Posted on 04/13/2020 2:28:12 PM PDT by RaceBannon
new thread starting 4-13-2020
No doubt our ancestors will want us all sent to hell over this. And I cannot blame them.
We have plenty here. Don’t know why that is. Mostly off brands, not Scott.
People still buying cartloads of it, though.
Thanks. Heard about Rutgers tonight. They beat our chief scientist to first place. Congratulations to them. There will be others too. Saliva is the only way to do mass testing and it is very accurate.
Hubby refers to the Scott as ‘john wayne toiletpaper’.
It’s ruff.
LOL.
Singapore may have had too much success at stopping the spread. And may not be having sufficient success at preventing it’s re-introduction.
They’re very close to China economically.
Taiwan stopped the virus, but also stops China- hence their continuing success.
Yeah, I’m just speculating.
And I’m speculating whether they’re having a second wave or a re-emergence of the first wave.
So little known still.
Covid-19 special: Discharged British man tests positive again
By Huu Cong, Manh Tung April 14, 2020 | 08:37 am GMT+7
In an unusual development, “Patient 22,” a British man discharged from Da Nang March 27 has tested positive again, putting HCMC on guard.
He had come into contact with dozens of people in HCMC before leaving the country, local officials said.
Authorities learnt of this special case Sunday evening, Nguyen Tan Binh, Director of HCMC Health Department said at a Monday afternoon meeting.
He said that the Covid-19 illness might have recurred within the patient or he might have got infected again after he was discharged from the hospital in Da Nang.
“From now on, visitors to Ho Chi Minh City must be closely monitored,” Binh said.
Reports had said that female “Patient 50,” a 24-year-old Vietnamese woman being treated in the northern Quang Ninh Province, and “Patient 91,” a 43-year-old British man in HCMC, had also tested positive after negative results and they are still undergoing treatment.
Meanwhile, a Reuters report Monday said at least 116 people initially cleared of the novel coronavirus had tested positive again in South Korea.
Six employees at Smithfield Foods Arnold plant test positive for coronavirus
MICHAEL DIVITTORIO | Monday, April 13, 2020 10:13 p.m.
8 minutes ago
Six employees at the Smithfield Foods plant in Arnold tested positive for coronavirus.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 President Wendell Young said four people reported positive tests last week, and two more tested positive as of Monday.
He said those individuals have not been to work for at least several days. UFCW represents 107 workers at the plant.
The plant implemented multiple safety measures to combat the coronavirus prior to the employees testing positive, including rigorous cleaning throughout the day and overnight.
Democrat pharmacist slaps down Chuckie Schumer...
https://twitter.com/midnightdreary/status/1249891092750905344
Yeah, this “re-infection” is deserving of interest.
I’ve assumed the reports were the result of the atrocious nature of testing. But maybe not.
After all, it’s not unusual to have more than one ‘cold’ in a season.
I was hoping it was a fluke, but it’s happening in a couple of countries now
You won’t get a cold from the same strain of virus twice in a year.
Antibodies are usually good for at least a year. This is, as Rocky said, “highly irregular.”
U.s. Department of labor announces osha interim enforcement response plan to protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic
Detroit-area hospitals need refrigerated trucks for the coronavirus dead
Detroit’s Sinai-Grace Hospital made national headlines this week after CNN showed photographs allegedly leaked by staff of white body bags piled up in empty rooms and propped on chairs amid the coronavirus surge.
The revelations come as metro Detroit hospitals say they’ve begun storing bodies in refrigerated trucks to handle the surge.
Brian Taylor, a spokesman for the Detroit Medical Center, which includes Sinai-Grace, told Detroit Free Press on Monday that COVID-19 “has caused significantly greater than normal mortality rates in the Detroit community.”
Covid 19 coronavirus: Mutation threatens race to develop vaccine
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By: Stephen Chen
14 Apr, 2020 12:56pm
A coronavirus strain isolated in India carried a mutation that could upend vaccine development around the globe, according to researchers from Australia and Taiwan.
The non-peer reviewed study said the change had occurred in part of the spike protein that allows the virus to bind with certain human cells.
This structure targets cells containing ACE2, an enzyme found in the lungs which also allowed the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) virus to infect people.
Scientists know more about this receptor than any other so had been working on antibodies that target it, but an unexpected structural change could render them useless.
The researchers – led by Wei-Lung Wang, from the National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan, and collaborators from Murdoch University in Australia – said this was the first report of a significant mutation that could threaten development of a vaccine for the virus that causes Covid-19.
“The observation of this study raised the alarm that Sars-CoV-2 mutation with varied epitope [something an antibody attaches itself to] profile could arise at any time,” they wrote in a paper released on preprint review site biorxiv.org on Saturday.
“[This] means current vaccine development against Sars-CoV-2 is at great risk of becoming futile.”
Although the strain in question was first sampled by the National Institute of Virology from a patient in Kerala as early as January, the full genome sequence was only released to the international community last month – a delay that raised eyebrows among some researchers.
The patient was said to be a medical student returning from Wuhan, but the strain does not appear to be closely related to any of those identified in the Chinese city and appears to be an outlier compared with variants recorded in other countries.
The researchers found that the mutation occurred in the spike protein’s receptor-binding domain (RBD
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12324650
New Otleans nurse...
https://twitter.com/MissDrea_B
My unit is starting to see a decrease in covid patient admissions... maybe the flattening of the curve is near
That don’t mean go socialize and congregate. Continue to stay ya ass at home please.
I’ve always imagined a Scott tissue commercial in my mind where John Wayne walks in, looks at the camera with a nod and says, “Scott Tissue, it’ll toughen your as...” AHEM, or something like that, I’m not sure that’s how it really goes.
The new coronavirus has infected several more workers on Georgia Power’s nuclear expansion of Plant Vogtle, described as the largest construction project in the state.
The utility’s parent, Southern Company, cautioned investors last week that the multi-billion-dollar project’s latest timeline and costs could be disrupted by the pandemic. The work already is years behind scheduled and billions over budget, problems that developed long before COVID-19.
Georgia Power said Friday that a total of six of the roughly 9,000 workers assigned to the project have been confirmed to have COVID-19. It had reported the first confirmed case there less than a week ago.Nearly 170 other workers are under quarantine because they were in close proximity to workers who had pending COVID-19 tests, company spokesman John Kraft wrote in an email to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Reinfection might also be because of the four lines of rna code that was copied pasted from different sources. For example, the coronavirus uses the ACE receptor to invade lung tissue. Over time you build up immunity but the virus of course is always in you now in very tiny amounts. Just kept under control by immune system. Then over time a mutation occurs to allow the CD147 receptor to be infected through a different enhancement of a spike protein (pinballing). Now it infects red blood cells and you collapse a few days or weeks after being cured.
Using a simple model, I predict 6 more weeks until the hoarders have an adequate inventory.
Bending the curve makes getting to a noticeable level of herd immunity take longer.
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