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(Originally posted to my GoFundMe earlier today, 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.)
It's been a very busy past few weeks for me, what with preparations for Easter -- including the usual Large Pile Of Music To Sing, only this time around we've had to make recordings of everything and send it in to the choir director for mixing and synching and EQ-ing. On top of all that I have managed to get my first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (Team Pfizer/BioNTech, if you're interested, but it was really up to the administering facility and no choice of mine). So, what with one thing and another, three ye^H^H weeks passed. Getting on for four, really. So this week in "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA / traditional weblogging combined with the usual begging post" I'll look at the rest of March with our intrepid pharmacological chemist and blogger Derek Lowe and his blog for Science Translational Medicine, and then NEXT week I'll look at what he's blogged so far in April.
To the surprise of very few, the second half of March had a lot of alarums and excursions regarding the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.
What is Going on With the AstraZeneca/Oxford Vaccine?
The Problem with COVID-19 Clinical Trials
AstraZeneca’s US Vaccine Trial Data
Blood Clots and the AZ Vaccine, Revisited
After those links, let's shift to the usual PSA-and-begging part of this post. Repeat readers can easily predict what comes next: the plea for those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Some of these 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. )
It's been a very busy past few weeks for me, what with preparations for Easter -- including the usual Large Pile Of Music To Sing, only this time around we've had to make recordings of everything and send it in to the choir director for mixing and synching and EQ-ing. On top of all that I have managed to get my first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (Team Pfizer/BioNTech, if you're interested, but it was really up to the administering facility and no choice of mine). So, what with one thing and another, three ye^H^H weeks passed. Getting on for four, really. So this week in "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA / traditional weblogging combined with the usual begging post" I'll look at the rest of March with our intrepid pharmacological chemist and blogger Derek Lowe and his blog for Science Translational Medicine, and then NEXT week I'll look at what he's blogged so far in April.
To the surprise of very few, the second half of March had a lot of alarums and excursions regarding the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.
What is Going on With the AstraZeneca/Oxford Vaccine?
The Problem with COVID-19 Clinical Trials
AstraZeneca’s US Vaccine Trial Data
Blood Clots and the AZ Vaccine, Revisited
After those links, let's shift to the usual PSA-and-begging part of this post. Repeat readers can easily predict what comes next: the plea for those of you who are able to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. Some of these 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. )
