Posted on 04/21/2020 4:53:48 AM PDT by RaceBannon
new thread, starting 4/21/2020
STUDY
COVID-19 PM2.5
A national study on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States
Conclusions: A small increase in long-term exposure to PM2.5 leads to a large increase in COVID-19 death rate, with the magnitude of increase 20 times that observed for PM2.5 and all-cause mortality. The study results underscore the importance of continuing to enforce existing air pollution regulations to protect human health both during and after the COVID-19 crisis. The data and code are publicly available
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm
data and code here:
https://github.com/wxwx1993/PM_COVID
There’s a problem with adopting the flubro viewpoint. Your body might get hauled off to the morgue in the back of a pickup truck, stacked with others like cordwood.
“Correlation = causation”
Some thongs are too stupid...
hey, if China will buy it and clean up their pollution, it’s a good thing
And the spike of 4,591 in a single day was due to NY dumping weeks of data in one day.
The link is to msn.com...so is FOX quoting MSN?
Their PR just might sell that. Great!
MESSICO’s in trouble
‘Like a time bomb’: Tijuana’s hospitals under pressure and understaffed as coronavirus spreads
“From the time we got our first patient until we were full, it took only 10 days,” said a doctor at Clinica 20...
“We weren’t ready at the hospital for the situation to turn so serious in such little time,” he said...
“This was just like a time bomb accumulating over time,” said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a University of California, Los Angeles professor who has studied Mexico’s health care system. “This pandemic revealed chronic underinvestment in the public health system.”
Some of those most vulnerable to the pandemic will be the urban poor... in some hospitals, the families of patients often have to supply medicine, bandages and other materials...
Baja California’s governor, Jaime Bonilla, sided with Derbez, and said that doctors in the state’s social security hospitals “are dropping like flies.”
Bad news.
We need them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Q8TlZin0E
Coronavirus infections in at least 17 meat processing plants across nine states are contributing to a spike in confirmed cases in the Midwest. Although 13 plants are already closed temporarily or operating at reduced capacity, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says shutting down plants would hurt farmers and the national food supply. Adriana Diaz looks at the effect the pandemic has had on some of these facilities.
COVID-19 Patients Need to Be Tested for Bacteria and Fungi, Not Just the Coronavirus
Many hospitalized victims are developing potentially lethal secondary coinfections such as bacterial pneumonia and sepsis
An estimated one in seven COVID-19 patients will develop a secondary infection while hospitalized. Further, a separate study found that only about 50 percent of patient deaths were due to the original viral infection, while the other 50 percent were caused by subsequent secondary infections.
California reported 2,318 new coronavirus cases Monday, marking the highest one-day jump the state has seen.
On Tuesday, the California Department of Public Health reported a total of 30,978 confirmed cases and 1,208 deaths. The number of confirmed cases in the state spiked by 7.4 percent and the death toll increased by 5 percent in the last 24 hours.
yup, we’re gonna have to mosey on down there and fix them. But their story is the same for a lot of SA socialized medicine. Corruption and graft takes a major share of hospital-earmarked funding. Family members are expected to pay for medicines and supplies, and in some places expected to change and launder bed sheets and blankets and bathe patients. The private hospitals are much better and will likely hold their own only because clientele is limited, but there are way more socialized hospitals than private.
Not sure what you’re getting at, but yeah, care in South America will rerquire bribes.,
no msn just harvesting the story.
I use the msn page often because using their story links, one can view some paywall articles thru them, such as WSJ, NYT, etc. I generally burn thru the ‘free monthly views’ at NYT etc in a day or two so rather than be locked out all month...msn is the go-to.
the bottom line, Messico is going to be a hot mess - 1 bed per thousand, 500 doctors down, 10 dead, no telling how many nurses, probably double the doctor figure. And it’s not going to get better.
D.C. joke...
“you can’t cheat an honest man.
Cheat him? I can’t even find him!”
JAPAN
The Costa Atlantica first arrived in Nagasaki in January to undergo repairs, with several hundred crew on board....
...An initial four tests carried out on the ship revealed a first infection on Monday, with additional testing among 57 crew finding a total of 34 cases by Wednesday.
...The exact number of people on the ship was not immediately clear, though initial reports said 623 crew of various nationalities had been on board.
Some are believed to have moved around inside Nagasaki city in recent weeks.
looks like Japan may have discovered the source of at least part of their outbreak
CLINICAL
Doctors try to untangle why they’re seeing ‘unprecedented’ blood clotting among Covid-19 patients
“You just watch it clot right in front of you,” said Hibbert, director of the medical intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It’s rare to have that happen once, and extremely rare to have that happen twice.”
...”The number of clotting problems I’m seeing in the ICU, all related to Covid-19, is unprecedented,” Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, a hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, wrote in an email to CNN. “Blood clotting problems appear to be widespread in severe Covid.”
Laurence and his colleagues looked at autopsies on two patients and found blood clots in the lungs and just beneath the surface of the skin...
Hibbert described how a nurse recently had to constantly administer a blood thinner called heparin to a Covid-19 patient while the patient was undergoing kidney dialysis, because clots kept clogging up the tubing in the machine.
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/blood-clots-coronavirus/index.html
ENGLAND - outside the cities life goes on - Video
Virus reveals differences between England’s cities and villages
While Covid-19 deaths spread around the UK, in the countryside a new calm has settled. Daily life in England’s villages is bustling as locals stop traveling to bigger towns and a resilient spirit endures. CNN’s Nic Robertson reports. Source: CNN
STUDY
Antibody Points to Possible Weak Spot on Novel Coronavirus
Other researchers had shown previously that CR3022 cross-reacts with the novel coronavirus, although the antibody doesn’t bind tightly enough to neutralize and stop it from infecting cells. So, Wilson’s team went to work to learn precisely where the antibody attaches ..
..A key finding in the new paper is that the antibody binds a highly similar site on both the SARS and novel coronaviruses. Those sites differ in each virus by just four amino acids,..
Intriguingly, the antibody binds to a spot on the novel coronavirus that is usually hidden, except for when virus shapeshifts its structure in order to infect a cell...
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/04/14/antibody-points-to-possible-weak-spot-on-novel-coronavirus/
this commentary is a week old and may have already been posted but I thought the shapeshifted access point important.
I don’t know how many people listened to the hour long ‘musical’ that engineers turned the viral code into. But what if that ‘music’ can help us find that shapeshifting point? - maybe even just before or just after the jarring ‘hammering’ heard in the middle of the transcribed code?
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