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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667ā€¦ 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 neighborā€™s address would be 668ā€™ but that doesnā€™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 nopenopenopenopeā€¦

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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 Trumpā€™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 Gileadā€™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, uhā€¦ very unorthodox.

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Which is why we canā€™t have our masters wonā€™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, Iā€™ve yet to establish what their point is? Iā€™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 donā€™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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