Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5DPOPsDT6fc   Grizzly Industrial is recalling it Children’s Tool Kits for lead and toy safety violations.   The tool belt, hammer, and suspenders contain excessive lead.   The toy goggles and hard hats fail to meet US toy safety standards.   Stop using these toys and contact Grizzly for instructions about returning them for a full refund.   Call 1-888-615-7944.   http...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/2S43UFK2S1Q   Kawasaki USA has two recalls on its Off-Highway Utility Vehicles.   Recall #1 is for steering shaft defect leading to excessive wear, loss of steering control, and a crash hazard. Recall #2 is due to a fire hazard due to two defects.   Debris falling on the vehicles exhaust manifold may ignite.   Frozen water can block the vehicle’s breather hose permitt...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/cisBEkcOKHE   Woom Bikes USA is recalling its bike due to a defective front fork.   It can loosen and detach leading to a fall and injury.   Contact Woom for a free repair kit by calling 1-855-966-6872.   https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/Woom-bikes-USA-Recalls-Bicycles-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards-Recall-Alert   #recall #woom #bicycle

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/JAqMDvfE6wI   A slew of products have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission this week since they fail to meet child safety standards.   These include: — Plant Therapy’s Wintergreen Essential Oils and Essential Oil Blends with Wintergreen — Earth Sonnets Wintergreen Essential Oil — Earthroma Wintergreen Essential Oil — Belle Chemical Sodium and Potass...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/caWeC8yVPFI   Tiffany Food Corporation of Brooklyn, NY is recalling its Huanfushanzen Huang Mountain Tea Mushroom dried mushrooms.   This product may contain undeclared sulfites.   Those will a sulfite sensitivity or allergy may develop a severe reaction after eating this product. Product was sold in FL, OH, CA, and MA. Return this product to the store for a full refu...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/HLkdVvOkQzE   Guan’s Mushroom Co. of Calfornia is   recalling its Enoki Mushrooms from Korea.   These may well be contaminated with Listeria .   If you eat contaminated product, you are likely to develop a severe, life=threatening gastrenteritis, and that’s particularly likely if you are very young, old, or have a weakened immune system.   Even young, healthy individu...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Y26LDEEM0Kg   Coronavirus infected individuals do not shed live virus in their tears.   Researchers at Singapore’s National University Hospital studied 17 patients with the virus.   Their tears were disease free by both viral cultures and RP-PCR genetic tests.   At the same time, their noses and throats were swarming with infectious CoVid19.   While you can’t spread v...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/NQxpwpddiYs   Those pretzels, chips, and pasta sauce may weaken your immune defenses against bacteria and viruses including CoVid19.   Immunologists at Germany’s University of Bonn trace the effects of your liberal self-shaking on your host defenses.   When you eat abundant salt, your kidneys seek to flush it out to maintain a safe concentration around your cells.   I...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/98zOq9ZpG9M   TPA, the clot busting tissue plasminogen activator that rescues heart attack and stroke patients, may help ventilator-dependent CoVid19 patients in respiratory failure.   Researchers at MIT, Harvard teaching hospitals, and the University of Colorado believe that TPA can prevent extensive blood clotting that exacerbates CoVid19 patients’ respiratory failu...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/q66mLjoY-r4   Tocilizumab, a Genentech-Roche drug marketed as Actemra for autoimmune arthritis and cytokine storms induced by CAR-T cell cancer therapy, did successfully squelch CoVid19 immune storm in a preliminary Chinese study.   Researchers there treated 20 patients with severe and critical disease in risk of dying.   The patients received a 9 day course of the dr...

Lindt Excellence 85% Cocoa Chocolate Recalled Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/SlUff4Zowzs   Lindt and Sprüngli USA is voluntarily recalling its Lindt Excellence 85% Cocoa chocolate bars due to improper packaging and labeling.   The product in the wrapper is actually Lindt Excellent Dark Carmel Sea Salt bars.   This contains milk and soy.   Those who have allergies to either may develop and allergic re...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Qh5-66RULws   Mountain Rose Herbs is voluntarily recalling its Organic Kudzu Root Herbal Supplement.   This product may have Salmonella contamination.   This bacterium can product a severe gastroenteritis or get into the bloodstream and induce sepsis with heart valve infection, blood vessel infection, or septic arthritis.   The Lots involved are #24247-X and #24247.  ...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/9esH8xR_GNA   Elevators: Space on larger elevators and face the wall but don’t lean against it.   If you’re the third on a smaller residential elevator, wait for the next one.   Families count as one if they fit on one wall.   Knuckles, elbows or probes on the buttons please.   Out and about:   In a line? Space 6-10 feet away and get off the line if someone is coughin...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/gBCsEskhjLE   Soap, any kind of soap, disintegrates coronavirus by pulverizing its outer lipid-protein envelope.   It’s fast, and 20-30 seconds in contact with soapy water should do it.   My routine: rubbing with bar or soft soap and water for 20 seconds (2 happy birthday songs) and then leave the soapy water for another 20 seconds.   Don't forget to use soapy water o...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/eL_nvp4v6IY   Why is a ventilator, or a vent as we docs call it, so complicated and expensive.   Isn’t just a pump to drive oxygenated air into a patient’s lungs?   Its pump is electronically controlled to control the numbers of respirations per minute, the volume of air in each respiration, and the percentage of added oxygen.   The ventilator can assist natural breat...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/0WNk_nLAHOA   London’s Smiths Group, a major ventilator manufacturer, is ramping up its own production to make an additional 30,000 over the coming months.   The company is helping other companies across the globe so that other nations may ramp up ventilator manufacturing.     How about in the US?   A Washington state ventilator manufacturer VENTEC will partner with G...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/AMGmbjdWo-o   The CoVid19 virus uses the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 or ACE2 as a binding site to human cells in the lungs, heart, and kidneys.   The angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) used to lower blood pressure increase ACE2 levels and may be able to diminish the damage the virus creates in vital organs.   Clinicians from China and India observe that the ARB...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5E2waVcfjJg   The pain killer Ibuprofen, Advil and Motrin, along with angiotensin blood pressure lowering drugs may allow CoVid19 to more easily infect and possibly kill you.     Ibuprofen and other NSAIDS are anti-inflammatory drugs that increase the angiotensin enzyme that facilitates virus binding to human respiratory lining cells.   Patients with severe CoVid infe...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/IHwvx_cgwDQ   Genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus CoVid19 conclusively shows it was not genetically engineered to become a biological agent in a political or economic war.   The evidence just published in the journal Nature is compelling enough to convince all but the most stubborn science deniers.   Studying longitudinal samples of the virus, the virus’ overall...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/3Gtw86u2CcY   We must band together to flatten the CoVid19 curve, and most of us will be working from home if work is possible.   My son Dave, Business Insider’s Front Page Editor, offers these 5 tips to his BI colleagues and through me to you.   His credentials: he has been working remotely and successfully for 3 years.   Don’t forget to eat.   At the office, you hav...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/WtD2ata8B7k   American Honda is recalling its Portable Generators.   The inverter assembly may short circuit if salt water leaks in.   Should that happen, the unit will smoke and may catch fire.   About 340,000 units were sold in the US.   Immediately stop using those generator.   Contact a local authorized Honda Power Equipment service center to schedule a free repai...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Pe8zlg-Y_sc   Once infected with the coronavirus, a patient could shed live and infectious virus for nearly 3 weeks.   Vietnamese researchers studied a 73 year old man admitted with a dry cough and difficulty breathing and diagnosed with a CoVid19 pneumonia.   Over an 8 day period, he improved clinically with what turned out to be a mild case.   Even so, longitudinal...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/qocFgfKcPIc   If you’re one of the 44% with type O blood, you are significantly less likely to become seriously infected with coronavirus.   If you have type A blood, you are much more likely to contract it.   Chinese investigators studied infected persons in Wuhan and in Shenzhen.   Type O persons had a 33% lower infection risk.   Type A persons had a 21% higher infe...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/-cTZbHQgBfI   CoVid19 remains viable in contaminated spray for up to 3 hours.   It can live on surfaces for up to 3 days.   This data, just reported in the New England Journal, comes from the NIH infectious disease unit in Montana.   The researchers tested the virus in 10 experimental scenarios.   The virus lived longest on plastics, 72 hours, and stainless steel, 48...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/8FGEP8dTIAY   AFC Distribution Corp. of Rancho Dominguez, California is voluntary recalling Cooked Butterfly Tail-On Whiteleg Shrimp, Lot #2019.10.02.   This shrimp may be found in various prepared sushi and other foods with sell-by dates ranging from 02/19/2020 to 03/13/2020.   The shrimp may be contaminated with Vibrio parahaemolyticus . This organism causes a sever...