Kansas Crimson

Getting ready...

I give them credit for "preparing" but I can't help but wonder how good of an idea it is to put people who will have inevitable lung issues in a garage that has been contaminated with car exhaust.
I don't care how much they claim to have "sanitized" it.

Might be for use by patients of other diseases.

Oscar Munoz can fuck straight off.

Geezer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:42 pm Might be for use by patients of other diseases.

I assume you are correct. I sure hope so.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:01 pm Oscar Munoz can fuck straight off.

Do you think he feels his statement is/was made easier due to his being a "Lame Duck" CEO?

So, anyone out there still think this is nothing more than a Dem/media fueled hoax?

N.C. Sheriffs Find 18,000 Pounds Of Toilet Paper And Other Products In Stolen Truck

There's hoarding, and then there's Hoarding!

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Do You Get Immunity After Recovering From A Case Of Coronavirus?

It's unclear whether people who recover from COVID-19 will be immune to reinfection from the coronavirus and, if so, how long that immunity will last.

"We don't know very much," says Matt Frieman, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "I think there's a very likely scenario where the virus comes through this year, and everyone gets some level of immunity to it, and if it comes back again we will be protected from it — either completely or, if you do get reinfected later, a year from now, then you have much less disease."

"That is the hope," he adds. "But there is no way to know that."

Researchers do know that reinfection is an issue with the four seasonal coronaviruses that cause about 10 to 30 percent of common colds. These coronaviruses seem to be able to sicken people again and again, even though people have been exposed to them since childhood.

"Almost everybody walking around, if you were to test their blood right now, they would have some levels of antibody to the four different coronaviruses that are known," says Ann Falsey of the University of Rochester Medical Center.

After infection with one of these viruses, she says, antibodies are produced but then the levels slowly decline and people become susceptible again.

"Most respiratory viruses only give you a period of relative protection. I'm talking about a year or two. That's what we know about the seasonal coronaviruses," says Falsey.

In studies, human volunteers who agreed to be experimentally inoculated with a seasonal coronavirus showed that even people with pre-existing antibodies could still get infected and have symptoms.

That happens even though these viruses aren't as changeable as influenza, which mutates so quickly that a new vaccine has to be developed every year.

"We work with some common cold coronaviruses. We have samples from 30 years ago, strains that were saved from 30 years ago, and they're not appreciably different than the ones that are circulating now," says virologist Vineet Menachery of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Still, seasonal coronaviruses probably do mutate a bit over time to evade the body's defenses, says Frieman. But there's little known about what those changes might look like, since researchers don't do annual surveillance of coronaviruses as they do for influenza.

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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020 ... erreacting

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:02 am https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020 ... erreacting

US numbers are largely irrelevant at this point, since we're likely to see an enormous jump simply because we're (finally) getting testing done.

i agree, and am really paying more attention to the strain on the healthcare system

Where the ICU beds are and are NOT.

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:45 pm

Someone should mention COBRA to him...

Mjl wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:59 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:45 pm

Someone should mention COBRA to him...

And the premiums.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:13 pm

Mjl wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:59 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:45 pm

Someone should mention COBRA to him...

And the premiums.

But that's why we have the ACA

Mjl wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:22 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:13 pm

Mjl wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:59 pm

Someone should mention COBRA to him...

And the premiums.

But that's why we have the ACA

Even with the ACA, people still have to make up 35% of their premiums. I wonder how easy that 35% is to come up with, now that they've lost their source of money, their job?