Coronavirus good Uplifting and hopeful news only
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| Astra Zeneca /Oxford vaccine showing immunity. I find this very promising |
Anonymous
Me too, I'm banking on getting my vaccine (b/c I'm not essential or high risk) from the company in Gaithersburg. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html
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| Thank you all, things just seem so grim lately, needed a balance to that. |
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Here’s the breaking news from the UK. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-oxford-university-vaccine-induces-immune-response-first-phase-of-human-trials-shows-12032287?fbclid=IwAR3OtdIEFusAelnOsjKbZeM-NsqIffLQ5-pmEY-u91WazpwX8gfJ7q8USSA “The immune system has two ways of finding and attacking pathogens - antibody and T-cell responses. . . This vaccine is intended to induce both, so it can attack the virus when it's circulating in the body, as well as attacking infected cells.” |
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Via Gov. Hogan today:
Maryland’s statewide positivity rate has decreased to 4.49%, down 81.8% from our April 17 peak, and ICU bed usage remains consistently low. As officials continue monitoring concerning trends nationwide, it is more critical than ever for Marylanders to remain vigilant and take precautions to slow the spread. Our recovery depends on each and every Marylander exercising personal responsibility: wear a mask in indoor public areas, practice physical distancing, and avoid large gatherings. We also encourage anyone who is interested to get tested for COVID-19, particularly those who have recently traveled or engaged in high-risk activities. Plan your test today by visiting covidtest.maryland.gov. |
Anonymous
Yep! Very glad to live in Gaithersburg right now. I plan to line up, along with my daughter and husband, on the first day the vaccine is available to us. |
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Potential treatment/prevention using an antibody cocktail
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/22/antibody-mix-trialled-as-potential-coronavirus-treatment |
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NYTimes with a great article on how experts are coalescing around reinfection being highly unlikely, b and T cell immune response to be strong even after antibodies fade, this virus not being like flu which would make herd immunity via vaccine achievable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/health/covid-antibodies-herd-immunity.html |
Anonymous
Thank you for very much for sharing this and glad they mentioned click bait headlines, and the NJ doctor (too bad not by name) who's posting his reinfection anecdotes as fact on YouTube. Which is obviously the peer-reviewed medical research publication of his choice... 
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My home state of Indiana has finally issued a mask mandate:
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2020/07/22/indiana-coronavirus-governor-announces-mandatory-face-masks/5488294002/ I wish this had happened sooner, but I can only imagine the extra-intense political pressure when Vice President Pence is from Indiana. A few weeks ago, Gov. Holcomb rolled out PSA campaigns to encourage people to wear masks, but clearly people cannot be trusted to do the right thing! |
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This seemed like a really great therapeutic/
: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/coronavirus-treatment-with-natural-protein-cuts-risk-of-serious-symptoms-by-79/ |
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"The State of Maryland is reporting a drop in the statewide COVID-19 positivity rate today to 4.47%, and a drop in the daily positivity rate to 3.77%, as well as a slight decrease in total hospitalizations. Maryland has now tested 13.9% of the state’s population.
The state’s seven-day average positivity rate has dropped to 4.47%, and has been below 5% since June 25. The daily positivity rate fell for the third consecutive day, to 3.77%." Read the full news release: https://governor.maryland.gov/2020/07/26/statewide-covid-19-positivity-rate-declines-maryland-officials-continue-to-stress-safer-at-home-guidance/ |
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https://images.theweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2_deering.jpg?itok=ulQInRHQ
Stephen Miller's uncle thanked immigrant medical workers after the Trump advisor's grandmother died of COVID-19 complications Stephen Miller's grandmother died on July 4 to complications arising from COVID-19. She sustained "lung and neurological damage that destroyed her will to eat and her ability to breathe well enough to sustain arousal and consciousness," Miller's uncle, David Glosser, wrote on Facebook. Miller is the man behind President Donald Trump's polarizing hard-line immigration policies. Glosser also thanked immigrant medical workers who helped care for his mother and other elderly people like her. "I wanted to make it clear the best I can that the message the Trump administration pumps out — that immigrants who come here spread death, destruction, disease, and murder — is wrong," he told Mother Jones. In a social media post announcing the death of his mother on July 4, Stephen Miller's uncle thanked medical workers who took care of her in her final years — all of whom are immigrants. Miller, 34, is among President Donald Trump's senior advisers and one of the far right's rising stars. His ancestors fled persecution in what is now known as Belarus. But Miller, a long-time conservative, is now best known as the architect of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that separated families at the US-Mexico border. His uncle doesn't share his views. In the Facebook post, David Glosser expressed outrage at Miller after Ruth Glosser — his mother and Miller's grandmother — died of COVID-19 complications. "With the death of my mother, I'm angry and outraged at [Miller] directly and the administration he has devoted his energy to supporting," David Glosser told Mother Jones. On Facebook, Glosser described his mother as "a scholar, a social worker," and a "pillar of the community," who was passionate about the "careful documentation of the Glosser family and its flight from Czarist persecution in what is now Belarus to life and freedom in the USA." Ruth also believed in education and women's rights, Glosser wrote. He also described her battle with COVID-19. "She survived the acute infection but was left with lung and neurological damage that destroyed her will to eat and her ability to breathe well enough to sustain arousal and consciousness," he said. "Over an 8-week period she gradually slipped away and died peacefully this morning." Glosser followed that post with a comment that thanked healthcare workers for serving elderly Americans, including his mother. "I neglected to mention that in mom's declining years she was lovingly cared for by health aides nurses, and doctors from India, Philippines, Mexico, Nicaragua, Haiti, Korea, El Salvador, Uganda, and Nigeria," he wrote. "Immigrants all of them. I am indebted to them for helping us through some very difficult times. Without them there would be no one to take care of our elderly." The White House denied she died of COVID-19, despite her death certificate saying so David Corn, the Washington, DC bureau chief for Mother Jones, contacted the White House for comment from Miller and was told it is "categorically false" that Ruth Glosser died of COVID-19. "She was diagnosed with COVID in March and passed away in July so that timeline does not add up at all. His grandmother died peacefully in her sleep from old age. I would hope that you would choose not to go down this road," an unnamed White House spokesperson said, according to Mother Jones. Glosser disagreed. He shared his mother's death certificate with the publication, and Corn reported that her cause of death is listed as "respiratory arrest" as a result of "COVID-19." |
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On a 7-day average basis, new cases are leveling off or declining in the states with the largest numbers of new infections--Florida, TX, AZ, TN...
While deaths are up (bad), they are not up nearly as sharply. Masking seems to really help, and more and more states are requiring it. I don't love wearing a mask, but it's a heck of a lot better than having everything shut down! |