Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And there's another interesting example of out current health care that seems next to impossible to improve............for the people.

Neither medicare or Medicaid, pay the full amount of the bill that is sent to them, Both government agency's, they establish what they will pay, One of the major reasons that doctors can only accept a limited number of medicare and medicaid patients. They have to balance it out with the better private insurance providers.

I'm painfully aware of all that having sat in too many meetings with reps form all and the FDA with companies presenting their drug candidates.

I oft times noted to them all that what transpires at such meetings is far worse than watching sausage being made.

[rogruth]

And there's another interesting example of out current health care

I oft times noted to them all that what transpires at such meetings is far worse than watching sausage being made.

Now that is bad and not pretty.

[HONDO74]

Li Wenliang: 'Wuhan whistleblower' remembered one year on
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55963896

Tributes have been paid on social media in China commemorating a doctor who raised the alarm about the country's coronavirus outbreak, one year after he died with Covid-19.

Thousands paid tribute to Li Wenliang ahead of the first anniversary of his death on 7 February 2020.

He died after contracting Covid-19 while treating patients in Wuhan.

Dr Li had tried to warn fellow medics of a disease that looked like Sars - another deadly coronavirus.

But he was told by police to "stop making false comments" and was investigated for "spreading rumours".

Dr Li was an eye doctor at a hospital in Wuhan - the central Chinese city where the first case of the coronavirus was detected at the end of 2019.

As hospitals filled up in Wuhan, the government was accused of downplaying the severity of the virus and concealing the extent of its spread.

Only when anger reached fever pitch was Dr Li exonerated and honoured as a hero by the Chinese government.

Freedom of speech is limited in China, where the government has promoted an official narrative hinged on its successful handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

China does routinely censor comments on social media.

[v8vega]

Only 2% have received the vaccine. That dottering senile old fool is a total failure.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Only 2% have received the vaccine. That dottering senile old fool is a total failure.

Well, given you've always stated it's a fake disease, what do you care?

3 weeks on the job and you expect immediate success; we already had an entire year of total failure that you were cheering that has to be cleaned up.

BTW, the word you're trying to use is doddering...........senility is probably something you have a 1st hand experience of by now.

[Neil]

"Only 2% have received the vaccine. That dottering senile old fool is a total failure."

He's been president for about three weeks. Trump was president for four years and said the states could solve this problem. Perhaps if he'd been president instead of Roosevelt, he would have suggested the states figure out how to defeat Hitler and Tojo . And close to 10% have received shot one, which provides some substantial protection. Let's revisit the issue in April and see where we are. This is a big challenge and the federal government did exactly zilch to plan for implementation. That's on Trump.

[rogruth]

It doesn't matter, it's ALL "fake news" anyway.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It doesn't matter, it's ALL "fake news" anyway.

I'm sure that the families of the 460k plus dead think so....

[HONDO74]

It doesn't matter, it's ALL "fake news" anyway.

I'm sure that the families of the 460k plus dead think so....

2,3 million world wide.

[HONDO74]

Understanding what is driving new variants of the coronavirus to appear and what the changes mean will be crucial in our vaccine arms race against Covid-19.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2021 ... e-pandemic

Early in its existence, Covid-19 gained an ability that would prove decisive in its relationship with human beings. The virus picked up a seemingly small change in its genetic code. It was likely an unfortunate accident – a fragment of genetic information from another virus got muddled up with that of the coronavirus while they were both infecting a bat.

Included within this tiny piece of genome, however, were the instructions that altered a key part of the virus – its spike protein. This important protein studs the outside of the coronavirus and is the part that attaches to the outside of cells, helping the rest of the virus to sneak inside where it can replicate.

This change to Covid-19's spike protein meant it could hijack an enzyme found in the human body called furin. This enzyme acts like a pair of molecular scissors, normally cutting open hormones and growth factors to activate them. But when furin snips part of the Covid-19 spike protein, which is normally folded in a series of loops on the outside of the virus, it opens like a hinge.

"This exposes a new sequence in the spike protein," says Yohei Yamauchi, a reader in viral cell biology at the University of Bristol, UK, who has been studying how this change may have led Covid-19 to become more infective in humans. "It is one of the changes that make this virus really different from previous coronaviruses that caused Sars and Mers."

This new mutation meant Covid-19 could suddenly latch onto an important molecule found scattered around the outside of human respiratory cells called Neuropilin 1. This molecule helps to transport material inside cells and deeper into tissues – the mutation was like handing Covid-19 the keys to a new door into our cells and meant the virus could replicate in greater numbers in the human airways.

[rogruth]

It doesn't matter, it's ALL "fake news" anyway.

I meant this to be tongue in cheek but I think it came out wrong.

[HONDO74]

We can blame the whole thing on Ozzy Osborn. He started it when he bit the head off of that bat.

The only reason he survived was because of all the drugs in his system . The virus got stoned before it could attack him.

[rogruth]

We can blame the whole thing on Ozzy Osborn. He started it when he bit the head off of that bat.

The only reason he survived was because of all the drugs in his system . The virus got stoned before it could attack him.

If that is on the internet somewhere some people will believe it and start biting off bat heads and/or getting higher.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We can blame the whole thing on Ozzy Osborn. He started it when he bit the head off of that bat.

The only reason he survived was because of all the drugs in his system . The virus got stoned before it could attack him.

If that is on the internet somewhere some people will believe it and start biting off bat heads and/or getting higher.

It is on the internet somewhere.............now. BTW, that happened back in 1982,

[HONDO74]

We can blame the whole thing on Ozzy Osborn. He started it when he bit the head off of that bat.

The only reason he survived was because of all the drugs in his system . The virus got stoned before it could attack him.

If that is on the internet somewhere some people will believe it and start biting off bat heads and/or getting higher.

I meant this to be tongue in cheek

Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat 37 years ago, and, for some reason, now a toy commemorates it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-ent ... orates-it/