Covid-19

[ThunderHorse]

So, I went out for dinner tonight, there was a protest on the same street as we drove to the restaurant. No social distancing at any of the restaurants we drove past that is for sure. Obviously no social distancing at the protest. So...yeah.

 

[amlove21]

So, I went out for dinner tonight, there was a protest on the same street as we drove to the restaurant. No social distancing at any of the restaurants we drove past that is for sure. Obviously no social distancing at the protest. So...yeah.

It’s almost like- we just moved past it. Just sort of agreed we would all move on to riots and stuff.

What an absolutely wild time to be alive.

 

[Blizzard]

It’s almost like- we just moved past it. Just sort of agreed we would all move on to riots and stuff.

What an absolutely wild time to be alive.

Right?!

What exactly gas changed with the virus from 3 months ago? Nothing!

We have no vaccine, no real treatment, nothing. Yet, officials now have come up with some ridiculous half baked "plan" for phased or partial reopening.

The whole thing is completely asinine at this point.

 

[digrar]

Having the first of what could be a few monthly covid tests tomorrow. I haven't had one since we had a suspected Anthrax attack at the US Consulate back in 2004. 16 years on and I still remember the sensation. Not overly looking forward to it.

 

[AWP]

"There's no way CV-19 was man made, it came from bats!"

Yeah, about that...

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans. Here we examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations1. Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.

On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.

In addition, check out 2 things: the date and the scientists involved. Just hover over their names...

 

[RackMaster]

This thing is definitely unravelling.

Norway Scientist Claims Report Proves Coronavirus Was Lab-Made

 

[Devildoc]

This thing is definitely unravelling.

Norway Scientist Claims Report Proves Coronavirus Was Lab-Made

He can throw his paper in the ring with the other 50 scientists who claim it's lab-made, to offset the other 50 who claim it's not. It'll be a long time until there is consensus. Cognitive bias is strong, which is ironic given that it's with "scientists."

@Ooh-Rah , yup, that's how it's done. We call it "tickling the brain."

Our numbers leveled off for a few week, but on the rise again, along with the percentage of people requiring ICU admission. This thing is NOWHERE near over.

Meanwhile, now that we've taught the entire health system PPE, we are encouraged to work from home. Me, I oversee, coordinate, and teach specialty courses which are required by multiple accreditation, licensure, and certification agencies, and we are currently back-logged 3,000 expired certification, so I start climbing out that hole tomorrow, 10 people per class at a time.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is 'very rare,' WHO says

I mean like, no shit, asymptomatic doesn't necessarily means "infectious".

 

[Devildoc]

Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is 'very rare,' WHO says

I mean like, no shit, asymptomatic doesn't necessarily means "infectious".

It's like trying to prove a negative: how can you tell if someone has it but doesn't know it but gives it to someone else?

 

[Dvr55119]

It's like trying to prove a negative: how can you tell if someone has it but doesn't know it but gives it to someone else?

Didn’t something like 15-20 nurses at Duke on one unit get infected from one asymptomatic patient? Granted they most likely transmitted it to each other, but the initial case was an asymptomatic patient prior to widespread testing.

 

[Florida173]

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

Didn’t something like 15-20 nurses at Duke on one unit get infected from one asymptomatic patient? Granted they most likely transmitted it to each other, but the initial case was an asymptomatic patient prior to widespread testing.

I was about to ask the very same things. Nurses I talk to (US & UK) keep saying the majority of serious cases they treated were asymptomatic until well. Landing at the ICU they work.

Not sure how much of what WHO publishes these days is health accurate and how much is trying to calm the mass panic the best they can. Rapid changing of presentation and additional related syndromes (like Kawasaki / kids) may be another problem, not surprised if health care workers themselves don't know what to screen out for first.

 

[ThunderHorse]

De Blasio shuts down parks frequented by Orthodox Jews because of COVID . . . but does nothing about the other thing going on in his city.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272669507778207744

 

[DA SWO]

De Blasio shuts down parks frequented by Orthodox Jews because of COVID . . . but does nothing about the other thing going on in his city.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272669507778207744

He responded by welding the gates shut.

 

[Gordus]

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and just like this cat.

 

[DA SWO]

LOL, Texas is getting a spike in cases, mainly 20-29 year olds.
Wonder why?

 

[Devildoc]

LOL, Texas is getting a spike in cases, mainly 20-29 year olds.
Wonder why?

Same here. Our numbers in the hospital are increasing bigly.

 

[Florida173]

An interesting COVID-19 research released over the weekend. Three peer reviewed studies and two other studies that have yet to be peer reviewed. Your blood type has a profound affect on your outcome with COVID-19. O type blood appears to be all but immune while A type blood seems to be highly vulnerable

Genetic study suggests that people’s blood type may affect their COVID-19 risk

Last week, a genetic study of more than 1,610 COVID-19 patients in Italy and Spain found that people with type A blood had a higher chance of developing severe respiratory failure than people with type O blood (medRxiv 2020, DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.31.20114991). The findings add support to an idea that has been developing since early in the global pandemic, that type O blood is somehow protective against the disease, while type A may make people more vulnerable.

The specific mechanisms look like this: Covid replicates in person 1 who is blood type X. Type A people produce antigens to B type blood, B type people produce antigens to A type blood, O type people produce antigens to both A and B. Since Novel Corona Virus acquires the antigen of it's host, it can not bind to Os unless the carrier is an O. Also one of the most severe underlying issues in COVID-19 is blood clotting which causes most of the ICU cases, and O type has the least active clotting mechanisms O's seem to be affected far less severely.

 

[AWP]

An interesting COVID-19 research released over the weekend. Three peer reviewed studies and two other studies that have yet to be peer reviewed. Your blood type has a profound affect on your outcome with COVID-19. O type blood appears to be all but immune while A type blood seems to be highly vulnerable

Sweet. I'm fucked if I get this. Good news is, there will be an open Admin slot on SS!

 

[Steve1839]

Sweet. I'm fucked if I get this.

An A+ in blood type was the highest grade I had in sophomore biology...