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(Originally posted to my GoFundMe, and backdated to the date of that original post. This is basically copied verbatim (modulo formatting), including the fundraising stuff at the end; I *was* posting to GoFundMe after all. Feel free to ignore those bits if you want. Link to the fundraiser will be provided in the comments and upon request.)
This installment of "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA combined with traditional weblogging and begging post" looks at various links related to the pandemic. This one's going to be kind of scattershot. It's now the end of May and I've been posting about two of these every week for quite a while. I'm considering dropping the frequency to maybe six for the entire month of June. But I'll keep my eye on things and may up the frequency if there's enough to post about, and that goes for July and beyond as well. Bear in mind that I'm expecting a jump in infection rates as states reopen, which may prompt enough articles to justify more frequent posts here. Anyway, on to today's links.
From the Science Dept.:
Targets of T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in humans with COVID-19 disease and unexposed individuals
From the "Slightly Weird Science" Dept.:
Fighting COVID-19 With... Llamas?!
From the "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics" Dept.:
The Uncounted Dead: Why some people who likely died from COVID-19 aren’t included in the final numbers
Opinion | My Mother Died of the Coronavirus. It’s Time She Be Counted.
From the "No, Really, This Timeline Needed Even More Weirdness" Dept.:
Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India
And finally back to the Science Dept.: An online acquaintance's family member was on a small cruise ship off South America back in March/April when all this got "real". Turns out there were a couple of medical docs with research backgrounds as passengers (and one working as one of two ship's docs) who have written up the test results and experience for the BMJ. They "describe what we believe is the first instance of complete COVID-19 testing of all passengers and crew on an isolated cruise ship during the current COVID-19 pandemic."
COVID-19: in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton
And now let's continue on to the usual begging stuff. You probably know all this by now, but I'll say it anyway: before and in addition to the usual plea for help for ourselves, I'm going to ask those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES that are still open. Help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat, as and if you can. And remember that once the worst of this has passed, locally owned businesses will be struggling to get back on their feet, so please be ready to patronize them as much as you can when it's time for them to reopen. Please however, do so in a safe manner. Recent news shows that a lot of people, including some militant numbskulls VERY LOCAL to my parents, are acting quite UNintelligently about this. Don't be one of those.
( Rest of the begging section is behind the cut. )
This installment of "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA combined with traditional weblogging and begging post" looks at various links related to the pandemic. This one's going to be kind of scattershot. It's now the end of May and I've been posting about two of these every week for quite a while. I'm considering dropping the frequency to maybe six for the entire month of June. But I'll keep my eye on things and may up the frequency if there's enough to post about, and that goes for July and beyond as well. Bear in mind that I'm expecting a jump in infection rates as states reopen, which may prompt enough articles to justify more frequent posts here. Anyway, on to today's links.
From the Science Dept.:
Targets of T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in humans with COVID-19 disease and unexposed individuals
From the "Slightly Weird Science" Dept.:
Fighting COVID-19 With... Llamas?!
From the "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics" Dept.:
The Uncounted Dead: Why some people who likely died from COVID-19 aren’t included in the final numbers
Opinion | My Mother Died of the Coronavirus. It’s Time She Be Counted.
From the "No, Really, This Timeline Needed Even More Weirdness" Dept.:
Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India
And finally back to the Science Dept.: An online acquaintance's family member was on a small cruise ship off South America back in March/April when all this got "real". Turns out there were a couple of medical docs with research backgrounds as passengers (and one working as one of two ship's docs) who have written up the test results and experience for the BMJ. They "describe what we believe is the first instance of complete COVID-19 testing of all passengers and crew on an isolated cruise ship during the current COVID-19 pandemic."
COVID-19: in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton
And now let's continue on to the usual begging stuff. You probably know all this by now, but I'll say it anyway: before and in addition to the usual plea for help for ourselves, I'm going to ask those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES that are still open. Help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat, as and if you can. And remember that once the worst of this has passed, locally owned businesses will be struggling to get back on their feet, so please be ready to patronize them as much as you can when it's time for them to reopen. Please however, do so in a safe manner. Recent news shows that a lot of people, including some militant numbskulls VERY LOCAL to my parents, are acting quite UNintelligently about this. Don't be one of those.
( Rest of the begging section is behind the cut. )
