It's not pretty, but if you close one eye and squint at it, it helps a little. 2 hours ago Coronavirus deaths fall again in Italy but lockdown extension looms There were 133 fewer deaths than the 889 deaths reported on Saturday, when the numbers fell from a record high of 919 on Friday. While the total number of confirmed cases rose to 97,689 on Sunday from a previous 92,472, it was the lowest daily rise in new cases since Wednesday. But despite hopes by Italian officials that the downward trend would continue, it appeared increasingly likely that restrictions on all but essential activities that were due to expire on Friday would be soon officially extended. https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-deaths-fall-again-in-italy-but-lockdown-extension-looms/
Alright then, let's get on with this. Finding out that it does not work could also be getting on with it. Although infusing a pantload of antibodies from someone who has recently had the coronavirus sounds like something that would almost have to be helpful but for surprises. And if it does not help, well then it was definitely something that needed to be looked at. Giddy-up. Let's go. Houston Methodist first in the nation to be approved by FDA to transfuse donated plasma from recovered COVID-19 patient https://www.click2houston.com/news/...nated-plasma-from-recovered-covid-19-patient/
from BBC today The growth in coronavirus cases in hard-hit Spain appears to be slowing, the country's foreign minister has told the BBC. Another 6,400 cases were confirmed on Monday, the lowest increase in new cases for a week. The total of deaths reached 7,340 after 812 new fatalities. It comes as a national lockdown expanded to instruct non-essential workers to stay home for two weeks. Meanwhile, the doctor leading the country's response has tested positive. Spain's latest national figures show that the virus' upwards curve appears to be flattening out, Foreign Minister Arancha González says. Officials are hoping that the peak of the virus outbreak there is approaching, after which new cases and deaths are expected to decrease. Catalonia, the Basque region and capital Madrid remain some of hardest-hit areas.
USNS Comfort docks in NY 10 days after Rachel Maddow said it would take 'weeks' “There is no sign that the Navy hospital ships that the president made such a big deal of, the Comfort and the Mercy, there is no sign that they’ll be anywhere on-site, helping out anywhere in the country, for weeks yet." Rachel MadCow March 20. WOMP......womp.....womp. Nice job MadCow, depressing lefty Americans and trying to deflate the national effort. It's what you do and your ilk cut from the same cloth try to do the same thing here too.
This is potentially good news here in regard to antibody treatment via blood plasma of survivors. Fortunately, there are patients in several locations around the country right now that are receiving this exact same treatment and we will know A LOT MORE about it within a couple weeks. So I allow myself to be optimistic about this chinese report - knowing that they are fucking liars and the government meddles in their medical reporting- because I know that we are not dependent on their findings. We have our own findings and will have more so I will look at that too. I know providence hospitals in Portland, Oregon started doing this. And some hospital in Houston and some other place too, so we are very close to seeing how this will work. It is not exactly a new or radical approach. Human survivors of infectious diseases have antibodies in their blood which took a long time to develop as they recovered. So get those antibodies and infuse them into people who are not successfully developing antibodies. More evidence COVID-19 survivors' blood could help very ill patients https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-evidence-covid-survivors-blood-ill.html
Numbers out of Italy continue to be shaky and quirky. More reports of lower highs, but also plenty of reports of undercounting. I guess this is from yesterday so something new might be out today. Italy records lowest coronavirus death toll for a week https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...id-signs-coronavirus-infection-rate-is-easing
Alright then, here we go with the rapid testing for real. Let's get this out there and see what this test looks like in the real world. Aside from the issue of delays in testing to date, it is turning out that previous tests have very shaky reliability. If this rapid test turns out to be not only fast but reliable too.....well...that would be MOST EXCELLENT....and of course there needs to be availability too. I don't know. Let's just get going and see what we have here. Same with all the hydroxy drugs, and the four or five others being considered along with the approaches that involve infusion of antibodies from covid-recovered persons. Just get going, especially if their safety profile is already mostly known. If they don't help much, then finding that out is valuable too. Just speed up the process and learning curve for all of this stuff. Detroit is first US city to get 15-minute coronavirus tests https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/d...nute-coronavirus-tests/ar-BB125rpD?li=BBnb7Kz
Ya but please tell this guy to NOT derail anymore trains to prove his ignorance , and stop with the death threats to Dr. Fauci. Trump’s tribe of wacko supporters have spiraled out of control — and now they’re a major threat to public health and safety Scenes from an America that was widely infected with conspiracism even before people started getting infected with the new coronavirus: On Tuesday afternoon, a train engineer named Eduardo Moreno, apparently with great deliberation, derailed the freight train he was manning in Southern California, nearly killing occupants of three nearby cars. His target? The USNS Mercy, a Navy medical ship that’s been assisting nearby hospitals with COVID-19 patients. “I had to. People don’t know what’s going on here,” Moreno reportedly told the officer who arrested him. Apparently, Moreno believes in a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus crisis is a hoax being deployed to cover for a shadowy takeover of the government. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a stabilizing presence during the crisis, quietly and calmly doing everything he can to correct the firehose of lies Donald Trump has been drenching the country with on a daily basis. For his service, Fauci now requires a security detail, due in no small part to fanatical Trump fans who have embraced conspiracy theories that paint Fauci as part of a “deep state” conspiracy to unseat Trump by faking the threat of COVID-19. Rodney Howard-Browne, a Trump-loving preacher who has claimed coronavirus is a “phantom plague” invented to trick people into getting vaccines, was arrested for defying those orders and holding packed church services anyway. DeSantis finally cracked and issued a statewide shelter-in-place order, but exempted church services — effectively overriding the local restrictions in Tampa and elsewhere.
Viewers will observe that my post was 100% about the virus and testing. But the tard's response to it was 100% about Trump and his supporters. So it goes- and then they get pissy when I tell them that the coronavirus scenario is just all about the elections for them. Worthless as tits on a nun in a national crisis.