commonly known as dabai) under the sweltering heat and high temperature, which caused heated discussions.
On the morning of 16 July 2022, Zhang Wenhong's team posted on its Weibo account "Huashan Infection" that the weather has been extremely hot recently, and epidemic prevention personnel wear "dabai", which greatly increases the risk of heat stroke, because "dabai" will prevent the heat dissipation of the human body. .
On 20 February 2022, Tan Swee Ching, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore, published a research article in the academic journal "Small" and pointed out, "Health care workers who wear protective clothing and work for one hour at room temperature of 35°C usually will feel a body temperature of about 64°C."
The article by "Huashan Infection" stated that wearing protective clothing at high temperatures can easily lead to heat stroke. Heat stroke is usually divided into heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. Severe heat stroke - heat stroke is a fatal emergency, with a lot of cold sweat in the early stage, followed by no sweat, shallow breathing, rapid pulse, restlessness, confusion, drop in blood pressure, and gradually develop to coma with limb convulsions; severe It can cause cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, heart failure, etc., and may even be life-threatening.
The article pointed out that a piece of "dabai" soaked in sweat has a greatly reduced protective effect. It is recommended that when sampling of the general population is carried out in an environment without air conditioning, in principle, the staff can prevent infection as long as the "level +" protective measures are taken, and they should wear N95 masks and face shields when they are in close contact with each other.".
"As for ordinary epidemic prevention workers (non-sampling personnel), especially in the outdoor environment in hot summer, we recommend wearing masks properly and paying attention to hand hygiene," the article reads.
The above suggestions have caused heated discussions on the Internet. Some netizens said, "It is already very uncomfortable to wear N95 (masks) in such a hot day. It is really not good to wear white. It is not good for health."
"Most parts of the country are now hot, and it's hard for us ordinary people to stand outside for an hour, not to mention those staff in white, who ask for facts and can't be one-size-fits-all."
Some netizens also ridiculed, "If you don't wear white, you won't be able to scare the virus, there's no sense of majesty, and there's no educational significance."
Before Zhang Wenhong's team issued a popular science article on "don't wear a dabai", there were many cases of epidemic prevention personnel fainting from heat stroke. On 14 July 2022, a medical staff in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province was sent to the hospital for heat stroke because they were wearing "dabai" and engaged in nucleic acid testing at a high temperature of 38°C.
A video posted online showed a nurse suffering from heat stroke lying on a bed in the emergency room, her limbs twitching. "It's a seizure symptom," said one surgeon. "It means that her brain has been thermally damaged. For this patient, even if she can be rescued, the patient's brain damage is irreversible."
Recently, there have been cases of death due to heat stroke in various parts of China, and "heat stroke" has also been searched on Weibo. At the same time, the mutant strains of Omicron continued to spread across China. The CCP authorities insisted on implementing measures to prevent and control the virus, as well as large-scale nucleic acid testing. Epidemic prevention personnel and ordinary people had to endure nucleic acid sampling in extreme heat.
News (3) to (4) / Reporter : Li Jinfeng / Editor: Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/18/a103481573.html
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Nearly 10,000 people in Lanzhou have been quarantined, and medium- and high-risk areas continue to increase
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According to comprehensive mainland Chinese media reports, on 18 July 2022, a press conference in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, stated that as of now, Lanzhou has opened 125 isolation points and 10,914 rooms, and is currently isolating 9,383 people.
Since 18 July 2022, Lanzhou City, Chengguan District, Gongxingdun Street Nanhe Jiayuan, Yannan Street Longfeng Food Factory affiliated courtyard, Yannan Street Nanhe Road No. 2232-2268 (double number) family courtyard, Gongxingdun Street Sanyi Garden and 4 other 4 areas were adjusted from medium-risk areas to high-risk areas; 10 areas including the Municipal Family Court of Caochang Street Street, Chengguan District, and the self-built housing area of Donggang East Road, Gongxingdun Street, were upgraded to high-risk areas.
Chengguan District Caochang Street Street Shaping Village Self-built Housing Area (No. 193-203, No. 207-258), Baiyin Road Street City Construction No. 1 Company Family Court, Yannan Street Wenting Yayuan, Yannan Street Zhongrun Homestead, Yannan Street Thirty-one areas, including Xinyuehu Community in Nanjie Street, are classified as medium-risk areas.
Four areas, including Building 10, Jiaoda Nanyuan Apartment, Xilu Street, Anning District, and Longdian Yanguoxia Power Plant Community, Kongjiaya Street, have been reduced from high-risk areas to medium-risk areas; the whole area of Huashan Village, Hongcheng Town, Yongdeng County (except No. The medium risk area was reduced to a low risk area.
Earlier on 15 July, Lanzhou had 58 high-risk areas and 79 medium-risk areas. On 16 July, Gansu Province officially announced that Lanzhou added 7 high-risk areas and 31 medium-risk areas.
From 12 am on 11 July, Lanzhou's Chengguan District, Qilihe District, Xigu District, and Anning District are temporarily controlled for one week, and the city's low-risk districts are under closed management.
From 16 July, Jingyuan County, Gansu has implemented measures to close the city, such as requiring people to stay in Jing unless necessary; all local buses, passenger lines, buses, and taxis have been suspended for serving travelers.
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The main urban area of Maiji District in the city of Tianshui is temporarily controlled for 7 days
From 18 July 2022, Maiji District, Tianshui City, Gansu Province announced that from 7 pm on 18 July 2022 to 7 pm on 24 July 2022, the main urban area of the district is temporarily controlled for 7 days, and personnel in the entire district will not leave Maiji unless necessary. .
During the control period, bars, chess and card rooms, teahouses, various cultural and artistic, education and sports technology training institutions, shopping malls, cinemas, scenic spots, parks, farmers markets and other closed places with densely populated spaces are closed.
The old-age welfare institutions are closed and managed. Large-scale guaranteed supermarkets, vegetable supply points, banks, and pharmacies strictly check the nucleic acid test results, and the passenger flow must not exceed 75% of the normal passenger flow.
The community in the low-risk area is under closed management. Only one entrance and exit is reserved in the community, and each household can only go out to buy supplies once a day.
City buses and taxis will reduce the number of operating circles, and stations in medium and high-risk areas will be dumped and detoured. Other social vehicles do not operate and do not flow, and private cars do not move in principle.
News (5) to (7) / Reporter : Jin Shi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/19/a103482068.html
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Shanghai in a "state of semi-unblocking" while another round of nucleic acid testing in Tianjin
In Shanghai, China's economic center, another 14 areas have been designated as high-risk areas for the epidemic. Some Shanghai residents directly called that the reset policy was not feasible, and worried that the community would be closed again.
Mr. Chen, a citizen of Shanghai, commented, "Shanghai is now in a state of semi-unblocking."
In the northern gateway Tianjin, the city government ordered the city's 13 million residents to start a new round of nucleic acid testing on Monday night after two new local cases were detected.
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10 Omicron sub-variants reported in more than 20 Chinese provinces and cities
Up to now, the latest wave of the epidemic has appeared in more than 20 provinces and cities in the mainland.
According to the mainland media "First Financial", since the first case of the Omicron BA.5 variant was confirmed in Xi'an on 6 July 2022, in less than two weeks, as many as 10 species of Omicron sub-variants have been reported across CCP China.
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CCP rejects to co-exist with Omicron in view of Xi's planned re-election as CCP leader
In response to mutant strains such as BA.5, Yang Zhanqiu, an expert from Wuhan University, said in an interview with CCTV recently that its pathogenicity has been significantly weakened.
Wuhan University virology expert Yang Zhanqiu on a CCTV interview on 14 July 2022 said, "At present, the Omicron variant strain is only infected in the throat and upper respiratory tract, that is, symptoms similar to a cold, and will not cause pneumonia. Signs of such severe symptoms."
However, the CCTV interview video was deleted shortly after it was broadcast.
Current affairs commentator Li Linyi pointed out that the CCP's official media deleted its own video, indicating that the CCP believes that Yang Zhanqiu's words are inappropriate. Because if most of the mutants cause mild symptoms, then Xi Jinping's "dynamic clearing" policy will lose its rationality, which will affect Xi's re-election at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
When Xi Jinping inspected Xinjiang on 12 and 13 July 2022, he emphasized his insistence on "dynamic clearing".
News (8) to (15) / Reporter : Zhu Ying / Editor : Xu Gengwen / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/07/18/a103481977.html
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Healthy 18-year-old woman dies of aplastic anemia 3 days after vaccination
Image : Schematic diagram of vaccination against covid. (Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay)
Recently, an "Aid Agreement" was circulated on the Internet, showing that a woman named Li Yanjing died of aplastic anemia shortly after receiving the covi vaccine. Beijing Sinovac Zhongwei Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Ltd paid RMB 250,000 to his parents in the name of "Humanitarian Aid". Relatives of the woman, who are convinced her illness was linked to the vaccination, have vowed to get justice.
Li Yanjing's mother, Gu Lixia, recently told the self-media account "Wei Baixing Talks About Medical Reform" about the ins and outs of the whole incident.
According to Gu Lixia, Li Yanjing was only 18 years old this year. She received the first dose of the covi vaccine at Taocheng Town Health Centre on 27 August 2021. Just three days later, she developed symptoms of bleeding gums and ecchymosis in many parts of her body. On 1 September 2021, she went to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University for medical treatment, and was later transferred to Henan Cancer Hospital. After bone biopsy, she was diagnosed with sepsis and severe aplastic anemia.
At that time, Li Yanjing had just graduated from a vocational college in Zhengzhou and was doing an internship in Zhengzhou. Before graduation, she had a comprehensive physical examination, all indicators were normal, and she was in good health.
Gu Lixia emphasized that their family has never had the disease of aplastic anemia. Her daughter developed the disease shortly after she was vaccinated. After being hospitalized, her platelets were low. Later, she developed a fungal infection in her lungs and an unknown object was detected on the left side of her head. She was hospitalized for several weeks. The body was getting thinner and emaciated, and eventually he could not get out of bed.
In order to save her daughter, the family took out all their savings, borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from relatives and friends, and even borrowed loan sharks to treat her daughter's illness. The hospital suggested a bone marrow transplant for Li Yanjing. After examination, the younger brother in the family was highly matched. On 31 October 2021, her brother donated bone marrow to her sister for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation but a few days later, Li Yanjing's condition deteriorated and unfortunately passed away on 3 November 2021.
This 18-year-old girl fell ill only three days after vaccination, and died of the disease in just over two months. To save her life, her family spent more than 700,000 yuan for treatment, and her brother also donated bone marrow The transplant failed to save the young woman's life in the end, and her parents could not accept this cruel fact.
Gu Lixia said, "My daughter's departure made me feel heart-wrenching pain. I really hate vaccines. One injection of the covi vaccine killed my daughter. I want to ask for an explanation for my daughter."
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The family of the deceased has gone through ups and downs to seek justice
Li Yanjing's parents went to Yanling County Center for Disease Control and Prevention to report the situation one after another, and asked the local health and health committee to discuss the situation. After persistent petition, the relevant agencies agreed to let the province make an appraisal.
At the end of 2021, experts in the investigation and diagnosis of abnormal response to vaccination in Henan Province conducted an identification and issued an "Investigation and Diagnosis Certificate" on December 30, identifying the extremely severe aplastic anemia Li Yanjing suffered from as a "coincidence". The family of the deceased refused to accept it, and continued to send information and petitions to the Provincial Letters and Calls Office. In the end, officials from the county CDC said that the results of the identification could not be changed, but that Sinovac could carry out so-called "humanitarian relief."
Finally, under the repeated persuasion and coercion of leading cadres in the county, township, and village, Gu Lixia, who was deeply in despair and was in debt for treating her daughter's illness, had no choice but to sign a document in the county on 27 April 2022 under the protocol.
According to the agreement, Li Yanjing's illness from vaccination is a coincidence, not an abnormal reaction to vaccination, and has nothing to do with vaccine safety and quality. 250,000 humanitarian economic aid. The agreement also stipulates that relatives shall not make any claims or claims against Sinovac or other units in any form due to the same coincidental event.
In an interview with a reporter from "Wei Baixing Talks About Medical Reform", Gu Lixia said: "I know that my daughter died from a vaccine, and I also know that there is a problem with the appraisal report, but because there was no more evidence at that time (the agreement was signed), but I never I gave up trying to make excuses for my daughter."
She said that when she went online later, she found that there were still many people in the country who were vaccinated with aplastic anemia, leukemia, diabetes and other diseases, and those people were also identified as "coincidental", which made her even more convinced that her daughter "was just a Vaccine killed", and now "seeking justice for my daughter has become my belief in life."
Gu Lixia also mentioned that in the process of her continuous petitioning, she learned in May this year that there was indeed a big problem in her daughter's identification - the results of the identification of many experts at the beginning were "abnormal reactions to the vaccine are not excluded", but the above It is mandatory to write the appraisal result as "coupling", so the final appraisal result of the expert becomes "coupling", but there is no expert's signature on the abnormal reaction appraisal certificate.
As a result, Gu Lixia recorded a video and posted it on the Internet in May this year, to continue to seek justice for her daughter, she said: "I was killed by a vaccine, it is not a coincidence that can be passed away, so many victims, one by one fresh life. Being mutilated like this. For the family members, what we want is definitely not just money, it is a confession to our relatives and an evaluation of the conscience of a country.”
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The number of people suffering from blood diseases after vaccination in China is astounding. Expert: It is not ruled out that it is related to vaccination
In early June 2022, an "Open Letter of Suspected Leukemia Groups Vaccinated" was uploaded on the online social platform. A group of leukemia patients aged 3 to 70 from more than 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country stated in the letter that they were in After receiving the Sinovac covi vaccine, he developed leukemia or aplastic anemia. It is suspected that the disease is related to the domestic vaccine. I hope the government can investigate the matter.
So, medically speaking, is it possible that these blood diseases are related to vaccines? Dong Yuhong, a European expert on virology and infectious diseases, said the possibility that these diseases are related to vaccination cannot be ruled out.
Dong Yuhong, who used to be responsible for drug safety vigilance in a major international pharmaceutical company, said in an interview with The Epoch Times on 10 June 2022 that according to the internationally accepted collection principles for vaccine adverse events, as long as an adverse event information meets the following four conditions, it is considered reportable. 1. An identifiable patient; 2. An identifiable reporter; 3. A history of exposure to a drug or vaccine; 4. An adverse event, Whether or not a causal relationship to the drug or vaccine is proven.
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Patients with leukemia after DNA vaccination have no records of genetic disease, no radioactive work, no source of pollution
Dong Yuhong said that a senior reporter once provided her with two reports of leukemia adverse events reported collectively by people in mainland China and vaccinated with domestically produced vaccines. As of 4 June 2022, at 10.00 pm ET, the report covers nearly 1,000 patient reports of adverse events and is alarmingly detailed. The reporter personally interviewed, investigated and collected evidence, and proved that the information in the form is true: the patient's name, home address, telephone number, and a clear reporter, almost most patients have provided vaccine manufacturers, and each patient has are professional disease diagnoses provided by doctors, and the key information is in line with medical logic. These patients were healthy before the vaccination, had no history of genetic disease, had not engaged in radioactive work, and there was no source of pollution around.
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Leukemia can be due to vaccination
She pointed out that these cases have strong pattern, consistency and specificity. So patients or their families highly suspect that leukemia is related to vaccination. Normally, the medical community should take these cases of leukemia after vaccination in China as a major public health event to investigate and file, analyze the correlation, and do follow-up research. It is also necessary to systematically observe other cases of similar situations after vaccination, which is responsible for the public.
Dong Yuhong also proposed the key factors that may lead to leukemia by vaccination: Vaccines can affect the DNA of patients, and DNA mutations may cause blood diseases such as leukemia.
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DNA mutations can increase the risk of leukemia in patients
She said that the factors that cause DNA mutations in hematopoietic cells to increase the risk of leukemia include harmful electromagnetic fields, radiation from radioactive substances, and exposure to DNA-harming chemicals, carcinogens, and environmental toxins. In addition to conventional situations such as home decoration pollution, hair dyes, household pesticides, etc., in theory, the spike protein will also affect human DNA, and both inactivated vaccines and mRNA vaccines contain spike proteins.
In May 2021, a study published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) stated that although covi is not a retrovirus, it can change the DNA of the human body.
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mRNA can affect the human genome due to the spike protein of covi
In February 2022, published in the medical journal Current Issues in Molecular Biology, a study from Lund University in Sweden also pointed out that when mRNA vaccines (Pfizer vaccine, BNT) enter the cultured human liver after 6 hours in the cell, the "reverse transcription" can be completed in the cell and affect the human genetics. The study is direct evidence that mRNA vaccines can affect the human genome.
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mRNA will exist if inactivated vaccine is not completely inactivated
In this regard, Dong Yuhong pointed out that if the inactivated vaccine is not completely inactivated, mRNA will also exist, and there will be the possibility of inserting into the human genome and changing genes. Most of China's domestic vaccines are inactivated vaccines, and the quality control of inactivated vaccines has always been a relatively high risk, and there is always the possibility of slipping through the net.
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Relieve the symptoms of long covid, study on the two most important foods
Recently, the local covid epidemic in Taiwan has entered a plateau, and the number of confirmed cases and deaths has been gradually declining, but with the "flu-like" of the virus, even after recovery, all kinds of "long covid" symptoms are still emerging one after another, in addition to reliance on drugs and vaccines, How to strengthen the coexistence of autoimmunity and virus, the post-epidemic test is just about to begin.
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Diagnosed and recovered but still unwell? Hundreds of symptoms of "long covid"
In short, "long covid" is a general term for all kinds of covid sequelae. At present, it is widely defined internationally. If you continue to have symptoms of discomfort for more than four weeks after being infected by covi (the covid virus), it belongs to the category of long covid. The symptoms of long covid are all over the body. At present, the more common symptoms are brain fog (deterioration of attention and memory), changes in smell and taste, muscle and joint pain, respiratory discomfort, gastrointestinal symptoms and chest tightness, palpitations, and even depression, sleep disorders, etc. . According to the statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), the overall incidence of long covid is about 10-20%. Although the Omicron mutants have a slightly lower proportion of long covid than the previous Alpha and Delta mutants, they can still infect unvaccinated people with chronic diseases. They are still major threats to patients, patients with moderate and severe disease after infection, and people who develop multi-system inflammation (MIS) after recovery. Doctors also cautiously call on high-risk groups to be vaccinated to reduce symptoms and the probability of severe disease after infection .
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Do this to improve the symptoms of long covid! Two nutrients must be added
In the past two years, Taiwan has adopted a zero-covid policy, and the virus progress has been slow. Compared with Europe and the United States, where the epidemic continues to repeat between peaks and valleys, the inductive research on the symptoms of covid is also more comprehensive. Healthy work and rest and proper exercise are the only ways to improve autoimmunity. For people who have had a long covid problem, the British Dietitians Association also put forward dietary recommendations to help improve persistent discomfort symptoms. In addition to the essential plan for a healthy diet with less sugar, less refined starch and high-fat meat intake, adequate intake of Omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin D can also effectively help improve the symptoms of long covid.
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Fish oil supplements benefit, many Omega-3 concentrations are key
The clinical health effects of Omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids are obvious to all,but the human body cannot manufacture them by themselves, and can only rely on daily intake of them. The content of deep-sea fish oil is the highest, and DHA and EPA are the two most important ones. Fatty acids not only have functions such as immune regulation, reducing inflammation, and anti-oxidation, but most importantly, they promote brain health and improve brain fog symptoms of attention and memory disorders. Clinical studies have found that there are long-term supplementation of Omega-3 dietary supplements that can.lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 by 12%.
Dr. Yang Zhijun said that in the past, the most worrying problem of fish oil was the residue, concentration and absorption rate of heavy metals, so how to choose a good fish oil dietary supplement is very important. First of all, it is recommended to choose a reputable manufacturer with a number of international certifications and labels, such as the indicative Monde Selection special gold award, the third-party organization IFOS five-star certification, the SNQ national product label certification, etc., which will be more secure in terms of food safety; In addition, the rTG type with patented extraction is selected for good absorption, which is an ideal form of fish oil extraction. The concentration is the ratio of the active ingredients in fish oil. The higher the concentration, the more active ingredients of fish oil it contains. It is recommended to choose fish oil with an Omega-3 fatty acid concentration of more than 84%, and the recommended daily intake of Omega-3 fatty acids for adults is 1000 mg. It is calculated that eating two pills a day can meet the standard. There are also high-concentration fish oil with a concentration of up to 97.7% on the market. Small particles are easy to supplement, and it is easier to eat continuously every day.
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How to choose vitamin D? Medicine: First look at the source, inactivity and dosage
Muscle and joint pain is also one of the common clinical symptoms of covid. Supplementing a sufficient amount of "vitamin D" can effectively alleviate the symptoms. In addition to helping the body regulate bone formation, vitamin D is the most important component of muscle and neurophysiology. It also helps reduce inflammation and boosts the immune response. Generally speaking, vitamin D can be synthesized in the body by sun exposure, although it can be supplemented in small amounts in algae, fish and milk, but because the intestinal absorption of vitamin D is poor, Dr. Chen Zhexin suggested that high-unit dose products can be used. To directly supplement what you need for one day, it will be more effective with less effort, and in the selection, you should mainly grasp three major directions: source, inactivity and dosage.
Dr. Chen Zhexin said that currently commercially available vitamins can be divided into D2 extracted from plants and D3 derived from animals. Compared with D2, vitamin D3 lasts longer in the body and is more suitable for human use and absorption. "Active" vitamin D (indicated in IU) can be used as a daily supplement to avoid burdening the human body. Currently, the recommended daily intake for adults announced by the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare is 400-600 IU. However, Chinese people generally lack vitamin D, so when choosing you can use a high unit dose of 800 IU, and pay attention to the fact that the ingredients are extracted from natural lanolin, and the patented technology and raw materials are more secure. In addition, vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, and it is recommended to take it after meals for better absorption efficiency.
It is worth noting that if you want to maintain a healthy state, whether it is fish oil or vitamin D, you need to ingest it consistently. It is definitely not "eat only when you think about it" or "eat when you have a problem." Not only can it effectively improve the symptoms of long covid, but in the long run, it will play a key role in the health of the body.
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Fauci reveals when he is leaving the U.S. Government
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed that after about five decades in the federal government, he is planning on leaving his position by the end of President Joe Biden’s current term.
“We’re in a pattern now. If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have COVID anymore,’ then I will be 105. I think we’re going to be living with this,” Fauci, 81, told Politico in an interview published on 18 July 2022 that he plans to retire by the end of Biden’s current term, which ends in January 2025.
Fauci has been the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he became a household name as the face of the federal government’s response, often generating criticism from Republicans and conservatives about his generally dire predictions about the pandemic.
Of his relationship with former President Donald Trump, Fauci said that “we developed an interesting relationship … two guys from New York, different in their opinions and their ideology, but still, two guys who grew up in the same environments of this city. I think that we are related to each other in that regard.”
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Fauci is not afraid of Republican investigations after 2022, continues to defend covid restriction measures
If Republicans win back either the House or Senate in 2022, Fauci noted that he will likely be investigated by GOP lawmakers. But he claimed that regarding those investigations, “I don’t make that a consideration in my career decision.”
In the Politico interview, Fauci continued to defend his public recommendations, including school closures, mask-wearing, vaccination regimes and lockdowns.
“My telling somebody that it’s important to follow fundamental good public health practices … what are you going to investigate about that?” he asked.
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Fauci yet to clarify about NIAID funding to Wuhan Institute of Viology, and funding has not been stopped
However, Fauci has faced public questions from Republicans in Congress about his agency having given funding to third-party groups to carry out research in CCP China. COVID-19, caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus(SARS-CoV-2/covi), emerged in Wuhan and a significant number of U.S. intelligence officials last year released a report suggesting the virus may be linked to the top-level Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Last month, amid questions from Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Fauci conceded that he is not able to halt federal funding from being doled out to researchers in China.
“The NIH [National Institutes of Health] is still funding research in China, at least $8 million since 2020,” Marshall said. “In the Intelligence Community’s 2022 Annual Threat Assessment, the Chinese Communist Party is presented as one of the top threats to the United States, along with Russia, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. To my knowledge, only China is receiving U.S. research dollars.”
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Fauci defending his position on partnering with Wuhan Institute of Viology
Later, he asked Fauci, “When will you as director of NIAID stop funding research in China?”
Fauci said in response, "Federal health agencies had very productive peer-reviewed highly regarded research projects with our Chinese colleagues that have led to some major advances in biomedical research.”
“We obviously need to be careful and make sure that when we do fund them we have the proper peer review and we go through all the established guidelines,” he said.
NIAID officials did not respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.
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Netizens' response on Fauci's planned retirement exploded
robertasimon 24 said, "This evil creature should have been fired years ago!!! Return all your millions to all the people you harmed and/or killed by your lies, you rat bastard!!"
David Reynolds added, "“Investigated” is too light of a word! Convicted and thrown in jail gets closer to the point! Destroy the whole world because you hate orange man! my god this person needs to get the electric chair for the deaths he’s caused".
notretired34 commented FBI should arrest Fauci before he retired, "OK, so we’ve got to get him before then. We can’t let him go off into the sunset with his huge pension and people not realizing what a monster he is. He has to be prosecuted, along with Gates, Collins, Redfield. Birx, Dazak and all the others who perpetuated this huge hoax on the American people and the world. We need another Nuremburg trial. Please, the people who can do this, we are behind you. Proceed!"
ForHeavenSake described Fauci as part of Biden's regime and compared him with Biden to Hitler, who must be charged for the harm towards the world through improper treatments and toxic experiments (vaccines), "Caring Corrupted is a movie worth watching to see the parallels of Hitlet’s Nazi Germany and Fauci/Biden’s regime.
"It’s hard to watch but we all need to realize this is STILL happening in our local doctor offices, hospitals, pharmacies.
Inproper treatments are harming patients, toxic experiments are injected into our babies.
This guy can’t walk away from this and sit on a beach.
He must be charged and convicted."
Patricia Maker cautioned if Fauci were not arrested and charged, "Taking his ill gotten gains and running. I still wouldn’t count him out. He will probably be hired by a network news agency or a lobbyist firm.
Oh, did I forget to mention we tax payers will still have the privilege of paying his outrageously high retirement package?
By the way, I personally think the paper shredders and delete buttons will be working overtime in every office in DC."
John Herzog, Larry Henkels and ladder 36 responded on behalf of innocent civilians hurt by the infectious diseases and vaccines, "F you you little coke sucker you killed millions of people from aids to The fake virus", "He help fund this wretched virus with the CCP.
People’s lives are ruined because of him.
Let’s hope the GOP (Republicans) takes the reins of Congress with new energy and a strong desire for the absolute truth.", "We will catch you and hold you accountable for your evil heart to the innocent people in the U.S and all over the world. Putting you in the jail is the priority when GOP take back the Congress!"
"There needs to be a court order to preserve and protect all documentation and evidence" that Fauci has partnered with Wuhan Institute of Viology to come up with SARS-CoV-2 that eventually leaked and infects the world with all its variants. There must be "strict warning penalties for any deleting, losing, destroying of any kind", allecano suggested.
Republicans in Congress are threatening to investigate Fauci and 10 other virologists on their stance on the origins of covid if they regain control in the upcoming midterm elections in November 2022.
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Biden cognition declines, may resign before end of his term as President
Reporter : Fran Beyer, Newsmax / https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ronny-jackson-biden-mental-cognition/2022/07/17/id/1079147
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, on Sunday (17 July 2022) alleged President
Joe Biden’s mental cognition is worsening and that he might not last out his
term in office.
In an
interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” the physician who served under
former President Donald Trump claimed Biden’s cognition is “becoming a real
issue for us.”
“I just
don't see this getting any better,” he said.
“This is, you know, all of these issues we talked about
with cognitive decline related to age, they get worse not better with time, and
this is going to continue to get worse, and they're going to have to do
something about it,” he said.
According to
Jackson, Democrats are “starting to abandon him and run away from him because
of his polling and his cognitive issues and the embarrassment that he's become
for the party.”
“I think
that they will look for opportunity to throw him under the bus in the next few
years, next few months and try to get rid of him because I know, I think that
they also know he cannot make it to the end of his term in 2024,” he claimed.
“This man
should not have been put in a position to be our commander in chief, our head
of state and our president,” Jackson declared. “And when I initially said that
back before he was elected, there was a lot of pushback, and I said give it
another two years or so, it won't be Ronny Jackson talking about it anymore,
it's going to be his own party. That's what we see happening right now.”
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The major political agenda of the U.S. and China during fall of 2022
This fall, China and the United States each have a major political agenda. The United States will hold mid-term elections in November. Against the backdrop of high inflation that has not been seen in the United States in 40 years, this election can be said to be the best time for the Republicans to regain control of both chambers in one fell swoop.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will also be held around this time. Xi Jinping will be re-elected and he will be persuaded to get the title of "people's leader", which symbolizes lifelong power. This coincidence of time may mean to some extent that this autumn may be a critical period for changing the world pattern, especially for the situation in the Taiwan Strait, which has attracted worldwide attention, Xi Jinping's re-election may lead to a major key factor of change.
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Pompeo intends to compete for the presidency, who will collide with the 3 giants?
Images of Pompeo and Trump : Web Screenshots
Today, we are going to discuss with our friends another key factor from the United States, and it is likely to be a major factor that prompts the situation in the Taiwan Strait to deteriorate sharply. This is Pompeo's statement to the media that he intends to run for the 2024 US President.
On 16 July 2022, Pompeo told The Times, a veteran British newspaper, that he intends to run for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He told the paper, "We think we are in this position, and now is the right time, we will do our best to do it." He also revealed that his wife Susan will be his " closest advisor".
We all know that Pompeo has long been interested in running for the next U.S. presidential election. From the date he posted on Twitter to the countdown to the election, to his rapid weight loss and reshaping his image in a very short period of time, it all reflects he has been advancing his candidacy plan in a very orderly manner.
In particular, Pompeo's successful slimming move once became the focus of media attention. This is not only a move to improve his own image, but also shows his determination and action from one side: Once he has made up his mind, he will immediately take action and achieve his goals, as everyone knows. Indeed, it is not easy for the United States to lose weight quickly.
Pompeo's public willingness to run for the election is the first to be paid attention to Trump because it means that he must first compete with the "former boss" Trump in the Republican nomination battle. Not only that, but he may also face strong competition from Florida Governor DeSantis.
Image of DeSantis : Web Screenshot
DeSantis has a strong record in Florida, and his popularity has surged in two years. A new poll in New Hampshire, the nation's first presidential primary state last month (22 June 2022), showed that DeSantis even surpassed Trump's 37 per cent approval rating at 39 per cent. In an October 2021 poll, Trump led DeSantis' 18 per cent with 43 per cent.
The addition of Pompeo is bound to make the nomination battle of the Republican Big Three unprecedentedly fierce. Among them, Trump took the lead in publicly expressing to the media that he wanted to run for the 2024 election. On 14 July 2022, Trump said in an interview with the weekly "New York magazine" that he had made a "big decision", "In my heart, I have made a decision, so there is no longer any (change) ) factor.”
He said the big decision could be announced before or after the midterm elections, and then he emphasized a very Trump-like line, saying, "Look, I'm pretty confident that if I run, I'm going to win. Trump even added that he could have an advantage if he announced the decision before the midterm elections, as it would prevent potential candidates from launching campaigns.
Pompeo made a little comity on this point, telling The Times that he would negotiate with his closest adviser, his wife, Susan, after the midterm elections, regardless of whether there is a Who is going to run for election.
Pompeo was Trump's secretary of state, famous for delivering a new Cold War speech at the Nixon Library and publicly calling for the U.S. government to recognize the Republic of China diplomatically. This is his biggest bright spot but also his biggest weakness.That is, he used to focus on foreign affairs and lacked qualifications and achievements in domestic affairs.
DeSantis is the exact opposite of Pompeo. He has done a good job in Florida and won the hearts of the people but he lacks the qualifications in the diplomatic field but Americans generally value the domestic agenda more than the foreign agenda, so this could be a huge advantage for DeSantis as we saw Pompeo in previous polls only about 1%, and former Vice President Mike Pence's 9% is still not a small gap.
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Pompeo's three political ideas Image below : Web Screenshot
However, I think Pompeo's expressed willingness to run for election will probably cause far less attention and influence in the United States than in China. There is no other reason, it is because of Pompeo's three major political concepts in dealing with the Taiwan Strait issue and the CCP issue. The first one is his position on Taiwan.
As we all know, Pompeo called on the US government to restore formal diplomatic relations with the Taiwan authorities in his speech at the "Cross-Strait Exchange Vision Foundation" in Taipei on March 4. "The U.S. government should immediately take a necessary and too long-delayed measure: formal diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a free and sovereign state," he said.
The second is that Pompeo strictly distinguishes between the CCP and China. In many recent speeches by Pompeo, he clearly pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party is the biggest foreign threat to the United States, and the United States must fight back strongly. At the same time, he also delivered a speech when facing the Chinese community for the first time, pointing out that the CCP's Marxist-Leninist ideology is incompatible with Chinese culture, and that the CCP is a common threat to the United States and 1.4 billion Chinese people.
The third is his definition of the Chinese dream and the American dream. He said that Xi Jinping's "Chinese dream" is the dream of the CCP to rule the world, to steal the fruits of the American people's labor, and to trap 1.4 billion Chinese people with a long network wall. The American dream is the dream of depriving the freedom of religion and speech; the American dream is the dream of the people enjoying individual freedom, the dream of protecting the fruits of the labor of the American people, and the dream of opening up the free flow of speech and information. The two kinds of dreams are completely mutually exclusive. The premise of the realization of the American dream is to end Xi Jinping's "Chinese dream".
The combination of these three political concepts is actually two reshapings. If Pompeo is elected as the U.S. president, he will completely reshape the US-Taiwan relationship and achieve complete clarity. At the same time, he will reshape the U.S.-China relationship and achieve a comprehensive confrontation change.
From this perspective, Pompeo may be the candidate who has the most thorough understanding of the CCP in the future U.S. presidential election, and is also the candidate with the strongest attitude towards the CCP. This is the real century-old change, and this is by no means what the CCP is happy to see.
Pompeo's call for recognizing the Republic of China, we discussed on the program on March 4th, saying that once Pompeo is elected as the president of the United States, there will be three major variables, namely:
1. Accelerating the process of the Taiwan Strait, in disguise forcing Xi Jinping to showdown ahead of schedule, the CCP will either fully invade Taiwan while Pompeo has a firm foothold, or it can only continue to shelve the military reunification plan for a long time.
2. Recognizing the "Republic of China (Taiwan)" means recognizing that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not subordinate to each other, and the CCP's "one China principle" is abolished.
3. The CCP can only cut off diplomatic relations with the United States, and the new Cold War will officially draw a gap.
These three variables actually revolve around a core message, which is to completely abolish the legitimacy of the CCP’s claim that Taiwan is a part of China. As a result, the CCP’s claim that the Taiwan Strait issue is a so-called internal affair will no longer be valid, and once the CCP invades Taiwan, the international community will You can justifiably send troops to intervene.
Just as Pompeo said in a March 16 lecture at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, in memory of Lee Byung-cheol, founder of South Korea’s Samsung Group, if the CCP uses force to make Taiwan part of China, “that would not be reunification, but a way to destroy independence with national aggression".
Therefore, with a political concept like Pompeo, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of changes will occur in the Taiwan Strait in the future under the background of the hard target that the Taiwan issue must be resolved during Xi Jinping's term. Even if Pompeo fails in this party's nomination, it does not rule out the possibility that he will partner with Trump as vice president, and the Taiwan Strait policy of the U.S. may also face major changes.
At the end of last month, Pompeo said that Trump's candidacy would not affect his decision. He said at the time that if Trump wins the party nomination, he will not only support Trump, but also be happy to serve Trump again.
Many friends may have discovered that Pompeo's stance on the clarification of the Taiwan Strait is consistent with that of the assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Abe. On 27 February 2022, Abe said in a morning talk show on Fuji TV that the United States adopts a vague strategy, which means that if Taiwan is attacked, the United States may or may not intervene militarily.
He said the people of Taiwan share our universal values, so the United States should resolutely abandon its vague strategy toward Taiwan.
Abe is a very far-sighted statesman, which can be seen from the fact that he took the lead in proposing the concept of "Indo-Pacific" to replace "Asia-Pacific" and the first four-nation security dialogue mechanism. Therefore, his coincidence with Pompeo on the most critical issue in the Taiwan Strait is actually based on a simple judgment: the CCP's invasion of Taiwan is no longer a question of whether it will be launched, but a question of when it will be launched.
Therefore, under this premise, continuing to be vague cannot stop the CCP's ambitions. The only way to reduce the risk of war outbreak is to turn to a clear strategy. If you dare to mess up, we will definitely take action.
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Xi Jinping's purpose is clear
During his visit to Hong Kong on July 1, Xi Jinping said in a speech that "one country, two systems" is a good system, which has maintained the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macau. As we said, Xi Jinping's purpose is to declare a major achievement in his successful resolution of Hong Kong's troubles. This remark actually has a subtext, which is to tell the world: You see, I have won Hong Kong by force. If you want to catch it, you can catch it, and you can fight it if you want. What can the West do to me? This is the one country, two systems that I want, and this is the model for Taiwan in the future.
This is equivalent to telling everyone very clearly that Xi Jinping's purpose is very clear.
We have seen that although the Biden administration has clearly stated that the vague strategy remains unchanged, Biden himself has publicly stated twice that he wants to defend Taiwan, which actually reflects the general trend: even Biden finds that continuing to be vague may not be able to contain the ambitions of the CCP. Therefore, it can only be informally clear under the vague premise, and Pompeo's candidacy once again confirms this trend.
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Pentagon: Successful test of Raytheon hypersonic weapon
Reporter : Chen Ting / Editor: Li Muen / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/7/19/n13784157.htm / Image : Missile schematic of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). (Raytheon Missiles & Defense)
The Pentagon said on Monday (18 July 2022) that the United States has successfully tested Raytheon Technologies' air-breathing hypersonic weapon (air-breathing hypersonic weapon). This is the third time the United States has successfully tested such weapons since September 2021.
The missile program, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, completed free-flight testing in early July, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said in a statement (link). For this test, Raytheon has used data collected in 2021 to refine the vehicle.
DARPA said the vehicle successfully ramped up to the jet engine's expected firing rate in the first stage after it was released from the aircraft. Then, propelled by a scramjet made by Northrop Grumman, the vehicle traveled more than 300 nautical miles at speeds above Mach 5 (5 times the speed of sound) and reached more than 60,000 nautical miles. height in feet.
The project is called the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), and both Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are currently competing for the final contract for the project.
Air-breathing weapons compress air drawn in from the atmosphere, mix it with hydrocarbon fuel, and ignite a rapidly ejected air mixture that propels the vehicle forward at high speed.
The use of air for combustion eliminates the need for such hypersonic weapons to carry onboard oxidizers, reducing weight and size. This makes it a safe, efficient, tactical-scale long-range hypersonic weapon, Raytheon says.
The speed and maneuverability of these hypersonic cruise missiles allow them to pierce through enemy air defenses for quick strikes.
In a report (PDF) to Congress in May, Mike White, director of the Department of Defense's Hypersonic Weapons Development Division, said HAWCs are smaller than hypersonic glide vehicles and can therefore be launched from a wider range of platforms.
White also pointed out that HAWC could more easily integrate a homing missile.
The U.S. has tested air-breathing hypersonic weapons four times since September. The Raytheon product was successful twice, and Lockheed was a success and a failure.
Colin Whelan, vice president of Raytheon's Missile and Defense business unit, said in a statement (link): "This test demonstrates how rapidly we can develop affordable scramjet technology, That's the basis of air-breathing weapons."
"The success of our second flight test is an important milestone for our nation in advancing hypersonic weapons," said Colin Whelan.
"The trajectories that the aircraft flies are designed by engineers to deliberately stress the aircraft to explore its limits and further validate digital performance models," Raytheon said.
"Advancing our country's hypersonic capabilities is an important national mission, and this is an important step forward," said Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon's Missile and Defense business unit. Gives us more confidence in the technical maturity of our HAWC prototype."
The United States and its global adversaries are stepping up their pace to create hypersonic weapons. This is believed to be a new generation of tactical missiles that will allow opponents to react too late and evade traditional defense systems.
The Pentagon said the data from the flight test will help validate affordable weapons design and manufacturing methods that will allow warfighters to use air-breathing hypersonic missiles in the near future.
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