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This article asserts there are far more cuts in "1917" than I imagined.

I think it may be Nature's way of telling us to keep the animals we want to live with (or consume) away from bats.

Near me, they are closing schools, but, realizing that both parents may have jobs, they are making plans to look after children... by gathering them together at schools. :confused:

That's a great video! I've also run across references to a concept originating in the 19th century called "Farr's Law," which asserts that the upslope of an epidemic's curve is mirrored in shape and duration by its downslope. This seems to hold true even in "epidemics" that are not spread by...

I believe there are actually 5 or 6 cuts. Some are kind of obvious, like when the camera goes into or comes out of bunker and the lens is momentarily obscured by something like a cloth flap-door, but some appear to use computer trickery to merge two scenes. I think an example of this is when the...

This article has a list of FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approved disinfectants that kill coronavirus. The article also links to a pdf of products that "have been pre-approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use against emerging enveloped viral pathogens and can be...

The value of ethanol in the practice of medicine has long been appreciated, as in this scene in which Lee Marvin has just been shot.

This article, written by Dr. Anthony Fauci et al. and published just seven days ago (2/28/20) in the New England Journal of Medicine says: So if you develop pneumonia the fatality rate is 2%. The authors go on to say: I don't know exactly how current this info is. It was published in the...

It's interesting that they say... [bolding mine.] Before school age, I remember consuming antibiotic "wafers" like they were candy [well, not that much, really]. I think they were flavored to make them more palatable. I was given these wafers for the severe ear infections I got back then...

Is it extracellular? In one of his tweets, when asked if the factor is a viral particle, Prusty says "No, it's a cellular component." That sounds more like Dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1). [As mentioned by @Snow Leopard above.] I don't know if it's relevant, but I found this paper on...

That may be correct, but it's possible that's because the data out of China doesn't include statistics on smoking. This article in New Scientist yesterday (2/27) says: It is true that there is a wide discrepancy between men and women when it comes smoking in China. Somewhere around 50% of men...

Based on that chart, I think it's hard to make the case that essential hypertension in conjunction with the virus increases mortality. More likely, hypertension is indirectly connected to poorer outcomes via conditions like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Hypertension could also be an...

The American Heart Association estimates that nearly half of US adults have hypertension, though other sources say it's more like a 1/3. The difference seems to be due to stricter guidelines published in 2017. Anyway, that's a lot of people, though I wonder if hypertension alone is much of a...

In some previous outbreak, probably H1N1, I started pushing open shop doors using only my foot, elbow or the outside of my forearm. Sometimes the door has to be pulled open, in which case I'll pull my sleeve over my fingers - or I'll just use the tip of my little finger to open the door. In rest...

I'm no expert on mitochondria, but I have been reading a "popular" book on mitochondria that was recommended by my nephew, who is an evolutionary biologist working on his PhD. The book is certainly interesting, but, despite the author's best intentions, it's a little overwhelming for someone...

It sounds like the initial findings were that the mitochondria were producing normal amounts of resting energy, but it turned out they were employing all sorts of compensatory mechanisms to achieve that. They couldn't produce anymore energy beyond that, which would seem like a plausible...

Yes. I'm not sure if there is such a thread here, but on PR there is an old thread called "sick but never sick" in which some people talk about how they haven't had the flu/cold since the onset of ME. This could be due to the isolation from others, but some talk about never getting the flu even...

They use the term "symptomatic" infection, but I don't imagine there was any attempt to quantify the symptom severity. It's probably unlikely that anyone one was tested for "asymptomatic" infection, either. It would be very interesting if the severity of the influenza symptoms were linked to...

On the other hand, "Molecular Brain" currently has an "impact factor 4.051 (2018-2019), which, according to this chart by the "Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) puts "Molecular Brain" in the top 11.4% of 12,298 journals evaluated, in terms of citations. It's highest impact factor was 4.902 in...