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Originally Posted by tis
You know Susie, I have thought a lot about that and wonder if the virus has been relatively strong is because people aren't outside in the sun and fresh air, they are inside with lots of others in the AC. For it's size Florida hasn't seemed to see a lot of cases. People inside like in schools and large businesses pass on the viruses.
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Absolutely! While everyone's kept indoors, their immune system begins to lag.
Sunshine's UV disinfectant powers, the vitamin D from sunshine, and general activity and exercising outdoors are big pluses. 'Course, today, Kankamagus area got 7" of snow!
Another countermeasure may turn out to be already in your medicine cabinets. An OTC treatment for heartburn is "in tests".
Famotidine, which I was prescribed two years ago, is in the news:
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"The fast-growing list of possible treatments for the novel coronavirus includes an unlikely candidate: famotidine, the active compound in the over-the-counter heartburn drug Pepcid.
On 7 April, the first COVID-19 patients at Northwell Health in the New York City area began to receive famotidine intravenously, at nine times the heartburn dose. Unlike other drugs the 23-hospital system is testing, including Regeneron’s sarilumab and Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir, Northwell kept the famotidine study under wraps to secure a research stockpile before other hospitals, or even the federal government, started to buy it. “If we talked about this to the wrong people or too soon, the drug supply would be gone,” says Kevin Tracey, a former neurosurgeon in charge of the hospital system’s research".
--https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/new-york-clinical-trial-quietly-tests-heartburn-remedy-against-coronavirus#
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