Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Looks like there is something specific, since identical twins are discordant with fraternal twins. It may be one gene making a difference. Maybe an x-linked trait?

More men die, but that would have come out in this study as a difference between male and female identical twin pairs.

This looks like the pre-print abstract:

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667… The Neighbor Of The Beast.

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I like this one:

But, how does one eat crab? or drink beer?

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Not quite:

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(I actually have this series, in paperback. Bought it in college.)

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Ha! Good old Lionel Fen! I read a bunch of his books back in the day.

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Every time I use that one I thin to myself ā€˜But the actual neighbor’s address would be 668’ but that doesn’t feel as funny as only being incremented by one.

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Well, the across-the-street neighbor of the Beast, anyway.

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A nice reminder to remain focused on reality but not at the expense of keeping ourselves supported:

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the across the street neighbor in the states at any rate

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Hey you theater types needing revenue

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Anybody else seen these?

All I can say is nopenopenopenope…

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I can almost smell the scrumptious, sizzling documentary about just this in the future:

Meat processing plant workers are concerned about President Donald Trump’s executive order that compels plants to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. Some say they expect staff will refuse to come to work.

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Some promising results from Gilead’s remdesivir trial.

Hospitalized patients with advanced COVID-19 and lung involvement who received remdesivir recovered faster than similar patients who received placebo, according to a preliminary data analysis from a randomized, controlled trial involving 1063 patients, which began on February 21.

Preliminary results indicate that patients who received remdesivir had a 31% faster time to recovery than those who received placebo (p<0.001). Specifically, the median time to recovery was 11 days for patients treated with remdesivir compared with 15 days for those who received placebo. Results also suggested a survival benefit, with a mortality rate of 8.0% for the group receiving remdesivir versus 11.6% for the placebo group (p=0.059).

ETA a clarification that the link (and any optimism) is to the NIAID study of remdesivir, not the Gilead Science study, which looks like it was, uh… very unorthodox.

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Which is why we can’t have our masters won’t let us have nice things like at least a temporary UBI.

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I checked the webpage, including their own press coverage section. The medical press they get indicates this is legit.

However, I’ve yet to establish what their point is? I’ve recently seen emergency medical staff in action, on the streets, taking care of a homeless person who was under the influence of some mind-altering stuff (likely: alcohol). They took precautions, had FFP2 masks, the two handlers had disposable protective half-scrubs (something like a large bib for adults, with arms), and face protection. My practitioner has desinfectant and standard-issue chirugical facemasks, but would not allow people with known Covid-19 contacts and symptoms to enter. They need to inform the authorities and get tested. All HausƤrtzte and FachƤrtzte use this rule.

They cannot have full equipment, because we don’t have enough for everyone. They mitigate the risk through as much preventing exposure as possible. So, what exactly is the point of this protest, I wonder?

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