Jimdamick
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Update on my update.
My wife just came home and told me the entire Bridgeport school system, the largest in the State of Connecticut has shut down for at least a week while they disinfect all the schools.
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My wife just came home and told me the entire Bridgeport school system, the largest in the State of Connecticut has shut down for at least a week while they disinfect all the schools.
Motherfucker
Dr.Amber Trichome
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That sounds like a really great plan.
Jimdamick
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Yea, she/me/son are wearing a mask now in the house & I'm sleeping on the couch until her test results come in.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Excellent advice . Sorry to hear about your health but you are smart and know how to take care of yourself and sounds like will weather the storm just fine.
I think air circulation and open the windows and vacuum and dust and change all the air filters and get a couple small room air purifiers to ease your worries might help if you are not already doing it . And keep washing and disinfecting.
I know you can get through this!
I have this one i white in my bedroom and it works really well .
good luck !
topcat
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Maybe their dicks qualify for unemployment insurance. Dicks on the dole.
captainmorgan
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Are Dogs Spreading SARS-CoV-2? Study Finds Living With a Dog Increases Risk of Contracting COVID-19
A study conducted by the University of Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health has analyzed the main risk factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the national lockdown in Spain, including going out to work or living with patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The authors warn of th
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captainmorgan
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topcat
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That it is. Groundhog Day is what comes to mind.
DIY-HP-LED
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Coronavirus live updates: California 'sounding the alarm' with widespread closures; Dr. Anthony Fauci encouraged by Moderna's vaccine news
Positive news from Moderna on vaccines. British PM Boris Johnson is self-isolating. Costco no longer OK with mask exemptions. Latest COVID news.
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Coronavirus live updates: Fauci encouraged by Moderna's vaccine news
The results are preliminary, but they are encouraging: Another candidate vaccine has proven extremely effective against COVID-19. Moderna, working with the federal government, has early results that show a 94.5 percent efficacy rate for its shots.
It's the latest good news on the vaccine front. Earlier this month, a candidate from Pfizer/BioNTech released results that their candidate was 90 percent effective.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said on NBC's "Today" show that the news from Moderna "is really quite impressive." He said the Moderna and Pfizer news “is something that foretells an impact on this outbreak.”
“So now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective, so I think this is a really strong step forward to where we want to be about getting control with this outbreak,” Fauci said, predicting vaccines for those at high-risk could be available by the end of December.
All vaccines, once administered, are expected to cause sore arms and a day or two of fatigue and flu-like symptoms. Before the companies can apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for authorization to provide their vaccine to the public, they must jump through several more hurdles.
More developments:
Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, faced heavy criticism after telling Michiganders to "rise up" against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stringent new COVID restrictions.
As Trump continues to delay a transition of power to president-elect Joe Biden, health officials are decrying the postponement.
Unless you are under the age of 2, you must cover your face to shop at Costco. No more medical exemptions are being tolerated.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Canada has a contract with these guys too.
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Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5 per cent effective
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch weighs in on Moderna's vaccine and how it compares to Pfizer's own.
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Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5 per cent effective
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch weighs in on Moderna's vaccine and how it compares to Pfizer's own.
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Our immune systems can cope with Covid-19 – it's our politicians who can't | Angela Rasmussen
The psychological impact of the virus is profound, but there is nothing to suggest its physical effects can’t be overcome, says the virologist Angela Rasmussen
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Our immune systems can cope with Covid-19 – it's our politicians who can't
Angela Rasmussen
The psychological impact of the virus is profound, but there is nothing to suggest its physical effects can’t be overcome
great deal of conflicting information has emerged about the immune response that develops in patients who have recovered from Covid-19. A recent study in the UK showed declining antibodies in more than 350,000 people, leading to headlines that immunity wanes rapidly just months after infection.
The next day, another study concluded the opposite: in more than 30,000 patients in New York City, the majority showed high levels of IgG antibodies, which are the type of antibodies that typically neutralise Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Naturally this is very confusing. Is Sars-Cov-2 a superpowered virus that can subvert the immune systems that protect us so effectively against many other pathogens? Can people who have recovered from Covid-19 expect to have long-lasting protective immunity or not?
The good news is that we are unlikely to be reinfected with Sars-Cov-2 repeatedly until it eventually wipes us all out. Most of the evidence in both Covid-19 patients and animal models shows that the immune response to this is quite typical for an acute viral infection. Initially, the body ramps up high levels of IgG antibodies, but after the infection is cleared, those antibodies drop to a baseline level, which may be below the limit of detection of some serological tests.
Antibodies are produced by B-cells, a specialised type of immune cell that recognises a specific antigen, or viral target. When an infection is cleared, B-cells producing antibodies convert from being plasma cells, which are specialised to pump out massive quantities of Sars-Cov-2-specific antibodies, to being memory B-cells. These cells produce lower levels of IgG antibody; but, importantly they persist in the body for years. If they are re-exposed to Sars-Cov-2, they rapidly convert to plasma cells and begin producing high levels of antibody again.
There is no indication that most Covid-19 patients are not developing immune memory, and animals experimentally infected with Sars-Cov-2 are protected against rechallenge with high doses of virus. Most people who recover from Covid-19 have detectable neutralising antibodies months after infection. This suggests that Sars-Cov-2 infection does produce an immune response that is protective, at least for several months. To determine how long this protection lasts, unfortunately, we have no choice but to wait. Sars-Cov-2 has been circulating in the human population for less than a year, and there is no way to study immune durability other than to wait and see.
Furthermore, antibodies are not the only important part of the immune system. T-cells are also a key component to the immune response. They come in two flavours: helper T-cells, which coordinate immune responses and facilitate immunological memory, and killer T-cells, which kill infected cells. Previous studies have shown that Sars-Cov-2 infection induces robust T-cell responses.
Interestingly, some people who have never had Covid-19 have memory T-cells from prior common-cold coronavirus infections that cross-react with Sars-Cov-2, suggesting that there may be some existing protection in the population . It’s important to note that the role of T-cells in protecting against Sars-Cov-2 is largely unknown and this is an active area of research. T-cells alone are unlikely to provide complete immune protection, but they are a key contributor to immune memory, and illustrate that antibody levels alone do not tell the full story of protective immunity.
The responses of these cells further underscore that Sars-Cov-2 is not an anomalous virus capable of miraculous feats of immune evasion. Sars-Cov-2 can certainly suppress some antiviral responses, which is probably how it causes severe Covid-19 in some people, but it is not invulnerable to our immune defences.
While there have been some reported cases of reinfection, there is currently no evidence that this is common. It is also possible that reinfection in people with partial immunity may result in milder disease, although that is still an untested hypothesis. There needs to be more research into reinfection to understand how common it is, but we should not regard it as evidence that immunity is useless and there is no hope for preventing Sars-Cov-2 in the future.
On the contrary, there are promising findings in animal studies and clinical trials that candidate vaccines elicit antibody levels equivalent to recovering patients with the highest levels of antibodies and these antibodies endure. This is true of the Pfizer vaccine that was recently announced to be protective against symptomatic Covid-19 cases after an interim analysis of the phase 3 trial data. This suggests that vaccines may provide more potent, durable protection than natural infection.
Our search for functional immunity to Sars-Cov-2 is less a biological quandary than a psychological one. To explain the widespread transmission and death, the chronic debilitating illness that has resulted in many Covid-19 patients who have cleared the infection but not recovered from the disease, and the severe disruption to our everyday lives, it is tempting to think that the virus is a singular pathogen the likes of which we have not seen before.
In reality, it is our inadequate policies and lack of evidence-based public health strategy that has gotten us to where we are today in the US, the UK and most of the rest of Europe. Our immune systems are mostly responding to this virus the way we’d expect; it is our leadership whose responses have failed.
• Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and affiliate of the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
DIY-HP-LED
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A tiny peak into a small part of the science, science that will make the next pandemic, "disappear like magic". Monkeys get covid too, so it benefits them too I suppose.
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Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus features that cause COVID-19
by National Research Council of Science & Technology
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
Features of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19, which could be useful for developing vaccines and treatment strategies, were identified using a nonhuman primate model developed at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB).
The work was initiated in February this year by the research team led by Dr. Jung Joo Hong at the KRIBB National Primate Research Center, and resulted in successful development of a nonhuman primate model of COVID-19 infection, the fourth model reported worldwide, following China, the Netherlands and the US. The results of the study were part of a larger research project aiming to identify key features of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2(SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing COVID-19, and to test for the efficacies of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments using the primate model.
In the primate study, vascular abnormalities due to the infection, reasons underlying fatality of COVID-19 infection, particularly in immunocompromised patients, sites of SARS-CoV-2 multiplication inside human body, and the time-course and were investigated.
The research team showed, for the first time, that SARS-CoV-2 caused vascular inflammation and that the endotheliitis persisted three days after the infection. Further, they confirmed immunosuppression, which is typically observed in patients with immunodeficiency, when the viral load increased precipitously during COVID-19 infection (first two days after infection).
This study was featured on the cover of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a world-class academic journal in the field of infectious diseases. The issue's online edition became available on August 3, 2020, and the article will be printed the November 15 issue.
The research team observed that the virus multiplied rapidly in the upper and lower respiratory tracts of the experimental primates in first two days after the viral infection. Subsequently, the viral load decreased quickly, and the viral activity was not detected seven days after the infection.
These findings are expected to provide novel insights regarding the diagnostic challenges associated with a false positive test, i.e., a positive result of the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for an asymptomatic.
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Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus features that cause COVID-19
Features of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19, which could be useful for developing vaccines and treatment strategies, were identified using a nonhuman primate model developed at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB).
Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus features that cause COVID-19
by National Research Council of Science & Technology
Features of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19, which could be useful for developing vaccines and treatment strategies, were identified using a nonhuman primate model developed at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB).
The work was initiated in February this year by the research team led by Dr. Jung Joo Hong at the KRIBB National Primate Research Center, and resulted in successful development of a nonhuman primate model of COVID-19 infection, the fourth model reported worldwide, following China, the Netherlands and the US. The results of the study were part of a larger research project aiming to identify key features of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2(SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing COVID-19, and to test for the efficacies of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments using the primate model.
In the primate study, vascular abnormalities due to the infection, reasons underlying fatality of COVID-19 infection, particularly in immunocompromised patients, sites of SARS-CoV-2 multiplication inside human body, and the time-course and were investigated.
The research team showed, for the first time, that SARS-CoV-2 caused vascular inflammation and that the endotheliitis persisted three days after the infection. Further, they confirmed immunosuppression, which is typically observed in patients with immunodeficiency, when the viral load increased precipitously during COVID-19 infection (first two days after infection).
This study was featured on the cover of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a world-class academic journal in the field of infectious diseases. The issue's online edition became available on August 3, 2020, and the article will be printed the November 15 issue.
The research team observed that the virus multiplied rapidly in the upper and lower respiratory tracts of the experimental primates in first two days after the viral infection. Subsequently, the viral load decreased quickly, and the viral activity was not detected seven days after the infection.
These findings are expected to provide novel insights regarding the diagnostic challenges associated with a false positive test, i.e., a positive result of the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for an asymptomatic.
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Rurumo
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Montana is one of the hardest hit states after the Dakotas, but it also has had a mask mandate since July. It's the ONLY hard hit state with a mask mandate for that long...the problem is, NO ONE wears a mask even with the mandate, not even businesses. There is zero enforcement. Now 1 in 24 Montanans has Covid 19 and half the hospitals in the state are at 100%, and there are only 2, maybe 3 hospitals in the state you want to be in if you have anything remotely serious. People are crazy...an ER nurse from South Dakota was on the news saying some of her patients deny having Covid 19 right up until they die. They say they must have the flu or lung cancer...their belief in Trump's BS is that strong. Sad
DIY-HP-LED
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If trump fucks up the vaccine with disinformation, everybody but his base will get it and they will get immunity the old fashioned way, or gobble up the supply of antibody therapeutics.
Donald knows he will look bad compared to Joe, so he is salting the earth for him and will do everything he can to slow Joe down, especially on covid. With the tools that will be at his disposal Joe will lick covid in 3 months or less with a significant portion of the population vaccinated, but before that the numbers will be knocked down. It is hospitals overwhelmed and mortality rates skyrocketing that cause governments to put the brakes on no matter how red they are. There is no reserve of medical personnel, when you burn through these you are fucked, many will drop, some will die, some will strike and some will walk away to more responsible states.
DIY-HP-LED
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Joe needs the senate, he has a lot of government cleaning to do and Donald has left cockroaches behind, or is trying to. The senate can impeach these assholes quickly and they will resign in droves, Joe has other fish to fry and a senate can help with the frying. Ditch Mitch by wining Georgia, no one needs to light a fire under Stacey Abrams ass! 
Ditch Mitch and move forward in a big way, get rid of the bastard, or it will be an echo of the tea party and a tight fist, with the return of the grim reaper. If Alito choked and died tomorrow he would still try to ram through a judge, if he died a day after Joe was inaugurated, Joe's pick would not be confirmed.
Ditch Mitch and move forward in a big way, get rid of the bastard, or it will be an echo of the tea party and a tight fist, with the return of the grim reaper. If Alito choked and died tomorrow he would still try to ram through a judge, if he died a day after Joe was inaugurated, Joe's pick would not be confirmed.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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That’s really fucked up! I thought they were dumb fucks here in Oklahoma but they aren’t that bad where I am at, thank goodness!!
DIY-HP-LED
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I've been watching the news and Joe and his team are starting to pour the heat on Donald, he is now a direct public health menace and impediment to vaccine logistics. I think they are building towards impeaching him or threatening Mitch with a walk behind the barn before Georgia. Impeaching Donald over this in a week or two would be sweet, especially if they threw in the Stormy Daniels election fraud, nothing sells like sex and the courts will vindicate them on that part, history will vindicate them on the rest.
I can't see this going on for long, the democrats are gonna light a fire under some one's ass soon. The time of soothing Donald's hurt feelings are done, come across or face an early exit, Mitch can carry his water all the way to Georgia if he wants, don't count on it though. Mitch wants Georgia bad and Donald is gonna ruin the rest of his fucking life.
I can't see this going on for long, the democrats are gonna light a fire under some one's ass soon. The time of soothing Donald's hurt feelings are done, come across or face an early exit, Mitch can carry his water all the way to Georgia if he wants, don't count on it though. Mitch wants Georgia bad and Donald is gonna ruin the rest of his fucking life.
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