OT: Coronavirus
Wow....
I’ve flown in and out of Denver Airport roughly 50 times. I’ve never seen it empty like this.
Yeah, DIA is never that empty. My goodness, this thing has really gotten ahold of people. But I suspect that it's going to make a far bigger dent in the global economy than the global population.
What changes have you made? Personally, I have tickets to fly to San Francisco with my kids to see my brother in a couple of weeks. And, so far anyway, I plan to go. But I have to say I'm a little nervous about it, especially with my kids. Not as much about the virus as how people are panicking about it. A flight yesterday was rerouted to Denver because someone, um...sneezed. And I am narrowing in on some ridiculously priced tickets to Cancun in May. Am I crazy?
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't." - Tom Waits
Anyone invested in Moderna yet? If not, its already to late..
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Early results from Moderna coronavirus vaccine trial show participants developed antibodies against the virus
CNN) — Study subjects who received Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine had positive early results, according to the biotech company, which partnered with the National Institutes of Health to develop the vaccine. If future studies go well, the company's vaccine could be available to the public as early as January, Dr. Tal Zaks, Moderna's chief medical officer, told CNN.
"This is absolutely good news and news that we think many have been waiting for for quite some time," Zaks said.
These early data come from the Phase 1 clinical trial, which typically studies a small number of people and focuses on whether a vaccine is safe and elicits an immune response.
The results of the study, which was led by the National Institutes Health, have not been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.
Neutralizing antibodies bind to the virus, disabling it from attacking human cells.
"We've demonstrated that these antibodies, this immune response, can actually block the virus," Zaks said. "I think this is a very important first step in our journey towards having a vaccine."
A vaccine specialist who is not involved in Moderna's work said the company's results are "great."
While the vaccine had promising results in the lab, it's not known if it will protect people in the real world. The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared the company to begin Phase 2 trials, which typically involve several hundred of people, and Moderna plans to start large-scale clinical trials, known as Phase 3 trials, in July, which typically involve tens of thousands of people.
Offit said before the pandemic, vaccine developers would typically test out their product in thousands of people before moving on to Phase 3, but that Moderna is "extremely unlikely" to have vaccinated that many by July, since they've only vaccinated dozens so far.
He said it makes sense to Moderna to move into Phase 3 without vaccinating that many people, given that Covid-19 is killing thousands of people each day.
"This is a different time," Offit said.
In January, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said it would take about 12 to 18 months to get a vaccine on the market. Zaks said he agreed with that estimate for Moderna's vaccine, putting a delivery date somewhere between January and June of next year.
In the Moderna study, three participants developed fever and other flu-like symptoms when they received the vaccine at a dose of 250 micrograms. Moderna anticipates the Phase 3 study on dosage will be between 25 and 100 micrograms.
"That's a good question, and the truth is, we don't know that yet," Zaks said. "We are going to have to conduct formal efficacy trials where you vaccinate many, many people, and then you monitor them in the ensuing months to make sure they don't get sick."
Magic Johnson offering $100 million in loans to minority-owned businesses left out of PPP loans https://t.co/AbWw1y0y9d
— CNBC (@CNBC) May 19, 2020
@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1262786282658435072?s=19Cue racists who wonder where the support is for white business.
@"MaroonBells" said:Is that antagonistic trolling post really fucking appropriate for this board?@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1262786282658435072?s=19 Cue racists who wonder where the support is for white business.What the hell is wrong with you? There is a whole separate board dedicated to dip shit comments like this but you feel the need to shit on this forum?
Take it where it belongs or dont post it.
.@ochocinco helped out a business that reopened after the coronavirus outbreak. pic.twitter.com/p8QJMLQoZl
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) May 20, 2020
One of the things the media doesn't want you to know about the COVID:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19-strategy/
Russian nurse punished for wearing only bra & panties under see-through PPE gown
https://mothership.sg/2020/05/russian-nurse-bra-panties/
That I'd like to see... ;)
"Right now is the time of year when things need to really take off if we’re going to have a fair, but we can see that we’re out of runway and can’t get off the ground. There will be no State Fair this year.” - Jerry Hammer, general manager
— Minnesota State Fair (@mnstatefair) May 22, 2020
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@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/mnstatefair/status/1263862264815407105?s=19the big one will be what they decide in 2 weeks on the sturgis rally...
BREAKING: The Ohio State Fair has been canceled for 2020.https://t.co/TB7FeijIek https://t.co/c7WEfJHvPp
— WSYX ABC 6 (@wsyx6) May 21, 2020
My state representative filed a lawsuit against the governor of Illinois over the stay at home rules. The governor asked that it be heard in federal court instead of state court. The judge in the federal court had this to say, before he threw it back to the state court according to the state representatives attorney, Tom Devore. The Honorable Judge McHaney’s exact words yesterday when he ruled in favor of my client. I would have only ask the Honorable Court to add a small business owner can’t open his fitness center because its non-essential but the Governor’s Hyatt hotels are allowed to have their fitness centers open inside the hotels.
“Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred: I won't get COVID if I get an abortion but I will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy. Selling pot is essential but selling goods and services at a family owned business is not. Pot wasn't even legal and pot dispensaries didn't even exist in this state until five months ago and, in that five months, they have become essential but a family-owned business in existence for five generations is not. A family of six can pile in their car and drive to Carlyle Lake without contracting COVID but, if they all get in the same boat, they will. We are told that kids rarely contract the virus and sunlight kills it, but summer youth programs, sports programs are cancelled. Four people can drive to the golf course and not get COVID but, if they play in a foursome, they will. If I go to Walmart, I won't get COVID but, if I go to church, I will. Murderers are released from custody while small business owners are threatened with arrest if they have the audacity to attempt to feed their families.”
“These are just a few of examples of rules, regulations and consequences that are arbitrary, capricious, and completely devoid of anything even remotely approaching common sense. State's attorneys in this state, county sheriffs, mayors, city councils and county boards have openly and publicly defied these orders followed by threats to withhold funding and revocation of necessary licenses and certifications unless you obey. Our economy is shut down because of a flu virus with a 98 percent plus survival rate. Doctors and experts say different things weekly. The defendant cites models in his opposition. The only thing experts will agree on is that all models are wrong and some are useful. The Centers for Disease Control now says the virus is not easily spread on surfaces. The defendant in this case orders you to stay home and pronounces that, if you leave the state, you are putting people in danger, but his family members traveled to Florida and Wisconsin because he deems such travel essential. One initial rationale why the rules don't apply to him is that his family farm had animals that needed fed. Try selling that argument to farmers who have had to slaughter their herds because of disruption in the supply chain. When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled. Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws. They are royal decrees. Illinois citizens are not being governed, they are being ruled. The last time I checked Illinois citizens are also Americans and Americans don't get ruled. The last time a monarch tried to rule Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the world. That day led to the birth of a nation consensually governed based upon a document which ensures that on this day in this, any American courtroom tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty, freedom and the constitution will always win.”
Not to down-play their importance or significance, I think it's easy for us (for me) to get caught-up in all the political and ideological subterfuge. The economic carnage is tragic too. But we don't see the death, the horrible way it kills and I hope to goodness none of us here do...
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Dr. Jacques Sztajnbok is more restrained. "It's not a flu. It's the worst thing we have ever faced in our professional lives." His eyes slow and narrow, when I ask if he worries for his health. "Yes," he says, twice.
The reasons why are clear inside the overwhelming silence of the ICU. Coronavirus kills behind the veil of a hospital curtain, in a stifling quiet, that is so distant and alien to the global upheaval and noisy political divisions it has inspired. But when it takes a life, it is intimately horrifying.
The first noticeable break in the calm is a flashing red light. The second, a doctor's hair cover, moving up and down just above a privacy screen, as his rigid arms deliver hard, unforgiving chest compressions to a patient.
The patient is in her 40s, and her medical history has meant for days the odds on her survival are bad. But the change, when it comes, is sudden.
Another nurse runs in. In this ICU, the medical staff pause in an outer chamber to gown up and wash, but only moments before racing in. In the corridor outside, a doctor fumbles, clumsily pulling on his gown. These moments have come countless times before in the pandemic but, this day, it gets no easier. This ICU is full, and still the peak in São Paulo is probably two weeks away.
Through the glass, gowned staff jostle tightly together and circle the patient's head; to replace tubes; to shift posture; to switch their position and relieve each other from the exhausting task. Their unforgiving compressions on the patients' sternum are all that keep her aliv
Coronavirus has so pervasively damaged our life, but its way of killing remains so often hidden in the confines of ICUs, where only valiant healthcare workers see the trauma. And for the staff here, it feels closer daily.
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