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[space_bob] 18/3/2020 19:44

26p by the end of the week? Who knows what price in a couple of months at the peak of the virus.

[fse] 18/3/2020 18:53

Human coronaviruses, first characterized in the 1960s, are responsible for a substantial proportion of upper respiratory tract infections in children. Since 2003, at least 5 new human coronaviruses have been identified, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, which caused significant morbidity and mortality. NL63, representing a group of newly identified group I coronaviruses that includes NL and the New Haven coronavirus, has been identified worldwide. These viruses are associated with both upper and lower respiratory tract disease and are likely common human pathogens. The global distribution of a newly identified group II coronavirus, HKU1, has not yet been established. Coronavirology has advanced significantly in the past few years. The SARS epidemic put the animal coronaviruses in the spotlight.

[car1pet] 17/3/2020 15:39

But wait its bounced up. Nice to see can it be sustained

[car1pet] 17/3/2020 14:05

Well the bounce didn't even last 30 minutes onwards and downwards

[nellyb] 17/3/2020 14:03

fse, trolls love uncertainty and if they can make a shilling by trying to scare others into selling that's fair game to them I suppose! :(

[volsung] 17/3/2020 13:50

Was invested until recently nelly. Now just looking in.

[fse] 17/3/2020 13:47

People that bought in solely for a covid_19 test kit making the company instantly famous are not reading what was said. What it did do was to validate their game plan. That has not changed. Company is in good shape and doing well. Too bad we have a plethora of trolls on the thread.

[nellyb] 17/3/2020 13:18

volsung, are you invested or are you just enjoying yourself with your future price predictions.

[baz9707] 17/3/2020 13:15

I believe the next 12 months are going to be huge for BATM.

[car1pet] 17/3/2020 12:54

The Dow futures is up over 1% could it be a better afternoon? We have seen bright starts crash after 30 minutes heres hoping there is a bounce today we need it. Boris needs to deliver a strong financial support message at 4.00pm today

[gclark] 17/3/2020 11:00

Or is it just a forced seller or sell at any price investor?
The Covid-19 kit is only an add-on to everything else and not the reason we all bought in pre-covid-19 times.
We need to look ahead 6 months. Has anything changed on that front? Maybe some developments will be delayed by 3-6 months. We have cash in hand so no cash call. Just thinking it through.

[space_bob] 17/3/2020 10:09

Because having a 'kit' doesn't mean much. A university lab could probably knock one up in a few days. The problem is getting it tested, approved and mass produced. BATM aren't going to do that any time soon and there's a large number of companies who will produce kits before them. They've been slightly economical with the truth saying that their kit is 'in production'. Technically true, but these are initial proof of concept kits for trials from what I understand.

[volsung] 17/3/2020 10:05

25p beckons

[car1pet] 17/3/2020 09:54

Heading into the 20s at this rate. Given that BATM claim to have a covid 19 test kit and the WHO is saying the most important thing to do now is "Test Test Test" why isn't this share soaring? Is the claim BATM has a testing kit not true?

[goggin] 17/3/2020 09:53

It seems the market isn't impressed with Batm and their testing kit - too slow to market? As a long term holder I believe that Batm will eventually do well, just disappointing that the bounce didn't hold, next stop 25p to top up and then again at 16 and 8

[james dean] 17/3/2020 08:38

reeltime

Thanks, just read the Globes item again (16283). It seems Batm may have more to offer in a short space of time.

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[master rsi] 16/3/2020 23:42

Covid-19 & The Sun: A Lesson From The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Sun, 03/15/2020 - 23:10 - Authored by Richard Hobday via Medium.com,

Fresh air, sunlight and improvised face masks seemed to work a century ago; and they might help us now.

When new, virulent diseases emerge, such SARS and Covid-19, the race begins to find new vaccines and treatments for those affected. As the current crisis unfolds, governments are enforcing quarantine and isolation, and public gatherings are being discouraged. Health officials took the same approach 100 years ago, when influenza was spreading around the world. The results were mixed. But records from the 1918 pandemic suggest one technique for dealing with influenza — little-known today — was effective. Some hard-won experience from the greatest pandemic in recorded history could help us in the weeks and months ahead.

Influenza patients getting sunlight at the Camp Brooks emergency open-air hospital in Boston. Medical staff were not supposed to remove their masks. (National Archives)

Put simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff. There is scientific support for this. Research shows that outdoor air is a natural disinfectant. Fresh air can kill the flu virus and other harmful germs. Equally, sunlight is germicidal and there is now evidence it can kill the flu virus.

`Open-Air’ Treatment in 1918
During the great pandemic, two of the worst places to be were military barracks and troop-ships. Overcrowding and bad ventilation put soldiers and sailors at high risk of catching influenza and the other infections that often followed it. As with the current Covid-19 outbreak, most of the victims of so-called `Spanish flu’ did not die from influenza: they died of pneumonia and other complications.

When the influenza pandemic reached the East coast of the United States in 1918, the city of Boston was particularly badly hit. So the State Guard set up an emergency hospital. They took in the worst cases among sailors on ships in Boston harbour. The hospital’s medical officer had noticed the most seriously ill sailors had been in badly-ventilated spaces. So he gave them as much fresh air as possible by putting them in tents. And in good weather they were taken out of their tents and put in the sun. At this time, it was common practice to put sick soldiers outdoors. Open-air therapy, as it was known, was widely used on casualties from the Western Front. And it became the treatment of choice for another common and often deadly respiratory infection of the time; tuberculosis. Patients were put outside in their beds to breathe fresh outdoor air. Or they were nursed in cross-ventilated wards with the windows open day and night. The open-air regimen remained popular until antibiotics replaced it in the 1950s.

Doctors who had first-hand experience of open-air therapy at the hospital in Boston were convinced the regimen was effective. It was adopted elsewhere. If one report is correct, it reduced deaths among hospital patients from 40 per cent to about 13 per cent. According to the Surgeon General of the Massachusetts State Guard:

`The efficacy of open air treatment has been absolutely proven, and one has only to try it to discover its value.’

Fresh Air is a Disinfectant
Patients treated outdoors were less likely to be exposed to the infectious germs that are often present in conventional hospital wards. They were breathing clean air in what must have been a largely sterile environment. We know this because, in the 1960s, Ministry of Defence scientists proved that fresh air is a natural disinfectant. Something in it, which they called the Open Air Factor, is far more harmful to airborne bacteria — and the influenza virus — than indoor air. They couldn’t identify exactly what the Open Air Factor is. But they found it was effective both at night and during the daytime.

Their research also revealed that the Open Air Factor’s disinfecting powers can be preserved in enclosures — if ventilation rates are kept high enough. Significantly, the rates they identified are the same ones that cross-ventilated hospital wards, with high ceilings and big windows, were designed for. But by the time the scientists made their discoveries, antibiotic therapy had replaced open-air treatment. Since then the germicidal effects of fresh air have not featured in infection control, or hospital design. Yet harmful bacteria have become increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Putting infected patients out in the sun may have helped because it inactivates the influenza virus. It also kills bacteria that cause lung and other infections in hospitals. During the First World War, military surgeons routinely used sunlight to heal infected wounds. They knew it was a disinfectant. What they didn’t know is that one advantage of placing patients outside in the sun is they can synthesise vitamin D in their skin if sunlight is strong enough. This was not discovered until the 1920s. Low vitamin D levels are now linked to respiratory infections and may increase susceptibility to influenza. Also, our body’s biological rhythms appear to influence how we resist infections. New research suggests they can alter our inflammatory response to the flu virus. As with vitamin D, at the time of the 1918 pandemic, the important part played by sunlight in synchronizing these rhythms was not known.

Face Masks Coronavirus and Flu
Surgical masks are currently in short supply in China and elsewhere. They were worn 100 years ago, during the great pandemic, to try and stop the influenza virus spreading. While surgical masks may offer some protection from infection they do not seal around the face. So they don’t filter out small airborne particles. In 1918, anyone at the emergency hospital in Boston who had contact with patients had to wear an improvised face mask. This comprised five layers of gauze fitted to a wire frame which covered the nose and mouth. The frame was shaped to fit the face of the wearer and prevent the gauze filter touching the mouth and nostrils. The masks were replaced every two hours; properly sterilized and with fresh gauze put on. They were a forerunner of the N95 respirators in use in hospitals today to protect medical staff against airborne infection.

Temporary Hospitals
Staff at the hospital kept up high standards of personal and environmental hygiene. No doubt this played a big part in the relatively low rates of infection and deaths reported there. The speed with which their hospital and other temporary open-air facilities were erected to cope with the surge in pneumonia patients was another factor. Today, many countries are not prepared for a severe influenza pandemic. Their health services will be overwhelmed if there is one. Vaccines and antiviral drugs might help. Antibiotics may be effective for pneumonia and other complications. But much of the world’s population will not have access to them. If another 1918 comes, or the Covid-19 crisis gets worse, history suggests it might be prudent to have tents and pre-fabricated wards ready to deal with large numbers of seriously ill cases. Plenty of fresh air and a little sunlight might help too.

[master rsi] 16/3/2020 23:03

Other crashers like Dotcom crash or Great Financial Crisis fell much more than now, but stock markets have recovered every time.

[reeltime] 16/3/2020 22:54

This is a very interesting and insightful interview with Zvi Maron by Globes (15 Mar, 2020 21:35 Gali Weinreb).

BATM's Zvi Marom does battle with viruses.....

[master rsi] 16/3/2020 22:34

How much the market has fallen since the selling started

[nellyb] 16/3/2020 20:36

THIS IS THE BVC FRED!!

[space_bob] 16/3/2020 20:34

That has zero to do with Batm. Also you don't even own TLY shares - you've been ramping them with BS like the above for years whilst their value has steadily and consistently fallen by 85%!