MurphOnMillerAve wrote:I'll have less to be concerned about, thus, when I go bopping about my Upstate NY forests again'; perhaps, this Summer. O' course, there are still those Deer Ticks and their potentially lethal bite.
Neil wrote:This is a respiratory virus, and the damage to the lungs is thought to be primarily over-reaction of the immune system (sepsis, severe respiratory distress syndrome).
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:MurphOnMillerAve wrote:I'll have less to be concerned about, thus, when I go bopping about my Upstate NY forests again'; perhaps, this Summer. O' course, there are still those Deer Ticks and their potentially lethal bite.
Deer ticks are not poisonous nor lethal. Lyme disease is single digit deaths per year. But you might be miserable enough long term to think you are dying.
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:MurphOnMillerAve wrote:I'll have less to be concerned about, thus, when I go bopping about my Upstate NY forests again'; perhaps, this Summer. O' course, there are still those Deer Ticks and their potentially lethal bite.
Deer ticks are not poisonous nor lethal. Lyme disease is single digit deaths per year. But you might be miserable enough long term to think you are dying.
A 50yr old female cousin of my wife's died from a Deer Tick bite's Lime Disease several years ago. That is enough for me.
v8vega wrote:The grocery stores are still real busy, I don't get it. Why, they have plenty of most items, people who are worried about it must be stocked up by now.
robert. wrote:v8vega wrote:The grocery stores are still real busy, I don't get it. Why, they have plenty of most items, people who are worried about it must be stocked up by now.
I think your seeing people that never shopped for food before. With all the delis, pizza shops, convenience stores, KFC, mickey D's and the likes closed. A lot of people have nowhere to get breakfast,lunch and dinner. They are forced to shop and eat at home.
robert. wrote:I heard it through the grapevine.that it takes 45 minutes to get a coffee from starbucks drive threw. Amazing that people will waite that long for overpriced coffee. Cick-filet also has an hour long or longer drive threw. On the plus side. i can now get 2 gallons of gas for the price of a large starbucks coffee.
Other hearsay/grapevine news. Southeast PA. is looking at labor day for reopening. I started to apply to online charter schools for the kid.
The institute had a big head start, our correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick reports. Its scientists had an approach that they already knew was safe: They had proved it in trials last year for a vaccine to fight MERS, a respiratory disease caused by a closely related virus.
That has enabled the institute to skip ahead and schedule tests of its new Covid-19 vaccine on more than 6,000 people by the end of May, hoping to show not only that it is safe, but also that it works.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana last month inoculated six rhesus macaque monkeys with single doses of the Oxford vaccine. The animals were then exposed to heavy quantities of the virus that is causing the pandemic — exposure that had consistently sickened other monkeys in the lab. But more than 28 days later all six were healthy, said Vincent Munster, the researcher who conducted the test.
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The Jenner Institute isn’t following the classic approach of using a weakened version of the disease pathogen. Instead, its approach starts with another familiar virus, neutralizes it and then genetically modifies it so that it will prompt the body to produce the right antibodies for Covid-19.
Researchers originally cooked up the technology in a quest to develop a vaccine for malaria, which is caused by a parasite. No luck there yet. But when the idea was borrowed to go after MERS, it worked well.
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