Ongoing coronavirus happenings

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Why?

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If you are one of the many who think you may have already had COVID-19, you might want to join this study.

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Thanks, I’ll do it.

Parts I was wondering about:

Healthy volunteers over the age of 18 from anywhere in the United States can participate and will be asked to consent to enrollment over the telephone. Individuals with a confirmed history of COVID-19 or current symptoms consistent with COVID-19 are not eligible to participate.

After enrollment, study participants will attend a virtual clinic visit, complete a health assessment questionnaire and provide basic demographic information—including race, ethnicity, sex, age and occupation—before submitting samples in one of two ways. Participants working at the NIH Bethesda campus will have blood drawn at the NIH Clinical Center. Other volunteers will participate in at-home blood sampling. Neoteryx, a medical device firm based in Torrance, California, will supply at-home blood collection kits. Researchers will ship each study participant a Mitra¼Home Blood Collection Kit and provide detailed instructions on collecting a microsample of blood and mailing it back for future analysis in the laboratory.

“Researchers have considerable experience using these at-home blood collection kits to track the spread of other infectious diseases like influenza, and this method is safe, effective and easy-to-use,” said Kaitlyn Sadtler, Ph.D., study lead for laboratory testing and chief of NIBIB’s Section for Immunoengineering. “With a small finger-pick, volunteers can help scientists fight COVID-19 from their homes.”

People interested in joining this study should contact clinicalstudiesunit@nih.gov . For more information on this study, please visit ClinicalTrials.gov using identifier NCT04334954. For more information on the U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, visit www.coronavirus.gov.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-meatpacking/smithfield-shutting-us-pork-plant-indefinitely-warns-of-meat-shortages-during-pandemic-idUSKCN21U0O7

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(Madam Mrs The Ratel on Friday, “Oh, I didn’t think to get bacon.”)

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CNBC: New York City is having a ‘very good day’ as rate of new coronavirus cases falls, Mayor de Blasio says.

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Coworker asked today: “so if the rate of infections is dropping, then why is the death toll still rising? It doesn’t make sense”

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Will there be a sequel based on Mattei’s Nero and Poppea?

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It’s not based on Virus it is Hell of the Living Dead redubbed with new scenes.

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Oh, there will be another surge. I can’t tell you how many Easter family gatherings I saw in the hood yesterday. Social distancing was thrown to the wind all in the name of some mythological event. Idiots.

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I know. It’s “based” on Virus because most of the material in the “trailer” comes from Virus.

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Ah, I didn’t know they’d cobbled an actual complete film together.

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“You can line up every president since then and say, ‘Why didn’t you think this can happen again?’ But that’s not productive right now,” Navarro added. “Have that episode and I challenge you — show me the ‘60 Minutes’ episode a year ago, two years ago, or during the Obama administration, during the Bush administration that said ‘Hey a global pandemic is coming. You gotta do X, Y, and Z. And by the way, we would shut down the entire global economy to fight it.’”

“Show me that episode, then you’ll have some credence in terms of attacking the Trump administration for not being prepared,” Navarro said.

“I guarantee you we did,” Whitaker responded.

CBS then immediately played numerous clips of their past coverage of deadly diseases in the last 15 years, a segment that also included an appearance of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the current director of the US’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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Full Moon Features has fallen far since my youth.

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China’s soft power gains in Africa are starting to evaporate

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