My mom was recently offered over 5k a week as a traveling icu nurse.
It’s online and they’re using old pictures where possible for the blog.
Just those 2 states so people are still traveling to play an online tournament.
Jesus, this country is stupid.
Not peer reviewed, small study, preliminary results, but promising? I remember 6ix posting something about this drug early on, so maybe not new?
Interferon Beta:
Stock market rules mean Synairgen is obliged to report the preliminary results of the trial.
The results have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, nor has the full data been made available; so the BBC cannot confirm the claims made for the treatment.
Claims:
- The odds of developing severe disease (e.g. requiring ventilation or resulting in death) reduced by 79% compared to patients who received placebo
- Patients who received SNG001 were more than twice as likely to recover over the course of the treatment period
- Measure of breathlessness was markedly reduced
Press release (PDF, direct link):
https://www.synairgen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/200720-Synairgen-announces-positive-results-from-trial-of-SNG001-in-hospitalised-COVID-19-patients.pdf
Damn so sad. I gotta say I’m blessed that even my Trumpy dad takes this very seriously. I’m kinda amazed honestly. But he does have a daughter that is a nurse practitioner who is saying this is very bad, but even then he took it seriously back in Feb when i told him it would be bad before she really had any idea. ( thanks UP )
No data shown yet but overall looks very encouraging if the data backs up what they say.
I can’t tell if this is new formulation in terms of safety data.
Does he realize how bad Trump has botched this?
They already have a name for when a hurricane hits during the pandemic
COVICANE
Yes. He was on the verge of giving up Trump after that whole accusing another old white man of being apart of Antifa but I think he’s been pulled back in. The culture war is too important to him. But yeah he realizes Trump has fucked up big time with Covid. He just repeats " I don’t get it " as to why hes fucking up so bad lol.
But pretty sure he’d be fine dying for the culture war. He doesn’t love Trump like he used too, AFAIK he barely watches fox anymore. And we’re talking about a man who is in the top 5% in loving Trump. He does have severe mental decline though. Like his brain is mush like Trumps so i think that plays into it.
Both of my Trump voting upper middle class white uncles are fully off the train though. Both educated and smart men, which is exactly who Trump is losing right now. As a huge Bernie fan, I do realize that Biden is gonna win a lot of votes like my uncles that Bernie would not have won. I think they would have sit it out, but they might have sadly voted for Trump because they wanted to protect their wealth. Though I still think Bernie beats Trump too.
See @Twist post above
Drug that helps patients recover from coronavirus in trials described as potential ‘game changer’
An academic has described a new treatment for coronavirus as a possible “game changer”. As reported earlier (see 7.42am), Tom Wilkinson , professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Southampton, has used the term to describe the results of a trial that he has been overseeing. Explaining the results, he told the Today programme:
Interferon beta is a naturally occurring protein that the body produces to help fight off viral infections. And our trial has explored the use of this drug in a nebulised, in an inhaled form, given to patients who have Covid-19 and are severe enough to be admitted to hospital.
We’ve completed a randomised controlled trial, so 100 or so patients were randomised to either the drug, or a blinded placebo. They were tracked very closely during their hospital admission and into their home situation, followed up up to a month. And what we found was very positive.
We found that the patients receiving the interferon beta treatment were much less likely to deteriorate from the point they entered the trial through the next two weeks, and the effect of that was significant.
We also found that not only did the patients not deteriorate, but those patients were also more likely to recover quickly. We know Covid-19 has a longterm consequence for many patients, so we were very excited to see that within the trial window about twice as many patients were making a full recovery on interferon beta than in the placebo arm.
Wilkinson said that further studies would be needed, and that these results might not be applicable to the entire population. The regulatory agencies would need to decide whether more trials were needed before the drug could be rolled out in a clinical setting, he said. But the results were “very positive” for this stage, he said.
He also said that Synairgen, the company producing the drug, was already exploring ramping up manufacturing capability.
Synairgen stock up 527% ($193) since 8am today. Wish I had inside scoop from the doctors administering the study.
Dont be silly, insider trading is only permitted for politicians and hedge fund managers. Retail investors go to jail for that kind of thing.
GD IHME model. The shape of the curve happens for reasons not because it’s pre-ordained to fit some curve fitting function that certain morons interpret as science.
Birx reportedly began describing the government’s response to the pandemic as “putting out the embers,” and the White House task force was convinced that another surge in infections wouldn’t happen until the fall, senior administration officials told the Times.
But Birx’s predictions were wrong.
According to the Times’ analysis, Birx’s assumption did not take into account states’ efforts to reopen prematurely.
lol, imagine not taking that into account.
Also logged in to my work pc to see this morning that one of the techs that i know, his wife is on a vent and he has a gofundme setup because he’s had to take work off to care for his two young boys.
great country we got here.
If anyone feels like randomly donating some money this guy could use it.
It was crystal clear on day 1 that Birx was an idiot who was intent on providing cover for Trump.
A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and trains the immune system.
Trials involving around 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight coronavirus.
The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.
The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.
So far so good for the Oxford vaccine - a ways to go but …