Tag: covid
Interferon & COVID-19
Those numbers come out to p-values of less than 10 to the minus 16th, which means that we all pretty much have to stand up take take off our hats – this one’s real. anyone who screens with such antibodies needs to take extreme precautions, because they are clearly at far greater risk of severe disease and death than the run of the population
Bradykinin
As bradykinin builds up in the body, it dramatically increases vascular permeability. In short, it makes your blood vessels leaky.
Wildlife Vaccines
Can vaccines for wildlife prevent human pandemics?
the concept of self-disseminating vaccines to prevent spillovers “is definitely intriguing.” The effort could also help to highlight the interconnection between the health of humans, animals, plants and the environment as a whole. “We have to stop being reactive and trying to stop something in the middle of the crisis”
COVID-19 phantom risk
most schools won’t reopen because they cannot deal with the burden — institutionally, legally or otherwise — of being connected to significant numbers of COVID-19 cases. The question is how this stigma ends. If rates of death and possible long-term damage fell to half of their current levels? One-third? Less? I strongly suspect these same schools still would be unwilling to reopen, due in part to phantom risk.
COVID-19 Genome
Hello and welcome to my COVID-19 Genome Walkthrough. (Hoping someone comes out with that Vaccine Speedrun soon. This boss battle is really shaping up to be an intense one and we’ll need all the artifacts we can get.)
Pandemic futures
a very wide range of outcomes.
Most Effective Face Masks
Go with surgical. Some masks like fleece are worse than no mask, because they make the droplets finer, which causes them to stay airborne longer.
COVID-19 & humidity
Folks, this is huge because it shows that a simple remedy (indoor humidification in temperate areas in winter months) can cut COVID-19 mortality by almost an order of magnitude.
Humidity from masks may lessen severity of COVID-19:
High levels of humidity can limit the spread of a virus to the lungs by promoting mucociliary clearance (MCC), a defense mechanism that removes mucus − and potentially harmful particles within the mucus − from the lungs. High levels of humidity can also bolster the immune system by producing interferons, a process known as the interferon response. Low levels of humidity have been shown to impair both MCC and the interferon response, which may be 1 reason why people are likelier to get respiratory infections in cold weather.
SLA punishes Lucky
the assholes at the city would rather punish the person pointing out their problems, instead of fixing them. how about we cut the city budget to eliminate all the graft around “licenses”?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 