April 21, 2020

VIRUS UPDATE TUESDAY

Boing Boing - Military.com reports that a study of Chloroquine, the president's favorite quack remedy for Covid-19, didn't just fail to help sufferers. "About 28% who were given hydroxychloroquine plus usual care died, versus 11% of those getting routine care alone."

USDA Is Playing Fast and Loose With Meat Inspection Lines During the Coronavirus Outbreak 

Politics USA  -In a video shared by Donald Trump’s golf company on Twitter, professional golfer and Trump supporter John Daly suggested alcohol will cure the coronavirus: “I kinda got a cure for this, ya know. I think you just take – I only drink one drink a day, it just happens to be a bottle of good old Belvedere. You know you just drink one of these a day, sippy-sippy on a little McDonald’s Diet Coke, you know, wash it down pretty good. Never have a hangover. And that’s the way you kill this coronavirus, I believe.

Trump’s bizarre effort to tag Obama’s swine flu response as ‘a disaster’
PS: Back in 2009 the Review ran a story headlines "The Precscience of Susan Collins" in which it was noted that "After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness."
 Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers claiming link to virus

NYC morgue truck worker describes what it's like

Jerusalem Post - A new study in China has found that the novel coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different variations.The results showed that medical officials have vastly underestimated the overall ability of the virus to mutate, in findings that different strains have affected different parts of the world, leading to potential difficulties in finding an overall cure.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is why I am sceptical that an effective vaccine will be found. If they find a functional vaccine it will likely be like the flu vaccine where people are expected to get vaccinated every year with no immunity kept from year to year, or the virus will constantly change and the vaccines will never keep up. The fact that people are getting reinfected in weeks after having it concerns me that a vaccine which depends on building anitbodies may not be the best way to deal with this disease. Not all vaccines are equally effective and vaccines have become so propagandized that people seem to think they can fix everything. This disease has been a study on don't get too wedded to your assumptions, they may be dead wrong.