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(Originally posted to my GoFundMe less than 16 hours ago, so I didn't bother to change the timestamp. 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.)
And yet again the "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA / traditional weblogging combined with the usual begging post" series skipped a week. I don't intend this to be an ongoing pattern, and I actually have gotten enough links together for a post next week, but LAST week a post of this type just wasn't going to happen, especially after spending so much time wielding the snowblower and shovels. (For those of you who didn't hear, where I was at the start of February got 28 inches of snow over 3 days.) For THIS week, let's check in with pharma-chemist and blogger Derek Lowe and see what he's had to say about the pandemic and related topics for the past two weeks.
Screening, Within and Without
Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
Oxford AstraZeneca Data, Again
Adenovirus-Vector Vaccine Roundup, Feb 5: Sputnik and More
How You Make an Adenovirus Vaccine
Does Prior Exposure to [Other] Coronaviruses Protect You?
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement and the Coronavirus Vaccines
That oughta hold you for a while. :-) Now it is time to shift focus to the usual PSA-and-begging part of this post. Unless you're a first time reader of these posts, you can guess what comes next: the plea for those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Some businesses were essential and never closed during the lockdowns. Others, after having opened back up, are now trying to stay open to what extent they can as the semi-lockdown is being tightened back up in response to pandemic surges. What these businesses have in common is that locally owned and operated businesses give better "bang for the buck" when it comes to keeping the local economy moving. So please do what you can to help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat. Locally owned businesses are, and will continue to be, struggling to survive and get back on their feet, so please patronize them as much as you can. BUY LOCAL. Please however, do so in a safe manner. Keep on wearing masks and other protective equipment when going shopping in person, continue social distancing. Act intelligently, because I know you can.
( Rest of the begging stuff is behind the cut. )
And yet again the "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA / traditional weblogging combined with the usual begging post" series skipped a week. I don't intend this to be an ongoing pattern, and I actually have gotten enough links together for a post next week, but LAST week a post of this type just wasn't going to happen, especially after spending so much time wielding the snowblower and shovels. (For those of you who didn't hear, where I was at the start of February got 28 inches of snow over 3 days.) For THIS week, let's check in with pharma-chemist and blogger Derek Lowe and see what he's had to say about the pandemic and related topics for the past two weeks.
Screening, Within and Without
Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
Oxford AstraZeneca Data, Again
Adenovirus-Vector Vaccine Roundup, Feb 5: Sputnik and More
How You Make an Adenovirus Vaccine
Does Prior Exposure to [Other] Coronaviruses Protect You?
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement and the Coronavirus Vaccines
That oughta hold you for a while. :-) Now it is time to shift focus to the usual PSA-and-begging part of this post. Unless you're a first time reader of these posts, you can guess what comes next: the plea for those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Some businesses were essential and never closed during the lockdowns. Others, after having opened back up, are now trying to stay open to what extent they can as the semi-lockdown is being tightened back up in response to pandemic surges. What these businesses have in common is that locally owned and operated businesses give better "bang for the buck" when it comes to keeping the local economy moving. So please do what you can to help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat. Locally owned businesses are, and will continue to be, struggling to survive and get back on their feet, so please patronize them as much as you can. BUY LOCAL. Please however, do so in a safe manner. Keep on wearing masks and other protective equipment when going shopping in person, continue social distancing. Act intelligently, because I know you can.
( Rest of the begging stuff is behind the cut. )
