Interesting Articles

I've been sending these articles to my husband so I could save them for myself to post later. I'm not up to providing commentary, so just dumping them here...

About the Virus:

• T cells play a role in fighting coronavirus; COVID-19 affects children differently
• China’s New Outbreak Shows Signs the Virus Could Be Changing - “Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out. Patients found in the northern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang appear to carry the virus for a longer period of time and take longer to test negative.” Patients had >2 week incubation/asymptomatic period... making it harder for authorities to catch cases before they spread. “The longer period during which infected patients show no symptoms has created clusters of family infections.”

Prevention/Treatment:

• Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Shows ‘Positive’ Data: All 45 People Producing Antibodies
• Trump says he started taking hydroxycholoquine "a couple weeks ago" - "Here’s my evidence: I get a lot of positive calls about it.”
• Scientists in China believe new drug can stop pandemic "without vaccine"
• Woman who took Hydroxychloroquinine for 19 years for Lupus still got COVID-19 - "I'm like, 'How can I be sick? How? I'm on the hydroxychloroquine.' They were like, 'Well, nobody ever said that was the cure or that was going to keep you safe' and it definitely did not."
• Move Over, Moderna: Why Pfizer May Be the Better Bet to Deliver a Vaccine by Fall

Ending Lockdown:

• It's not safe to expand your quarantine circle just yet - “This is a public health problem. By not following those orders, you’re not just affecting you or your household, but you’re impacting your whole community, which includes those people who are at higher risk to develop serious complications.”
• Results of Europe's lockdown experiment
• Georgia defies prediction of coronavirus resurgence - "There could be fewer cases than before — but not as few as there would have been in lockdown. That’s only logical."