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Post by purplehaze on Jun 25, 2021 15:09:51 GMT -5
the game was delayed only one hour - those two players are very important to NC St - Jarrett has been sent home and Justice is in tracing protocol and might be available later they're hanging with Vandy so far, scoreless after 3 innings
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Post by timholycross on Jun 25, 2021 16:04:27 GMT -5
Saw a neat photoshop of Dr. F. wearing a Vandy baseball gamer.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 25, 2021 21:52:33 GMT -5
the game was delayed only one hour - those two players are very important to NC St - Jarrett has been sent home and Justice is in tracing protocol and might be available later they're hanging with Vandy so far, scoreless after 3 innings They had 13 players available for the game....including a pitcher having to play first base.
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 25, 2021 23:22:49 GMT -5
That is correct - 9 position players and 4 pitchers were available - they played well and on lost 3-1. Problem is that have a rematch Saturday
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 26, 2021 1:53:52 GMT -5
That is correct - 9 position players and 4 pitchers were available - they played well and on lost 3-1. Problem is that have a rematch Saturday They just canceled Saturdays game between Vandy and NC State calling it a no contest
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 27, 2021 0:59:01 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Jun 27, 2021 9:52:56 GMT -5
The sleuthing continues in an effort to see if this pandemic began through viral transmission from animal to human in nature or via a catastrophic lab leak (with associated Chinese government coverup). According to US News and World Report yesterday ( www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/06/26/coronavirus-origins-deleted-gene-sequences-offer-clues-early-days/5330275001/ ): If the virus did transfer directly from bats or another animal to humans, as many virologists believe, it should be a simple matter to prove: the Chinese government could make available genetic sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the people infected earliest in the pandemic.
Those sequences almost certainly exist within China, or could be easily created using stored nasal swab samples from people who fell ill early in the pandemic, experts say.
"It would be easy for them to refute this," Topol said, referring to the Chinese. "Bloom gave them an opening, but whether they’ll ever come forth we can’t know." "Until they become transparent," Topol added, "this is going to stay unsettled."
(The article describes the discovery of some deleted genetic sequences by an American scientist.)
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Post by Chu Chu on Jun 27, 2021 16:35:47 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 27, 2021 18:27:54 GMT -5
This is getting into the weeds....... 1.) Kunar, et al, at Temple appear to have used some/all of the genomes sequenced in China and later removed from the U.S. repository website by China. Kunar used 17 genomes sequenced in December 2019, all from China. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.24.311845v2.fullwww.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/sjb-nst042921.php[bolding mine] Eureka alerts are published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world's largest scientific society. ## This is the four year old boy who lived near Milan and first became sick on November 21, 2019, and went to the hospital on November 30 because of respiratory problems and a rash. A throat swab was taken at the hospital, and retained as part of a national measles surveillance network. There was no history of travel by him or his family. It was from this swab that part of the COVID-19 genome was sequenced, and the sequence included base pairs that were not present in the Wuhan reference sample but were present in European variants found in early 2020. Unfortunately, the entire genome of this swab could not be sequenced. www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201213/covid-19-appeared-in-boy-in-italy-in-november-2019This ^^^tends to support the finding of COVID antibodies in the blood of candidates for a lung cancer clinical trial, whose blood was drawn in the fall of 2019. www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201115/covid_19_circulated_in_italy_earlier_than_thought If the individual in MA whose donated blood tested positive for COVID in early January 2020 -- meaning the individual became infected Christmas week -- had not traveled to China, that suggests a COVID variant was present in MA coincident with the first cases in Wuhan in that month.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2021 19:11:46 GMT -5
Had a friend who was traveling out of state last year. The state he was going to required a negative Covid -19 test. He went for test & it came back positive. He had no symptoms prior or after the test. He canceled the trip & sat home 14 days. Not satisfied with result he got a test for antibodies 6 weeks later. Big fat zero was the result. Tested 12 weeks later still zero.The lab was the same one the NFL used. The problem with all of this is how many others had same results with a false positive & think no need to get a vaccination.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 27, 2021 19:37:49 GMT -5
Had a friend who was traveling out of state last year. The state he was going to required a negative Covid -19 test. He went for test & it came back positive. He had no symptoms prior or after the test. He canceled the trip & sat home 14 days. Not satisfied with result he got a test for antibodies 6 weeks later. Big fat zero was the result. Tested 12 weeks later still zero.The lab was the same one the NFL used. The problem with all of this is how many others had same results with a false positive & think no need to get a vaccination. The key phrase in your post is "No symptoms prior or after the test". One who tested positive and had symptoms you can rest assured WAS positive.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 28, 2021 5:39:20 GMT -5
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Post by Chu Chu on Jun 28, 2021 14:19:28 GMT -5
I saw this earlier today, and it is fascinating. We have never before observed how an mRNA vaccine works "in the wild", and how long the cell machinery will keep churning outage antibodies. This is very good news!
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 28, 2021 17:37:40 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Jun 28, 2021 19:55:03 GMT -5
REVIEW ARTICLE: Highly functional virus-specific cellular immune response in asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection
AUTHORS: Nina Le Bert1 , Hannah E. Clapham2 , Anthony T. Tan1 , Wan Ni Chia1 , Christine Y.L. Tham1 , Jane M. Lim2 , Kamini Kunasegaran1 , Linda Wei Lin Tan2 , Charles-Antoine Dutertre3 , Nivedita Shankar2 , Joey M.E. Lim1 , Louisa Jin Sun4 , Marina Zahari2 , Zaw Myo Tun2 , Vishakha Kumar2 , Beng Lee Lim1 , Siew Hoon Lim5 , Adeline Chia1 , Yee-Joo Tan6,7, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah8 , Shirin Kalimuddin1,9, David Lye6,10,11,12, Jenny G.H. Low1,9, Lin-Fa Wang1 , Wei Yee Wan5 , Li Yang Hsu2 , Antonio Bertoletti1,13*, and Clarence C. Tam2,14*
ABSTRACT: The efficacy of virus-specific T cells in clearing pathogens involves a fine balance between antiviral and inflammatory features. SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells in individuals who clear SARS-CoV-2 without symptoms could reveal nonpathological yet protective characteristics. We longitudinally studied SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells in a cohort of asymptomatic (n = 85) and symptomatic (n = 75) COVID-19 patients after seroconversion. We quantified T cells reactive to structural proteins (M, NP, and Spike) using ELISpot and cytokine secretion in whole blood. Frequencies of SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells were similar between asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals, but the former showed an increased IFN-γ and IL-2 production. This was associated with a proportional secretion of IL-10 and proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-1β) only in asymptomatic infection, while a disproportionate secretion of inflammatory cytokines was triggered by SARS-CoV-2–specific T cell activation in symptomatic individuals. Thus, asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2–infected individuals are not characterized by weak antiviral immunity; on the contrary, they mount a highly functional virus-specific cellular immune response
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 28, 2021 20:28:55 GMT -5
Missouri is the "Show Me" State. The Delta variant is now showing them.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jun 28, 2021 20:47:49 GMT -5
They might want to become the "Jab me" state for a while.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 29, 2021 5:46:23 GMT -5
55% of adults ages 18 and over in Missouri have received at least one dose. This morning's headline in the Kansas City Star "With delta variant spiking in Missouri, those who got J&J vaccine may need a booster" www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article252425523.htmlFox Business yesterday "Booster may be needed for J&J shot as Delta variant spreads Some infectious disease experts have already 'boosted' with Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna" www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/booster-may-be-needed-for-jj-shot-as-delta-variant-spreads> On June 27, 2021, in Massachusetts, there were 95 patients with COVID who were hospitalized, peak was 3,965 patients on April 21, 2020. > 31 COVID patients were in the ICU on June 27, peak on April 26, 2020 was 1,089 > 11 ICU patients were intubated on June 27, peak was April 21, 2020, with 842, this is nearly a 99 percent reduction.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 29, 2021 14:55:28 GMT -5
55% of adults ages 18 and over in Missouri have received at least one dose. This morning's headline in the Kansas City Star "With delta variant spiking in Missouri, those who got J&J vaccine may need a booster" www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article252425523.htmlFox Business yesterday "Booster may be needed for J&J shot as Delta variant spreads Some infectious disease experts have already 'boosted' with Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna" www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/booster-may-be-needed-for-jj-shot-as-delta-variant-spreads> On June 27, 2021, in Massachusetts, there were 95 patients with COVID who were hospitalized, peak was 3,965 patients on April 21, 2020. > 31 COVID patients were in the ICU on June 27, peak on April 26, 2020 was 1,089 > 11 ICU patients were intubated on June 27, peak was April 21, 2020, with 842, this is nearly a 99 percent reduction. Ship the excess ventilators to Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. These countries (sorry CCP) blew us out at the beginning with adherence to public health measures, highlighting the unified nature of their societies. Then we caught them from behind with vaccines.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2021 15:52:23 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Jul 1, 2021 9:23:09 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Jul 1, 2021 9:24:20 GMT -5
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 1, 2021 9:36:32 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Jul 1, 2021 9:54:12 GMT -5
Interestingly, China first reported a cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses (later labelled Covid) in Wuhan on December 31, 2019. And WHO publicly noted this 'pneumonia' five days later. Covid was already spreading in Europe and the States (and elsewhere) by then. “On average, it takes about two weeks for [immunoglobulin G] antibodies to be detectable . . . so now we’re talking about a December 24 potential infection or sometime even prior to that,” explains Althoff. She adds that the results corroborate and extend findings from a November 2020 study led by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control that found SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in blood collected from donors in December 2019 and January 2020 in California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin. I think the latest expert guess is that the virus actually emerged (lab escape or natural transmission) in mid November or earlier in China.
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Post by efg72 on Jul 1, 2021 11:07:33 GMT -5
I had a call with a group in late November identifying the virus and need for supplies in China asap. Strange call because a majority of the supplies they needed were being manufactured in China.
They suggested the virus was a problem weeks/months earlier and was spreading.
I guess we will hear more about the lab leak in the months ahead, or maybe the narrative will remain the same. As someone who has worked in public health, I believe the virus came from a leak in the lab, but I am not a scientific expert.
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