A friend told me months ago it was standard treatment in China on day X of the infection. I forget what “X” was, but the point was that early in the run of the infection they can reduce the immune response when it’s being helpful. However later in the infection, if you are sick enough to hospitalized, an overblown immune response is a common complication and steroids help manage that.
this source agrees
A friend told me months ago it was standard treatment in China on day X of the infection. I forget what “X” was, but the point was that early in the run of the infection they can reduce the immune response when it’s being helpful. However later in the infection, if you are sick enough to hospitalized, an overblown immune response is a common complication and steroids help manage that.
this source agrees
Right- apparently getting a live virus vaccine (i.e. weakened/attenuated virus) induces a general immune response AND trains the body to produce specific antibodies against that virus.
They’re saying that the general immune response might be helpful against COVID-19, and proposing the old-style polio vaccine as a mechanism for generating that general immune response.
In the article, one of the researchers points out that catching a cold would accomplish the same thing, and they also point out that people who’ve already had that specific polio vaccine might not derive any benefit from it, as it probably wouldn’t induce that general immune response.
Not-so-good news: A Belgian study of coronavirus infections among medical personel finds only 6% with antibodies.
This is only a single-hospital study, but I find this amazingly low considering how hard-hit Belgium has been, and that this is a hospital, where I would have thought that infection rates were likely to be higher
Late last night (China Standard Time), Beijing’s municipal government ordered all primary (K~6) and secondary (7~12) schools to close to students and resume online classes effective today, 17 June 2020. My school, a boarding school, has staggered the departure times for the students so the parking lot will not be jam-packed and it will be more manageable for the school staff to supervise the students’ departure. The school leadership is confabbing now so they can announce a few things after the students have all departed campus safely. Those few things are:
[ol][li]How online classes will be handled this time.[/li][li]If the foreign teachers must have classes in the identical method as the Chinese teachers (for the beginning of this semester, during lockdown, that was not the case).[/li][li]If the staff, including teachers of course, must remain on campus during the workday as usual, thus providing online courses from empty classrooms, or if we must do the job from home as we did at the beginning of the semester.[/li][li]If the school will still hold a summer school over the summer break between semesters. They’ve never had summer school before, and the reason it was laid on this time is the parents and a number of students complained about online classes not being as good as in-person classes. Given that the municipal government has ordered students off campus again, holding online classes over the summer to replace online classes doesn’t strike me as what the parents are requesting–and paying for.[/ol][/li]
It’s only 11:35 a.m. here now. I will update more after the school leaders’ announcement which is expected shortly after 3:00 p.m. today.
8,263,725 total cases
446,122 dead
4,321,390 recovered
In the US:
2,208,400 total cases
119,132 dead
903,041 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I believe the US lost some 116 000 people during World War One.
Okay. We’ve had the slew of meetings. Here’s the lowdown. I’m not going to use the quote funciton since, after all, it’s my post and I’m not altering anything anyway, just merely posting answers.
[ol][li]How online classes will be handled this time.[/li][ul][li]All classes, those conducted by Chinese teachers and also those conducted by us foreign teachers, will be online, following the normal class schedules. The online platform is someting call “Weishir” and, to be charitable, is worthless. The teacher will go to an empty classroom–that would be the classroom they’d be entering anyway–and log into Weishir. The students are supposed to log into Weishir from home. The students can see and hear the teacher; however, the teacher cannot see or hear the students. That means each teacher has to move from task-based education to 45-minute lectures without knowing what the students are doing during the class.[/ul][/li][li]If the foreign teachers must have classes in the identical method as the Chinese teachers (for the beginning of this semester, during lockdown, that was not the case).[/li][ul][li]Answered above. Yes.[/ul][/li][li]If the staff, including teachers of course, must remain on campus during the workday as usual, thus providing online courses from empty classrooms, or if we must do the job from home as we did at the beginning of the semester.[/li][ul][li]Well, the school administration sent out the word in Chinese at a few minutes before 5:00 p.m. and in English at 5:29 p.m. Note that quitting time is 5:30 p.m. As it turns out, the municipal government has ordered all schools in the city to shut down except for staff who reside on campus and staff involved in “pandemic prevention and control procedures”. Oh, yeah. This is going to be fun.[/ul][/li][li]If the school will still hold a summer school over the summer break between semesters. They’ve never had summer school before, and the reason it was laid on this time is the parents and a number of students complained about online classes not being as good as in-person classes. Given that the municipal government has ordered students off campus again, holding online classes over the summer to replace online classes doesn’t strike me as what the parents are requesting–and paying for.[ul][*]This is actually still unclear at the moment. On one hand, having the summer school is good for the teachers because that means we get our full salary during what would have been the summer break between semesters; however, on the other hand, it’s nice to have a break, plus replacing online classes the parents and students did not like with yet more online classes is not likely to go over well.[/ul][/ol][/li]
I just checked China Daily online. Here is their article about the students leaving.
Hawaii - We can now fly inter-island without quarantine restrictions. IMHO we could have done that several weeks ago but so far we’re ahead of the mainland in keeping cases/deaths/spread low.
Of course, you unclean, unmasked heathens from the mainland still have to quarantine for 14 days on arrival. So unless you’re planning a three week vacation - don’t come - yet.
dup from server delay.
8,405,632 total cases
451,383 dead
4,415,785 recovered
In the US:
2,234,471 total cases
119,941 dead
918,796 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Well, this offers a different explanation for why the Chinese press has warned students not to go to ‘racist’ Australia.
Yeah, when the original announcement about summer school was made, I thought about asking, “Can we do that onlilne?” But then I decided I already get into enough trouble doing what I’m actually supposed to be doing, so I better not do stuff I’m not supposed to do.
In Tennessee, the darn fools swarm.
With no masks on.
What’s interesting is that, from the beginning, Tennessee’s inaction with respect to a COVID prevention response was often contrasted with Kentucky’s immediate response. And yet, 2 months later, their stats are pretty much equal.
Which you would expect if there were a great deal of travel between the two. Is there? I mean, I know they share a long border, but I don’t know how frequent it is for KY folks to go to Memphis or if some of the metropolitan areas straddle the border.
Gavin Newsome has issued a mandatory mask order for all indoor spaces, with a few limited exceptions.
(PDF file)
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Guidance-for-Face-Coverings_06-18-2020.pdf
Well, this is interesting. (Reuters)
I know blood type has been discussed before, but I hadn’t seen any definite figures. Apologies if this information is already here, but I think it’s important.
9,046,215 total cases
470,703 dead
4,838,359 recovered
In the US:
2,356,657 total cases
122,247 dead
980,355 recovered
The last I was able to post numbers was 4 days ago on 17 June; here they are for comparison:[quote=“Snowboarder_Bo, post:3541, topic:847758”]
8,405,632 total cases
451,383 dead
4,415,785 recovered
In the US:
2,234,471 total cases
119,941 dead
918,796 recovered[/quote]
ETA: That was quoted from the previous post using the quote feature in the new software; no idea why it’s all fucked up format-wise.
Thanks, Bo. Temporarily messed up quoting or not, I’m glad to see you here on the other side, continuing your tallies.
Odd coincidence that our hiatus occurred during a significant increase in US cases. Here in our small Wisconsin city, it’s been a lot of 20-30-year-olds getting infected. Many have to work (including in restaurants and the like), but there has also been an increase in risky behavior, like going to bars and in general not wearing masks indoors. The state overall is in the “not great trend, but not terrible” category.
I hear Florida has seen a major increase, and several southern states.