News for the Week 2023-11-20

The Prepared Support - November 20, 2023

News

Make a top-level comment for a new story/topic. Discussions about the topic should be in the replies to the top-level comment. That way things stay organized and every main comment as you scroll down is a different piece of news.

7  

Treatment found for long COVID smell issue, parosmia. Clinical studies show 50-90% success rate in curing this issue by injecting a anesthetic in two nerve bundles in the neck.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/neck-injection-improve-smell-issues-long-covid-patients-rcna125192

 

Unexplained pneumonia outbreak in China. Children’s hospitals in several large Chinese cities are overwhelmed with sick children. WHO asking China for more details.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/23/who-asks-china-for-more-details-on-unexplained-pneumonia-outbreak

 

Followup on pneumonia outbreak in China: China says these are all the usual respiratory illnesses that children get around this time of year, including COVID, flu, Rsv, etc, that they have sufficient hospital capacity to handle this, and that the number of cases is higher due to years of COVID precautions being recently lifted.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON494

 

Followup on pneumonia outbreak in China:

China ministry seeks more fever clinics to combat respiratory illness surge

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ministry-seeks-more-fever-clinics-combat-respiratory-illness-surge-2023-11-26/

 

Black Friday discount on The Prepared’s courses. These courses are typically sold for $200 each. Today and tomorrow there’s a bundle deal to get all three of them for $350.

https://lp.theprepared.com/black-friday-sale

 

Brazil records its hottest temperature ever, 44.8C / 112.6F, and it’s not even summer there yet. The heat wave lasted two days and reached a heat index of 59.7C / 139.5F.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67482423

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67469778

 

This has also been a bad year for wildfires in Brazil.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-wildfires-pantanal-wetlands-2023-animal-deaths/

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-brazil-amazon-rainforest-suffocates-manaus.html