tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21894341833065210902024-03-06T15:01:21.680-05:00Critical Medical NewsDoctors miss many things and are always behind the latest developments. I know, I had to find my own treatment for Crohn's and Stage II cancer. Don't blame your doctor, he or she does their best but just can't keep up. As a 30-year science journalist I CAN. Please follow this blog via atom or my G+ or Tweets, I ONLY report critical information, I won't post less vital information just to be able to post every day.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-3063587136320561232023-05-08T11:38:00.000-04:002023-05-08T11:38:14.861-04:00Lifesaving solution dramatically reduces severe bleeding after childbirth<p>A process/medication <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">known as E-MOTIVE, has been shown to dramatically reduce severe bleeding after childbirth. The solution involves objectively measuring blood loss using a simple, low-cost collection device called a ‘drape’ and bundling together WHO-recommended treatments - rather than offering them sequentially.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 24px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;">The study, which involved over 200 000 women in four countries, found that the solution was effective in reducing severe bleeding by 60%. It also resulted in a reduction in the rate of blood transfusions, which is of particular importance in low-income countries where blood is a scarce and expensive resource.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 24px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;">The findings of this study are a major breakthrough in the fight against maternal mortality. Postpartum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide, and this solution has the potential to save millions of lives.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 24px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 24px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;">See more at <a href="https://newsblaze.com/usnews/health/lifesaving-solution-dramatically-reduces-severe-bleeding-after-childbirth_191031/">https://newsblaze.com/usnews/health/lifesaving-solution-dramatically-reduces-severe-bleeding-after-childbirth_191031/</a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 24px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;">The E-MOTIVE solution is now being rolled out in countries around the world, and it is expected to have a major impact on the prevention of maternal mortality.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-74484521171915940922023-03-10T14:40:00.000-05:002023-03-10T14:40:01.258-05:00U.S. Economic Woes Worse Than You Think. Worse than most CAN think.<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Note, i sent this as a newsletter to subscribers and friends yesterday but, since a major bank in Silicon Valley just went bankrupt perhaps more people might believe my projections. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The country is far, FAR beyond bankruptcy.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The republicans want cuts which would bankrupt many Americans.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Legally States can't run deficits so they can't make up for Federal Cuts.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are likely headed to a natioinal depression, possibly a worldwide recession or worse.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Anyone see any way out of this short of a shooting revolution where the country </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">changes to a new country and repudiates all debts of the former US?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Faced with this challenge in the past, what have countries, including the US have done in the past? Two basic moves, not counting declaring war on someone which is always a popular choice and still, unfortunately, open to consideration at the highest levels.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1.>Borrowing from the world bank or the US</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2.>Devaluing the currency - can't happen here, right?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For the first choice w<span style="color: #222222;">e have already borrowed massive amounts from China - abt $1T </span>and are not<span style="color: #222222;"> likely to </span><span style="color: #222222;">get a good rate on a new loan. </span><span style="color: #222222;">We are the major supporter of the world bank. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">So getting a $30 to $50 trillion loan to tide the US over for two years seems unlikely since it would actually come from us.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Second option - devaluing the dollar.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(Devaluing a currency also reduces the true size of loans and other debt.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">But that couldn't happen in an advanced country, could it?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">The UK devalued the pound by 40% in 1949 , again in 60. again in 70 and</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> in 1972 George Soros made $1B in one day as the pound was devalued again</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Since 1900 the Pound has dropped from $5/pound to $1/pound while the dollar has</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">also been plunging by 900% or so.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">Benjamin Franklin pointed out the revolutionary war was </span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> essentially paid for by the devaluation of the colonial dollar by 99%.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1834 the "treasury" reduced the amount of gold in coins by 6% (devaluation.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1853 the amount of silver was reduced in US coins.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Roosevelt officially devalued the dollar by 40% in 1933 </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and outlawed private ownership of gold.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nixon again officially devalued the dollar 40 years later and</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">made gold ownership legal again and took the US off the gold standard</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>temporarily</b> (45 years and counting).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Those were "official" devaluations.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Inflation is informal devaluation - from 1971 through 2023 inflation lowered the US Dollar's</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">value by 90%+ (a 72 Corvette sold for $5,200.) Does that make it easier to understand</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">how Clinton could balance the budget?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">Devaluing a currency makes it easier to repay loans since they are denominated </span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div>in currency, not precious metals.</div><div> </div><div>So, my question is, can anyone suggest a possible way the government might </div><div>decide to reduce the national debt OTHER than hoping for continuing and increasing <span> </span><span> </span>inflation?</div><div><br /></div><div>Or they could be honest and just have an official devaluation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Does anyone still have a savings account? Paper money in the house? <span style="color: #222222;">Bonds?</span></div><div><br /></div><div>If so a<span style="color: #222222;">t least you won't have a shortage of toilet paper if we do have a </span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;">major depression </span><span style="color: #222222;">or just a long-term fiscal default by the Federal Government.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;">Remember, raising the debt ceiling ONLY pays for money the country has ALREADY spent, it doesn't make it easier to spend more money next year.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;">I could be wrong.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-29483987491210159652022-07-18T14:59:00.000-04:002022-07-18T14:59:27.603-04:00Limited Heat Deaths, Why didn't 100,000 Die In the Sub Continent When Heat Was at Lethal Levels<p> Climate change will kill the race and many other species several main ways, or so it is thought.</p><p>1) Starvation - some warmth is good for many crops but excessive heat is not good.</p><p>2) Wars - as populations are seeing starvation and lack of water they will migrate to areas which have little excess food and water. Wars small and large are inevitable.</p><p>3) Heat deaths - we all hear about hypothermia which is death or severe illness caused by low temperatures. but you will soon begin to hear much more about hyperthermia which is death from exposure to temperatures over about 105 degrees Fahrenheint for extended periods - hours, not months. The exact temperature changes with the humidity level.</p><p>However there were several months in south asia and India where the temperature was thought to be high enough to cause hundreds of thousands or even millions of deaths. About 1.5 billion people were exposed to those conditions, few of whom had air conditioning. </p><p>Heat death is difficult to accurately count but there was no extreme jump in mortality in the region.</p><p><b>The question, a vital question for the human race, is WHY DIDN'T THEY DIE?</b></p><p>If/when we learn just what happened it may show us a way billions can survive the climate change which is now inevitable.</p><p>For other problems which climate change will present see:</p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><h1 style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Preparing for Climate Change: Coastal flooding will cost the U.S. billions of dollars within two decades."</span></span></h1></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">paperback second edition</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082060615" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082060615</a> <br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">or ebook <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC</a></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-48877675765858582912022-07-17T11:41:00.003-04:002022-07-17T11:47:30.466-04:00POTENTIAL NEW Anti-Thyroid-Cancer Treatment?<p> "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, "Cambria Math", stixgeneral, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common endocrine malignancy, and its global incidence has steadily increased over the past 15 years. TC is broadly divided into well-differentiated, poorly differentiated, and undifferentiated types, depending on the histological and clinical parameters. Thus far, there are no effective treatments for undifferentiated thyroid cancers or advanced and recurrent cancer."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Cambria Math, stixgeneral, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Thus begins an NIH/PubMed paper which goes on to analyze the benefits of Piperlongumine, a potent anti thyroid cancer drug which is actually just the extract of an Asian plant Long Pepper.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Cambria Math, stixgeneral, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Research both in living animals and in the laboratory have shown this plant extract (available OTC as a supplement in places such as Amazon) blocks the life cycle of human thyroid cancer cells - and apparently ONLY those specific cells in that specific cancer.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8428232/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, "Cambria Math", stixgeneral, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8428232/</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Cambria Math, stixgeneral, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">This reminds me of the days before Malignant Melanoma treatments when I had to research obscure medical journals to find that Vitamin D-3 (and ONLY D-3) was the only treatment for the dangerous form of skin cancer.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LMHUP8W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i11" target="_blank"><span class="a-size-extra-large" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 28px; line-height: 36px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">"Does Vitamin D-3 Cure Malignant Melanoma?: How about curry? VITAL information directly from medical journals. (Collected Works: John A. McCormick Book 2) </span><span class="a-size-large a-color-secondary" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" id="productSubtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 24px; line-height: 32px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Kindle Edition</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 28px;">"</span></a></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Cambria Math, stixgeneral, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">($0.99 or free for Prime members - please note that hundreds of people read my medical blog and only ONE has ever helped me defray costs by purchasing or even reading one of my books for free. If you find some of this blog useful, even lifesaving, please consider showing your support before I get too disgusted and simply keep this sort of information to myself.)</span></span></span></p><p>In NO WAY do I recommend taking such remedies in place of sound medical treatments but sometimes there simply isn't any useful treatment such as chemotherapy. In such cases a safe supplement which is shown to be anti-cancer and which has no particular side effects is probably worth trying.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-9936236411228308482022-06-13T11:17:00.007-04:002022-06-15T15:07:06.970-04:00Lower life expectancy tied to Republican areas Red counties see falling life expectancy since 2000<p> A recent study (not COVID related) finds that over several decades the life expectancy of the population in general is lower and dropping in red areas, that is, those which have Republican political administrations.</p><p>Just one example is NY vs Iowa. 20 years ago they had nearly identical life expectancies but today you will live longer in New York State than if you live in Iowa.</p><p>Just since 1990 life expectancy in NY State has increased from <span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">74.7 years to 80.4 years.</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">CDC ranks states with the longest life expectancies as follows:</span></p><ul class="i8Z77e" style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 8: Washington. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 7: New Jersey. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 6: Connecticut. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 5: Massachusetts. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 4: Minnesota. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 3: New York. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 2: California. Total life expectancy: 80.9 years. ...</li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;">No. 1: Hawaii. Total life expectancy: 80.9 years.</li></ul><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">States with the lowest life expectancy?</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Mississippi (74.6)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">West Virginia (74.9)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Alabama (74.9)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Kentucky (75.1)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Arkansas (75.4)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Oklahoma (75.5)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Louisiana (75.5)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Tennessee (76.1)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">South Carolina (76.2)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Ohio (76.6)</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Notice any pattern?</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">And, while there may be many reasons for a lower</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">life expectancy such as poverty (Mississippi and WVA</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">for example), the fact that it keeps dropping as opposed</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">to Blue states where life expectancy is increasing</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">eliminates that argument.</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">COVID</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">The reduction in life expectancy in Republican led areas</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">(county by county) over the past 20 years was not related to COVID.</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">However in GOP dominated areas (with lower vaccination rates</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">and lower mask compliance rates with politicians fighting against</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">both vaccinations and mask wearing) there was a further dramatic</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">and nearly immediate increase in death rates.</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Reductions in life expectancy appear to be tied directly to</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">universal GOP policies reducing Medicaid access, school lunches,</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">child care, welfare payments, food stamps, and investments in</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">new hospitals.</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">But the only definite coloration is with majority political party.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220609173704.htm</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif">"</span></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Researchers examined mortality rates and federal and state election data for all counties in the U.S. from 2001 to 2019. The team found what they call a 'mortality gap' -- a widening difference between age-adjusted death rates in counties that had voted for a Democrat or a Republican in previous presidential and governor elections.</span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">"</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif">https://www.salon.com/2022/06/10/mortality-gap-red-blue-states/</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><p><b> </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The general decline in life expectancy is obviously not related to President Trump</span></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">since it has been taking place for decades. Simply put GOP health/poverty related policies</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">have resulted in a decline in quality of life and length of life.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://criticalmedicalnews.blogspot.com/2022/06/lower-life-expectancy-tied-to.html</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">That study data excluded COVID so it did not look at the past 3-4 years.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Unfortunately during COVID the results have gotten extreme. </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There has not been a small 5-10% drop in life expectancy during that period due to COVID.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While 5% is only important to those who die early by a few months, the situation in all GOP dominated states and counties is of serious concern. The chance of dying of COVID related </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">health problems in Red areas wasn't 5-10%, it was 200-220% higher. That is, if you lived through COVID in a republican area you were twice, actually more than twice as likely to die.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-77105279898114072452022-05-25T21:32:00.000-04:002022-05-25T21:32:03.622-04:00Is the earth's atmosphere/climate entering a phase transition (CHAOS)?<div><b>This is a medical blog but if starvation and destructive</b></div><div><b>storms aren't going to have massive medical </b></div><div><b>consequences, then what will?</b></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>BTW, Monkey Pox is spreading but anyone who had</div><div>the smallpox vaccine and possibly the Shingrix </div><div>Shingles vaccines are likely (83% according to</div><div>results in Africa) to have significant protection.</div><div> -------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><b>But back to a catastrophic prediction for the climate</b></div><div><b>change/global warming situation.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Given simple warming there are good computer models</div><div>which show areas of increasing drought and such.</div><div>But in a phase transition it is virtually impossible</div><div>to make predictions.</div><div><br /></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>(I already predicted that it is far too late to get </div><div>political changes to limit climate change and </div><div>we should begin massive mitigation projects.</div><div>Chaos would make many of the plans useless.</div><div><br /></div><div>(<span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Member, Union of Concerned Scientists</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) <br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A 39-year member, National Press Club (Washington)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 current FEMA certifications.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202124;">Medical Blog </span><a href="https://criticalmedicalnews.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://criticalmedicalnews.blogspot.com/</a><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div><h1 style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Preparing for Climate Change: Coastal flooding will cost </span></span></h1><h1 style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the U.S. billions of dollars within two decades."</span></span></h1></div><div>paperback second edition</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082060615" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082060615</a> <br /></div><div>or ebook <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC</a>)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div>One physics department has posted a study <div>which shows the climate isn't just warming, but may be </div><div>entering <span style="color: #222222;">a phase transition. For non physicists, English for </span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;">phase transition is </span><span style="color: #222222;">CHAOS.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div>The earth has gone through previous phase transitions</div><div>triggered by things like massive volcanic eruptions.</div><div><br /></div><div>The threat, of course, is that if we are entering a </div><div>phase transition then it won't matter what steps </div><div>are taken to reduce CO2 or methane production </div><div>or even if they are being removed from the</div><div>atmosphere.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no way to predict and therefore plan </div><div>for any changes in a climatic environment </div><div>which is in chaos.</div><div><br /></div><div>No way to plan for food or water security.</div><div>No way to decide how to fight climate change.</div><div>Plans to increase albedo over oceans by </div><div>generating clouds or other anti-warming plans</div><div>might make things worse in a phase transition.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05709.pdf">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05709.pdf</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyone have any thoughts? </div><div>Please leave comments.</div><div><br /></div><div>Abstract </div><div style="text-align: left;">"
It is proposed, based on the Landau-Ginzburg </div><div style="text-align: left;">Theory of phase transitions, that the transition </div><div style="text-align: left;">of the Earth System from the stable conditions</div><div style="text-align: left;"> of the Holocene to the human driven condition</div><div style="text-align: left;"> of the Anthropocene is, actually, a phase </div><div style="text-align: left;">transition, a qualitative change away from</div><div style="text-align: left;"> its Holocene
equilibrium state. Based on </div><div style="text-align: left;">this physical framework, one obtains the </div><div style="text-align: left;">Anthropocene equation,
the so-called </div><div style="text-align: left;">Great Acceleration and shows that </div><div style="text-align: left;">the Earth System temperature on the</div><div style="text-align: left;"> new
equilibrium state diverges from </div><div style="text-align: left;">the average temperature of the Holocene</div><div style="text-align: left;"> as the cubic root of the
human intervention,</div><div style="text-align: left;"> described by a parameter, H; (ii) the human </div><div style="text-align: left;">induced departure from the
Holocene can be</div><div style="text-align: left;"> as drastic as the ones due to natural, </div><div style="text-align: left;">astronomical and geophysical causes; </div><div style="text-align: left;">the susceptibility of the Earth System to </div><div style="text-align: left;">human effects is much more relevant </div><div style="text-align: left;">near the phase
transition. The procedure </div><div style="text-align: left;">to obtain numerical predictions from data </div><div style="text-align: left;">is also exemplified through
one of the existing </div><div style="text-align: left;">proposals to account for human impact on the </div><div style="text-align: left;">Earth’s Holocene equilibrium.
"</div><div></div></div><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-88903216140066860722022-05-14T17:40:00.000-04:002022-05-14T17:40:41.564-04:00Putin's health and the health of Russian nuclear stockpileIt may be wishful thinking, simply propaganda, or even <div>encouragement aimed at Russian officials, but<br />Ukrainian intelligence officials say Putin has cancer and<br />a slow-motion coup is already taking place.<div><br /></div><div>Read on for more random nonsense including a note on nukes.<div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Bear in mind all this could be explained by upset over his </b></div><div><b>"secret" girlfriend getting </b><b style="color: #222222;">pregnant AGAIN!</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Other "experts" quite independently are suggesting that</div><div>Russia is now in the process of breaking up into multiple</div><div>countries extending the process began when the U.S.S.R.</div><div>broke up and perhaps as peacefully. Although countries bordering</div><div>Russia are rushing to join NATO out of fear, they have also seen</div><div>just how powerful the great Russian military really is.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Personal note: I see people saying Russia has more nuclear </div><div>weapons than the U.S. which it does by about 5%, however </div><div>many don't realize nuclear weapons need constant testing and </div><div>maintenance. I would be surprised if a country that can't fuel </div><div>its tanks and trucks or feed its soldiers when they are 50 to 200 </div><div>miles from Belarus or Russian borders probably isn't spending </div><div>$billions every year to maintain nuclear weapons - especially </div><div>when the threat of nukes is far more important than their use. </div><div>The 10-year cost to maintain U.S. stockpile is about $500 billion. </div><div>Some components age on their own and do so faster when </div><div>exposed to constant radiation.)</div><div><br /></div><div>I am hearing from a few contacts I have leftover from D.C. that</div><div>analysts are definitely working on the assumption that</div><div>Putin is definitely ill, not just paranoid, and one reason he</div><div>keeps such distance from his own staff is to keep them from</div><div>seeing just how sick he is.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Sunday Times reports a Russian oligarch saying Putin has</div><div>been under treatment for a form of leukemia since last year. </div><div>Also in mid-February, he is seen shaking when greeting an </div><div>official. Some suggest an indication of Parkinson's but it </div><div>could easily be due to chemo or just general weakness.</div><div><br /></div><div>But Putin also just missed his favorite annual hockey </div><div>game where, for some reason, he always seemed to be the NVP. </div><div><br /></div><div>At the recent Red Square victory celebration (WWII) Putin </div><div>was seen sitting with various officials, all of whom seemed </div><div>comfortable and not overdressed, but Putin had a heavy wool </div><div>blanket wrapped around his legs - just as you see many elderly </div><div>or ill people sitting outdoors. People sitting around Putin had </div><div>light military coats on but they weren't even buttoned up while </div><div>Putin's coat was tightly closed. (I am elderly and ill but don't </div><div>even own a wool blanket - GRIN)</div><div><br /></div><div>A clear and apparently unretouched photo shows Putin </div><div>with what appears to be melasma - a subtle darkening </div><div>of the cheek skin. There are various causes but one is </div><div>a result of recent chemotherapy.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>There are multiple reports and even videos showing Putin acting</div><div>strangely such as slumping down as interviews go on and </div><div>seemingly desperately gripping desks and tables, either to keep</div><div>from showing shaking in his hand but more likely to keep his</div><div>balance even when seated.</div><div><br /></div><div>Photos appear to show three doctors, one reportedly an oncologist, </div><div>almost always among Putin's staff as he travels around Moscow. </div><div>It is perfectly usual for such political figures to travel with one </div><div>person physician, but THREE?</div><div><br /></div><div>His latest weird action was his "swift punishment" of Finland for </div><div>saying they want to join NATO. His "massive retaliation" so far </div><div>consisted of cutting all Russian electric power supply to the </div><div>country. What is weird is that Finland gets so little power from </div><div>Russia that merely "turning up the wick" in a few of its domestic </div><div>power plants easily covers the tiny deficit.</div><div><br /></div><div>These are just some of my random thoughts gleaned from a dozen </div><div>or more sources. I'm sure we all pray for Putin's health, one way or another!</div><div><br /></div><div>This is not my usual medical report based on and referencing clinical </div><div>data or published peer-reviewed research and shouldn't be taken as</div><div>authoritative.</div><div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-45881054827616264742022-02-07T20:43:00.006-05:002022-02-07T21:09:13.299-05:00Low Vitamin D-3 levels make you much more likely to get very sick from COVID<div>Study shows a major difference between those who suffer the most from COVID infections and the people who don't land in the hospital is the level of Vitamin D in their bodies.</div><div><br /></div><div>A large study has found that only 10% of those with normal/high levels of D-3 are in the hospital with severe COVID vs about half of those with severe enough infections that they are hospitalized have very low levels of the vitamin.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words taking small doses of vitamin D-3 can make a very big difference in how COVID will affect you.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have written extensively about the powerful anti-cancer effects of D-3.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263069">Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and association with severity of COVID-19 illness (plos.org)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"</div><h1 class="a-spacing-none a-text-normal" id="title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-extra-large" id="productTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Does Vitamin D-3 Cure Malignant Melanoma?: How about curry? VITAL information directly from medical journals. (Collected Works: John A. McCormick Book 2) </span><span class="a-size-large a-color-secondary" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" id="productSubtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Kindle Edition</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-large a-color-secondary" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-large a-color-secondary" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">No, of course D-3 it isn't a cure for cancer but it is an important part of treatment and has many anti-cancer properties as well as offering anti virus protection.</span></span></div><div>"</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LMHUP8W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LMHUP8W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4</a></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-59162518990282026652021-12-14T14:44:00.000-05:002021-12-14T15:11:33.423-05:00 Pfizer Vaccine almost completely ineffective against the Omicron variant.<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Data released today from South Africa shows that the Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine is only 30% effective at best in stopping infection by the Omicron COVID variant which is spreading twice as fast as the Delta variant which was already twice as infective as the earlier COVID strains.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ef813edd-7fff-30b3-d8ae-5cff818b5a12"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The good news is that the Pfizer vaccine appears to be very effective in preventing serious disease even among the high risk groups.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bad news is that in South Africa nearly all of the people developing COVID Omicron have had both the two shots of the vaccine but have also previously recovered from COVID in some earlier variant or the original strain.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That means that the 30% level of protection against catching the Omicron variant is the high mark because people in the study not only had been fully vaccinated but had also recovered from another form of COVID and therefore had antibodies from that infection. People who have not previously had COVID before getting the Pfizer vaccine may and almost certainly WILL have a lower than 30% level of protection.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study doesn’t look at those who got a Pfizer booster shot because that is too recently been given in SA and says nothing about Moderna’s Vaccine because it was not given in any great number to people in SA being an American based company (Cambridge, MA) while Pfizer is more international.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-62702598611912013312021-12-01T15:10:00.000-05:002021-12-01T15:10:11.850-05:00Omicron in U.S. first case in fully vaccinated man but only very mild<div style="text-align: left;">The first case in the U.S. of the Omicron COVID variant has been reported<br />in San Francisco - patient Zero just returned from South Africa. (Confirmed at UCSF lab.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He had mild symptoms and has already fully recovered but is self-isolated.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He had two Moderna vaccine shots but no booster.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Reports from South African hospitals is that 90+% of those</div><div style="text-align: left;">in hospital for COVID were unvaccinated. Most cases are in</div><div style="text-align: left;">younger people and are relatively mild, although some are </div><div style="text-align: left;">severe enough to require an ER visit. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The World Health Organization has reported that the Thermo Fisher Scientific</div><div style="text-align: left;">RT-PCR COVID test kits can detect the Omicron variant.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Some unidentified kits used in India are also reported to be effective.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Both of Abbott Labs' tests, the rapid (antigen) and more accurate PCR lab test, are effective because they do not rely on testing for the spike portion of the virus which is the segment that opens up cell walls and lets the virus into cells. The spike structure is the area most often involved in changes for the various variants.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">So far all we know for certain about the Omicron variant of COVID is that mask-wearing and staying out of crowds is nearly perfect protection for this as well as every other airborne vaccine.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Getting vaccinated will almost certainly provide some protection against any COVID variant.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-72712912202408566422021-11-27T11:16:00.004-05:002021-11-27T12:39:11.620-05:00COVID Omicron - copy of my medical alert newsletter<div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is a copy of the medical newsletter I send to about thirty people and companies. Let me know if you want included in the regular mailing list. I only send these rarely, not as many as one each month.</div><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Noon 11/27 update <span style="font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please note my blog and newsletter posts were BEFORE the UK PM announced that Omicron can be passed between fully vaccinated people. That may or may not be important - no data on whether they actually get sick or are just carriers - it is normal for vaccinated people to test positive for COVID and they MIGHT be able to pass it along to others (hence the idea of everyone wearing masks) but they have no symptoms. Mask wearing not chin diapers or a layer of cloth, real N-95 masks, protects against ANY variant.</span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_8385143592662758827m_6952765605577235514gmail-docs-internal-guid-f00178b7-7fff-bfae-4fa2-d937fd9b3f30"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friends, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My little newsletter only goes out when I am aware of something not generally publicized yet.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new variant - based on the absolute panic in various governments, WHO, and CDC, including ban on flights from South Africa and Southern Africa, there is something scientists suspect about the new Omicron variant which is not yet being disclosed in public.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is possible there is no risk but the signs are very bad, including the fact that my contacts are not responding, saying they are busy.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Locally the hospitals are filling up for the first time in this pandemic.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Punxsutawney Hospital at least, has no vaccine mandate for critical workers - I know this because the person drawing my blood for the lab told me she hadn’t found time to get vaccinated for COVID despite working one floor above a vaccine clinic and despite having gotten the flu vaccine this year. The hospital refused to comment.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I am cautioning everyone to consider wearing an N95 mask any time outside the house. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Locally very few people are wearing masks.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are always stocked up in the winter because we avoid the flu. But we will be getting perishables at Walmart before seven a.m. and Aldi during the early days for the vulnerable.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note on flight bans - silly. There is already a requirement that any foreigner must be fully vaccinated or recently tested to enter the U.S. anyway. Unfortunately it isn't applied to U.S. citizens (as if they aren't infected??).</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flight bans are counterproductive because of that and because they discourage governments from reporting new variants they discover.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Failure to vaccinate people in other countries such as third world countries means a large pool of people passing COVID around and therefore producing new variants such as Omicron. The only good news about that is since they are unvaccinated the new variants are not developed trying to avoid the vaccines which is why many are not getting any notice. Note that Omicron is the 15th character in the Greek alphabet so there have been a lot of variants of concern, the only ones which get named. The CDC skipped Nu and Xi, Nu because it would be confused with NEW, and Xi to avoid any Chinese connection (Premier for life is Xi Jinping.)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am reading and getting bulletins from the WHO, Nature (the world's top science journal), The Lancet, and the NEJM. I will send another newsletter only if there is a major development.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best to all of you,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If you appreciate these notes you can show your support by posting reviews for my Amazon books. I can share most of them for free if you don't have Amazon Prime which makes them free anyway.</p></span>--<br /><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>John McCormick</div><div>Amazon Author Page<span style="color: #202124;">: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-McCormick/e/B00287RNFS" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-McCormick/e/B00287RNFS</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Children's book</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B08GP4CRYS/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_eos_detail" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">"The Tale of a Worried Little Puppy"</a></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B08GP4CRYS/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_eos_detail" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B08GP4CRYS/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_eos_detail</a><br /></div><div>"Life After a Pandemic" </div><div>ebook <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087QM6FRB" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087QM6FRB</a></div><div>paperback <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089CSCM5V" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089CSCM5V</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Google Scholar citations<br /></div><div> <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kTo4NPFZZFMJ&hl=en" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kTo4NPFZZFMJ&hl=en</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #202124;">Member, Union of Concerned Scientists</span><br /></div><div>No LONGER Member, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) I dropped membership when extreme censorship was imposed on all discussions.<br /></div><div>A 39-year member, National Press Club (Washington)</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #202124;">Medical Blog </span><a href="https://criticalmedicalnews.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://criticalmedicalnews.blogspot.com/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Visitor's guide to Groundhog Day (best as an ebook)</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083NZ98JJ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083NZ98JJ</a></div><div><a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B083NZ98JJ&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_JYMmEb49AS1FC" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Book sample, GHD visitor's guide.</a></div><div><div><h1 style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Preparing for Climate Change: Coastal flooding will cost the U.S. billions of dollars within two decades."</span></span></h1></div><div>paperback second edition</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082060615" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082060615</a> <br /></div><div>or ebook <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC</a><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>eBOOK "Blockchain Made Simple" Blockchain<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is poised to revolutionize business and government data management. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HCY7QPZ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HCY7QPZ</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Everywhere I Turn There's A Wet Nose<br /></div></div><div> the love for and science of dogs.</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LYCL82/ref=kinw_clar_choose1?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LYCL82</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Emergency management preparedness<br /></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Asteroids-Planning-Coronal-Ejection-threats-ebook/dp/B00M2I68HC/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Asteroids-Planning-Coronal-Ejection-threats-ebook/dp/B00M2I68HC/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8</a><br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/JohnMcCormickreporter" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/c/JohnMcCormickreporter</a><br /></div><div>Senior contributor, Newsblaze.com<br /><a href="http://puppybyday.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://puppybyday.blogspot.com/</a><br />"Sheep in the Rafters book.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SLMJHUI" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SLMJHUI</a><br />"Sheep in the Rafters 2nd. ed. paperback <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521253676" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521253676</a></div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/John-A-McCormick" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/John-A-McCormick</a><br /></div><div>US Blasting Editorial Staff <a href="http://us.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/john-a-mccormick/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://us.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/john-a-mccormick/</a><br /></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px none; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">UK Blasting Editorial Staff <a href="http://uk.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/john-mccormick/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://uk.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/john-mccormick/</a></div></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px none; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;">Blasting stories <a href="https://uk.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/john-mccormick/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://uk.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/john-mccormick/</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Bibliography and web page </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/siliconsamurai/" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/siliconsamurai/</a><br /></div><div>Miscelaneous:<br />Newsblaze <a href="http://newsblaze.com/writer/mcco.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://newsblaze.com/writer/mcco.html</a><br /><div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Highland Ranch videos</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=OsXgzcJl7P8&t=2s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">youtube.com/watch?v=OsXgzcJl7P8&t=2s</a></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ks93K08jGzg" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">youtube.com/watch?v=Ks93K08jGzg</a></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=3I1Y9oshtuw" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">youtube.com/watch?v=3I1Y9oshtuw</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-41580131050847353472021-09-21T07:36:00.003-04:002021-09-21T07:36:36.881-04:00Moderna vaccine much more effective than the other two used in the US<p>Numbers below show effectiveness against hospitalization.</p><div>If this blog is useful please leave a message and </div><div>tell others about this.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #222222;">Moderna 93% initially and still 9</span><span style="color: #222222;">2% after 120 days </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #222222;">from second vaccination. </span><br /></b></div><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", apple-system, blinkmacsystemfont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><div>Pfizer only 91% at first dropping to 77% after 120 days</div><div>J&J single shot VE is 71% at first and drops to 68% at 120 days</div><div><br /></div>VE = vaccine effectiveness</span><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-03c47a15-7fff-e8a3-63fc-8e932a980f99"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VE for the Moderna vaccine was 93% at 14–120 days (median = 66 days) after receipt of the second vaccine dose and 92% at >120 days (median = 141 days) (p = 1.000). VE for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 91% at 14–120 days (median = 69 days) after receipt of the second vaccine dose but declined significantly to 77% at >120 days (median = 143 days) (p<0.001).</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e1.htm" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e1.htm</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-60425632568008509882021-09-13T20:58:00.000-04:002021-09-13T20:58:03.512-04:00Have COVID? Be dog's best friend by avoiding close contact - dogs can catch COVID from their people and vice versa.<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Pet owning people with COVID who are at home would probably wish to have the comfort of patting and even hugging man's best friend, but this is a bad idea for several reasons.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">First you can easily infect a pet dog leading to symptoms which will not only concern a responsible pet owner but will also cause extra work in caring for the sick animal.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Second, a zoonotic disease (one which can pass between humans and various animals) is extremely dangerous because it provides yet another and especially novel environment which can easily help develop a more dangerous mutation or, to use the recently popular term "variant."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">But COVID has been a major boost for shelter adoptions as people who were in lockdown reached out for comfort and companionship to pets. In fact (see link below) some shelters were actually emptied of adoptive dogs which is wonderful if the people don't just dump their new pets back in shelters when the pandemic ends and they are not forced to stay home.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Some, perhaps many will continue to stay home and even work from home as they have experienced the wonderful freedom from dress codes (most punishing for women) and especially from that dreaded daily commute. I know of no one who ever looked forward to spending hours each week sitting in traffic jams.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">A pre-print paper cites case studies of pets which developed respiratory symptoms after being in close contact with COVID patients.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">In dogs the symptoms of infection include "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">sneezing, cough, hyaline rhinorrhea (Spanish term which could be translated as watery, perhaps profuse nasal discharge, diarrhea, vomiting, adynamia (weakness), and lack of appetite."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">In the study </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">290 domestic animals were tested, 87.6% cats and 12.4% were dogs. Lab results showed a low but definite infection rate in both dogs and cats.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">The report includes a list of the variations found in dogs and humans involved in the study which was conducted in northwestern Columbia.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;">Back in 2020 the journal Nature reported that dogs can be trained to smell out (so to speak) COVID infected people. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.8px; letter-spacing: 0.35px;"><span style="font-family: MaisonNeue, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.icpcovid.com/sites/default/files/2021-03/Ep%20117-11%20Can%20dogs%20smell%20COVID_%20Here%E2%80%99s%20what%20the%20science%20says.pdf</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 17.999px;">Ellis EG. </span><span class="ref-journal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 17.999px; font-style: italic;">Thanks to sheltering in place, animal shelters are empty.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 17.999px;"> [Accessed June 21, 2020]. </span><a data-ga-action="click_feat_suppl" href="https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-pet-adoption-boom" ref="reftype=extlink&article-id=7473720&issue-id=364639&journal-id=3463&FROM=Article%7CCitationRef&TO=External%7CLink%7CURI" style="background-color: white; color: #2f4a8b; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 17.999px;" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-pet-adoption-boom</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 17.999px;">. Published April 10, 2020.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", stixgeneral, serif; font-size: 17.999px;">The mental health of people forced to stay at home and actively avoid contact with other people will be a major problem that psychologists are already trying to deal with.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.999px;">Perhaps the freelance writer (such as me) have a big advantage because writers are generally people who isolate themselves to have time and psychological energy to spend 8-10 hours a day writing, a notoriously solitary profession.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.999px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.999px;">The CDC says little about pets other than that COVID can be transmitted both ways between pet and the pet's human.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.999px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;">https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/covid-19/pets.html</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.999px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;">They de-emphasize the risk but it is important to realize that new variants could be much more easily transmissible not just between humans but between humans and animals.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.999px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;">They do recommend isolating people with COVID both from other people in the household but also from any pets.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-9365416011432900372021-09-04T11:36:00.001-04:002021-09-04T11:48:26.061-04:00Worrying new MU µ COVID variant found in 48 states but mostly FL is being carefully watched.<span id="docs-internal-guid-482fae9c-7fff-85df-4ce7-cc7ca2b615d2"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A scary new COVID variant known as the Mu (Greek letter µ) has emerged from Columbia and has been found in nearly 50 people resident in the UK. The official designation by the WHO, which designated it a “variant of interest” August 30, is B.1.621</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not much is known yet, including whether it spreads easily, or even if the current vaccines are effective against it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although there are only about 900 cases reported, it is found in 40 countries and virtually every U.S. state according to the GISAID tracking information.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><a href="https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/</span></a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (be patient, slow loading)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mainly in France, Spain, and, of course, Florida.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An early test in Italy found that the Pfizer vaccine antibodies ARE effective against µ.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.27247" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.27247</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HOWE</span><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00482-5/fulltext" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VER, a study published in The Lancet shows otherwise because the spikes are different enough to evade current vaccines.</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00482-5/fulltext" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00482-5/fulltext</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">µ causes high fevers and continuous coughs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="uk-total-distribution" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">UK total distribution</a></span></h4><table style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: none; color: black; display: block; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 30px 0px; overflow-x: auto; padding: 0px; width: 655px;"><thead style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><th scope="col" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #0b0c0c; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Variant*</a></span></th><th scope="col" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #0b0c0c; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Other names by which this variant may be known**</a></span></th><th scope="col" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #0b0c0c; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Lineage</a></span></th><th scope="col" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #0b0c0c; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Total confirmed (sequencing) and probable (genotyping) cases^</a></span></th><th scope="col" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #0b0c0c; line-height: 1.42857; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">New cases since last update (data up to 18 August)</a></span></th></tr></thead><tbody style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Alpha</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant of Concern">VOC</abbr>-20DEC-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.1.7</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">277,588</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">-322</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Beta</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant of Concern">VOC</abbr>-20DEC-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.351</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">1,093</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">+1</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Delta†</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant of Concern">VOC</abbr>-21APR-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.617.2 AY.1 AY. 2</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">535,387†</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">+49,960</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant of Concern">VOC</abbr>-21FEB-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant of Concern">VOC</abbr>-21FEB-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.1.7 with E484K</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">46</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Gamma</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant of Concern">VOC</abbr>-21JAN-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">P.1</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">272</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">+7</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Kappa</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21APR-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.617.1</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">494</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">-1</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21APR-03</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">N/A</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.617.3</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">16</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21FEB-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21FEB-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">A.23.1 with E484K</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">79</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Eta</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21FEB-03</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.525 (previously designated UK1188)</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">497</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">+2</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21FEB-04</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21FEB-04</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.1.318</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">358</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">+1</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Zeta</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21JAN-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">P.2</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">60</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Theta</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21MAR-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">P.3</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">10</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21MAY-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">N/A</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">AV.1</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">185</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21MAY-02</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">N/A</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">C.36.3</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">153</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">Lambda</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21JUN-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">C.37</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">8</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">0</a></span></td></tr><tr style="border: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21JUL-01</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">N/A</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">B.1.621</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">48</a></span></td><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 180, 182); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">+2</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: xx-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">*Information pertaining to <abbr style="border: none; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;" title="Variant Under Investigation">VUI</abbr>-21MAR-01, B1.324.1 with E484K </a></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: none; font-family: nta, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.31579; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank">has been removed as this variant has been reclassified as provisionally extinct.</a></span></p></span><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-august-2021" target="_blank"> </a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-65297280634458017912021-09-01T22:33:00.002-04:002021-09-01T22:33:55.056-04:00 The Lancet reports true breakthrough infection rates - CDC has no good data.<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">British studies show breakthrough infection rates are extremely low, details follow:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The CDC doesn’t record the number of breakthrough infections, ONLY the ones which require hospitalizations, therefore the British study is definitive.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f69083d5-7fff-144f-71d7-7701823321ca"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More than one million people who had one or two vaccination shots </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mortality rate reported in the UK for those who are hospitalized with COVID-19 (any strain but mostly Delta in the UK) is nearly one-third.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breakthrough infections are those which occur in people who have had at least one vaccination shot.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UK measured the infections by self-reporting and testing so they include ALL people who catch COVID-19 EVEN IF THEY HAVE NO SYMPTOMS.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The results are great news because only 0.5% of those who had one of the two shots in the multi-shot vaccines developed COVID.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those who were fully vaccinated the numbers were half as many, only 0.2%.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following is a link to the original Lanced paper, it is extremely detailed and even more difficult to understand.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00460-6/fulltext?ftag=MSF0951a18" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app: a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases</span></a></p><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-41883302090364433602021-08-30T23:22:00.002-04:002021-09-01T13:40:39.058-04:00If nothing changes the race is doomed and you have no idea why.<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The human race is doomed but you don’t know why even if you think you do.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-690c146c-7fff-d369-2b86-12492dfa4ba6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It isn’t climate change, nor nuclear war, nor asteroid collision.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It isn’t because women are waiting longer to have children.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A common theory is that more affluent countries tend to have fewer children.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That isn’t the reason either.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is because men are becoming sterile.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The U.S. birth rate has been dropping for decades, it is down 4% just in the past few years.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the pandemic lockdown many experts and non-experts thought there would be a baby boom since sex is still the favorite indoor sport.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It didn’t happen.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But scientists study fertility study sperm counts.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Average sperm counts in U.S. is approximately half what it was 40 years ago. In fact, it is only a few percent above what would ordinarily be called sterile.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The good news is that we not only know the reason, fixing it would be good for the planet, not just the human race.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seems that if a pregnant woman is exposed to certain chemicals then by adulthood any boy child will have more feminine characteristics and a lower sperm count along with lower testosterone levels.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The particular chemicals are precisely the ones which are used to make plastics soft, such as drink containers which have become so common. In fact the introduction of these petrochemicals precisely coincide with the drop in sperm counts.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995172945/u-s-birthrate-drops-to-lowest-level-in-four-decades" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995172945/u-s-birthrate-drops-to-lowest-level-in-four-decades</span></a></p><div><br /></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-14902232686706226312021-08-23T19:16:00.000-04:002021-08-23T19:16:27.839-04:00Staying cool without AC - please share this information, people are dying of the heat!<p>This is officially the hottest summer in recorded history, probably the hottest in thousands of years. People live in hot climates but they are used to it. People also die in hot climates.</p><p>I will provide some useful guidelines below but it is remarkable how little research has been done on staying cool, especially for seniors who have less ability to move around or naturally control their body temperature.</p><p>Unfortunately, a lot of Northwest homes have no AC because it is expensive but also because it really hasn't been needed but this year we are facing the threat the French see every year in Paris where thousands of elderly die of the heat.</p><p>But even in a budget one-room apartment which many elderly survive in it is perfectly possible to stay cool enough to avoid heatstroke, it just takes some planning and knowledge.</p><p>Please post this information as many places as you can and use it to educate any elderly friends or relatives.</p><p>It can also save you money if you do have AC because you may not need to keep the house as cool.</p><p>First, people seem to have died in apartments that must have running water and almost certainly refrigerators of some sort.</p><p>So make it a scheduled practice to run cold water in the sink and tub or shower.</p><p>Even without AC or a fan bathing in cool water or keeping your clothes damp or even wet will provide some cooling and a cool bath or shower should be scheduled every day at the hottest part of the day.</p><p>Given any kind of refrigerator you can keep wet cloths or water to pour on wet cloths which you can wrap around your neck where there is a lot of blood flow close to the skin.</p><p>Drinking water should not actually be very, just cool enough that you enjoy drinking it. </p><p>You should have an alarm to remind you to drink water every hour.</p><p>How about alcohol? In the winter you are told not to drink alcohol to get warm because it increases blood flow to the skin causing you to feel warm but actually reducing your core temperature.</p><p>I'm not saying you should drink some alcohol to stay cool but think about that advice you always hear about alcohol and cold weather.</p><p>If you can't afford AC then you may not have much in the way of food options but then even if you have money you might not be able to get AC for one reason or another, such as having no way to install it or short supply.</p><p>But diet can help you stay cooler. </p><p>For example, the infamous British tea sandwich, cucumber, is a good lunchtime meal.</p><p>Have you noticed that the hotter the climate the spicier the traditional diet? That is because really spicy food makes you sweat and the elderly often have trouble sweating.</p><p>In fact, if it is hot and you are at risk of heatstroke the first thing which happens is you stop sweating.</p><p>Curry, hot pepper (capsaicin), hot pepper sauce, even ginger can help you stay cool.</p><p>Don't neglect salt. You need more salt in hot weather, not just because you have to keep replacing the salt you excrete but also because it makes you thirsty making it easier to keep hydrated.</p><p>Ice tea which contains tannin (the brown residue on your cup) is astringent. Hot tea works but cold or ice tea is probably even better.</p><p>Also, don't forget that the same foods you are told to eat to keep blood sugar low - whole grains, fat (including mayo and butter), and especially protein of any sort take a lot of energy to digest.</p><p>People climbing Mt. Everest or other cold mountains eat butter in hot chocolate to generate heat.</p><p>So when it is too hot out you should, if you aren't diabetic or on a critically important diet, you should reduce your meat and fish intake.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-88761852445439742482021-08-20T08:10:00.004-04:002021-08-21T10:07:32.042-04:00Vaccines not very effective against Delta MANY elderly and fully vaccinated are catching COVID<p><b>Unfortunately, we have been given poor information about vaccinations and the Delta variant.</b></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am not saying it was intentional but when I heard that the </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">position of the CDC and White House changed on booster shots</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was convinced but now I have links I can share.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">60% of patients in Israel hospitals with COVID-19 </div><div style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">TODAY are fully vaccinated. </span><br clear="all" /><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Most of those are over 60.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>[Note, the numbers are much lower in the US because most</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>people in Israel have been vaccinated so anyone in the hospital</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>would be very likely to be vaccinated]</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><h1 class="article-title" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CDC: 74% of people infected in Massachusetts outbreak vaccinated</h1><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CDC M&M: "74% of those infected in an MA study (Barnstable)</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">were fully vaccinated."</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;"><b>COVID vaccines</b> protect against Delta, but their effectiveness wanes - Nature</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></a><div><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;"><div style="color: #737373; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #737373;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nature.com</a></span></div><div style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;">The <b>results</b>, published in a preprint on 19 August, suggest that both <b>vaccines</b> are effective against Delta after two doses, but that the protection they offer is temporary.</div><div style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;">Protection against Delta weakens after only 30 days.</div><div style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/british-study-shows-covid-19-vaccine-efficacy-wanes-under-delta-2021-08-18/</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BRITISH STUDY:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"<span face="knowledge-regular, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18px;">It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech </span><a class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8" href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/22UAy.DE" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-family: knowledge-medium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">(22UAy.DE)</a><span face="knowledge-regular, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18px;"> or the AstraZeneca </span><a class="Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8" href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/AZN.L" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-family: knowledge-medium, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">(AZN.L)</a><span face="knowledge-regular, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18px;"> vaccine may be of greater risk to others than under previous variants of the coronavirus.</span>"</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Following is a copy of my latest corporate newsletter written BEFORE I</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">got the links I have provided here.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I am breaking a rule with this message, I can't provide a link</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to the research because I have gathered enough information</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> to issue a warning NOT <span style="color: #222222;">yet published. The dramatic change </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">in talk about booster shots is a confirmation.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Delta is far more dangerous even to people who have had</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">full vaccinations. Good luck to all of us.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>At a minimum, EVERYONE should get a booster shot for the two</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>mRNA vaccines and those who got the one-shot with damaged</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>virus parts should strongly consider getting one or more of the mRNA</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>shots. Elderly and those with other medical problems should consider</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>lockdown and should NEVER enter a store or crowd without an N-95 mask.</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>(Just my recommendation from much research - your mileage may vary.)</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are locking down (AGAIN!) because of the accumulation</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">of small hints and data from the WHO and The Lancet.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you want to know the final event just recall that a week ago</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">booster shots were suggested to be a possibility sometime next year.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NOW they are talking about next month.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This isn't a coincidence, it is confirmation of some prepub medical web site</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">posts. (Prepub means not yet accepted for peer reviewed publication but</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">submitted by highly reliable researchers.)</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Delta has small variants not changed enough to give them a new name yet<br clear="all" /><div>which none of the vaccines protect against completely. </div><div><br /></div><div>Previously we were told that fully vaccinated people could catch COVID Delta but</div><div>wouldn't get very sick.</div><div><br /></div><div><b> New data shows even otherwise healthy people</b></div><div><b>are landing in the hospital with COVID Delta.</b>"</div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-73381986214681944442021-08-12T10:12:00.002-04:002021-08-12T10:12:35.797-04:00Company Reliably, Provably Predicts/Tracks Any Disease Outbreak by ZipCode<p>I don't usually quote directly from a company website but since you can access this data for free I have done so below.</p><p>Kinsa tracks local individual health through apps and especially a smart thermometer.</p><p>This will become critical as Fall and Winter Influenza hits during COVID-19 outbreak overwhelming even hospitals in current low-risk areas.</p><p> "<a href="https://content.kinsahealth.com/covid-19-outbreak-prediction-technical-approach?__hstc=189353844.2855b6d28c4fc157a4fceaafd9553a4a.1604432580320.1612215637087.1612290199619.113&__hssc=189353844.1.1612290199619&__hsfp=1317042023" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a1c5; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kinsa HealthWeather</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> helps Americans understand illness levels in their area by assigning a numeric risk score for COVID-19 and flu down to the county level. The </span><a href="https://www.kinsahealth.co/privacy-principles" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a1c5; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">aggregate, anonymized</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> data used to generate this score is a product of Kinsa’s network of </span><a href="https://www.kinsahealth.co/products/?_ga=2.47190311.1876722777.1594060849-1336127841.1584560232#buynow" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a1c5; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Smart Thermometers</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and accompanying mobile applications, and case data from the </span><a href="https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a1c5; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">COVID-19 Data Repository</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Inter, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Kinsa is providing this map and associated charts as a public service."</span></p><p>This information has been available for nearly a decade and has been completely ignored by the CDC despite proof that the company data is not only as accurate as CDC information but is a full ten days AHEAD of government data providing a way to get ahead of increasing infections in specific areas.</p><p>The $25 smart thermometers send anonymous information to the database and to a local app that warns people when to call their doctor based on age and other medical conditions.</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-1170846490752288932021-08-02T10:03:00.000-04:002021-08-02T10:03:06.577-04:00Watch for the NEXT COVID variant, it may NOT be covered by current vaccines.<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The link below shows the science behind fears of new and much more dangerous variants.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Short version</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are such massive numbers of people catching Delta (FL now has the most new COVID cases EVER in the state) that there are certain to be Epsilon, Zeta, Eta,Theta, etc. variants. One or more of them will almost certainly not be covered by the present vaccines.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We have great mRNA technology but new vaccines can't be developed until a new strain appears so there will be a minimum one month, more likely 6 month delay before emergency use authorization for a new vaccine.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One month would be the best case where congress would go along with the White House and courts permitting REAL public health requirements.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">That won't happen so I am preparing for another lockdown.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On average 9 people will be infected by one person with Delta. Only 3 were infected by the first COVID.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BTW, most of PA is in the "safe" or moderate spread zone but most of the population is not is a safe zone and people move around, especially in summer and especially now.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95025-3&source=gmail&ust=1627997278629000&usg=AFQjCNF1FVSQX7puApOd0Ojj0axbdI1ryg" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95025-3" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">Rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and vaccination impact the fate of vaccine-resistant strains | Scientific Reports (nature.com)</a><div><br /></div><div>The study in Nature essentially says that faster vaccinations reduce the chance of a more dangerous variant but easing of mask mandates, distancing, and other physical limitations (as opposed to vaccines) greatly increases the chance of a new, more deadly virus.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words EXACTLY what we are seeing in most of the country other than the northeast.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-29201621824373124652021-07-31T10:21:00.004-04:002021-07-31T21:15:35.997-04:00CDC MMWR for July shows Delta spreading rapidly even for fully vaccinated<p><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">CDC MMWR reports that the Delta variant is highly contagious, comparable to chickenpox EVEN FOR FULLY VACCINATED!</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5d56599d-7fff-ba56-6261-0de3c0c1c725"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The good news is that while even the fully vaccinated can still easily catch COVID Delta you will see only a mild case in most vaccinated people.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unvaccinated who catch COVID Delta are in deep trouble, it is not only easier to catch, it is more dangerous.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is the reason for the change in mask mandates. The infected but vaccinated people may not even have symptoms but will carry a very heavy viral load in the sinus area and therefore can easily spread.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Delta is also much more dangerous for the elderly.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are in for a very bad fall and winter.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time to begin stockpiling what you need to stay isolated again.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 16pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="color: #434343; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During July 2021, 469 cases of COVID-19 associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, were identified among Massachusetts residents; vaccination coverage among eligible Massachusetts residents was 69%. Approximately three quarters (346; 74%) of cases occurred in fully vaccinated persons (those who had completed a 2-dose course of mRNA vaccine [Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna] or had received a single dose of Janssen [Johnson & Johnson] vaccine ≥14 days before exposure).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021 | MMWR (cdc.gov)</span></a></h3></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-37863621404934459912021-07-24T12:32:00.001-04:002021-07-24T12:32:07.303-04:00COVID - People Can Self-Infect - Mask Wearing Helps Prevent This<p> Did you realize you can infect yourself with SARS-COVID-19?</p><p>Here is how it happens. You can breathe in a bit of the virus and it lodges in your nasal passages where it multiplies relatively harmlessly, probably not causing even discomfort.</p><p>Where any SARS infection becomes dangerous is when it enters the lungs - people don't die of COVID virus directly, they either die of an over active immune system triggering what is known as a cytokine storm (reported in other blog posts here) OR through pneumonia triggered by COVID/SARS.</p><p>So you can self-infect by breathing in some of the exhaled droplets from your nose deep into your lungs, causing a dangerous SARS infection leading to pneumonia.</p><p>This was known to occur during sleep but recent research shows it also happens when you merely breathe or talk while awake, especially if you sneeze.</p><p>Wearing a good mask can absorb the tiny water droplets carrying the virus, preventing self-infection.</p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393808/">Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer (nih.gov)</a></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-91662354842070407982021-07-24T12:19:00.000-04:002021-07-24T12:19:48.290-04:00Wildfire Smoke Extremely Toxic As Far As New England<p> With hundreds of small and several gigantic wildfires on the West Coast you might think that even if the smoke reaches 3,000 miles it will be a minor annoyance but not so.</p><p>People in New York state are experiencing asthma attacks while scientists say the smoke from wildfires is not only toxic close up but the tiniest particles, which are so small ( PNAS BELOW "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">wildfires have accounted for up to 25% of </span><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">PM</em><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; bottom: -0.25em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.25px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">2.5</span>") they can pass directly from the lungs to the bloodstream, are actually more dense the further away you get because the heavier dust particles fall out of the cloud.</p><p>Yet another reason to fear climate change, even places as relatively safe such as where I live in Central PA, are being impacted by the western drought not only because of farm prices going up due to lack of water for irrigation, but now it is learned we are getting pollution from 2,500 miles away where one fire alone has covered 400,000 acres and is still mostly out of control.</p><p>The National Academy of Sciences recently published a report on the dangers.</p><p>"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the United States. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland–urban interface in the United States, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 y. To illustrate how changes in wildfire activity might affect air pollution and related health outcomes, and how these linkages might guide future science and policy, we develop a statistical model that relates satellite-based fire and smoke data to information from pollution monitoring stations. Using the model, we estimate that wildfires have accounted for up to 25% of </span><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">PM</em><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; bottom: -0.25em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.25px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">2.5</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (particulate matter with diameter <2.5 μm) in recent years across the United States, and up to half in some Western regions, with spatial patterns in ambient smoke exposure that do not follow traditional socioeconomic pollution exposure gradients. We combine the model with stylized scenarios to show that fuel management interventions could have large health benefits and that future health impacts from climate-change–induced wildfire smoke could approach projected overall increases in temperature-related mortality from climate change—but that both estimates remain uncertain. We use model results to highlight important areas for future research and to draw lessons for policy.</span>"</p><p><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2011048118">The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States | PNAS</a></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-35663377575183618552021-07-21T01:03:00.001-04:002021-07-21T01:05:56.347-04:00J&J Vaccine May Only be 33% Effective Against COVID Delta<p><span data-offset-key="74o7v-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first large scale evaluation of a European vaccine extremely similar to the J&J vaccine is only 33% effective against the Delta Variant of COVID. If confirmed then those who took the single shot </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;">vaccine</span><span data-offset-key="74o7v-2-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> need to now get one of the mRNA vaccines. Link to preprint below. NOT peer reviewed yet.</span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="5gjki" data-offset-key="21mas-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21mas-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="21mas-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><h1 class="gmail-highwire-cite-title" id="gmail-page-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: GillSansRegular, "Gill Sans MT", "Gill Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.9rem; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.19.452771v1" style="color: #1155cc;">Comparison of Neutralizing Antibody Titers Elicited by mRNA and Adenoviral Vector Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Variants</a> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.19.452771v1</span></h1></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5gjki" data-offset-key="35qf2-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="35qf2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="35qf2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">About 80% of the new COVID cases in FL are Delta. Hospitals are already full and a lot of staff had resigned after initial experience with the first and second waves.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5gjki" data-offset-key="fk6nd-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fk6nd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fk6nd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="5gjki" data-offset-key="bvafu-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.875px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bvafu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bvafu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Since 95% of hospital cases and deaths are unvaccinated there is no indication that people are anxious to return to hospital jobs. The feeling is that they have committed suicide by refusing the vaccines.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189434183306521090.post-38233826410151238082021-07-06T23:38:00.000-04:002021-07-06T23:38:07.663-04:00COVID Delta twice as deadly twice as easy to spread Republican states face Fall disaster<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Delta is much more deadly than the original COVID-19 strain and spreads very, VERY easily. Those unmasked young people on vacation in states with low vaccination rates are going to spread this latest infection rapidly and are likely to the hardest hit as younger people are reportedly a high percentage of hospitalized patients in the UK.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Think you are safe because you actually had COVID? Think again, in India where it originated people who had recovered from the original COVID caught Delta and many died. Completed vaccinations DO protect from Delta, but partial vaccination doesn't according to UK reports.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">COVID is back, will put many younger people in hospitals or dirt naps especially in southern and mountain states with low vaccination rates.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">But researchers are still learning why it spreads so much more easily and hits harder.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">"<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">One important mutation, called P681R, changes an amino acid at a spot directly beside the furin cleavage site, where a human enzyme cuts the protein, a key step enabling the virus to invade human cells. In the Alpha variant, a mutation at that site made cleavage more efficient; </span><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.446163v1.full.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #37588a; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">a preprint published in late May</a><span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> showed Delta’s different change makes furin cleavage even easier. The researchers suggest this could make the virus more transmissible.</span>" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/delta-variant-triggers-dangerous-new-phase-pandemic</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">And the really bad news from the same source, "<span style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Data from England and Scotland indicate that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines offer slightly less protection against symptomatic infections from the new variant than from Alpha. People who have received just one shot of vaccine—as many U.K. residents have—are especially vulnerable.</span>"</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">With the reddest states also the less vaccinated and less careful about mask wearing the race will be on this Fall and Winter to see if jerrymandering can keep ahead of Republican death rates.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0