The Guardian learnt that the withdrawal of his country’s soldiers by President Paul Biya from the southern part of the planned UNO State of Cameroon has set the stage for the creation of the new state being spearheaded by the UN.
Friday, 5 June 2020
G BREAKING NEWS: NIGERIA STANDS TO LOOSE 24COUNCIL TO UN
The Guardian learnt that the withdrawal of his country’s soldiers by President Paul Biya from the southern part of the planned UNO State of Cameroon has set the stage for the creation of the new state being spearheaded by the UN.
G BREAKING NEWS: HYDOROXYCHLOROQUINE FOR COVID-19: LANCET RETRACT PAPER TRIALS
Covid-19: Lancet retracts paper that halted
hydroxychloroquine trials
The Lancet paper that halted global trials of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 because of fears of increased deaths has been retracted after a Guardian investigation found inconsistencies in the data.
The lead author, Prof Mandeep Mehra, from the Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston, Massachusetts decided to ask the Lancet for the retraction because he could no longer vouch for the data’s accuracy.
The journal’s editor, Richard Horton, said he was appalled by developments.
This is a shocking example of research misconduct in the middle of a global health emergency,” he told the Guardian.
A Guardian investigation had revealed errors in the data that was provided for the research by US company Surgisphere. These were later explained by the company as some patients being wrongly allocated to Australia instead of Asia. But more anomalies were then picked up. A further Guardian investigation found that there were serious questions to be asked about the company itself.
An independent audit company was asked to examine a database provided by Surgisphere to ensure it had the data from more than 96,000 Covid-19 patients in 671 hospitals worldwide, that it was obtained properly and was accurate.
Surgisphere’s CEO, Sapan Desai, had said he would cooperate with the independent audit, but it is understood he refused to give the investigators access to all the data they asked for.
In a statement on Thursday, Mehra said: “Our independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer the full dataset, client contracts, and the full ISO audit report to their servers for analysis as such transfer would violate client agreements and confidentiality requirements. As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process.”
The Lancet study had a dramatic impact on attempts to find out whether the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, and its older version, chloroquine, could help treat patients with Covid-19. The US president, Donald Trump was among those who backed the drug before any high-quality trial evidence had been published. The World Health Organization and several countries suspended randomised controlled trials that were set up to find an answer. Those trials have now been restarted. Many scientists were angry that they had been stopped on the basis of a trial that was observational and not a “gold standard” RCT.
Mehra had commissioned an independent audit of the data after scientists questioned it.
In its investigation, the Guardian put a detailed list of concerns to Desai about the database, the study findings and his background. He responded:
There continues to be a fundamental misunderstanding about what our system is and how it works.
“There are also a number of inaccuracies and unrelated connections that you are trying to make with a clear bias toward attempting to discredit who we are and what we do,” he said. “We do not agree with your premise or the nature of what you have put together, and I am sad to see that what should have been a scientific discussion has been denigrated into this sort of discussion.”
Shortly after the Lancet retracted its study, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper based on the Surgisphere database, also co-authored by Mehra and Desai. The study purported to include data from Covid-19 patients from 169 hospitals in 11 countries in Asia, Europe and North America. It found common drugs given for heart disease were not associated with a higher risk of death in Covid-19 patients. In a statement, published by the journal, the authors said: “Because all the authors were not granted access to the raw data and the raw data could not be made available to a third-party auditor, we are unable to validate the primary data sources underlying our article, ‘Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19’. We therefore request that the article be retracted.
“We apologise to the editors and to readers of the Journal for the difficulties that this has caused.”
G BREAKING NEWS: PREVENTION FOR CORONAVIRUS WITH PALM-OIL . Okor Akpos
Certain children and even adults who were victims of toxic intake were detoxified with just palm-oil and they became naturally and medically okay. There is no risk in taking natural palm oil, therefore, you do not need a lab test or medical check up to take it as a preventive major to covid-19 pending till when its proper cure is put in place medically, The palm oil needs to be natural without boiling or using it for cooking before intake, just take a spoonful each morning as first aid against the dreaded disease, is better than just allowing or exposing yourself to the risk the effection for natural palm oil do fight against poison and other toxic matters in the body.
Make sure nothing is added to the palm oil before intake, just a spoonful is enough each morning before you step out of your house but for those who have medical issues to restrain from palm-oil or ground-nut oil should please consult their doctors before embarking on this processing. Palm-oil has no natural or medical effect to the body, so please do see the need to use it as a prevention for our ancient fathers and even up till date, it is still used as a quick first aid to detoxify poison from the body locally.
G ENTERTAINMENT: THE NEW COVID-19 JOKES THAT GET PEOPLE LAUGHING ON AIRTEL AND 9MOBILE NETWORK
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
G BREAKING NEWS: CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, MAKE YOUR CALLERS HAPPY ON AIRTEL WITH AKPOSJOKES ON CORONAVIRUS
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Saturday, 21 March 2020
G SPORTS: MICHAEL FATIALOFA WALKS AFTER INJURY
Worcester lock Michael Fatialofa has walked unaided less than 11 weeks after a serious neck injury left him in intensive care.
The 27-year-old has been in hospital since suffering the injury in a game against Saracens on 4 January."You're witnessing a miracle that even medical professionals can't explain," wrote Fatialofa's wife Tatiana with a video of him walking on Instagram.
"They are so shook by his progress given his critical level of injury."
She added: "He was literally paralysed from the neck down just 10 weeks ago and currently spinal cord injuries do not have a clinical cure, but my amazing husband is proof that god is never limited to human wisdom. So so so thankful."
Fatialofa was diagnosed with a spinal contusion, which causes compression on the spine, and had surgery to relieve the pressure on his spinal cord.
The forward spent more than a fortnight in intensive care at St Mary's Hospital, London before being transferred to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
Though Tatiana Fatialofa celebrated her husband's progress, she added that the amount of time the couple can spend together will likely be reduced as the hospital makes changes to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
"We've been advised by the hospital that visiting probably will be reduced to only one hour soon and while I understand completely it's still so hard on the heart," she explained.
Worcester Warriors' home game against Harlequins on 11 April was due to act as a fundraiser for the New Zealand-born lock, but this game will not go ahead with the Premiership currently suspended until 14 April.
G SPORTS: CORONAVIRUS ALERTS IN TOKYO
Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he's been in self-isolation - but says he's showing no symptoms.
Hamilton was pictured at the same event as Idris Elba and Sophie Trudeau - wife of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Both have since confirmed a positive test for Covid-19.
"I
wanted to let you know that I'm doing well, feeling healthy and working
out twice a day," he told fans in a message on Twitter.
"I have zero symptoms and it's now been 17 days since I saw Sophie and Idris."I have been in touch with Idris and happy to hear he is OK.
"I did speak to my doctor and double checked if I needed to take a test but the truth is, there is a limited amount of tests and there are people who need it more than I do, especially when I wasn't showing any symptoms at all. So what I've done is keep myself isolated this past week, actually since practice was cancelled last Friday."
Olympics 'can't take place as scheduled'
UK Athletics chairman Nic Coward said: "We thought the facilities would be able to remain open," Coward told the Daily Telegraph.
"Now they can't. They are closing. And that is creating stress.
"I think that will have to lead to the conclusion that the Games
must be (postponed); that the decision has to be made that the Olympic
and Paralympic Games can't take place as currently scheduled.
"I've got no doubt, absolutely no doubt, that Tokyo will host an amazing Olympics."The issue right now is people and the stress."
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