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Any word on the effectiveness of the blood plasma therapy in New York?
It occurs to me that even if plasma therapy is effective, it's not the kind of thing you can do at home.
We're still working to avoid overwhelming our hospitals.
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Any word on the effectiveness of the blood plasma therapy in New York?
Interesting article about how it most likely originated, attacks our body, and how we need to change our habits globally:
The perfect virus: two gene tweaks that turned COVID-19 into a killer
We thought we had bigger things to worry about than Chinese bat coronaviruses. It is now clear we made a massive mistake.www.smh.com.au
It occurs to me that even if plasma therapy is effective, it's not the kind of thing you can do at home.
We're still working to avoid overwhelming our hospitals.
Somebody might want to tell WHO that.
I don't know who to believe tbh.
So it's more like a stay-at-home suggestion?
I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what airborne means. The virus is transmitted to people via sweat, saliva, etc. It is possible for those things to be in the air, such as via a sneeze or cough, hence it is possible for the virus to be in the air.
Airborne means that the virus can travel through relatively dry air conditions, through air ducts, through wind, etc. That is what COVID-19 cannot do. The virus is not in the airborne in this sense. If it was, that would mean you could catch it merely by opening you front door and letting fresh air into your house, rendering a lot of the safety measures we are instituting moot.
Quick comment on Florida. Their checkpoints are ridiculous. You have law enforcement officers checking passengers and vehicles without protection, or at best bandanas for masks and they're constantly talking to passengers from less than 6 feet away.
This is a terrible idea and I think it's not effect will be rather limited because there are already enough sick people in the state to deal with. Beaches still open and no statewide stay at home order that I'm aware of at this point.
I don't get Florida's mitigation strategy at all.
My daughter is in a nursing program in college and is seriously considering a career as an NP.
Interesting article , I can’t imagine not knowing anything about this, then getting hit with it all at once
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LE PECQ, France (AP) — Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing.
Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear deterrence, may be among the last pockets of people anywhere who are still blissfully unaware of how the pandemic is turning life upside down.
Mariners aboard ballistic submarines are habitually spared bad news while underwater to avoid undermining their morale, say current and former officers who served aboard France’s nuclear-armed subs.
So any crews that left port before the virus spread around the globe are likely being kept in the dark about the extent of the rapidly unfurling crisis by their commanders until their return, they say.
“They won’t know,” said retired Adm. Dominique Salles, who commanded the French ballistic submarine squadronfrom 2003-2006. “The boys need to be completely available for their mission.”
Speaking exclusively to The Associated Press, Salles said he believes submariners will likely only be told of the pandemic as they head back to port, in the final two days of their mission..........
Blissful ignorance? Submariners likely unaware of pandemic
LE PECQ, France (AP) — Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing. Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear deterrence, may be among the last pockets of...apnews.com
Sure, but then how do we explain what happened to the choir group who got sickened? And the samples from air ducts and vents in hospitals testing positive for traces of CV19? Maybe the droplets are small enough and light enough to travel some distance? But if there's enough airflow, I imagine those droplets could hang in the air for a bit.
Interesting article , I can’t imagine not knowing anything about this, then getting hit with it all at once
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LE PECQ, France (AP) — Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing.
Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear deterrence, may be among the last pockets of people anywhere who are still blissfully unaware of how the pandemic is turning life upside down.
Mariners aboard ballistic submarines are habitually spared bad news while underwater to avoid undermining their morale, say current and former officers who served aboard France’s nuclear-armed subs.
So any crews that left port before the virus spread around the globe are likely being kept in the dark about the extent of the rapidly unfurling crisis by their commanders until their return, they say.
“They won’t know,” said retired Adm. Dominique Salles, who commanded the French ballistic submarine squadronfrom 2003-2006. “The boys need to be completely available for their mission.”
Speaking exclusively to The Associated Press, Salles said he believes submariners will likely only be told of the pandemic as they head back to port, in the final two days of their mission..........
Blissful ignorance? Submariners likely unaware of pandemic
LE PECQ, France (AP) — Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing. Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear deterrence, may be among the last pockets of...apnews.com
Interesting article about how it most likely originated, attacks our body, and how we need to change our habits globally:
The perfect virus: two gene tweaks that turned COVID-19 into a killer
We thought we had bigger things to worry about than Chinese bat coronaviruses. It is now clear we made a massive mistake.www.smh.com.au
Very interesting article indeed, but I think some will see it as an attack on Chinese culture by what the author is saying toward the end.