Looks promising.
Side effects are shit, though:
Diarrhea, nausea, cramping, abdominal pain, and vomiting may occur.
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If you read the package inserts, those are present with most oral drugs. Colchicine has been used for decades and has a good safety record, but nothing is perfect. Preliminary data, through. Remember, hydroxychloroquine looked promising at one point also. More data, please.
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And on a subtext, I want us not to get distracted from the vaccines. Got to get this pandemic on its heels.
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Here’s one way to stage a concert during Corona Virus times…
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I’m surprised it took this long.
I’m curious, is there any connection between the type of symptoms that manifest and the eventual severity?
Covid can have a wide variety of symptoms, the most common of course being a sore throat, loss of smell and headaches, but another is diarrhea and gastrointestinal discomfort, and there are, I believe, others, and you can sort of mix and match. The most severe cases seem to involve respiratory issues, so I’m wondering (for a friend) if you just have the GI stuff if maybe it’s less likely to settle in the lungs?
Okay, not a friend, sounds like a fair chunk of my wife’s family (not in our pod) have come down with it (all testing positive), but only evincing the unhappy pooping part. Everything from infants to old people with “preexisting conditions”, so we’re very concerned.
Meanwhile, when your county chief medical officer describes it as “The Hunger Games”…
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So here’s the question on my mind now: How are we going to end the pandemic? We have a vaccine in hand, and I’m so grateful for it. It is, truly, a game changer. But there are different ways that this story can go from this moment in January. We can end the pandemic as quickly as possible, with rapid distribution and uptake of the vaccine, with everyone doing their best to maintain best practices (social distancing, etc.) while they wait their turn, prioritizing those who need the vaccine most, doing whatever we can to alleviate the pressure on exhausted health care workers and public health officials.
Or we can drag it out, with a chaotic and sputtering vaccine rollout, exacerbating inequities in society by letting those who have connections, or money, or power get the vaccine first, and continue to ignore what science tells us, so we have so many more COVID-19 cases that we give the virus evermore chances to mutate away from our currently effective vaccine. We are the authors of the final chapters of this story. How are we going to determine its ending?
(emphasis mine)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/let-the-worst-happen-reflecting-400000-dead-covid-pandemic
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Well if it doesn’t go towards covid relief, I’m sure scottish fishermen could use that cash instead
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“Per population, we’re getting about 28,000 doses a week. Based on the demand we have here, we could deliver between (50,000) to 75,000 visits a week,” Robbins said. “So everyone, please be patient with us. We’re trying our best, the county is absolutely doing the best they can.”
Yay.
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The COVID-19 Visual Project (covid19visualproject.org) is a multimedia platform that aspires to become a permanent archive of the coronavirus pandemic. It is an ongoing repository that will host a variety of contents documenting the global events and widespread emotions defining this unique moment in history.
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Bolsonaro says China has released exports of raw materials for manufacturing the CoronaVac vaccine in Brazil.
The Chinese ambassador confirmed this information in a letter to the health minister.
5.4 thousand liters of raw material were released for export to produce the vaccine nationwide by the Butantan Institute of São Paulo.
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Rich people clawing at each other for the vaccine
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A cat’s birthday party sparked a coronavirus outbreak; 15 people were infected in Valparaíso, Chile.
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Alas, rich people won’t be the ones who wind up with claw marks.
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