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Omicron alert: Mumbai bans large gatherings for 48 hours, Sec 144 in place

Amid rising cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the Mumbai Police on Friday imposed prohibitory orders in the city for 48 hours, banning large gatherings over the weekend. A police official, cited by the PTI news agency, said the prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) within the Mumbai Commissionerate limits also restrict rallies and protest…

There appears to be no consensus on how and when the United States should go about delivering COVID-19 booster shots to Americans.

On Friday, it was reported that top officials are urging the White House to cut back its plans to make everybody eligible beginning Sept. 20. As a substitute, there’s a chance only Pfizer recipients — and even then just a portion — will get their additional doses by that date because there is not sufficient data on the Moderna vaccine — which may have more staying power than Pfizer’s — and the Johnson & Johnson shot.

Count the nation’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb among the proponents of boosters, with the hope {that a} third dose (for Pfizer and Moderna) could be the cap the regimen needs. As Gottlieb explained throughout a CNBC appearance on Friday, it is possible that the first two doses had been administered so closely together that they basically served as two “primes,” rather than an initial shot and a booster. The third one, he stated, may very well prove more durable, so he isn’t yet predicting the necessity for an annual booster.

Others still think it is better to hold off for now. The Atlantic‘s Katherine Wu writes that many of the experts she’s spoken to advised her “the immunological argument for a COVID-19 booster this early is shaky at best,” which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. That is because the vaccines available are still holding up well, particularly against severe illness and loss of life, and Wu clarifies that breakthrough symptomatic infections, while rising, are still uncommon.

“It’s absurd that this order was issued,” Arthur Caplan, professor of bioethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, informed Ars. “If I have been these medical doctors, I simply wouldn’t do it.”

The order was spurred by a lawsuit filed by Julie Smith, whose 51-year-old husband, Jeffrey, is being treated in West Chester Hospital for COVID-19. The lawsuit was first reported by the Ohio Capital Journal. Jeffrey has been in the hospital since July 15, and as his condition declined, his wife Julie started investigating alternative treatments.

A treatment without supporting evidence

Throughout her husband’s time in the hospital, Julie discovered groups espousing the purported advantages of ivermectin, which she requested the hospital’s doctors to administer. They refused.

Ivermectin was initially developed as a treatment for river blindness and other parasitic infections. In the US, the FDA has authorized it for 2 specific types of parasitic infection in addition to topical treatments for head lice. Importantly, the doses at which it is administered for internal use in people are far lower than what’s obtainable over-the-counter for treating parasitic infections in livestock. At high doses, ivermectin could cause severe side effects in people, ranging from nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea to low blood pressure, seizures, coma, and death.

However folks have clung to the idea that ivermectin can treat COVID after a study early in the pandemic suggested that it disrupted SARS-CoV-2’s ability to contaminate cells. What’s typically ignored is that study was limited to cells in Petri dishes.

What’s more, when the NIH looked into it, the agency discovered that to achieve the ivermectin’s reported disruptive results, the dose must be 100-times larger than what’s presently approved in people. At these levels, the side-effects would probably be severe. The FDA has pleaded with people to not take ivermectin for COVID.

Nonetheless, that hasn’t stopped folks on the Internet from encouraging its use. Prescriptions of the drug have spiked, and some individuals have resorted to purchasing livestock-grade ivermectin once they can’t get hold of a script. Poison control centers have been inundated with calls, but some doctors continue to push the drug for COVID regardless of potentially grave side effects and a lack of evidence.

Outside doctor

After watching her husband suffer in the hospital for more than a month, Julie Smith was desperate. He had been in the ICU since the day he was admitted, and he needed to be intubated on August 1, according to the lawsuit. Two days later, his sedation wore off and he awoke, ripping the tube out of his throat and “disturbing and/or breaking the feeding tube, which caused food particles and toxins to escape into his lungs; this caused him to aspirate,” the lawsuit says. He developed an infection, which he’s still fighting.

Distressed, his wife started investigating “other forms of treatment for COVID-19” and requested that the hospital doctors “administer Ivermectin pursuant to its dosage schedule,” the lawsuit says. Julie offered to sign a form releasing the doctors of any liability, however they refused.

It is unclear when Julie contacted Dr. Fred Wagshul, however on August 20, he prescribed ivermectin for Jeffrey. Wagshul is a pulmonologist with a practice close to Dayton, Ohio, and he helps run the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, a group of doctors which encourage treatment of COVID with ivermectin, fluvoxamine, famotidine, and a smorgasbord of other medication. A few of these drugs may work in limited circumstances, however most of them seem ineffective against the virus. At the moment, Wagshul doesn’t seem to have any privileges at any hospitals.

“Try anything”

Ivermectin “is absolutely not indicated for COVID. There isn’t any standard of care saying you need to use it,” Caplan stated. “Indeed, major medical groups advising against utilizing it because individuals have died from it.” The judge’s order was asking hospital doctors to do something “unethical and illegal,” he stated. “The doctors who are caring for the man in the hospital are his doctors, not this man,” Caplan added, referring to Dr. Wagshul.

The judge in the case likely feels that, because Jeffrey Smith is dying, that doctors should “try anything,” Caplan stated. “Well, that’s false, because you can still kill him faster.”

National Doctors’ Day: PM Modi hails medics for their work in Covid-19 pandemic

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday addressed the medical fraternity on the occasion of the National Doctors’ Day. He delivered his address at a programme organised by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to honour and commemorate the work of healthcare workers, especially over the past one year since the Covid-19 pandemic struck the country. During the address, PM Modi hailed the work of…

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