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Peanut

Resident Pit Yorkie :)
poppy said:
Social distancing helps a lot. Cuomo said today time required for a doubling of cases in NY is growing. I suspect when they get to testing people for antibodies they will find this has been going around much longer than they thought. We had a surge of people with pneumonia last October and none of them tested positive for the flu. Our granddaughter teaches grade school here and was hospitalized with pneumonia at the time and 4 other teachers in the school had it then too. None of them had a bacterial infection or tested positive for flu.
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I was really sick in mid-October as well...so sick I was off work for 5 days.
 
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shane

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Tristan said:
From this point on, anything that comes from China needs to be independently, randomly sampled to verify composition/function, with an eye towards potential sabotage...

While we build out our own damn factories again!
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We pulled our FDA inspectors out of their pharmaceutical manufacturing
facilities around when we'd shut down incoming Chinese nationals on flights.

Nothing could be trusted before, and most especially so not now, too.

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
The next American struggle: Waiting out the coronavirus

There are now a lot of known knowns about the coronavirus: It's here, it's spreading, it's stressing hospitals, it's crippling the economy, it's slowed only by distance and isolation — and it's sure to get much worse before it gets much better.

Why it matters: Similarly, there is a sameness to the patterns and known unknowns. So now we hit the maddening stage of waiting.

  • We wait and watch Wuhan and China to see if life really does return to normal once the virus is contained. The global economy hinges on this light at the end of the tunnel.
  • We wait and watch Italy to see when its daily death rate peaks, plateaus and then plunges. This will give us a sense of how long highly concentrated outbreaks elsewhere might last.
  • We wait to see when New York hits its apex (two to three weeks, experts say) and watch how bad it gets. We also watch New Orleans and Detroit to see if New York is an early indicator or an anomaly.
  • We wait for widespread testing to be a reality so we can find out if the virus has spread far beyond our fears.
  • We wait to see if Dr. Anthony Fauci's projection of 100,000 to 200,000 potential U.S. deaths is accurate — and, if so, how the media, public and markets might react to multiple days with death tolls beyond the nearly 3,000 lost on 9/11.
  • We wait to see Trump's next move in his itch to "reopen America" after his extension Sunday of social-distancing guidelines through April 30. Does he continue to listen to his scientists, or eventually side with advisers who fear economic disaster if America stays home too long?
  • We wait and watch as drug companies race for a cure, which industry insiders say won’t happen at scale until 2021. We wait to see the consequences of using experimental medications to slow or salve.
The big picture: This waiting period will expose whether coronavirus was an awful three months we will never forget — or a once-in-a-lifetime disruption and destroyer of life.
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The next American struggle: Waiting out the coronavirus

It's going to be a maddening few weeks.
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Nancy in OK

Senior Member
MinnesotaSmith said:
I know someone in OK who has tested positive for the CV. Seems to have had it over 3 weeks, slow to develop, laying him flat but not life-threatening so far.
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I read last night 3 people out of 10,000 have been tested in OK. There are whole families that heave been to ER and urgent cares but there are no tests. Joe Diffie was tested on 27th and died on 29th. I am on an untested in OK Facebook page. There are several untested with the virus.
 
goosebeans

goosebeans

Veteran Member
jward said:

Anand Ranganathan
@ARanganathan72

Preliminary evidence but I congratulate
@dasgobardhan
dada, India's top immunologist. He told me the exact same TWO weeks ago. Paper just out today (non-peer-reviewed) establishes a correlation between CoVID19 cases/deaths and BCG vaccination. MUST-READ. https://medrxiv.org/content/10.110
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@choudharyv

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@dasgobardhan
I read an article about that in
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1244331186928803840
View: https://twitter.com/choudharyv/status/1244331186928803840?s=20

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Aragorn
@SpartaAragorn

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@dasgobardhan
Read this article in Belgium about BCG vaccine.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1244317435144142848
View: https://twitter.com/SpartaAragorn/status/1244317435144142848?s=20
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Thanks for this, jward! This is so interesting.

Since my Mom contracted TB ( England, 16 years old, three years in hospital in the 1940s, lost a lung, expected to die, saved at the last minute by what was then a new drug, Streptomycin) I received the BCG vax at 5 days old then again at 5 years old ( the age most kids got it) I remember the joy at not needing the booster shot, unlike all my class mates, at age 14. :) The elderly British couple who ended up in the hospital in Japan had very mild symptoms from the virus. I'm sure they will have had the BCG shot when they were kids.

Sure hope there's something to this!
 
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