Pandemic 2020

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Health Care Billionaires Got Even Richer From Pandemic, Report Finds - KFF Health News

Their collective wealth went up 36% between April 7 and July 31. Health care stocks have surged this year and tend to rally when potential COVID-19 treatments or vaccines are announced.
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Zakaria: Virus ushering in greatest economic inequality in decades
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Fareed Zakaria: Virus ushering in greatest economic inequality in decades | CNN

CNN's Fareed Zakaria takes a look at how the coronavirus pandemic has worsened inequality globally and in the US.
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They are opening field hospitals in stadiums in Europe and FEMA hospitals here. Things are just getting started,months ago they had to store bodies in trucks,soon they will need refrigerated rail cars or warehouses, MAGA.
 
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Immune System Pathway That May Stop COVID-19 Infection

Blocking Immune System Pathway May Stop COVID-19 Infection, Prevent Severe Organ Damage While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers also
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Immune System Pathway That May Stop COVID-19 Infection

Blocking Immune System Pathway May Stop COVID-19 Infection, Prevent Severe Organ Damage

While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers also are focusing on better understanding how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the body in the search for other means of stopping its devastating impact. The key to one possibility — blocking a protein that enables the virus to turn the immune system against healthy cells — has been identified in a recent study by a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers.

Based on their findings, the researchers believe that inhibiting the protein, known as factor D, also will curtail the potentially deadly inflammatory reactions that many patients have to the virus.

Making the discovery even more exciting is that there may already be drugs in development and testing for other diseases that can do the required blocking.

The study was published recently in the journal Blood.
 
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First giant tech company to offer life long remote jobs for their employees. I guess this is another reason why people are leaving major cities.
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this is good fallout from trump years. with the pandemic we have discovered the US to dramatically reduce carbon footprint due to remote working..can we remote work? a resounding yes! they now realize the job will get done even if we put in a load of laundry. corporations if they're smart will stop paying for those lucrative leases which next to payroll is huge..a big saving they can convert into better pay, benefits and a savings overall..consider if you didn't have to no longer pay a mortgage(s), how much would you save.

employees save by not commuting etc.

microsoft is smart.
 
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Trump holds indoor rally for hundreds of seniors

Donald Trump rallies support from seniors in Florida, saying they’ll be first in line for a vaccine and suggests “the light at the end of the tunnel is near” on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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you're not rounding the corner when your state has as many new infected in the last week, than they did all year.
 
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trump and enablers need to be held criminally responsible for killing tens of thousands of us.

This damn president can’t find it within his worthless self to condemn militia terrorists, and I hear very little from Republthugs at all either.
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They are not real I am convinced it is almost all a bunch of trolls pretending that there is all this online support for Trump so that people think it is ok to vote for him, when it is not.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/ap-russian-military-behind-spread-of-coronavirus-disinformation.1025725/

And the occasional real person coming online to verbally get off before bedtime after they get all fluffed up by hate radio and Trump tv.
 
How America compares to Canada on covid, so far, we are currently seeing an uptick in cases in Canada. The impact of supportive treatments in lowering mortality rates significantly is another factor in play for months now and moving forward. America has almost 5 times as many cases currently, yet less than 2.5 the mortality rate and I expect treatment options and protocols to have a continued and increasing impact on mortality rates. The quality of care is equal in both countries, better in Canada because we have much less demand on medical resources and drug stock piles.

Antibody therapies are being produced in both countries and Donald's "miracle" cure is awaiting the results of clinical trials. If it works for everybody like it worked for Donald (he's still alive) antibodies and sensible public health measures might make a big difference after the new year, with responsible government.

Cases/million-------- Deaths/million
USA= 25,303 ----------- 678
CDN= 5,236 ---------- 258
 
Winter is coming so make sure you're topped up on vitamin D, read the article to see why it might be a good idea.
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SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

Until treatment and vaccine for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) becomes widely available, other methods of reducing infection rates should be explored. This study used a retrospective, observational analysis of deidentified tests performed at a national clinical laboratory to determine if...
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SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

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Until treatment and vaccine for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) becomes widely available, other methods of reducing infection rates should be explored. This study used a retrospective, observational analysis of deidentified tests performed at a national clinical laboratory to determine if circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels are associated with severe acute respiratory disease coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positivity rates. Over 190,000 patients from all 50 states with SARS-CoV-2 results performed mid-March through mid-June, 2020 and matching 25(OH)D results from the preceding 12 months were included. Residential zip code data was required to match with US Census data and perform analyses of race/ethnicity proportions and latitude. A total of 191,779 patients were included (median age, 54 years [interquartile range 40.4–64.7]; 68% female. The SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate was 9.3% (95% C.I. 9.2–9.5%) and the mean seasonally adjusted 25(OH)D was 31.7 (SD 11.7). The SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate was higher in the 39,190 patients with “deficient” 25(OH)D values (<20 ng/mL) (12.5%, 95% C.I. 12.2–12.8%) than in the 27,870 patients with “adequate” values (30–34 ng/mL) (8.1%, 95% C.I. 7.8–8.4%) and the 12,321 patients with values ≥55 ng/mL (5.9%, 95% C.I. 5.5–6.4%). The association between 25(OH)D levels and SARS-CoV-2 positivity was best fitted by the weighted second-order polynomial regression, which indicated strong correlation in the total population (R2 = 0.96) and in analyses stratified by all studied demographic factors. The association between lower SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates and higher circulating 25(OH)D levels remained significant in a multivariable logistic model adjusting for all included demographic factors (adjusted odds ratio 0.984 per ng/mL increment, 95% C.I. 0.983–0.986; p<0.001). SARS-CoV-2 positivity is strongly and inversely associated with circulating 25(OH)D levels, a relationship that persists across latitudes, races/ethnicities, both sexes, and age ranges. Our findings provide impetus to explore the role of vitamin D supplementation in reducing the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease.

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More "fake news" from those dumb bastards.
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Trump says we're 'rounding the turn' on Covid-19. Here are the facts

President Donald Trump told Fox News that the US was "rounding the turn" on Covid-19, despite the surge in coronavirus cases. CNN's John King lays out the facts.
 
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Apparently Melania is going to battle covid with “ natural ” methods ( no specifics ) and has refused to do the treatments that the Great Pumpkin has done.

Sources state melania has a lingering cough.

BE BEST:bigjoint:
 
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