Archive for the 'Health' Category
Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
March 21st, 2020Via: Newsweek: Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of “continuity of government” plans that include evacuating Washington and “devolving” leadership to second-tier officials in […]
Dark Journalist: Coronavirus, Continuity of Government, Martial Law
March 20th, 2020Via: Dark Journalist:
Coronavirus: Global Lockdown Underway Without Reliable Data
March 20th, 2020Via: Stat News: The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to SARS-CoV-2 are being missed. We don’t know if we are failing to capture infections by […]
99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
March 20th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority. … The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18% of the country’s coronavirus fatalities, finding that just three victims, or 0.8% of the total, had no […]
California Issues ‘Stay at Home’ Order
March 19th, 2020It’s definitely getting interesting out there. I see people I knew back in high school on Facebook, the social butterflies, the ones with the big smiles on their faces in the yearbooks, the last ones you would ever guess would prep for anything (other than maybe a cocktail party), showing pictures of themselves buying lots […]
Bill Gates: When Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes Available, Digital Certificates Will Show Who Has Received It
March 19th, 2020Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it. Via: Reddit: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA about COVID-19:
Hong Kong Is Putting Electronic Wristbands on Arriving Passengers to Enforce Coronavirus Quarantine
March 18th, 2020Via: CNBC: Hong Kong is using electronic wristbands as part of its effort to enforce quarantines and reduce the spread of the new coronavirus. The measure comes as the government announced that starting at midnight on March 19, it is putting all arriving passengers under a two-week quarantine and medical surveillance. The city’s leader Carrie […]
Trump Invokes Wartime Authority of Defense Production Act
March 18th, 2020Via: USA Today: President Trump on Tuesday invoked the Defense Production Act, a wartime authority that allows him to direct industry to produce critical equipment, to confront the spiraling crisis over coronavirus pandemic. The act was established in 1950 during the Korean War following war powers legislation used during World War II to direct private […]
Logistical and Technical Exploration Into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
March 18th, 2020Via: Harvard to the Big House: This report is the product of a collaboration between a retired professional scientist with dozens of peer-reviewed publications and 30 years of experience in genomic sequencing and analysis, who worked at the Theoretical Biology Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and later helped design several ubiquitous bioinformatic software […]
Hydroxychloroquine Effective in Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Vitro
March 18th, 2020Via: Nature: Other than its direct antiviral activity, HCQ is a safe and successful anti-inflammatory agent that has been used extensively in autoimmune diseases and can significantly decrease the production of cytokines and, in particular, pro-inflammatory factors. Therefore, in COVID-19 patients, HCQ may also contribute to attenuating the inflammatory response. In conclusion, our results show […]
