It starts with the alleged advice from a nurse, who the author says told her to: “Sleep on your stomach at all times with COVID Do not lay on your back no matter what because it smashes your lungs and that will allow fluid to set in.”
Mason responds: “This is completely false. What we call proning, which means laying on your stomach, is a technique that we use only for people who already have a dangerously low oxygen level who are on oxygen support in the hospital. And yes, it does help. But if you're feeling okay for the most part, just some mild shortness of breath, your oxygen levels are normal -- this is silly advice, and really there's no place for it whatsoever.”
In the U.K. strain, the genetic change known as N501Y is thought to help enhance the virus’ transmissibility by about 50%. In the South Africa strain, it may reduce the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Tests of its effect on the Brazil variant are still in progress.
As weeks of illness turn into months, a virus copies itself millions of times. Each copy is an opportunity to make random mistakes. As it spins off new mutations, the virus may happen upon ones that help it resist medications, evade the immune system and come back stronger.
London: European leaders have given themselves sweeping powers to block crucial coronavirus vaccine shipments to Australia in a ploy condemned as unethical, dangerous and selfish.
In the more than 44,000-person study, the J&J vaccine shows particularly effectiveness in stopping severe disease, preventing 85% of severe infections and 100% of hospitalizations and deaths https://t.co/WoedDD1OAs
If cleared, J&J’s vaccine could go a long way toward ending the pandemic. Competing vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. have generated stronger overall efficacy rates of more than 90%, but require two shots to be given before their full benefits take hold. J&J’s shot also can be kept in a refrigerator for three months, while those from Pfizer and Moderna must be kept frozen.
“This is a single shot that can be given easily, it protects completely from that which we fear, having to go to the emergency room or a hospital,” said Mathai Mammen, head of global research and development for J&J’s pharmaceutical division, in an interview. “It’s going to change the nature of the disease.”
Can it stop coronavirus?
A review of research by NICE suggests there is no evidence to support taking vitamin D supplements to specifically prevent or treat coronavirus.
S. Kalyanaraman replies: Strategic autonomy denotes the ability of a state to pursue its national interests and adopt its preferred foreign policy without being constrained in any manner by other states
While the variant from the U.K. took about three months to dominate the outbreak in England, P.1 took only about a month to dominate the outbreak in Manaus. In addition, Manaus had already been hit extremely hard by the virus in April. One study estimated that the population should have reached herd immunity and the virus shouldn't be able to spread easily in the community. So why would the city see an even bigger surge 10 months later?
As India rolls out one of the world’s biggest inoculation programs, some health-care and other frontline workers are hesitating because of safety concerns over a vaccine that has yet to complete phase III trials. As of Monday, only about 56% of people eligible to get the shot have stepped forward in a nation with the world’s second-worst Covid-19 outbreak.
“At least 40% of doctors here are unsure and want to wait,” said Vinod Kumar, a resident doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences of Patna, in the eastern state of Bihar.
“Covaxin could turn out to be a better vaccine in the future,” said Mohapatra, who is also vice president of the resident doctors’ association at the hospital. “But for now there is some apprehension because of the lack of a complete trial.
はああああ・・・・（ため息）。インドは供給力あるんだけど、安全生がまだ確認できてないのかああ。
India says it can produce 500 million shots per month for export, and countries such as the U.K., Belgium and Saudi Arabia have sought to buy them
The Constitution doesn’t indicate that removal from office requires two-thirds of the Senate. It requires two-thirds of senators present for the proceedings.
If a few Republicans didn’t appear, that would reduce the number of Republicans required to vote with Democrats.
Meanwhile, women are more likely to leave the labor force and to end up with lower pay and less authority if they come back.
Pinker, a psychologist and a columnist at The Globe and Mail in Canada, is careful to remind her readers that statistics say nothing about the choices women and men make individually. Nor does she entirely discount the effect of sex discrimination or culture in shaping women’s choices. But she thinks these forces play only a bit part. To support this, Pinker quotes a female Ivy League law professor: “I am very skeptical of the notion that society discourages talented women from becoming scientists,” the professor writes. “My experience, at least from the educational phase of my life, is that the very opposite is true.” If women aren’t racing to the upper echelons of science, government and the corporate world despite decades of efforts to woo them, Pinker argues, then it must be because they are wired to resist the demands at the top of those fields.
Because of their biological makeup, she argues, most women want to limit the amount of time they spend at work and to find “inherent meaning” there, as opposed to domination. “Both conflict with making lots of money and rising through the ranks,” she points out.
Pinker is surely right to contest what she calls the “vanilla male model” of success — “that women should want what men want and be heartily encouraged to choose it 50 percent of the time.
The conclusion she reaches, never mind Simone de Beauvoir's liberating message all those years ago, is that biology is destiny. 'People are programmed,' she writes at one point. Women are 'built for comfort, not speed'. Testosterone makes the male of the species more vulnerable, but also more risk-taking. Oxytocin makes women more empathetic.
Susan Pinker's obsession with hormones as destiny assumes women make choices unhampered by cultural baggage. This is allied to a touching faith in market economies; in her world, there are no decisions based, for example, on the assumption that men generally still find it easier to earn more. She offers no challenge to the way corporate capitalism is organised and nowhere suggests that women's frequent decisions to work outside big companies or part-time might be indicative of a structural inequality that could perhaps be worth addressing.
If Song’s death is later revealed to be a suicide, she would join a long and troubling list of young entertainment figures who have taken their own lives in recent years in Korea’s high-pressure culture industry, including K-pop stars Sulli and Goo Hara.
In the 1970s, sociologist Donald I. Warren described the radical center as consisting of those "middle American radicals" who were suspicious of big government, the national media and academics, as well as rich people and predatory corporations. Although they might vote for Democrats or Republicans, or for populists like George Wallace, they felt politically homeless and were looking for leaders who would address their concerns.
ワクチン接種の効果タイムライン 1回目接種後10日以内は防御効果ゼロ。そこを過ぎれば2回目接種なしでもほどほど効果あり。 RT @Catfish_Man: Useful infographic from a friend on Discord. This is going to be critical for people to know as vaccination becomes more available. pic.twitter.com/zqIqranvQW
The labour market in Sweden is still divided, with more women working in nursing and care, for example, and more men working in the engineering and construction industry. There are also more men than women who start their own businesses and are managers in a workplace.
BREAKING—Good & bad news—The Moderna #COVID19 vaccine fully protected against the UK 🇬🇧 #B117 variant... but was 6x less efficient at neutralizing the South African #B1351 variant in lab test. Moderna is testing a newly synthesized booster for it—3rd shot. https://t.co/4s4Ysr5cSppic.twitter.com/CrCTrgNsre
In one letter, Chopin said that rumours about his love affairs were a “cloak for hidden feelings”, and his writing also hints at an interest in “cottaging”, or looking for sex in public toilets.
In one letter to a male school friend, he wrote: “You don’t like being kissed. Please allow me to do so today. You have to pay for the dirty dream I had about you last night.”
There are 22 letters on record from Chopin to the same friend, Tytus Woyciechowski, and he often began them with “my dearest life”, and signed off: “Give me a kiss, dearest lover.”
