Coronavirus (2021) thread

[mosssideblue]

Don't know what happened there mate was quoting mackenzie

Fairy snuff

 

[TINY]

Keep well, keep hydrated and best wishes to you and your family

Brother in law taken to hospital tonight. Breathing was laboured, 40.3c temp, heart rate high at rest.

Paramedics arrived and weren’t happy with his lower lung so took him in. He’s had 2 pints of blood taken.

 

[worsleyweb]

A good move to increase the fines. Original fines apply for parties of less than 15. Increased for over 15 as is evidently a further piss take for those who were struggling to understand. Very sad but hardly surprising to see the completely unecesaary and frankly quite nasty mysogonsitic comments on our splendid Home Secretary. I spoke to my contact at Az today and several millions of vaccines that were in the us and were in danger of going “out of date” are on a number of jumbo cargo plane heading here due to the delay in approval over there. Expect to see one day achieve 700k vaccines next week. Government now seeking to under promise and over deliver is clearly what is going in with vaccines roll out. Very positive for the mental health to see deaths fall. Clearly they will want to release a soon as possible on restrictions. More vaccines rolled out the quicker we can do that. 10 weeks from now things will be miles better. Call me a happy clapper. Don’t care.

The vaccine roll out effort is incredible. Well done all involved.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

I had a thought...I remember them engineering mosquitoes so that they have a gene that when they mate stops them spreading diseases.

I know we produce vaccines and want to provoke human immune response, but couldn't we create a counter-virus that is designed to interact with Covid and modify it to stop it being able to unlock humans spike proteins? I guess us messing with viruses in labs is what led to this problem but it would be interesting if we had literal real-world "anti-viruses" that lived amongst us specifically to block the harmful ones.

Random thought.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives

Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.

www.bbc.co.uk

I mentioned this back in October. Although the product link seems to have been gone.

Post in thread 'COVID-19 — Coronavirus' https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/covid-19-—-coronavirus.344314/post-13137542

Germany have nurses going out into the community to check ill older patients for Sepsis using Oxygen and temperature checking. They continued doing this for older folks ill with Covid and it really has saved lives.
Nobody else in the world has done this.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I guess us messing with viruses in labs is what led to this problem

WTF??

Otherwise, what you're describing is very close to the monoclonal antibody treatment there's been a lot of press about today.

Lilly's neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) receives FDA emergency use authorization for the treatment of recently diagnosed COVID-19 | Eli Lilly and Company

The Investor Relations website contains information about Eli Lilly and Company's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.

investor.lilly.com

 

[Indaparkside]

Brother in law taken to hospital tonight. Breathing was laboured, 40.3c temp, heart rate high at rest.

Paramedics arrived and weren’t happy with his lower lung so took him in. He’s had 2 pints of blood taken.

How old is he tiny good luck in his recovery

 

[Marvin]

I had a thought...I remember them engineering mosquitoes so that they have a gene that when they mate stops them spreading diseases.

I know we produce vaccines and want to provoke human immune response, but couldn't we create a counter-virus that is designed to interact with Covid and modify it to stop it being able to unlock humans spike proteins? I guess us messing with viruses in labs is what led to this problem but it would be interesting if we had literal real-world "anti-viruses" that lived amongst us specifically to block the harmful ones.

Random thought.

The spike protein is part of the virus that binds to human respiratory cells. Our antibodies bind with it to neutralise it and prevent it from entering the human cell. We are therefore OK inside human bodies.

Viruses don't survive long outside cells but they survive long enough in aerosolds, droplets and on surfaces to allow transmission. I reckon one thing we could try and engineer is UVC light in an air conditioning unit which could be installed in all public places. UVC sterilises viruses and germs.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Thought we had fining people for ages , need to put them in a cell for the night , the organiser anyway

£200 fine. Now £800 and doubling.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Brother in law taken to hospital tonight. Breathing was laboured, 40.3c temp, heart rate high at rest.

Paramedics arrived and weren’t happy with his lower lung so took him in. He’s had 2 pints of blood taken.

Best wishes, mate, its truly awful. I'm shielding my disabled wife and am more worried now than at any stage. I didn't hear of anyone round our way with it in the 1st wave but now know of people my age really ill and even dying