The prescription is simple though not easy: Stay home.
If Americans want to minimize loss of life from the global coronavirus pandemic, we must heed the advice of health experts and government officials and practice social distancing.
As Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday when he announced that restaurants, bars, entertainment and recreational facilities would shut down statewide to slow the spread of COVID-19: "Hours count here."
Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with Inslee's emergency declaration.
On Saturday, Tim Eyman, Republican candidate for governor, threw himself a party. "Let's stick our finger in the eye of Jay Inslee," read the invitation to supporters, "I'm bringing a 6-pack of Corona!"
The Pied Piper of $30 car tabs hoped "251 patriots" would show up to his Oak Harbor fundraiser -- precisely one more person than Inslee's previous maximum gathering size mandate of 250. The defiant gesture fell flat.
Shit
Cuomo is not liked for a couple of reason in NY from what I gather:
His handling of the MTA. Gov gets blamed for the MTA's fault. Some of it is warranted.
I think the biggest selling paper is the New York Post, a Murdoch rag, that has an anti-deblasio and Anti-cuomo headline every other day.
Not saying that Cuomo is great, just saying this is where most of the hate comes from.
The Act also authorizes the President to requisition property, force industry to expand production and the supply of basic resources, impose wage and price controls, settle labor disputes, control consumer and real estate credit, establish contractual priorities, and allocate raw materials towards national defense.[3] [/QUOTE[
Fuck.
Yes, yesterday's number was 345 new deaths for all of Italy.
Damn.
Bro do you go shopping every day?I'm at Walmart now and there is some idiot here holding a knit scarf up to their face, with their hands. People are so fucking dumb.
Tbf, the mortality rate was not 0 for anyone over the age of 18.
In one day? Fuck.
Yesterday's increase was 345
Every few days. Shit is sold out everywhere I have to get what I can each time. I'm also shopping for my parents because they're over 65 and I'd rather I deal with the madness out here.
Still, at least it's progress. To get to human trials means there have at least been some promising animal testing results.Yes, human trials have started. Don't know if it's the "fastest ever" and it doesn't mean that a vaccine is imminent. Human trials are still an early part of the process.
I'm pretty sure it was a videogame reference, like how you can use warp pipes in Super Mario Bros.
Still, at least it's progress. To get to human trials means there have at least been some promising animal testing results.
As they race to test an experimental coronavirus vaccine, researchers aren't waiting to see how well it prevents infection in animals before trying it in people, breaking from the usual protocol.
"I don't think proving this in an animal model is on the critical path to getting this to a clinical trial," said Tal Zaks, chief medical officer at Moderna, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech that has produced a Covid-19 vaccine candidate at record speed. He told STAT that scientists at the National Institutes of Health are "working on nonclinical research in parallel." Meanwhile, the clinical trial started recruiting healthy participants in the first week of March.
That isn't how vaccine testing normally happens. Regulators require that a manufacturer show a product is safe before it goes into people, and while it isn't enshrined in law, researchers almost always check that a new concoction is effective in lab animals before putting human volunteers at potential risk.
"This is very unusual," explained Akiko Iwasaki, a Yale University microbiologist who studies the immune response to viruses. "It reflects the urgency to develop vaccines to counter the Covid-19 pandemic."
Still, at least it's progress. To get to human trials means there have at least been some promising animal testing results.
I mean, yeah, that's exactly what it was, it's just another brick to the wall of insane Press Conference moments from this "administration"I'm pretty sure it was a videogame reference, like how you can use warp pipes in Super Mario Bros.
It was odd to hear a videogame reference in such a conference. I think she was trying to say how innovative young people are to find new solutions to problems.
I appreciate the frustration but ultimately this comes from the federal level with shortages everywhere. It's not just Minnesota it's tons of states having the same issue. Basically trump and his administration have been flat out lying about testing for weeks nowThey've pretty much almost run out of testing so unfortunatelly these numbers are basically meaningless at this point. They aren't testing anyone who isn't critically ill, turning away most people that probally have it, changing the criteria tighter and tighter each day. Minnesota's response to testing so far has been a joke.
In a number of cases they've apparently flat out skipped that stage...
Ahh, I just assumed there had been some kind of animal testing.Um...I'm pretty sure they skipped over animal trials for the trails in Washington
I honestly didn't expect this after they all just fought to stay open. Wonder what changedLooks like the big 3 US automakers shut down their manufacturing. BIG.
Check out this article from Detroit Free Press:
Detroit automakers agree to close all US plants, source says
Detroit automakers Ford, General Motors, FCA agree to close all US plants
"By taking a shutdown ... we protect UAW members, their families and the community,” said President Rory Gamble.www.freep.com
I honestly didn't expect this after they all just fought to stay open. Wonder what changed
Yes, human trials have started. Don't know if it's the "fastest ever" and it doesn't mean that a vaccine is imminent. Human trials are still an early part of the process.
Re: self swabs- some private labs are already doing it. I posted a WaPo link a few posts back.
We will ask you to come to 11 in-person study visits and have 4 phone visits over a 14-month period. The visits include 1 initial screening visit, 2 vaccination visits, and 8 follow-up visits.