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    Your Covid-19 Survival Manual: A Physician's Guide to Keep You and Your Family Healthy During the Pandemic and Beyond
    Your Covid-19 Survival Manual: A Physician's Guide to Keep You and Your Family Healthy During the Pandemic and Beyond
    Your Covid-19 Survival Manual: A Physician's Guide to Keep You and Your Family Healthy During the Pandemic and Beyond
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    Your Covid-19 Survival Manual: A Physician's Guide to Keep You and Your Family Healthy During the Pandemic and Beyond

    By Steven Quay, MD, PhD

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    Dr Quay’s Covid-19 Survival Manual is chock-full of lifesaving tips you can’t find anywhere else to help you and your family stay safe while sheltering-in-place, as well as how to get back to life in the coming weeks and months.
    Some highlights:
    • One 2-minute step you can take every time you come home to kill Coronavirus before it enters your lungs
    • A, quick, free home test for COVID-19 that is as good as the FDA-approved nasal swab
    • The one exercise you won’t learn in the gym that can save your life
    • How NOT to die of COVID-19 (Make your lungs younger)
    • What to do if you have early stage COVID-19 so that you can stay out of the hospital
    • The #1 most effective way to prevent the spread of coronavirus as we reopen society (Hint: it’s the one thing the CDC said was “NOT effective” when coronavirus hit the U.S.)
    • Why a vaccine won’t be the solution, and what YOU can do to protect yourself, now and in the future
    • What to eat and drink (and what to avoid) so you can prevent and beat this coronavirus
    • The best supplements I have found from clinical trial research for immune health during this pandemic
    • The coronavirus’ “Diabolic Trait” and how it helped the virus spread so fast
    • An easy DIY step that takes your face mask from a viral barrier to a virus killer, giving you over 100-times the protection of an untreated mask
    • The one blood test to ask for if you are hospitalized that can keep you off a ventilator
    • Three steps to take to thrive during the next epidemic
    • Learn about gain-of-function research and why we must ban it to prevent future pandemics
    The proceeds from book sales will be shared with Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization that serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service, leveraging their skills and experience to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven Quay, MD, PhD
    Release dateJun 3, 2020
    ISBN9780463752616
    Your Covid-19 Survival Manual: A Physician's Guide to Keep You and Your Family Healthy During the Pandemic and Beyond
    Author

    Steven Quay, MD, PhD

    Steven Quay is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Seattle-based Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS) a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics and delivery methods for breast cancer and other breast conditions.Dr. Quay received his M.D., M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a resident at the Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital, and was on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine for almost a decade. He has over 300 published contributions to medicine which have been cited over 9,700 times.Dr. Quay has founded six pharmaceutical startups, invented seven FDA-approved medicines, and holds 87 U.S. patents. Over 80 million people have benefited from the drugs he has invented. His current passion is the prevention of the two million yearly breast cancer cases worldwide. A TEDx talk he delivered on breast cancer prevention, “How to Be Smart If You’re Dense,” has been viewed over 200,000 times.

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      Your Covid-19 Survival Manual - Steven Quay, MD, PhD

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      Your COVID-19 Survival Manual: A Physician’s Guide to Keep You and Your Family Healthy During the Pandemic and Beyond

      Published by Ensisheim Partners LLC

      Copyright © 2020 by Dr. Steven Quay, MD, PhD

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      All right reserved by Ensisheim Partners LLC and Dr. Steven Quay, MD, PhD

      Disclaimer

      The contents of this book are for informational purposes only and do not constitute medical advice; and is not intended to be a substitute for or replace, professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, and before following or relying upon any information in this book. Never disregard professional medical advice, or delay in seeking it because of something you have read in this book. The author and publisher specifically disclaim any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that is incurred as a consequence directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.

      To my family, my colleagues in science, medicine, and business, the thousands of dedicated healthcare providers at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the many patients worldwide who have had to endure pain, suffering, and even death to teach us how to combat this virus. May we keep them all in our minds and hearts as we plan for the future of infectious disease control in this global, uniquely connected 21st century.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Section One: Know your enemy, SARS-CoV-2

      Chapter 1: What a Coronavirus Is

      Chapter 2: What makes the COVID-19 virus-host relationship so bad?

      Chapter 3: Science at the Beginning: Lessons from Early Symptoms of COVID-19

      Chapter 4: The COVID-19 Infection’s Diabolic Trait

      Section Two: Preventing the spread of COVID-19

      Chapter 5: Face Masks: Why They Help and Best Practical Use, Now and in the Future

      Chapter 6: Why We Shouldn’t Bank on a Vaccine

      Chapter 7: Understanding Risk: The Actuary’s Perspective

      Section Three: Diagnosis and Helpful Home Remedies

      Chapter 8: Home Test for COVID-19

      Chapter 9: How Not to Die of COVID-19

      Chapter 10: What to Do if You Have Early Stage COVID-19

      Chapter 11: What to Eat and Drink

      Chapter 12: Dietary Supplements and Drugs: The Good, the Maybe Good, and Good Things to Avoid

      Section Four:

      Chapter 13: Frequently Asked Questions from ElevatorMedicine™

      Section Five: Never Again: How We Can Beat the Next Pandemic

      Chapter 14: Ban Gain of Function Research

      Chapter 15: Improved Government Response

      Chapter 16: Support for Businesses and Workers

      Chapter 17: An Empowered Citizenry

      About the Author

      Endnotes

      Introduction

      In trying to understand the root cause of a new disease, I like to approach it as if I am a time traveler. I imagine I am a physician in, say, 1750, and I am confronted with my 10th patient with COVID-19.

      What do I make of it?

      What does it look like that I know something about?

      What would I do in similar situations?

      At this time, knowledge of germs, vaccines, etc. are in a distant future, and so they are of no help. On the other hand, I have some confidence that since before the beginning of recorded time, humans have shown up at the Shaman’s door, the Medicine Man or Woman, with coughing, sweating, red, hot skin, and a traditional set of practices has seemed to save lives.

      So, I apply the two or three ideas that follow from that analysis. If any of them can solve the new disease, I celebrate, and my time travel ends.

      In my investigation regarding COVID-19, I continued moving forward in time to where I eventually got to the molecular age, where I know COVID-19’s genetic blueprint sequence, I am down and dirty with which amino acid spot on its spike protein are teaching a patient’s T-cells how to fight it, and I am in full 2020 vaccine development mode. But, of course, this amazing science comes with its own Achilles heel: a really good vaccine program can take 12 to 18 months under a perfect scenario of development. And some people are saying we need to stay in our homes until this vaccine is available!

      Wait, what did I just say?

      It seems that the medical world of 2020 is basically ignoring all the things we used to know to use to cure people with pneumonia, things learned over 3,000 years of history, and it is saying, Please everybody, just hold your breath until we can save you with a vaccine sometime next year!

      Folks, if you are going to save yourself or your family from SARS-CoV-2 you cannot wait for the government, the pharmaceutical industry, or any other external savior in the medical community. You have to do it yourself.

      As a licensed physician who also holds a PhD in biological chemistry, I’ve developed, so far, seven FDA-approved drugs. My ‘day job’ is CEO of Atossa Therapeutics (NADAQ: ATOS), a Seattle-based company that is developing FDA-regulated pharmaceuticals for breast cancer and COVID-19. These products are in clinical or pre-clinical testing, but because they are prescription drugs that need FDA approval to make available, they are not the topic of this book,

      The reason I’ve written this manual is to provide a simple guide, based in science, to arm you with information that has either gone unreported or underreported in the media. While there is a lot of data, advice, and frankly false claims floating around, a lot of it has yet to be boiled down into a form that can assist people in answering the simple, yet life-and-death question, What do I do to protect myself and my loved ones against this coronavirus?

      For example, when I was telling friends in late January to absolutely wear a mask at the same time the CDC was saying they might not work, I knew what was going on. Their priority was to protect the limited supply of masks then available for medical staff. When I saw this kind of misinformation coming out of the CDC, I asked myself, What is the best advice I can give a friend and their family to help them stay safe, deal with it if someone gets sick, and come out of this stronger and wiser?

      Of course, because it is a new disease, by definition, it has taken turns and twists that could not have been predicted. It also has unpredictable aspects of its future: will it go away when we come out of our homes? Will it come back in the fall? If it comes back will it be like the second wave of the 1918 Spanish Influenza, which was much worse than the first wave? Or will it become our constant scourge, like seasonal influenza, where most years it comes, kills about 30,000 people, and then fades into the woodwork until the next year.

      I don’t have the answers to all of these questions.

      In fact, it’s going to turn out that there are mistakes in this book, some small and some not so small. There will be parts of this which will sound really wrong when it is read even six months from now. I know this for a fact because I wrote things on my blogs in February and March of 2020 that I wanted to include in the book, but when I read them later, they were (no other way to put it) wrong!

      For all of those mistakes that will be forever present in this book, I apologize now, and my hope is that when you find them, you can read around those errors and continue to the next topic or tip.

      When I had to weigh delaying this book until I could get everything right against my desire to get this information to you quickly so you can be empowered to protect yourself and your family in a way you were not able to before, I decided it is well-worth a little egg on my face if I turn out to be wrong on some points.

      So sit back and enjoy an alkaline green tea, as described herein, as you get ready to end your shelter-in-place lifestyle and go out in the world again to see what ‘America 2.0’ looks like.

      Section One: Know your enemy, SARS-CoV-2

      To know your enemy You must become your enemy…

      孫子兵法

      The Art of War

      Sun Tzu

      State of Qi, China

      Spring and Autumn Period (Ca 500 B.C.)

      Chapter 1: What a Coronavirus Is

      Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause lung infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses include some cases of the common cold (which also is caused by certain other viruses, predominantly rhinoviruses), while more lethal varieties can cause SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Symptoms in other species vary: for example, in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea.

      No Vaccines

      As of yet, there are no vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or cure human coronavirus infections. And mind you, some of these coronaviruses have been around for decades. Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses meaning, just like all human cells, they have a fatty membrane around them. The blueprint of life can come in two forms, DNA and RNA, and in the coronaviruses, it is what is called a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. That is a lot of words but don’t worry, I will explain it later on.

      The size of this blueprint is about 30,000 letters long, one of the largest blueprints

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