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Princess Turandot's JournalLive Science had a decent article on this...
The French health minister was referring to a letter submission to Lancet. Subsequent to his comments, the researchers added a statement on how to interpret their letter, which puts forth what the authors say is a hypothesis that is 'information for researchers, not patients' that 'does not constitute a recommendation to use certain drugs or not.'
Live Science: Should you take ibuprofen if you have COVID-19?
There's a lot of speculation but very little data to say one way or another.
The health minister's warning was based on a recent letter published in the journal The Lancet that suggested such anti-inflammatory drugs boost the body's production of an enzyme that sits on the cell's surface, known as ACE2. The coronavirus hijacks these ACE2 receptors to enter human cells.The authors hypothesized that drugs that spur the body to produce more of this enzyme would allow the virus to infect more cells, which in turn could increase the risk of developing "severe and fatal" COVID-19.
"The only problem is they offer no proof that this actually occurs," Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York, wrote on Twitter. "And this hypothesis relies on several major assumptions that may not be true."
Or that after swearing to shut down the so-called wet markets where Chinese scientists determined..
that the SARS virus jumped from a bat via a civet to a shopper, crossing the species line in 2003, they kinda didn't really do that. (Although they did subsequently thoroughly sanitize the wet-market where they believe COVID-19 got its all-access pass.)
As to Taiwan, WHO initially refused to allow them to collaborate in the various activities/ conferences etc that they were organizing. (They did eventually reverse that.)
Yes. Cuomo and for NYC, de Blasio.
They're both smart and not inclined to panic. Or make decisions based upon idiocy.
Yesterday, Cuomo ordered a 1 mile containment area around part of New Rochelle in Westchester. This is the area associated with the attorney who became ill last week, if you recall the story. New Rochelle is a serious hotspot: the order prohibits large gatherings. This affects several public and private schools, houses of worship among others. He also called up the National Guard to work on disinfecting buildings/streets etc. They will also be delivering meals to kids from the closed schools who depend upon school-provided meals for much of their nutrition.
Also, de Blasio has made a point of telling people during his briefings that folks who are not insured will be tested for covid-19 without any financial repercussions to them. And that no one will be asking about anyone's immigration status when someone comes in for a test. Cuomo has ordered insurance companies licensed to operate in NYS to waive cost sharing requirements (i.e. coinsurance/deductibles) for all stages of the testing process for people who have insurance.
Happily, the governor of NJ, Phil Murphy, is also a Democrat. Were Christie still there, he'd probably be bricking up the Jersey-side exits of the Hudson River tunnels right about now.
As of this moment, the reported stats for Italy are worse....
They show a case fatality rate of 5%: 463 deaths/9172 cases = 5.05%
Iran's rate is ~3%. China's Hubei province (includes Wuhan) is 4.4%
Worldwide is 3.5%.
Data per JHU: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Earlier today, CNN reported on a meeting between Pence and members of the cruise line industry...
that took place today. (It's in their live update roll, which doesn't provide links to most entries: https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-07-20-intl-hnk/index.html)
Hopefully, these means that they are removing them from the ship before any next care/quarantine steps, not just parking them out of the way.
Also, the trade industry guy discussed the costs:
“We will work aggressively with government to further develop and strengthen all necessary protocols for prevention, for detection and for care,” Goldstein said.
As of right now, the overall case fatality rate for all ages is actually 3.4%..
That's based upon 3,044 confirmed deaths divided by 89,070 cases as of 11:33 PM on 3/1.
The data is from the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases mapping project being run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE).
The data is from various governments' sources, so there may be some consistency questions, but it's the information available.
Some links..
He's quoted in a Forture magazine article (no paywall) here:
https://fortune.com/2020/02/13/covid-19-deaths-rising-coronavirus-outbreak/
https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1228373884027592704
Here's the rest of the twitter thread via thread reader:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1228373884027592704.html
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From the article. Bill McKinnon: "Not just a space potato"
A great line.
Lucky indeed! It took the New Horizons team several years of looking for an object that NH could reach (location and fuel-wise), before they found Ultima Thule. And it turned out to be a bonanza.
Here's all of the news releases for the NY Attorney General's Office..
https://ag.ny.gov/press-releasesJames, who has been in office for 13 months, has been one of the lead AG's on most of the lawsuits filed by states against the Trump administration since she was elected. She also put his bogus private foundation out of business.
She also has responsibilities for a lot of things that have nothing to do with Trump, but are important to New Yorkers.
Do you have any specifics on the financial crimes that she (or Manhattan DA Vance, more likely) could be prosecuting right now involving the 'Trump kids', where NY has jurisdiction? If they're doing investigations right now, I doubt that they would be broadcasting any of that in advance. And if any of the crimes involve Trump himself, even indirectly, or foreign governments, the cases will undoubtedly wind up/be slowed down in federal court on a variety of issues, as Vance's current Trump cases have. Election day will arrive sooner.
Trump has to be voted out. No kind of clever silver bullet is likely to get him out of office at this point.
(Also, I don't think that they would prosecute the 'Trump kids' primarily for the purpose of making some kind of deal with Dad Trump for him to resign to protect them. Among other things, he simply would never do so.)
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