Category: It’s Probably Nothing

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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This is one creepy little bug.

Most of us have already absorbed the idea that the coronavirus does some weird and sinister things to the human body that are unlike most other respiratory viruses known to man. But now a new study finds yet another unsettling thing that the virus appears to do to help spread from cell to cell.
 
A new study by an international team led by UC San Francisco finds that cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 quickly begin to grow new arms or dendrites — referred to clinically as filopodia — which are themselves studded with fresh virus particles. These filopodia then seek to reach into and through the walls of neighboring cells, thereby infecting them. And this appears to be a second mode that the virus has for replicating and spreading itself in the body. […]
 
Krogan says that while other viruses — including HIV and the family of viruses that cause smallpox — also use filopedia as mechanisms of spreading infection, the way this virus so rapidly prompts the growth of these tentacles is highly unusual. And the shape of them, branching off the cell and each other like trees, is also apparently strange. Other infectious diseases like HIV don’t cause these kinds of prolific, mutant growths.

It almost sounds like something cooked up in a lab. The good news: it may lead to new treatment options.

Now Is Time At SDA When We De Blasipose!

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June 15, 2020 – NYC Contact Tracers Not Permitted to Ask Sick Patients if They Attended a George Floyd Protest

Mayor Bill de Blasio has forbidden the tracers from asking sick patients if they attended one of the many George Floyd related protests in the nation’s most populous city, giving the tracers an insurmountable barrier as they ostensibly keep New Yorkers safer.

June 15, 2020 – De Blasio cancels day of events Monday after waking up sick

Mayor Bill de Blasio abruptly canceled his scheduled events Monday morning after waking up feeling ill, according to his press secretary, Freddi Goldstein.

Also De Blasio: Nothing to see here, just gates and Jews.

Update:

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Radioactive Wuhan Flu 28 Comments

This sounds promising.

Researchers at Emory University Hospital, led by Dr. Mohammad Khan, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, treated five COVID-19 patients with severe pneumonia who were requiring supplemental oxygen and whose health was visibly deteriorating. Their median age was 90 with a range from 64 to 94, four were female, four were African-American, and one was Caucasian.
 
These patients were given a single low-dose of radiation (1.5 Gy) to both lungs, delivered by a front and back beam configuration. Patients were in an out of the Radiotherapy Department in 10 to 15 minutes.
 
Within 24 hours, four of the patients showed rapid improvement in oxygenation and mental status (more awake, alert and talkative) and were being discharged from the hospital 12 days later. Blood tests and repeated imaging of the lungs confirmed that the radiation was safe and effective, and did not cause adverse effects – no acute skin, pulmonary, gastrointestinal or genitourinary toxicities.
 
The gray (Gy) is a dose unit of ionizing radiation defined as the absorption of one joule of radiation energy per kilogram of matter. The Gy replaces the older unit of the rad, and 1 Gy = 100 Rad.

It’s cheap, easy, and most hospitals already have the equipment. It’s going nowhere.

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Science Wuhan Flu 21 Comments

“Don’t touch your face” and “wash your hands” really meant “don’t stick your finger all the way up your nostril”.

Our results show that the airborne transmission route is highly virulent and dominant for the spread of COVID-19. The mitigation measures are discernable from the trends of the pandemic. Our analysis reveals that the difference with and without mandated face covering represents the determinant in shaping the trends of the pandemic. This protective measure significantly reduces the number of infections. Other mitigation measures, such as social distancing implemented in the United States, are insufficient by themselves in protecting the public.

From a research article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America titled: “We Really Have No Fucking Clue. Keep Sending Money And Check Again Next Week.”

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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“How’s your computer?”

On April 26th, I directed you to a lengthy Medium article titled Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research and have been following the story through Deigin’s twitter account.

If you didn’t read it the first time around, I recommend you set an hour aside because the case he made is gaining support with every passing week.

Yuri Diegin was interviewed today by Bret Weinstein on Darkhorse. It gets off to a bit of a shaky start. Deigin is Russian, with the natural reluctance of Russians to venture into controversy, but he loosens up as the interview develops. Stick with it through the technical discussions, it’s not that difficult and the conversation moves on to the broader implications of what has been going on in virology research labs, along with efforts to suppress the increasing number of hands going up, saying “hey, wait a second…”

The video begins a the 42 minute mark to picque interest, but I recommend you watch from the beginning.

I’ll repost the inteview on Saturday for those who find it difficult to make time on weekdays.

#SomeDeadGuyInMinneapolisMatters

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Nursing homes didn’t “matter”.

The confused and heartbroken seniors who thought families had forgotten them, the shuttered emergency rooms, the cancelled surgeries, the Easter services forbidden, the graduations uncelebrated, the bars and restaurants and other small businesses that struggled to survive for eleven long weeks in a province wide effort to protect our vulnerable?

Didn’t matter.

Now, after those eleven long weeks we learn that not one Saskatchewan senior, not one health care worker, not one businessperson, not one employee in this province was as important as some dead guy in Minneapolis.

That a random criminal turned network news celebrity corpse, who met a tragic end while high on meth and fentanyl, with a rap sheet that included five incarcerations and a home invasion (during which he held a pregnant woman at gunpoint) — would “matter” more than any of us.

To Premier Scott Moe: as you hold your breath over the next couple of weeks over a potential new outbreak from these demonstrations know just this one thing — we’re not going back to “Phase Two“.

The Sound Of Settled Science

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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

On its face, it was a major finding: Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly. A study published on 22 May in The Lancet used hospital records procured by a little-known data analytics company called Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to show an irregular heart rhythm—a known side effect thought to be rare—and were more likely to die in the hospital.
 
Within days, some large randomized trials of the drugs—the type that might prove or disprove the retrospective study’s analysis—screeched to a halt. Solidarity, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) megatrial of potential COVID-19 treatments, paused recruitment into its hydroxychloroquine arm, for example.
 
But just as quickly, the Lancet results have begun to unravel—and Surgisphere, which provided patient data for two other high-profile COVID-19 papers, has come under withering online scrutiny from researchers and amateur sleuths. They have pointed out many red flags in the Lancet paper, including the astonishing number of patients involved and details about their demographics and prescribed dosing that seem implausible. “It began to stretch and stretch and stretch credulity,” says Nicholas White, a malaria researcher at Mahidol University in Bangkok.

Related: Consumption of four or more maintenance doses of HCQ was associated with a significant decline in the odds of getting infected

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We return to irregular programming.

Does the Government have a snitch line for Bombardier? Asking for a friend.

All Aboard The Gravy Train: Gordon Brown urges G20 countries to back $2.5tn coronavirus plan .

Look everybody! It’s someone who trusts data from Iran.

This may spark protests: experts say the pandemic has also exacerbated existing economic disparities and raised fresh concerns about the survival of black businesses.

Your related cynicism in the comments.

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