Y’all see this exciting news tonight?:

Because of its ability to spread from people who don’t appear to be ill, the virus may be harder to control than influenza, the cause of most pandemics in recent history, according to the report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. People may actually be at their most infectious before symptoms appear, according to the report.

After locking down billions of people around the world to minimize its spread through countries, governments are now cautiously allowing businesses and public places to reopen. Yet the coronavirus pandemic is likely to continue in waves that could last beyond 2022, the authors said.

Check out this amazing piece in WIRED about the early history of Covid-19 in China, as pieced together from news and social media posts that the Chinese government later scrubbed from the country’s Internet, but captured by a reporter who screenshot them before they could be vanished. Excerpts:

Yue thought that she had become desensitized, but this post made her fists clench: It was written by Xiao Hui, a journalist friend of hers who was reporting on the ground for Caixin, a prominent Chinese news outlet. Yue trusted her.

She read on. “On January 22, on my second day reporting in Wuhan, I knew this was China’s Chernobyl,” Xiao Hui wrote. “These days I rarely pick up phone calls from outside of Wuhan or chat with friends and family, because nothing can express what I have seen here.”

Unable to contain her anger, Yue took a screenshot of Xiao’s post and immediately posted it on her WeChat Moments. “Look what is happening in Wuhan!” she wrote. Then she finally drifted off.

That post disappeared, and Xiao Hui had her access to WeChat cut off for spreading rumors. More:

It’s not hard to see how these censored posts contradicted the state’s preferred narrative. Judging from these vanished accounts, the regime’s coverup of the initial outbreak certainly did not help buy the world time, but instead apparently incubated what some have described as a humanitarian disaster in Wuhan and Hubei Province, which in turn may have set the stage for the global spread of the virus. And the state’s apparent reluctance to show scenes of mass suffering and disorder cruelly starved Chinese citizens of vital information when it mattered most.

Read it all. It’s incredible, the details. All gone down the memory hole in China.

Do you remember Wyoming Doc saying in this space on February 22 what his mother in law back in China was saying about what was happening there in her agricultural region?:

This city is in the middle of a vast agricultural area. Hogs, cows and chickens are a staple of their economy. My mother-in-law has told us that the “death stench” has permeated her city the past week or so and getting worse daily. She cannot even open her windows. Why? No one is going to work – and no one is taking care of the livestock. No shipments of grain are coming in for the animals — and throughout the land the animals are starving in the pastures. The bodies by the hundreds of thousands are just laying in the sun and rotting. All this while the industrialized part of China is beginning to have severe food shortages.

Think about that with the US meat supply facing disruption because too many workers are getting sick or afraid that they are.

In related Covid news, here is a link to the Eastern Virginia Medical School Covid-19 Protocol. Wyoming Doc says about it:

It is fairly easy to read, although there is some medical jargon.

It is pointing out the use of several things that have officially been poopood by the CDC and the NIH.  Namely never using steroids.  The entire issue with ventilation and how it is actually harming patients – and the actual use of some of the things the media has lambasted Trump about – namely PLAQUENIL.

Their purported success rate is startling. I would like to see this in a real study — this is some kind of protocol.

Pages 7,8,9,10 of this thing are unprecedented in all my years of medicine: a literal refutation and takedown of the “official narrative” and the experts.

I am amazed – I am putting this out on Facebook to get comments from my medical friends – I just wanted to share this with you. This is exactly what I am talking about medical debate. These guys are going against the authorities – putting their very necks out there. I am looking forward to seeing how this transpires over the next few days.  These are not 2 ER docs in a break room — this is real academic medicine at work.

Wyoming Doc quotes from the Eastern Virginia Med School document: The emphases below are his:

“The above pathologies are not novel, although the combined severity in COVID-19 disease is considerable. Our long-standing and more recent experiences show consistently successful treatment if traditional therapeutic principles of early and aggressive intervention is achieved, before the onset of advanced organ failure. It is our collective opinion that the historically high levels of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 is due to a single factor: the widespread and inappropriate reluctance amongst intensivists to employ anti-inflammatory and anticoagulant treatments, including corticosteroid therapy early in the course of a patient’s hospitalization. It is essential to recognize that it is not the virus that is killing the patient, rather it is the patient’s overactive immune system. The flames of the “cytokine fire” are out of control and need to be extinguished. Providing supportive care (with ventilators that themselves stoke the fire) and waiting for the cytokine fire to burn itself out simply does not work… this approach has FAILED and has led to the death of tens of thousands of patients.

The systematic failure of critical care systems to adopt corticosteroid therapy resulted from the published recommendations against corticosteroids use by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) amongst others.  A very recent publication by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and authored one of the members of our group (UM), identified the errors made by these organizations in their analyses of corticosteroid studies based on the findings of the SARS and H1N1 pandemics. Their erroneous recommendation to avoid corticosteroids in the treatment of COVID-19 has led to the development of myriad organ failures which have overwhelmed critical care systems across the world.

Wyoming Doc calls this “the most important line”:

Our treatment protocol targeting these key pathologies has achieved near uniform success, if begun within 6 hours of a COVID19 patient presenting with shortness of breath or needing ≥ 4L/min of oxygen. If such early initiation of treatment could be systematically achieved, the need for mechanical ventilators and ICU beds will decrease dramatically.

Again, the importance of this, according to Wyoming Doc (and a second doc with whom I checked, who agrees with him), is that the doctors at this medical school are violating what the authorities tell them to do — and they are saving lives!