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I think the author of the article is quoted as saying that additional information is needed before this information becomes useful. I agree with that but would have added, if it ever becomes useful. Facts may be true and not useful. That the ACE2 pathway is a means of entry to the cell proved useful in spotting a reaction to vaccine and antibody determined entry in to cells now needs a work around in order to make a vaccine. This fact may bear fruit or it may just be an isolated, interesting Medical Jeopardy answer,

The difference which is statistically significant, is not, in the end clinically significant, Type A blood people have a higher risk of Stomach Cancer than the other blood types, There, where endoscopy can be done to check for the presence of gastric cancer, one might use the information to further inform a clinically decision, At this time, blood type may eventually be a key to a treatment, but for now, it is merely a statistically interesting fact, I doubt the people who would take increased risk because they have Type O blood would be informed enough to know that bit of information or even their blood type. I did see on AOL that had a headline about it CoVid and Blood Type. Tomorrow will be a different statistical nugget, Anything to keep the headlines coming, But in answer to your question, you did not misinterpret what the article stated, but as with most things, odds are for gamblers, with patients, there are really only two odds, 0 and 100, You either have it or you don't, No change is made because of this information, at least not yet.

Both Type A blood and Vitamin D deficiency have been known in the medical community for months. While both are risk factors, blood type cannot be changed so that point is moot. Getting more sun, eating Vitamin D enriched foods and even taking Vitamin D supplements, in moderation have been recommended to patients for some time. Be aware, vitamin D overdose is possible and can cause severe problems, so stay within prescribing guidelines if you decide to take it. Zinc is also though to be helpful in preventing viral infections in general and Coronavirus in particular. Vitamin C has its advocates but the evidence of a benefit in CoVid is scant.

So 1000 deaths a day and 10 times the number in Western Europe are just fine? And as you know, most expect spikes to occur in the fall and that while overall the rate of deaths is going down, there are areas in which spikes are occurring, so ymmv,

So 1000 deaths a day and 10 times the number in Western Europe are just fine? And as you know, most expect spikes to occur in the fall and that while overall the rate of deaths is going down, there are areas in which spikes are occurring, so ymmv,

Sure anarchy is very cool.

Sure anarchy is very cool.

. And that is my guest room bathtub, but again, never seen that guy there and that ass is unforgettable.

This looks a lot like my shower, but I do not recall his being in there,

Indubitably that is why I am happy for those who would do Casey, but I will not be At Bat for Casey.

Even if Casey Wood, I wouldn't. Does nothing for me but I am pleased that he is offering services for those of a different mind.

I believe that most men of a certain age have heard of sleep apnea. I am more sure that most men of a certain sleep around have heard a man snore. I think you are letting your insecurity get to you. If your sister in law could put up with snoring for 44 years, he could put up with it for a night, If he can't, well better to find out now. As to text-iquette, he seems a bit on the flaky side but a bit on the horny side. Which is more important?

Ah you go around the world

My issue with using. cases per million or number of new cases is testing. Test everyone around the world and then cases per million mean something. Compare the US where we were slow to test with other countries which were faster to test, the number of cases was initially lower than expected but the death rate per incident was high, When our testing got better, deaths per case decreased but there was an increase as far as the number of new cases. Nothing had changed by perspective. The numbers do not get higher and testing does not affect daaths in the same way. Tested or untested, you die you die. Now some would point out that if you are untested and you died of a Cvid related disease you may not wind up in the statistics for CoVid deaths. Others would say, if you had cancer and were terminally ill, and you happened to get CoVid, it was really the cancer which killed you and that should not be a CoVid death, Florida seems to like that loophole. So statistics can be manipulated any which way you like, Florida governor says the opening of the state did not cause an increase in number of cases the increased testing did. Well, the deaths per case decreased but the number of deaths increased. So there is a constellation of statistics and if you cherry pick the results, you can make them look any way you want them to look. I think perhaps the most accurate measure would be number of deaths above the expect number of deaths per million over a set time period. Of course, our need to know ASAP leads this to this slow to occur statistic being unusable for arguments to open up and to close down. It is more the wait and see what happens statistic and no one wants that. That is how I settled on CoVid death numbers as the one really important statistic. I will grant Stevern Kessler that I am not that concerned about the economy when I walk in the hospital door in the morning and ask how many people died. IF the number is 10 we had a bad night, if the number is 2 we did okay. For me, I want to do all we can do to keep that number closer to 2 than to 10. I understand that at some point in order for people to work and live and pay their bills and hire escorts, that we will need to accept some level above zero as a compromise. What that number should be is zero, what that number will be is going to be more than that. We accept 36000 influenza deaths a year in the US as the price of doing business. We accept 32000 gun related deaths a year as the price for having the NRA buying government officials. We will determine how many CoVid deaths a year it costs to keep the economy open and to have the 1% not have to have their taxes increased to pay for government support of those hit hardest by the closing.

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The rise in the number of cases is only significant in giving a relative risk of those who are sick getting chronically ill or dead. If everyone in the US got sick with Covid and no one died or had a long lasting illness, then we would all be going to restaurants and working and living our lives. The total number of cases only allows us to say what percentage of people suffer bad outcomes. Of course for the individuals that suffer bad outcomes that number is 100%. Total number of cases therefore is a weak indicator of the severity of disease. If 100000 people in the US had CoVid and they all died, well, all of us would be huddled in quarantine and building fortresses to keep out strangers who might bring us the disease. So the significant of the death rate can only be appreciated in the number of cases out there and the number actually dying. The more cases, the lower the rate but the number deaths stays the same, So ultimately, I think the number we need to rally focus on is not new cases, not death rates, but actual deaths. If there is consistently 1000 deaths across the US daily related to Cover, which has been the case for awhile, then having more cases without more death is significant for the cost of the disease and in the rate of deaths, but there are still 1000 people dead at the end of the day. 365000 at the end of the year. We should focus our statistical attention to number of deaths, number of hospitalization, number of days spent in the hospital and in the longer run, chronic disease associated with survival of the disease. Whether we have 1 million or 10 million cases causing those statistics, is irrelevant except as to help stratify risk. New cases will go up as a result of testing, That is how the Florida governor excused the record number of new cases in a day that occurred in Florida this week. No one asked him how many people died, which was also a record and had nothing to do with testing. I can remember watching Huntley and Brinkley on NBC news in the 1960s. They would report the number of American deaths in Viet Nam every day and then total it at the end of the week and the month. This was a very real way of expressing the tragedy of that war and it did not matter how many troops were there. Those 300 men a week were a testament that there were too many American soldiers there. Similarly 7500 dead Americans in a week would testify to the severity of the impact of Covid on the US and would speak to there being too many cases and that we need to continue to try to do things to limit it. Everything else is lies, damned lies and statistics.

I really do not understand deniers. Say flat out you do not care is thousands of people die as long as you are not one of them and your IRA looks good and move on. The rhetoric that is put out by them is repetitive, inaccurate and self serving

Except that in Florida when the beaches were open for spring break, they followed the cell phones students on one beach and found spikes in cases in most places that those students went back to. There were dozens of beaches open and all you need is one case, like in New Rochelle, to create a spike. Or have you forgotten, in November there were a few cases in China and now eight months later from those few, really from that one, all these that have followed. What do you not understand about that?

Just to briefly note. Just accepted for publication an article from my hospital. They tested all hospital personnel that worked in the ICU Covid units in the hospital. Of 130 people tested, 2 tested positive for antibodies. That means roughly 99% of the people working frontline with ventilators and dozens and dozens of Covid patients many of whom died after prolonged hospital time, 99% did not develop antibodies. Personal protective equipment and hand washing and care in how you are exposed to these patients kept the vast majority of people working closest with sick patients free from contact severe enough to get the virus. These are not people who got mild disease. These are people that did not get sick at all. One could make the argument that this proves how tough it is to catch CoVid, but since 12000 people died in NJ and there were a huge number of cases our conclusions in the article are otherwise. What we suggests, is that careful interaction, proper handwashing technique and social isolation can limit contagion, even in an ICU with numerous Covid patients and very close contact. Stay safe out there. Be smart about your life. I would also add, do not put a price on the life of others by saying we need a healthy economy more than we need a healthy populace. We can have both, but as both were sick, we have to wait for both to recover.

Just to briefly note. Just accepted for publication an article from my hospital. They tested all hospital personnel that worked in the ICU Covid units in the hospital. Of 130 people tested, 2 tested positive for antibodies. That means roughly 99% of the people working frontline with ventilators and dozens and dozens of Covid patients many of whom died after prolonged hospital time, 99% did not develop antibodies. Personal protective equipment and hand washing and care in how you are exposed to these patients kept the vast majority of people working closest with sick patients free from contact severe enough to get the virus. These are not people who got mild disease. These are people that did not get sick at all. One could make the argument that this proves how tough it is to catch CoVid, but since 12000 people died in NJ and there were a huge number of cases our conclusions in the article are otherwise. What we suggests, is that careful interaction, proper handwashing technique and social isolation can limit contagion, even in an ICU with numerous Covid patients and very close contact. Stay safe out there. Be smart about your life. I would also add, do not put a price on the life of others by saying we need a healthy economy more than we need a healthy populace. We can have both, but as both were sick, we have to wait for both to recover.

I think that eating ass, as many aspects of sex, is about power. The top is basically getting the bottom ready to be fucked, even if that does not happen, the power to prepare him for sex in that manner is an exertion of power. Even if the bottom is enjoying it, the power of bringing the bottom joy in this manner is also a power turn on. I rarely get my ass eaten and I rarely bottom. When I go have my ass eaten, I still try to take a dominant role by grabbing his head and forcing him deep into me. I will also pushy ass back and a favorite is to sit on his face and smother him with my ass. When I am the one doing the eating, rarely do the bottoms try to dominate, though I wish they would because if they cannot succeed, that would be an even bigger turn on. I guess you might infer I like power and control. But while feeling of power is a big turn on, I do not have to be in control to feel that way. My partner's enjoyment is very empowering to me.

Hard body. Hard dick. Hardly need more

It is not just the happy ending itself that ruined the last episode for me, it was that the happy ending was soooo fucking happy. My complaint that it was not true to the times is valid but it was not even true to the movie. The nominations of the characters was vindication, the wins went beyond the pale for me. That the male lead characters wind up together is a small believable step, That the characters have public displays of affection on the red carpet or at the ceremony, again takes what was true to the story past the abilty for me to suspend disbelief. Still, I would watch season 2, only if to find out that the last episode was all an orgasmic dream Rock Hudson had while Tyrone Power blew him. .

Well I would like to thank those that asked privately how I was doing. I am still in quarantine but will be out on Sunday. I was tested for antibodies and I am negative and my Covid test is negative. In the pursuit of caution, I am completing the full two weeks of quarantine. Good news. In addition, it should be stated that the hospital has seen a marked downturn in the number of new cases and the administration has been able to close down floors which were changed to Cover floors during the worst of it. At one point, we had three ICUs and most of the patients in those ICU were on ventilators. We had had over `100 patients on ventilators related to CoVid and less than 15% survived. That sounds terrible, and it is, but compared to other facilities, that number of survivors is actually high. We did well in keeping people off vwentilators so compared to the number of cases seen, the number who needed to go on ventilators was low and the overall death rate was low and the ventilator death rate was low. We were lucky to be part of the medical trials with medications that seemed to help. So äfter having 3 ICU filled with CoVid, about 28 patients at maximum capacity, we now have one unit and only 5 patients on ventilators. Part of that number now is related to the return of surgeons. They are now willing to come to the hospital and do a tracheostomy on a patient. Those patients can be moved to Long Term Ventilator Hospitals, driving the number toward acute cases with chronic cases moved to essentially a specialized rehab facility. We also had three floors filled with CoVid patients and now two of those have been closed. One has reopened as a regular care floor and the other is being sterilized. The one remaining unit is for patients with Covid but not requiring intensive care. Right now there are only 2 patients in that unit. So as of today, after having as many as 120 Covid patients in the hospital at the peak with a peak of 30 ventilator patients, we have less than 10 patients and less than 5 on ventilators. We now test all patients coming to the ER. We are starting the drugs of Tocilizumab and Remdesivir early in the course and we are using convalescent serum as soon as a patient has e symptom which will allow them to be part of the study, So this is all looking very good, This is where wee should have been a month ago or more, but we are here now. Still, this does no mean this is over. I have had two patients die this week and one newly placed on a ventilator. The 19 year to who I had coronavirus exposure tested positive for antibodies and then negative for Covid in a short period of time, so he is back home. It is likely that my exposure was minimal or none. Still the concern I had was real and it remains real. Judging by the Influenza pandemic of the last century and the expectations of medical experts, a second wave is likely. It is not certain but it is likely. We all hope that the experts are wrong but we are preparing as though they are right. My advice to those who ask for it: continue to use social distancing. If you want to limit this, continue to use a mask and encourage others to do so, so as to prevent spread should you be an early symptom patient or an asymptomatic carrier. Take reasonable personal precautions. I can continue to use take out rather than eat in. I limit my elective contacts to people I believe are being judicious about their health. I am hoping my judgement on that is good. I will not be going to the beach, the movies, the dine in restaurants for quite some time. I do not know when I will electively take a plane again, I will be doing masks and frequent hand washing and Purell and I will be doing food shopping at off hours. I am at high risk and I have seen what this virus can do to those at high risk and even those who are not. I am not anxious to test its virulence and resilience, I suggest you all take the same precautions. . Once again, I encourage you to be vigilant. More than 110000 people have died in the US. More will die. You are your best advocate to prevent your becoming one of them. This situation is a lot easier for me as I was always a homebody. But those of you who are social butterflies, consider staying in the cocoon a bit longer.

Funny when I opened his ad, I popped up