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Post by midcan5 on Aug 23, 2021 6:00:01 GMT -5
Interesting article on our first vaccine. Since I come from a large family we often joke we each passed around some illness, with that also came preventive medicine. As a adult I am never sick but for safety our extended family did get the Covid vaccine. Be safe not a stupid follower. 'Onesimus Spreads Wisdom That Saves Lives of Bostonians During a Smallpox Epidemic' www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/onesimus-smallpox-boston-cotton-matherDoes it surprise you that chimps are smarter than anti vaxxers? 'Self-Medicating Chimps, Pugilistic Shrimp, and Other Remarkable Animals: An Illustrated Guide' thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/self-medicating-chimps-pugilistic-shrimp-and-other-remarkable-animals-an-illustrated-guide/"Since the 1970s, researchers have known that chimpanzees — especially those in Tanzania or Uganda — use medicinal plants. They consume fruits with antimicrobial properties; sometimes they combine them with other substances to reduce the toxicity. Other chimpanzees eat flowers with antibiotic properties or leaves with antiparasitic ones, which act as laxatives or even induce uterine contractions. Chimpanzees also tear off bark and lick the resin to kill internal worms; the compounds, tests in vitro have shown, slow the growth of cancerous cells."
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Post by midcan5 on Sept 7, 2021 18:25:43 GMT -5
'Getting our act together: “We-reasoning” about the current public health crisis' "When it comes to COVID-19, scientists have suggested that herd immunity may not be achievable. Nevertheless, both I-mode reasoning and we-mode reasoning about getting vaccinated point us in the same direction, albeit on different grounds. Operating in the I-mode, we can refer to the health benefits to ourselves and to others (balanced against the potential, not fully known, health risks of the novel vaccines). In we-mode, we can infer our course of action from the social benefits of lower hospitalisation and mortality rates, and the expected relaxing of economic and mobility restrictions. Both taken together make for a powerful case in favour of getting vaccinated against COVID-19. " www.abc.net.au/religion/we-reasoning-about-the-current-public-health-crisis/13519790'Coronavirus edition' 'Fighting the pandemic without fracturing the world or dooming it to poverty' " Did you know that “America is under attack—not just by an invisible virus, but by the Chinese”? Did you know that, even amid this attack, “Joe Biden defends China and parrots Communist party propaganda”? If not, maybe you should get on the mailing list for news updates from the Trump-Pence campaign. " nonzero.substack.com/p/nzn20-coronavirus-edition |
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Post by midcan5 on Sept 13, 2021 16:17:26 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Sept 25, 2021 16:14:24 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Oct 2, 2021 6:59:17 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Oct 5, 2021 16:47:39 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Oct 13, 2021 8:16:39 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Oct 15, 2021 7:21:46 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Oct 26, 2021 6:53:25 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Nov 6, 2021 18:14:44 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Nov 11, 2021 17:56:56 GMT -5
'How SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic'www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/10/1054224204/how-sars-cov-2-in-american-deer-could-alter-the-course-of-the-global-pandemicStats: www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/'Love, death, fear, guilt, pride, hope, friendship, alienation, and so much sorrow. Through it all, they kept showing up.'news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/14-nurses-on-life-and-work-during-covid/"It’s never easy to witness my patients suffering, but I never gave up on any of them. I held out hope and prayed that each would survive." 'Why doesn’t rationality seem to matter anymore?' Off topic but relevant news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/an-excerpt-from-steven-pinkers-latest-book-rationality/
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Post by midcan5 on Dec 23, 2021 8:50:44 GMT -5
"State Senator Doug Ericksen, a Republican who had led opposition to Washington State’s Covid-19 emergency orders and vaccine mandates, has died after he said he tested positive for the coronavirus after traveling to El Salvador. He was 52." Source NYT "The strength in economic output was, in part, a result of the enormous legislative response to both the pandemic and to the human hardship it caused." "Despite the headwinds created by the Delta COVID-19 variant, the economy is recovering. Economic growth during the pandemic has generally surpassed consensus expectations while households and businesses have maintained a surprising amount of activity and spending while social distancing." www.brookings.edu/research/11-facts-on-the-economic-recovery-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/ |
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Post by midcan5 on Jan 5, 2022 8:55:03 GMT -5
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Post by midcan5 on Jan 17, 2022 12:55:36 GMT -5
While our family and most of the extended family are vaccinated a few who have traveled have had mild Covid. Thankfully they were vaccinated, so no hospitalization. 'Am I just going to get Covid no matter what I do?' “That’s not true,” said Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I don’t plan on getting infected with Omicron. I’m vaccinated; because I’m over 65, I’m boosted. I wear a mask whenever I’m in public and indoors around people I don’t know. And I have no intentions of being infected with this virus.” www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/16/no-intention-of-getting-infected-understanding-omicrons-severity"Covid is likely to persist once its pandemic phase has passed and circulate each winter alongside the flu. Even after more of us contract coronavirus infection and develop immunity to it or even after an effective vaccine arrives, some people will still get very sick." Scott Gottlieb |
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Post by midcan5 on Jan 19, 2022 9:11:30 GMT -5
'Why gain-of-function research matters' theconversation.com/why-gain-of-function-research-matters-162493'Post-Vax COVID' Is a New Disease - Eventually we might all have to deal with COVID-19 but a shorter, gentler version, thanks to vaccines.' www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/post-vaccination-covid/620140/"Her parents rushed her to a pediatrician, worried that her first inoculations had failed to take. But the doctor allayed their fears: 'It happens. She'll be fine.' And she was. Her fever and rash cleared up in just a couple of days; she never sickened anyone else in her family. It was, says Titanji, now an infectious-disease physician and a researcher at Emory University, a textbook case of 'modified' measles, a rare post-vaccination illness so mild and unthreatening that it doesn't even deserve the full measles name." |
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