Study reveals how COVID-19 can directly damage brain cells
What can I tell you. It’s still the virus from hell:
Covid-19 can get into, and damage, human brains
It gets to your brain one way or another. They continue to debate exactly how.
Reminder if you’re high risk, get the monoclonal treatments if you test positive and get them fast. 50% better outcomes if given in days 1-5 from symptoms vs later.
Following mAb treatment, 31 (10.8%) patients required treatment in the ED or hospitalization due to disease progression. Patients who received early (days 1-5 of symptom onset) mAb infusion had a decreased risk for disease progression compared with those who received late (days 6-12 of symptom onset) mAb infusion (6.1% vs 13.2%; P =.048).
Of 21 patients who received mAb infusion between days 1 and 3 following symptom onset, none experienced disease progression.
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No surprise there. The difficulty, I hear, is actually getting the treatment, cause apparently they are nowhere to be found.
Depends where you are. For a while, only cities with good research hospitals and similar were knowledgeable enough to order these as they were not widely known and pre-hospitalization treatment options for most were horse paste or nothing until you had trouble breathing.
More recently, the Biden admin started interfering in the distribution process, involving extra layers of bureaucracy in order to control distribution, presumably along “Heath equity” lines, such as prioritizing favored minorities or prisoners over high risk individuals such as those with immune system problems who could use monoclonals for prophylaxis, as well as favoring states with higher vaccination rates to punish the sick people living in ones with lower rates.
At least they ordered more doses from the companies, so the supply shortage should get better in due course.
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Long covid - vaccination reduced severity of long covid symptoms and improved chances for full recovery, but not by that much (10-20% improvement)
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Gain of Function, the Wuhan Blame Game
- Bat Coronavirus Study Met Requirements of NIH Grant, Says EcoHealth. EcoHealth Says It Reported Experiment Results Promptly in 2018
- NIH Stands by Assertion That EcoHealth Didn’t Meet Reporting Requirements
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Post to circumvent the consecutive reply limit.
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UK study finds that vaccination doesn’t help much to slow transmission of Delta in a household setting (although it helps with health outcomes).
Primary outcomes for the epidemiological analysis were to assess the secondary attack rate (SAR) in household contacts stratified by contact vaccination status and the index cases’ vaccination status… we sampled contacts daily, regardless of symptomatology, to actively identify infection with high sensitivity.
We identified similar SAR (25%) in household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases as in those exposed to unvaccinated index cases (23%). This finding indicates that breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people can efficiently transmit infection in the household setting
in household contacts exposed to the delta variant, SAR was 38% in unvaccinated contacts and 25% in fully vaccinated contacts.
Our findings help to explain how and why the delta variant is being transmitted so effectively in populations with high vaccine coverage. Although current vaccines remain effective at preventing severe disease and deaths from COVID-19, our findings suggest that vaccination alone is not sufficient to prevent all transmission of the delta variant in the household setting
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Am I the only one who is absolutely appalled by this? I know these kind of articles arent what typically get posted here, but there isnt much I’ve ever read that makes me sick - yet this made me distinctly nauseous.
My daughter, 11, has been wonderful throughout the pandemic. She social distances at all times, we never have to remind her to put her masks on, and we found a fully virtual scholastic program so she can avoid the significant risks of large crowds in the public schools.
A few weeks ago, however, her other parent and I had an obligation that we both had to be present for (we are both vaccinated, it was socially distanced, and we were wearing masks). Usually one of us would stay home with her, but because of her maturity level and the short time we would be gone, we assumed we could trust her on her own.
When we arrived home, we found her with a friend of hers who lives about a block away. She has visited on occasion throughout the pandemic but they know the rules. They are to stay outside and on opposite ends of the driveway or patio. The patio only offers about 5 feet of distance, but we decided that should be enough as long as they stay outside and keep their masks on.
Anyway, when we arrived home on this particular day, both her and her friend were in the living room, sitting on the same couch, not wearing masks, not socially distanced, and each putting their hands into the same bowl of chips. Why she would take this kind of risk, I still don’t understand.
I immediately told her friend that she had to go home and to please inform her mother to call me at her earliest convenience. I then expressed my disappointment with my daughter and informed her how dangerous what she did was. I reminded her about the delta variant and how it’s caused so many children her age to end up in the ICU. I told her that she only has to wait a few more months until she’s eligible for the vaccine, and this isn’t the time to become complacent.
We took all the necessary steps to remain safe. She immediately quarantined in her bedroom for the suggested two weeks. I cleaned the house thoroughly and opened multiple windows to circulate the air. Luckily, we all came out of this debacle safely.
I still don’t feel I can trust her, though. I understand it’s normal for her to make mistakes, but this wasn’t forgetting to turn a light off or close the refrigerator. She put her life at risk. How do we start building the trust back?
I really hope this little story was concocted to push a political agenda, because my only response is that this person is unfit to be a parent and should be investigated for child abuse.
Please tell me someone agrees this is a ridiculously insane story, and not what is considered a remotely rational reaction anywhere?
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I suspect Slate got trolled. Isolating a child for 2 weeks in a room without an actual known exposure / positive test result? That’s insane.
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There was a substack post about getting fake stuff published in slate advice columns not too long ago. This is probably fake.
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Got trolled, or is doing the trolling? Because I’d think that any response that isn’t “you are insane” has to be equally fake.
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First of all, @glitch99,I read your comments, which made me curious enough to go back to the complete post.
I’m not nauseous now, but reminds me of the old “True Confession” magazine articles. Mostly something teenagers loved to read. I don’t know if they are still around, but they probably are.
But these parents mentioned here are stupid, IMO.
Then again I don’t go along with many of today’s younger folks, mostly Biden’s contemporaries. To me, the people who are living in the Leftist world would be raising their children in this atmosphere.
So you can call me old fashioned. I don’t believe in Critical Race Theory either. 
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At least got trolled. I read the response and was taken aback too, however… I was thinking that if anyone is insane enough to ask such a question, this would probably be the only way to answer it without making those parents defensive / turning them against you. You have to approach it like a psychologist talking to an insane person.
I think you need to check the dictionary before using big words. Pretty sure you’re not (or not much) older than Biden, and even then it wouldn’t make sense.
Are you the person that uses “pretty sure”?
Obvious trolling. That said, we got someone here just said it’d be child abuse for a parent to set rules for visitors to their own house and ground their kid… “contemporary” socialist Tucker Carlson “conservatives”?
Yeah, sure, setting rules for visitors and grounding their kid is all it was. Whatever.
Besides, I didnt say it was child abuse, I said it should be investigated. Because that level insanity begs the question of what other “rules” may also be on the books in that house.
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It’s fine when “parents” want to teach their kids to be racists and bigots. “It’s a free country”. But if they want to follow health policy more stringently than you - “that level of insanity needs to be investigated!”
No. It was obvious maga anarchists’ trolling, and not a real letter in to the editor.
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