And hope that the body’s “immune memory” doesn’t more easily trigger a cytokine storm.
WDKS. sigh
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Yup. Truer and truer every day, but maybe we are getting to where we know the questions to ask? That is the real first step.
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@Ratel Covid: Antibodies ‘fall rapidly after infection’
Wouldn’t it be grimly ironic if the disease portrayed in Contagion ended up looking mercifully decisive compared to COVID-19.
I suspect travel restrictions will be with us for a while…
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Uhhhhh… a vaccine is a preventative medicine, and preventative medicine is the best kind of cure.
Also, there are lots of molecules that can inhibit the virus. For example, anything that kills the host will stop the cellular machinery the virus needs to hijack in order to reproduce. The hard part is selectively inhibiting the virus without killing or severely harming the host.
Since the profit motive for an effective covid treatment is extremely high, the biopharma companies of the world are maxing out their efforts to find treatments. Given this vast disparity in expertise and resource allocation, the chances of scientists in VZ coming up with something better is somewhere between slim and none. Dude needs to show his receipts or STFU.
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When confronted with these findings, Atlas shrugged.
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Ugh…been waiting for that one to drop…
The writers of this show suck.
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Haven’t seen anything recently about cytokine storms or the alternative theory I saw posted about a while back, which at least seemed to better explain some of Covid-19’s symptoms.
Ah, here it is:
I’m not finding much since, save other reporting on the same study.
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Jeebus. Stay fucking classy, Florda-da! fucking idiots, I swear.
Chris Nelson, organizer of the rally said. "If they can tell me that I cannot buy or sell anything without a mask on, they can tell me that I can’t buy or sell without proof of a vaccine, that I took a vaccine, and it could go on and on.”
here’s an idea, Chris: wear the fucking mask. end of story.
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If someone told them wearing a mask would protect you from Islam they’d be breaking down my door waving around their Call of Duty branded AR-15 replicas demanding that I wear one.
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Better yet, Chris! Your surgeon likes the idea so much, she’s not going to wear a mask for your knee surgery. Oh, sure, when you get sepsis you’ll be upset, but, hey, it’s just like a flu.
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You people can’t tell me to put brakes on my car or not to drink or sell methanol.
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Looks like the 80s.
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Onward towards the Past.
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I wonder if it will be relatively as bad in Ireland? The long recession after the credit crash lasted, in most people’s lived experience if not the major economic indicators, until a couple of years ago.
I can’t.face that again
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Many people here in Brazil are saying that the effects of the pandemic will launch the country and the continent to a stage similar to that of the 1980s, the so-called lost decade.
edited to add a link:
Pandemic could lead to worst decade of growth in history
Research released by FGV says that pandemic will pass, but will leave behind economy with new fiscal crisis and low productivity
The historic recession from 2014 to 2016 - slightly less than from 1981 to 1983 - was followed by a historically slow recovery. This would already guarantee to the decade ending this year an economic growth below the 1980s, which, with an annual high of 1.6%, ended up nicknamed the “lost decade” - according to the historical series of Ipea, and before we know the performance in 2020, the 1980s contain the two worst years of performance in annual GDP, with a decrease of 4.25% in 1981 and a fall of 4.35% in 1990.
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Well, just so you know. The WH has declared “amidst its accomplishments” the Pandemic is OVER !!
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Not technically different from a White House briefing, I suppose, but then I don’t approve of those either.
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