I read that the Gates Foundation is soon going to bankroll mass production of the seven currently most promising vaccine candidates. If one emerges as “the” vaccine then they’ll ramp up production on it, destroy the rest, and eat the cost. They’re hoping it will cut months off of the timetable to produce and distribute a vaccine at scale. Getting a head start on it will hopefully mean that the virus won’t circulate as H1N1.
Catholic Masses have to be said if there is an intention. Does anyone need to congregate besides the priest for a mass? No. You will notice, that there are more masses streamed now than ever before. The thing that bothers Catholics (at least this one) the most is not being able to receive sacraments. I can’t imagine my mom getting so sick that not only could I not go see her but a priest - to administer anointing of the sick or last rites. Which is why we are staying home. Better to not need those sacraments right now than to need them and not be able to receive them.
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You can hear/see more here.
I’m with you there. I have seen cases where people say that it works and has helped them but also have heard that it would not work. A little too un-known for me at this point to take it if I was in a bad way with the virus. I hope it proves to work and help people though.
To be fair, you can’t get HCQ without a prescription. Better to say that just because POTUS is recommending HCQ doesn’t necessarily mean doctors should be prescribing it. And another problem, as we’ve seen in the cases of chloroquine poisoning, is that people are mistaking that medication for other similar-sounding chemicals that they can get without a prescription. Even if HCQ is the miracle drug that Trump is claiming, he shouldn’t be the one pimping it. The doctors will find out about it without him.
Doesn’t fit with his Messiah complex.
Waldo, I’m not disagreeing with you but there are a lot of drugs people need prescriptions for that they still get. MAGA hat wearers are just the type to do this. After all, it is within their rights.
I hope it is, but IMHO, since we’ve heard of it being used for over a couple of weeks and if it truly were a silver bullet, we would likely know by now.
Oh, I know that. Didn’t think it was worth mentioning.
Same with OxyContin. That didn’t stop it getting over-prescribed to the point of causing a nationwide addiction epidemic. I have read that HCQ supplies are short because of a spike in prescriptions, which can only be doctors dishing it out to people who otherwise wouldn’t be on it.
Trump has been the voiceover to a drug commercial saying “ask your doctor if _____ is right for you”, without the shockingly long list of potential downsides and side-effects. Quite the opposite, in fact, as I’ve never seen a drug commercial end with “what have you got to lose?”
Some good news: the world just recorded its 300,000th recovery.
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Trump and family have a financial interest in that drug. Mystery solved. Fuck him.
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CA Gov. Newsome says that the state - through a consortium of non-profit orgs - has sourced 150 million N95 masks from overseas. CA has also been shipping ventilators to other states.
He told Californians that the next week is their expected peak and so - if they have the supplies in hand - they should stay indoors entirely.
I guess this is what leadership and competence looks like.
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Newsome caught a lot of shit for shutting the state down from many, including media darling Anthony Cuomo, who followed suite shortly thereafter. The Bay area counties shut it down first followed by L.A. and Orange County then quickly followed by the whole state on 3-19. I’ve been under SHO since the 16th.
We’ve not done a good job with testing here in Cali, but our fatalities are a tiny fraction of New York’s even though our population is double theirs and we got the virus earlier. Doubtless NYC has particular difficulties with density and mass transit, but moving early has made all the difference.
I can’t go to the beach and distance socially, despite the gale-force fresh air, but these MAGAts can pack in a church then go to the same grocery store I do.
Staying out of grocery stores is easy here. I will not go back in one for quite awhile.
Getting harder to do now that curbside pickup and delivery slots are both slammed.
I haven’t left my yard in 10 days, except to drive to the mailbox down the road. I have a supply of but not a fan of canned goods, I like fresh fruit and vegetables. But I’m doing without since, except for a couple of onions, potatoes and an acorn squash, I ran out two days ago. Apples stay fresh longer than bananas and strawberries. For now I have to settle for smoothies with orange juice, frozen peaches and frozen strawberries. Next time I go I’ll buy a bag of apples. Probably will be in the next couple of days, because I’m getting low on dog food, beer and minnows.
There are H-E-B stores all over Austin with available times. Do not limit yourself to your normal store or for convenience.
Again, leadership. He took the popularity hit but people stopped talking about CA as an issue a while ago.
New York - especially NYC - was slow to shut down. Cuomo is having a moment but he, to a lesser extent, and de Blasio, to a greater extent, share some responsibility for not locking things down early enough. NYC’s first recorded case was on March 1, which means they probably already had a raft of cases they didn’t know about, but they didn’t shut it down until March 22.
I’m not a fan of Mayor Turner here in Houston, but he closed the rodeo mid-run, on March 12. If he’d allowed it to continue, I suspect we’d be having a major epicenter of the virus here right now.
Turner was getting some sideways shit from a KPRC reporter last night for building a $15 million hospital facility at NRG Stadium; the reporter wondered about the cost to tax payers if we don’t need it. The reporter also pointed out that 75% of the cost is being picked up by FEMA, so that’s $3.75 million to Harris County taxpayers, which is money very well spent IMHO.
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