Doctor Wills Hypothesis

A new test has been announced that checks for antibodies built up from having been in contact with the convid19 virus. It should be available in a few weeks.

 

The sooner the better. Shared natural immunity, even if it only reduces the severity of the attack, will be the key to less people developing the second stage pulmonary bacterial attack that ends up fatal in a percentage of cases.
Allowing and getting people who have recovered back on the streets will be difficult, but it could have a considerable positive effect, save lives and reduce the umber of people needing critical medical care.

 

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hm, no. who told you that. Crowd immunity means that a population is resilient to an outbreak because so many of them won't get infected, thus slowing and hampering the spreading of diseases. If people could "infect with immunity" that would be really convenient, but it isn't. That's why vaccination has to be administered to everyone. Researchers are thinking about using blood serum from those who recovered as a method of prophylaxis though.

 

As far back as 1666 a few doctors have thought that shared immunity plays a part in the ultimate demise of a virus. The theory led to the concept of vaccination.
The problem is, that since it can never be proven, it remains a hypothesis. It is all rather 'hit and miss' since people don't go around deliberately coughing and sneezing all over each other. The low dose from this transfer is thought to only be in any way effective for a few weeks before being topped up.
The idea of using serum in the current situation is a controlled version of the same concept and sounds very wise, since it will not require the licencing and testing in the same way as a vaccine.

 

Preventing Nosocomial Infections

A successful infection control program can not only help reduce mortality and morbidity rates in care facilities but can also be very cost-effective for health care organisations. Considering that one third of all nosocomial infections are preventable, prevention and control measures need to be a priority for any health care organisation.

To fight infections which occur in health care settings an approach using various integrated prevention measures is considered the most effective. This includes such measures as good hygiene practices by health care employees, invasive medical devices free from contamination, therapy pool disinfectant programmes, and continuous disinfecting of rooms and equipment throughout the health care facility.

Disinfecting means the use of a chemical procedure to eliminate virtually all recognised pathogenic micro organisms but not necessarily all microbial forms on inanimate objects. Antimicrobials such as iodine, chlorhexidine, 70% isopropyl alcohol solution, and hexachlorophene are frequently used in hospitals and other health care facilities. Chlorhexidine and hexachlorophene are active against many micro organisms but are less effective against gram-negative bacteria.

Ozone is a powerful, broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent that has been found to be effective against bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa, and bacterial and fungal spores. The anti-microbial activity of ozone is based on its strong oxidizing effect, which causes damage to the fatty acids in the cell membrane.

A big problem in controlling infections is that some strains of bacteria can actually build up a resistance to certain chemical disinfectants. Ozone, on the other hand, kills bacteria within a few seconds by a process known as cell lysing. Ozone molecularly ruptures the cellular membrane, disperses the cell’s cytoplasm and makes reactivation impossible. Because of this, micro organisms cannot develop ozone resistant strains, thus eliminating the need to change biocides periodically.

Because of application advantages such as this, ozone technology fits in well with other disinfectants in a combined strategy to prevent nosocomial infections.