Thank you, Runner for providing some sanity here.

Sry Mr P Body, It was thinly veiled to the original title of the post and a continue of a couple other posts. The words I wrote, and others joined in are from a ,sry for this, a Grateful Dead song. I did not think about that connection until I began writing that sentence. The engineer guy obviously had a nut and gear loose, no way a locomotive (likely a switcher on a rail freight siding) could blow through the barriers, travel the distance and fly through the air and hit the ship. Hepefully he will get some help. Only trying to lighten up the atmosphere. Things have been very heavy in the world for quite awhile.
Cr*p, today I had to go out to a three horse town to get milk, some spring vegetable starts and seed packs for the summer gardern and I'm still feeling like I inhaled bad air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=372&v=bpQFCcSI0pU&feature=emb_logo

After watching the video review the comments...

After this is over some group should try to “model” what amount of money and lives would have been saved if young people had been asked to volunteer to get infected and stay isolated for 21 days, then donate plasma to inject into all other citizens.

We need to study this because future infections may be even worse.

In future infections it might not be the young needed as volunteers, it might instead be people with certain genes.

How the deadly Ebola virus epidemic taught valuable methods against COVID-19

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-treatments-harness-antibodies-coronavirus-survivors.html

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Several companies, as well as a number of powerhouse academic labs, aim to meet the challenge of identifying and generating these life-saving NAbs.

At the fore is Regeneron, the pharmaceutical company that designed the effective Ebola treatment. Although targeting a different virus, their overall strategy remains the same. They've isolated and characterized NAbs and plan to engineer a cocktail of the most potent molecules. The viral target of these antibodies is the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein; the NAbs work by preventing the virus from entering cells.

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Safest way to see an MD for the next several weeks, is like Yale is doing

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-doctor-covid-telehealth.html

Some good info in this thread.

Long article about ventilators

https://www.cnet.com/features/in-th...ilators-face-their-toughest-mission-yet/

Previous article stated only 3 of 22 coronavirus patients placed on ventilators lived, according to Chinese

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus...rget-costco-selling-nonessential-2951551

Wonder if other state governors will follow Vermont?
Seems unnecessary.

Very... if you are already in there, who cares what items you put in the cart.

Around here some of the Target's roped off most of the store right from the start.
We just assumed it was because they didn't want to have to sanitize the entire stores footprint every day.
So they limited everyone to the grocery, cleaning & paper products sections.
At the time we didn't even have a "Stay at home" order in place yet.

Whether it makes sense of not... expect many more states jump on the bandwagon.
Few think for themselves anymore... they just follow.

Trials have just begun with this therapy. Keep in mind it's treatment for those infected, not a vaccine.

First Plasma Trial march 31 <-Click

idk if your big retailers are anything like what I experience. Seems to me many people go there for social interaction as they wander aimlessly "shopping". I see no problem with the model of reduced access and ordering and pick-up. Reducing the "herd" will flatten the curve.

Canadian drug

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-trial-drug-significantly-block-early.html


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Our new study provides very much needed direct evidence that a drug—called APN01 (human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2—hrsACE2)—soon to be tested in clinical trials by the European biotech company Apeiron Biologics, is useful as an antiviral therapy for COVID-19," says Dr. Art Slutsky, a scientist at the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael's Hospital and professor at the University of Toronto who is a collaborator on the study.

In cell cultures analyzed in the current study, hrsACE2 inhibited the coronavirus load by a factor of 1,000-5,000.

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No updates regarding the trial vaccine in Seattle since the first couple people were injected. I know it’s early, but it seems there would be SOME discussion about it, I.E., explanation of the monitoring and tests that the people are undergoing, etc. Even if the next steps are months away they should tell us.....IMO....
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/new...-investigational-vaccine-covid-19-begins

I posted several pages back that the FDC discounted the claim that vaccine/treatment was going to be immediately available. Here we are.

Dolly says “Keep the faith”

https://www.mid-day.com/articles/do...h-with-usd-one-million-donation/22708299

Over the counter spray “Halo” being tested

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-tested-infection-prevention/5111556002/

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“We have every reason to believe it will be effective,” said Dr. Robert A. Salata, chairman of the department of medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and principal investigator for the study.

The product, marketed commercially under the brand name Halo, has shown promise in preventing influenza and other respiratory illnesses in laboratory studies and in a small clinical trial that Salata supervised at University Hospitals in 2015-16.

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THERE ya go ... some type of an INHALER... I brought up that idea days ago

That's great, just try to buy some though.