Let's post some (hopefully) good news, too. Part II [Mod note in OP]

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Dubi Doo

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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674(20)30610-3

Another study indicating the common cold may cause some partial immunity to COVID-19. They seem to think that 40-60% of the population may have developed some type of immunity toward COVID. The study is peer reviewed and published in Cell, which gives it merit according to my a wife who's a scientist.

It should be taken with a grain of salt atm since they only studied 20 people. That being said, this is something that should be followed closley.
 

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Doctors say CDC-backed treatment for kids with inflammatory syndrome linked to coronavirus is ‘highly effective’
As many as 147 kids in New York have been diagnosed with a new condition linked to the coronavirus — now officially known as “multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children” or MIS-C. While most cases have been located in New York, other major cities — including Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and, as of Thursday, Denver — have reported cases, too.
With multiple reported fatalities from the illness, parents are understandably worried. But this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced some hopeful news — a treatment that is helping kids survive.
Doctors say the hallmark symptom of MIS-C is a high, sustained fever (102 or greater, over multiple days), but other common symptoms include rash, abdominal pain, diarrhea, rapid pulse and bloodshot eyes. The CDC, which recently began studying the syndrome, hosted a webinar this week to help shed light on what doctors know thus far.

The organization noted that a direct link between coronavirus and MIS-C has not been drawn but that “many children with MIS-C had the virus that causes COVID-19, or had been around someone with COVID-19.” The syndrome has proven deadly in at least a handful of cases, but in the most promising news thus far, the CDC revealed this week that doctors have found a treatment — one that’s not only lessening symptoms, but allowing kids to leave the hospital feeling back to normal.
Head of the pediatric infectious diseases division at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Audrey John has seen some cases of MIS-C in her department and has seen major success treating kids with it. She describes IVIG as “pooled antibodies” which can be “used to provide immunity to people who don’t make their own antibodies.” She notes that it is the standard treatment for Kawasaki disease (KD), a rare inflammatory syndrome in kids that has many overlapping symptoms with MIS-C.
As a part of the CDC’s webinar, the organization shared details about the number of patients studied — 33 in total. All of the individuals were given IVIG, 30 percent of them were also given a second dose. The majority (70 percent) were also given a corticosteroid, which works in tandem with the drug to dampen the immune system.

The mortality rate among the group was 0 percent, and 82 percent had been discharged from the hospital at the time of the report.
The effects of IVIG on kids with MIS-C seem extremely promising, but neither John or Shulman are ready to deem this a cure. “Since this is a new syndrome, we do not have long-term follow up on any children who have been diagnosed with this condition,” says John. “In Kawasaki disease, most children respond to a single dose of IVIG and their symptoms do not return. For MIS-C, we hope that symptoms will not return when the IVIG wears off (over weeks to months), but we do not yet know for sure that will be the case.”

“We have about two and a half weeks knowledge of this new syndrome and what we know is the vast majority of the patients that are being reported responded quite dramatically to treatment with IVIG or steroids,” Shulman adds. “But we don't have longterm follow up yet on these patients. Most of them are seemingly doing very well. So what we can say is that this seems to be a highly effective treatment.”
 

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Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to begin phase II/III human trials | University of Oxford

Sounds like Oxford is approaching Phase 2 and 3 simultaneously

Everything sounds great except:

ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 is made from a virus (ChAdOx1), which is a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) that causes infections in chimpanzees, that has been genetically changed so that it is impossible for it to replicate in humans.

Why use a virus that infects one of the closest related species to us when the current virus jumps multiple species? In this case lets hope that the impossible doesnt become possible.
 

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Maasai Nature Conservancy Asks For Help To Fight Pandemic—And 100,000 People Answer
The rolling plains of the Maasai Mara in Kenya are home to the famous red-cloaked Maasai people as well as some of the most charismatic animals on earth.

When it became clear COVID-19 would destroy the tourism industry of the Maasai living in the breathtaking Nashulai Nature Conservancy, the tribe petitioned Avaaz, a website connecting local people-powered movements, to try and organize a response call for help.
As a result, 100,000 people raised money to help pay the rangers’ salaries, ensuring that the critical Nashulai elephant migration corridor remained safe from poachers. The money was also enough to secure sanitation and medical supplies and food for the Maasai community there, so they could survive the COVID-19 storm.
About 3,000 people live inside the boundaries of the 6,000-acre conservancy, with another 5,000 living in surrounding communities in traditional Maasai villages where they rely mostly on their cattle for food and money
The Maasai are famous warriors, and the conservancy established a mighty force against poachers. Professional rangers and young warriors called “moran” who are trained in bush practices, now serves as “The Warriors for Wildlife Protection”, monitoring the animal populations and protecting against poaching.

 

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RV owners are lending them out to frontline workers so they can quarantine from family but still stay closeby.

The RVs4MDs group launched on March 24. That's when a Texas woman, Emily Phillips, went on Facebook seeking housing help for her husband, an emergency room doctor. A woman named Holly Haggart, whom she'd never met, answered her plea and the two became friends and founders of the group. As of Memorial Day, they've matched 1,460 frontline health care workers with borrowed RVs.
"These are people doing this 100% for free out of the goodness of their heart," said Amber Bouton, an RVs4MDs volunteer in charge of the pairings. "Not a cent is being exchanged. They're doing it to save lives."

House-Bound RV Owners Loan Their Idle Vehicles To Frontline Workers In Need
 

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In the BC Interior there have been no hospitalizations in a month. Other than the breakout at the Bylands in West Kelowna, it has been nill in Kamloops and the Okanagan.
 
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In the BC Interior there have been no hospitalizations in a month. Other than the breakout at the Bylands in West Kelowna, it has been nill in Kamloops and the Okanagan.

Believe it is primarily Ontario and Quebec right? We're going to have to see how things look in 10-14 days after that park fiasco in Toronto.
 
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In Australia, the National Rugby League re-commenced tonight. (No crowds)



The main Sport in Aus is AFL (aussie rules). Starts back up in 2 weeks.
 

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There are 2541 cases in BC, with the Fraser Coastal Health at 899, Fraser Health 1267, Vancouver Island Health 127, Norther BC Health Region 62, and 194 active cases in the Interior.
 
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More data backing up the lower mortality rate than initially believed (Most recent studies I saw had it at 0.66%, this data lines up directly with that).

Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought
Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared.

The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself.

The tests are finding large numbers of people in the U.S. who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous.
"The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

That's in contrast with death rates of 5% or more based on calculations that included only people who got sick enough to be diagnosed with tests that detect the presence of virus in a person's body.
 
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Yes, the CDC recently came out with some low numbers. Now the question is, do we open up in order to gain herd immunity to avoid a second wave?
I’ll phrase this positively:

If you are worried about the inevitability of a second wave don’t be.

This ‘second wave’ is not ‘out there’ poised to advance or strike, like a radiation cloud crossing borders or the deadlier second thrust of a tsunami.

The second wave is really the first wave: remnants remain and, as things open up again and people become careless, it re-surges.


In other words, preventing and managing a second wave is completely within our control as long as we are vigilant.

Edit: confused threads as a similar discussion is going on in another thread
 
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Our Nursing Director is hopeful we'll be entering phase 2 soon. Really proud of the legislature, doctors, nurses, and all of the medical staff who have been on the front lines here in Rochester. They've done a great job so far. Also, I notice a ton of people wearing masks indoors, so kudos to the community, too, even if they are wearing them wrong some times at least they're showing the awareness to wear them. Unfortunately people are being neglectful outside. Really hoping heat and humidity impacts the spread of this nasty little bastard.
 

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Hello Y'all...

About 2 weeks ago my mother in law got Covid. She's in her upper 60's and wound up in a hospital in Tampa (where she lives). She also then got pneumonia.

Since this is a positive thread I'll spare the negative portions of this story and just say that she was the first person in the hospital to receive Remdesivir. She was on it for about 5 days and within 48 hours of the first dose she started to get markedly better. She was in the hospital for about 10 days and went home on Friday. She seems like mostly herself again and expected to make a full recovery.

I'm not advocating for/against Remdesivir as this one story doesn't prove/disprove it's worth. The bottom line good news is that she is better, and at worst Remdesivir played no part, but also didn't get in the way of her immune system doing its job. So to me that is a positive...And if Remdesivir was in fact the reason she improved so significantly then that is very very positive.
 
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