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The beat article I've read yet on the rona.Factual, non-political, and in people terms.https://elemental.medium.com/amp/p/30430384e5a5?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
Wear a mask. Social distance.
Science isn't settled, scientists are reassessing this every day.Offers some perspective on the ups and downs and changes in direction of the last 6 months.
I said it to MUGURU when he asked what could have been done differently and I say it again now.Putting Jared in charge of the response may have been the worst decision of all.Government doesn't have a role?Let the states and market decide?Wow.Can you imagine that kind of response on 12/7/41 or 9/11/01?
This is an article on who to follow on Twitter for good COVID info. These people are, well people, so if you are offended by non Covid opinions some may not be what you are looking for. That being said I started following a good portion of these folks a few months ago and feel much better informed for it. https://elemental.medium.com/50-experts-to-trust-in-a-pandemic-fe58932950e7
NY Times Front Page 100,000 Dead Bodies vs 200,000 Dead Bodies.
I think that people are underestimating how bad this winter is going to be. I expect there to be more lockdowns, and hopefully the first vestiges of a competent federal response to this crisis.
Talked to the HS trainer here in town last week and he read about a study done by yale on the impact of covid to the flu and other virus' that might be out there. The study showed that the body can only get infected with 1 virus and when that leaves it stimulates the antibodies to fight off another virus. So we will see nobody really knows anything at this point
I would like to see the article too. As for the premise that the body can only be infected with one virus at a time, ask anyone who has herpes or HIV (which are with a person for life) whether they ever got the flu or a cold afterwards. Answer: people can get infected with multiple viruses.That said, there is some research to indicate that having one virus (like the cold) might make you less susceptible to another (like the flu). It is unclear why, but theories range from the infection putting your immune system into overdrive, to the simple fact that once you get one illness you are less likely to go out and catch the other. Again the research I am aware of does not say it is impossible to catch another virus, just that it is less likely. Here is one such study from about a year ago.https://www.pnas.org/content/116/52/27142Perhaps there is something that Yale researchers found to add to this, but if they indeed discovered that it was impossible to be co-infected with the flu and Covid at the same time, it would have made headlines everywhere.
Do not have the article but he mentioned the test was with covid and H1N1. Like you said it put the immune system in overdrive. The reasoning was because they are both upper respiratory. I will reach abck and and see if he can send me what he was reading
One consideration for flu season is with so many people (especially kids) masked up, spread of the flu could be down.