Ann: Makabingui Mining Development, page-19

Saw this and thought i would share

How about some good news for achange?

There have been A LOT of factsgoing around regarding COVID-19, and a flurry of “positive news” items to liftour spirits.

Here are a number of majorvictories from the Pandemic line. I’ve had my team fact-check these wins withlinks you can follow up on.

(1) Vaccine development: An experimentalvaccine developed by Moderna Inc. began the first stage of a clinical trial onMonday, with testing on 45 healthy adults in Seattle. [link]

(2) China's new cases plummet: Chinahas now closed down its last temporary hospital built to handle COVID-19. Notenough new cases to warrant them. [link]

(3) Drugs that work: Doctors in India havesuccessfully treated two Italian patients with COVID-19, administering acombination of drugs — principally Lopinavir and Ritonavir, alongsideOseltamivir and Chloroquine. Several are now suggesting the same medicaltreatment, on a case-by-case basis, globally. [link] [link]

(4) Antibodies to the rescue: Researchersat the Erasmus Medical Center claim to have found an antibody that can fend offinfection by COVID-19. [link]

(5) 103-year-old recovery: A103-year-old Chinese woman has made a full recovery from COVID-19 after beingtreated for 6 days in Wuhan, China, becoming the oldest patient to beat thedisease. [link]

(6) Stores re-opening: Apple has reopened all42 of its Apple retail stores in China. [link]

(7) Test results in 2 hours: Cleveland’sMetroHealth Medical Center has developed a COVID-19 test that can now deliverresults in just two hours, rather than in a matter of days. [link]

(8) South Korea's dramatic drop in new cases: Afterits peak of 909 newly reported COVID-19 cases on February 29th, South Korea hasnow seen a dramatic drop in the number of new cases reported daily. [link]

(9) Mortality rates inflated? Expertspredict that Italy has seen a higher mortality rate of COVID-19 given itssignificant aging population, as well as its higher percentage of COVID-19patients with pre-existing health conditions. This might suggest thatCOVID-19’s fatality rate may have been slightly more inflated than previouslythought for the general population. [link]

(10) Israeli vaccine development: Morethan 50 scientists in Israel are now working to develop a vaccine and antibodyfor COVID-19, having reported significant breakthroughs in understanding thebiological mechanism and characteristics of the novel coronavirus. [link]

(11) Full recoveries: Three patients inMaryland who tested positive for COVID-19 have now been reported to have “fullyrecovered.” [link]

(12) Isolated virus: A network of Canadianscientists isolated the COVID-19 virus, which can now be replicated to testdiagnostics, treatments, and vaccines. [link]

(13) Yet another vaccine in the works: SanDiego biotech company Arcturus Therapeutics is developing a COVID-19 vaccine incollaboration with Duke University and National University of Singapore. [link]

(14) Treatment protocols: Seven patients whowere treated for COVID-19 at Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh (SFS) Hospital andDelhi’s Safdarjung Hospital in India have recovered. The treatment protocolwill be widely scaled to other hospitals. [link]

(15) Another treatment: Plasma from newlyrecovered COVID-19 patients (involving the harvesting of virus-fightingantibodies) holds promise for treating others infected by the virus. [link]

Some of COVID-19’s hardest hitnation victims are already emerging strong after peak infection, and biomedicalinnovators are tackling the virus at unprecedented speeds.

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER… While everyone isconcerned about the super-high mortality rate of this virus — whichis calculated by the “number dead” divided by “the number who have testedpositive” (currently ~8,000/200,000) — thedenominator, i.e. the number infected is actually VERY hard to know because sofew people have been tested.

It may well be that 10x more areinfected but subclinical. So is the mortality rate 4% or 0.4%?

We will find out as largescale-testing comes reliably online.

Wishing you the best. Remember thatour most important tool during times of panic and crisis is our mindset.

Best,

Peter Diamandis