Posted on 04/30/2020 3:05:32 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Corona Virus Daily Thread #49 COVID-19 4/30/2020
Not at my store. That is the point. I watch them as I am shopping.
They might get a box of frozen XYX..then the cart goes maybe to the medicine aisle...then maybe to the vegetable aisle..etc.
Kroger, I know, has a programmed app that takes them through the store with your order. Its name is...Baymax... Frozen/cold stuff is last.
Walmart too probably.
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New Mexico governor orders roads closed to city of Gallup in effort to stop coronavirus spread
And why wouldn't they? America is filled with people who will believe anything. They are so easily swayed. The 2016 election aftermath has been a cornucopia for them, twisting each side in different directions to the point both left and right see the government persecuting them, and destroying trust in our institutions and our fellow Americans. Wuhan Virus is just another opportunity to build division and hate, with the added bonus of severe economic damage. A divided, weakened USA (and Europe) is no threat to China.
Coronavirus patient, 42, kept testing positive five weeks after his symptoms disappeared as officials warn fragments of the virus can linger in the body for MONTHS
“Will Americans Actually Use Contact Tracing Apps? - Apps that track users are being hyped as the way to lift lockdowns. But there are reasons to be skeptical.”
- see https://reason.com/2020/05/01/will-americans-actually-use-contact-tracing-apps/
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Steve Lookner
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171 workers at a nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia have tested positive for coronavirus
https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1256405235104350213
I am clearly aware of the ‘goodies’ one can find on store produce; fecal matter, etc. That’s why we ‘grow our own’ when possible.
Coronavirus’s new mystery: It’s causing strokes in healthy people
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/1/21244171/stroke-coronavirus-symptoms-blood-clots
this is interesting about polio. Mitch Mcconnell had polio
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That’s the problem with this disease, as seems to mirror Polio, in regards to its wide-ranging outcomes stretching from A-Z. Extremes from complete recovery to death, with a wide range of crippling and debilitating outcomes in between.
This idea that it’s no big deal, that 99% of everyone who gets is going to fully recover, and go on about their merry way as if nothing ever happened is akin to the old folk tale about ostriches sticking their heads in the sand (which they don’t really do, but that’s a discussion for the Outdoor board). If people were staring down the reality that they might indeed survive, but spend the rest of their now-shortened natural lives dealing with neurological, renal and pulmonary issues, they might not quite be as cavalier about the whole thing as they are at the moment.
https://twitter.com/georgiodecorati/status/1256693325857296384
” From the for what it’s worth department: Chicago’s huge McCormick Place which was converted to a 4000 bed Covid-19 facility will be shut down. They’re being cagey about the number ever treated there which probably means it’s close to ZERO. Waste of taxpayer money. “
Uncertainty had to be accounted for at the time.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaa224/5826991
There is an urgent unmet need to understand why some people develop severe disease. Heritable differences are known to modulate individual susceptibility to and severity of infectious disease. We hypothesized that a genetic variant of IFITM3 was associated with the severity of COVID-19, specifically the SNP rs12252. This genetic variant is common in Asian populations and homozygosity for the C allele has been associated with influenza severity. IFITM3 encodes an immune effector protein critical to viral restriction and acts to restrict membrane fusion. It is currently unknown whether IFITM3 shows genetic association with the severity of COVID-19.
Mild disease (n=56) was defined as patients with fever, respiratory symptoms and pneumonia from imaging. Patients with severe disease (n=24) were those who in addition developed significant tachypnoea, hypoxia, respiratory failure or other organ failure. The patient cohort was broadly representative of published clinical reports in the outbreak to date in terms of case mix and severity.
To test if the homozygous C-allele carriers associate with the severity of COVID-19, we genotyped the cohort by sequencing a 300bp locus spanning rs12252. Among all hospitalized patients we found that 35% were homozygous for the CC allele (46.25% CT heterozygotes and 18.75% TT homozygotes). We found a significant difference between mild and severe cases adjusting for age on regression analysis, with homozygosity for the C allele (CC vs CT/TT) associated with disease severity (p = 0.00093; OR = 6.37; Table 2). In addition, two of the three patients who died carried the CC genotype. However, the frequency of CC genotype (28.6%) observed in our mild patient groups is similar to general Beijing population (26.2%) according to g1000data base
years ago about just the flu
lots of articles about this topic. I just want to know what the heck to take if I have a problem with it...lol
IFITM3 protects the heart during influenza virus infection
Adam D. Kenney, Temet M. McMichael, Alexander
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/37/18607
btw, if you were an evil empire and you wanted to get rid of the Hans...you could try to engineer a virus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23361009/
The SNP rs12252-C allele alters the function of interferon-induced transmembrane protein-3 increasing the disease severity of influenza virus infection in Caucasians, but the allele is rare. However, rs12252-C is much more common in Han Chinese.
Right now, the new norm seems to be a bunch of people running around micro-managing our lives. A great new norm would be with us living in freedom, but teleworking wherever and whenever possible — a lasting effect of which would be less pollution in urban areas and freeways that don’t look like long winding parking lots. Individual businesses would adjust to new, more stringent social health norms using their own ingenuity, rather than government “guidance.”
Also, ISOLATE CHINA ASAP!!!
you could try to make a bioweapon targeting IFITM3 that would then make you more prone to various virus.
They do it in gene therapy
https://research.hsr.it/en/news/a-new-ingredient-to-potentiate-gene-therapy.html
The researchers have found that cyclosporin H works by temporarily degrading IFITM3, a host cell protein involved in the defense against several viruses, without other immunosuppressive effects. Indeed, the levels of IFITM3 bounce back to normal around 6 hours after the treatment and without affecting the biological functions of these cells, a good starting point for its future clinical application.
I tried ordering online from Wal-Mart, but they wouldn’t deliver to my home. I’m guessing that the nursing home incident in my town, now weeks ago, scared the delivery service off.
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