A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe. That case dates back to
Nov. 17, 2019, according to the South Morning China Post.
That’s more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China, which is in Hubei province,
at the end of December 2019. At the time, authorities suspected the virus stemmed from something sold at a wet market in the city. However, it’s now clear that early in what is now a pandemic, some infected people had no connection to the market. That included one of the earliest cases from Dec. 1, 2019 in an individual who had no link to that seafood market, researchers reported Jan. 20 in the journal The Lancet.
The first case of the coronavirus was reported in Wuhan in December, and is thought to have originated at the Huanan Seafood Market, a wet market that sold live animals next to seafood and meat. By late December, dozens of cases began emerging, but scientists knew only that the sickness involved viral pneumonia, and that patients were not responding to normal treatments. Chinese officials did not alert the public at this point. On December 31, they released a statement to the World Health Organization and said the virus was
“preventable and controllable.”
The Huanan Seafood Market was closed on January 1.
Chinese authorities began an official investigation into the disease in early January, after
fear began spreading that this could be like SARS, another coronavirus that originated in China and killed
774 people in the early 2000’s. On January 7, Chinese authorities identified the illness to be a new type of coronavirus (called a novel coronavirus or nCoV). Four days later, on January 11, China recorded its first coronavirus death, a 61-year old man in Wuhan. On January 22, Chinese Health Officials held a press conference in Beijing to discuss what they knew about the outbreak. People were demanding answers.
At this time, it was acknowledged that the virus could spread form human-to-human contact. During the early stages of the outbreak, people began wearing masks to protect themselves, even though, for the average person, wearing a mask is not as effective as hand-washing and avoiding infected people. China began to impose screening precautions in Wuhan and began checking people for the virus at transportation hubs. Passengers traveling to other parts of Asia from Wuhan were targeted for screening at airports. Medics wearing Hazmat suits were seen scanning passengers arriving from Wuhan in Beijing on January 22.
As the death toll climbed to nine, the Chinese government urged people to avoid traveling to Wuhan and to stay away from public spaces — a warning that came just as millions of people were planning to migrate for the Lunar New Year. But according to the New York Times, an estimated 7 million people — thousands of them infected with the virus — traveled from Wuhan throughout the month of January. On January 23, the death toll grew to 17 and the city of Wuhan was put on official lock down. All transportation was stopped and wearing a protective mask became mandatory.
People in Wuhan stockpiled food and fuel. Streets in Wuhan were deserted.
As panic began to spread throughout China, videos surfaced of infected people being shoved into plastic boxes and tubes as authorities tried to contain the virus. Shortly after Wuhan, two other Chinese cities, Huanggang and Ezhou, closed down their transportation, as well. At this point, 19 million people were put on lock down. But the virus continued to spread. On January 24, as cases in China rose over 1,000 and the death toll climbed to 41, the government expanded the lock down to include 13 cities. Now 36 million people were restricted.
The virus had now spread to nine countries and authorities in Wuhan struggled to contain an influx of patients.
One doctor in Wuhan said thousands of patients had been left waiting hours for treatment, and that doctors were advised not to work over fears they could become infected. Protective gear and test-kits had become so sparse in Wuhan that people reportedly likened their chances to receiving them as “winning the lottery”.
On January 25, the Chinese government barred citizens from booking overseas flights, hotels, and tours.
By January 28, the number of cities under quarantine grew to 16, and an estimated 50 million people were
lock down in the Hubei Province.
On January 30, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “global emergency”
as cases in China rose in the thousands and multiple countries — including the US — reported infections. As hospitals struggled to treat an influx of new patients, the Chinese government announced plans to build two new hospitals in Wuhan within days. Huoshenshan Hospital was completed 10 days later, on February 3, and is located on the outskirts of the city. It has an area of 270,000 square feet, and is equipped with 1,000 beds, and 1,400 military medics of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army as staff.
The second hospital, Leishenshan Hospital, was built in 15 days to provide 1,600 extra beds for the city. On January 31, the US government announced plans to bar foreign travelers from entering the US if they have traveled to China within 14 days. And the Pentagon has started preparing quarantine facilities that can hold up to 1,000 people entering the US, if necessary. By early February, Chinese authorities began using extreme measures to quell the outbreak in Wuhan, including door-to-door searches, excessive sanitation,
and gathering sick people in quarantine centers.
Patients in Wuhan began to be admitted into makeshift hospitals, including a sports stadium, an exhibition center, and a building complex. Three such facilities were prepared to add 3,400 new beds. By February 13, more than 14,000 new cases were documented in the Hubei province, bringing the total to 48,206. Nearly 2,000 new cases a day were reported around this time. To slow the outbreak, China postponed all non-urgent medical care and made many doctor’s visits remote. They also walled off entire medical wards to exclusively treat coronavirus patients.
On February 7, a Chinese doctor, who was silenced by authorities in January for sounding
the alarm on the virus outbreak, died from contracting coronavirus and later honored as a martyr. By mid-February, hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers and volunteers were positioned around the country to restrict the movement of millions of people through blocking travel, and ensuring people stay in their homes.
China also began tracking people exposed to the virus through a mobile technology surveillance system that was developed during the SARS outbreak. On March 11, the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic and China’s cases appeared to be dropping. At this time the country had more than 80,000 reported cases.
By March 19, China reported zero new local infections for the first time since the outbreak began.
On March 24, the government announced that the mandatory lock down in Wuhan would
be lifted on April 8, with some traffic control measures being lifted on March 25. Two weeks later, at midnight on April 8, the lock down was officially lifted allowing traffic to funnel in and out of the city. Residents are now permitted to leave Wuhan, but only if they have a mandatory smartphone application that monitors their health and determines how far they are able to travel. China has officially reported 82,718 cases and 3,335 deaths as of April 7. But many believe the real numbers are much higher and suspect the Chinese government worked to conceal the actual statistics and give false information throughout the outbreak. Public health experts worry Wuhan’s reopening could trigger a second wave of infections in China. “This day does not mark the final victory,” the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper People’s Daily said in in editorial. “At this moment, we still need to remind ourselves that as Wuhan is unblocked, we can be pleased,
but we must not relax.”
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Viruses are pH Sensitive
Published on March 4, 2020
Solar light is another important factor producing viral
inactivation, through the action of UV radiation. Viruses
survive better in the dark than when exposed to sunlight.
Much like vitamin D: the most overlooked aspect of the coronavirus pandemic is the fact that most viruses are pH sensitive. pH medicine offers us a key to treating viral infections that is easy, safe and inexpensive. Shifting a patients pH, combined with high dosages of vitamin C, is the appropriate foundation treatments for at home and hospital care.
There are many additional treatments like vitamin D, glutathione, iodine and selenium, even hydrogen,
but the first thing we should reach for is sodium bicarbonate, which offers us control of oxygen and
carbon dioxide levels.
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the US have uncovered the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of most viruses which plague mankind are on target, there are vulnerabilities that can be exploited but what they are looking at is not practical or helpful in our fight against viral infections. The so-called ‘Achilles heel’ (or vulnerable point) of most viruses is pH, cell voltage and oxygen levels. pH is a measurement for voltage and oxygen saturation. Coronavirus needs a slightly acidic pH to penetrate the cell.
The simple alkalinization of the blood reduces the cells susceptibility to the virus. The ability of influenza virus to release its genome under different acidic conditions is linked by medical science to the transmission of influenza virus. The threshold pH at which fusion is first observed can vary among different serotypes of membrane protein hemagglutinin (HA) and may correlate with virulence. The acid stability of HA has been linked to the successful transmission of virus between avian and human hosts.
Coronavirus infectivity is actually exquisitely sensitive to pH. The MHV-A59 strain
of coronavirus is quite stable at pH 6.0 (acidic) but becomes rapidly and irreversibly inactivated by brief treatment at pH 8.0 (alkaline). Human coronavirus strain 229E is maximally infective at pH 6.0. Infection of cells by coronavirus A59 at pH 6.0 (acidic) rather than pH 7.0 (neutral) yields a tenfold increase in the infectivity of the virus.
Data suggests that the coronavirus IBV employs a direct, low-pH-dependent virus-cell fusion activation reaction. “Fusion of the coronavirus IBV with host cells does not occur at neutral pH and that fusion activation is a low-pH-dependent process, with a half-maximal rate of fusion at pH 5.5.
Little or no fusion occurred above a pH of 6.0.”
Raising pH (to an alkaline state) increases the immune system’s ability to kill bacteria, concludes The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London. The viruses and bacteria which cause bronchitis and colds thrive in an acidic environment. Keeping our pH in the slightly alkaline range of 6.8-7.2 can reduce the risk and lessen the severity of colds, sore throats and bouts of influenza.
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When we thoroughly add alkalinity we invariably have mild attacks of viral infections and the same is true for bacterial and fungus infections. There is significant decrease in median number of colony forming bacteria and fungi in the lungs of pneumonia patients when sodium bicarbonate is used compared to saline.
Medical scientists have already concluded that a 8.4% solution of bicarbonate is safe inhibitory drug for respiratory bacterial, fungal, and mycobacterial growth. Slow infusions of NaHCO3 (bicarbonate) can also be used to treat non-anion gap metabolic acidosis and some forms of increased anion gap acidosis, a common enough problem in ICU patients with serious lung infections.
Viruses infect host cells by fusion with cellular membranes at low pH. Thus they are classified as “pH-dependent viruses.” Drugs that increase intracellular pH (alkalinity within the cell) have been shown to decrease infectivity of pH-dependent viruses. Since such drugs can provoke negative side effects, the obvious answer are natural techniques that can produce the same results. There is no pharmaceutical that can compete with sodium bicarbonate for changing the pH of the bodies fluids.
Fusion of viral and cellular membranes is pH dependent.
“Fusion depends on the acidification of the endosomal compartment.
Fusion at the endosome level is triggered by conformational changes in viral glycoproteins induced by the low pH of this cellular compartment.”[1] In membrane biology, fusion is the process by which two initially distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic cores, resulting in one interconnected structure. It has been suggested that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects host cells through a pH-dependent internalization mechanism. This HCVpp-mediated fusion was dependent on low pH, with a threshold of 6.3 and an optimum at about 5.5.[2] When pH drops to 6 or below, rapid fusion between the membranes of viruses and the liposomes occurs.
Takeda Pharmaceutical is joining Gilead Sciences and AbbVie as the latest drugmaker to work on developing a coronavirus vaccine. The experimental drug would be derived from the blood of coronavirus patients who have recovered from the respiratory disease. “While we don’t know for sure that it will work, we think it’s definitely a relevant asset that could be of help here,” said Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, president of Takeda’s vaccines business. pH medicine will definitively work because viruses are pH dependent and sodium bicarbonate is available everywhere and costs almost next to nothing.
In hospitals bicarbonate is easily administered intravenously.
Inhibition of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) replication in LB cells by interferon (IFN) is
pH sensitive. Using sensitive intracellular pH (pHi) indicators, researchers found that IFN treatment significantly raised the pHi. The increase in pHi correlated with an enhancement of the antiviral activity of IFN by primary amines. These results indicated that the IFN-induced increase in pHi may be responsible for the accumulation of G in the TGN, thereby producing G-deficient virus particles with reduced infectivity. [3]
The foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) capsid is highly acid labile and tends to dissociate into pentameric subunits at acidic condition to release viral RNA for initiating virus replication.
Understanding Cell Voltage, pH and Oxygen Levels
Wherever the body has low voltage, the cells begin to have problems that get more serious the lower the voltage (pH) goes. The lower the voltage goes, the lower the pH goes, and the lower oxygen levels go, and that means CO2 levels are going south as well. Chronic disease is associated with loss of voltage, lower pH values (acid conditions), as well as low O2 and CO2 levels. This means that alkaline tissues have more oxygen in them.
Wherever the body becomes acidic, voltage drops as does tissue oxygen levels. What is pH after all?
It is ultimately a measure of redox potential. Redox potential is a measure of whether electrons are available in surplus (and thus are “electron donors”) or whether electrons are deficient (and thus are “electron stealers”). Electrons are necessary for life and are needed for health and in high quantities for healing and the growth of new cells.
Dr. David Brownstein wrote, “The human body is constantly removing old and injured cells and replacing them with healthy new cells. This process can only occur if the voltage of the cells is maintained at an optimal level. This process works more effectively when we are young as compared to when we are older.
In the body (or in a solution), voltage is a direct reflection of pH, which is a measure of the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution, measured on a scale of 1 to 14. The human body’s pH level is a direct reflection of its voltage. A low pH reading (highly acidic) indicates a low voltage state.
Conversely, a high pH reading (highly alkaline) means a high voltage state.”
The amount of oxygen in cells is determined by voltage. If a cell has adequate voltage,
it will also have adequate oxygen. If cellular voltage is low, the amount of oxygen in the tissues will be low.
This applies to metabolism as well. When voltage and oxygen are low, metabolism becomes anaerobic,
which means that oxygen is unavailable.
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