Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus
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Another 5+ Million applied for unemployment last week bringing the 3 week total to 15 Million.
One third of renters were unable to pay their rent within the first week of April.
One third of renters were unable to pay their rent within the first week of April.
A bobblehead of Dr. Fauci will help pay to produce masks for health workers | CNN
Dr. Anthony Fauci has achieved a new level of fame for a scientist: He's getting his own bobblehead.
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Just heard a report on grocery stores and employees wanting more protection while working on the front lines.
One of the thing that stood out to me in the story was that when Customers wear PPE while shopping, they often leave them in the grocery cart when they are done shopping. This is leading to store employees having to clean up PPE and being put at risk.
What is wrong with people. Why do people think its okay to take off their PPE and leave it in shopping carts. Someones got to pick up after you. Take it home with you and throw it out.
One of the thing that stood out to me in the story was that when Customers wear PPE while shopping, they often leave them in the grocery cart when they are done shopping. This is leading to store employees having to clean up PPE and being put at risk.
What is wrong with people. Why do people think its okay to take off their PPE and leave it in shopping carts. Someones got to pick up after you. Take it home with you and throw it out.
Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CDC Says
The coronavirus may be “reactivating” in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.bloomberg.com
Djxfactor511
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My wife and I were able to schedule a grocery curbside pickup for Saturday. It's the first time we've found an open slot in the schedule. Very grateful that it's an option.
Ohio cases are supposedly peaked as of Wednesday. Curious if that will actually hold true or not. Haven't heard from my doctor friends in a few days, but last check things were bad but not as awful as anticipated.
Meanwhile my power is out from a wind storm so I can't work besides email on my phone, which is frustrating.
Ohio cases are supposedly peaked as of Wednesday. Curious if that will actually hold true or not. Haven't heard from my doctor friends in a few days, but last check things were bad but not as awful as anticipated.
Meanwhile my power is out from a wind storm so I can't work besides email on my phone, which is frustrating.
It hasn't come up. But the answer is likely the same as those people who say they had COVID-19 back in November, December and January.
The answer is the timeline doesn't match up. The probability of it actually being COVID-19 is so low that it's just above impossible.
COVID-19 is highly infectious. So if it was around when the Vaping issues were happening we would have seen our healthcare system overwhelmed around that time as well. It was not.
Official numbers are now out. It was 6.6 Million new people applying for unemployment last week.
ranbalam
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My wife said there is talk of layoffs at her hospital during this. Sounds crazy at the surface, but her hospital is apparently losing money because so much of their income is from outpatient procedures, elective surgeries, and other things that have been put on hold through this. Probably not nurses, but techs and pharmacists would be the ones to be let go.
dhodo
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Our local university hospital laid off 900 people, including some nurses, others have had their hours and/or pay cut 15-20%.
Yeah, I posted an article about that last week. Many hospitals in New York and New Jersey were having layoffs for the same reasons.
Because there are no elective surgeries and outpatient procedures and whatnot many of the people who working in billing are being laid off.
Cafeteria staff and gift shop staff are also being laid off because there are no visitors being allowed at this time.
Another major difference ins outpatient procedures are for the most part guaranteed money. People choosing to have them have insurance or are able to pay for the procedure.
When it comes to people with COVID-19 ending up in the ICU, if they don't have health insurance odds are they will not be able to pay. Hospitals will not get that income and will face bankruptcy. Our healthcare system is not built to handle situations like this.
The people without health insurance will also likely be financially ruined, have liens placed against their houses and have wages garnished for years to the rest of their lives.
Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CDC Says
The coronavirus may be “reactivating” in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Stupid robot check...
Anyways this article is about how people cured of COVID-19 are flaring back up with it in South Korea. Studies are going on now to determine why and how.
Right now it is believed that the virus can flare back up making you sick again rather than people catching the virus again.
This is realy scary if you think about it.
If it's anything like HIV, Herpes, chicken pox and what not, it may be possible to get flare ups later life. Like how chicken pox causes shingles. Herpes can cause cold sores.
Djxfactor511
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As someone who had chickenpox as a kid and had 2 flare ups of shingles before the end of college (which doctors told me was rare and probably linked to my anxiety issues), fuuuuck this.
ranbalam
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Wow, so it's definitely happening. That's gotta be tough to swallow for the people that are frontline through this.
Maybe this can inspire some real change?
TimmahTao
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The evidence for this is anecdotal at best. SARS-CoV-2 is a single stranded, positive sense RNA virus, which hijacks the cellular machinery (ribosomes) to produce its own proteins and enzymes directly, including viral RNA polymerase which duplicates additional strands of RNA that are subsequently translated into viral proteins. There is no DNA stage, which would require transportation to the nucleus for transcription and is how DNA viruses (herpes/chickenpox/etc) and retroviruses (HIV) end up getting incorporated into the host genome. No integration of viral DNA means the chances of later recurrences or 'flare ups' is negligible. RNA just doesn't stick around that long in the cell.
Current model for SARS-CoV-2 replication:
Teeeee
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The evidence for this is anecdotal at best. SARS-CoV-2 is a single stranded, positive sense RNA virus, which hijacks the cellular machinery (ribosomes) to produce its own proteins and enzymes directly, including viral RNA polymerase which duplicates additional strands of RNA that are subsequently translated into viral proteins. There is no DNA stage, which would require transportation to the nucleus for transcription and is how DNA viruses (herpes/chickenpox/etc) and retroviruses (HIV) end up getting incorporated into the host genome. No integration of viral DNA means the chances of later recurrences or 'flare ups' is negligible. RNA just doesn't stick around that long in the cell.
Current model for SARS-CoV-2 replication:
I .... have NO idea what you just said. But it sounded impressive.
Djxfactor511
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I was having flashbacks from AP Biology in high school lol.
Jan
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Worst-hit German district to become coronavirus ‘laboratory’
Study will follow 1,000 people in Heinsberg to create blueprint for how to deal with virus
www.theguardian.com
The first resukts from this came back today and they found that 15% of the population were infected ( had antibodies) and the case fatality rate was 0.37%. That gives some hope
TenderLovingKiller®
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100% this plus I have heard similar rumors bandied about the interweb suggesting different stains and people catching it twice, etc...The evidence for this is anecdotal at best. SARS-CoV-2 is a single stranded, positive sense RNA virus, which hijacks the cellular machinery (ribosomes) to produce its own proteins and enzymes directly, including viral RNA polymerase which duplicates additional strands of RNA that are subsequently translated into viral proteins. There is no DNA stage, which would require transportation to the nucleus for transcription and is how DNA viruses (herpes/chickenpox/etc) and retroviruses (HIV) end up getting incorporated into the host genome. No integration of viral DNA means the chances of later recurrences or 'flare ups' is negligible. RNA just doesn't stick around that long in the cell.
Current model for SARS-CoV-2 replication:
In all actuality the testing for the Novel virus has never been 100% accurate, the most likely scenario was people who tested positive early on received a false positive and then likely once they thought they were better laxed on their social distancing and then actually got Covid-19.