Progress and other good Coronavirus news

[neoplacebo]

http://eng.auburn.edu/reinvent

WGDMFE

"A team of Auburn University engineering professors, students and alumni have successfully re-purposed a standard CPAP machine into a functional emergency ventilator for health care providers potentially coping with ventilator shortages during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The team’s research goal was to develop a robust and reliable option for an emergency ventilator that could be assembled using readily available commercial off-the-shelf components combined with a home CPAP machine."

"Built with approximately $700 worth of components, the RE-INVENT is an accessory designed to pair with, and modify, a common household CPAP machine."


But sadly, no profits for jared

and in Mississippi they use garden hose and other Home Depot parts to construct a $70 ventilator, or venty-later as the locals had rather.

if dumbass southerners are making $70 and $3,000 ventilators, why aren't we having contests? Quick, someone post on solar's forum - we all know that team trump consults there.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-n ... spartanntp

Hell, I've been advocating for this for days....even made suggestions up to and including goddamn diving bell type helmets and big air hoses, made suggestions about how to make ventilators that seem to have been realized by MSU folks with some common sense. Rudimentary, but functional. Probably win the contest.

[Vrede too]

I favor a ventilator that utilizes unemployed clog dancers, 2 birds with one stone. 3, it also keeps the rascals off the streets.

[neoplacebo]

I favor a ventilator that utilizes unemployed clog dancers, 2 birds with one stone. 3, it also keeps the rascals off the streets.

That's clever but I never let on that I also had the notion of some type of hand operated bellows like an old blacksmith would use to stoke a fire. Put some air all up in there.....labor intensive but immediate results.

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I was wondering about exactly this. Cool stumbling on a video about it.



Coronavirus Lock down effects on animals (Part-1)

[billy.pilgrim]

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/09/fe ... m-a-nurse/


not bad for a car company

[Vrede too]

I was wondering about exactly this. Cool stumbling on a video about it.



Coronavirus Lock down effects on animals (Part-1)

Cool video, I agree. Thanks for sharing.

But what went through my mind with the footage of wild boars enjoying grazing on a green patch in a roundabout in Haifa... they probably already felt relatively secure, since they are not kosher or halal... LOL...

Coronavirus Lock down effects on animals (Part-3)

[Vrede too]

http://eng.auburn.edu/reinvent

WGDMFE

"A team of Auburn University engineering professors, students and alumni have successfully re-purposed a standard CPAP machine into a functional emergency ventilator for health care providers potentially coping with ventilator shortages during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The team’s research goal was to develop a robust and reliable option for an emergency ventilator that could be assembled using readily available commercial off-the-shelf components combined with a home CPAP machine."

"Built with approximately $700 worth of components, the RE-INVENT is an accessory designed to pair with, and modify, a common household CPAP machine."

But sadly, no profits for jared

and in Mississippi they use garden hose and other Home Depot parts to construct a $70 ventilator, or venty-later as the locals had rather.

if dumbass southerners are making $70 and $3,000 ventilators, why aren't we having contests? Quick, someone post on solar's forum - we all know that team trump consults there.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-n ... spartanntp

For the moment, the University of Minnesota wins.

FDA authorizes production of a new ventilator that costs up to 25x less than existing devices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the manufacture of the Coventor ventilator, a new hardware design first developed by the University of Minnesota. The project sought to create a ventilator that could provide the same level of life-saving care as existing ventilator models, but with a much lower cost to help ramp production quickly and make them affordable to the health institutions that need them.

The Coventor becomes the first of these types of novel ventilator designs to earn an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA. Just like it sounds, an EUA isn't a full traditional medical device approval like the drug and device regulator would ordinarily issue, but an emergency, temporary grant in the interest of helping provide access to resources in short supply, or without the usual full chain of approvals, in times of crisis....

Other winners are sure to follow.

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(West Palm Beach, Fla) Animal shelter celebrates as it empties kennel for the first time in its history during coronavirus outbreak

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Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known

… The first large-scale community test of 3,300 people in Santa Clara County found that 2.5 to 4.2% of those tested were positive for antibodies -- a number suggesting a far higher past infection rate than the official count.

Based on the initial data, researchers estimate that the range of people who may have had the virus to be between 48,000 and 81,000 in the county of 2 million -- as opposed to the approximately 1,000 in the county's official tally at the time the samples were taken….

Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor, cautioned that the results for the California county are not necessarily representative of the U.S. population and noted the use of online ads to find participants could skew the candidate pool. But, he said, the work is "adding to this confirmation of what we've expected, which is a much larger number of cases than we ever anticipated."

"There has been wide recognition that we were undercounting infections because of lack of testing or patients were asymptomatic," Brownstein said….

And while there is no guarantee of total, long-term immunity even if a person has antibodies, doctors hope that those who do have them may have some degree of immunity protection. Experts hope that could be a tool to help determine who could potentially more safely re-enter the workforce -- and just as importantly -- when....

If this holds up it brings the morbidity/mortality rate way way down.

[Vrede too]

The new coronavirus may be mutating to a less deadly form

... The changing fatality rate is one reason the models keep fluctuating, McNeil says, but "there may be good news buried in this inconsistency: The virus may also be mutating to cause fewer symptoms. In the movies, viruses become more deadly. In reality, they usually become less so, because asymptomatic strains reach more hosts. Even the 1918 Spanish flu virus eventually faded into the seasonal H1N1 flu."

While we don't know the fatality rate or level of contagion, the "refrigerated trucks parked outside hospitals tell us all we need to know: It is far worse than a bad flu season," McNeil writes. How the pandemic ends depends on the virus' lethality, medical advances, and how individuals behave, he adds. "If we scrupulously protect ourselves and our loved ones, more of us will live. If we underestimate the virus, it will find us."

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Parts 1 & 3 posted above.



Coronavirus Lock down effects on animals (Part-2)

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Experts question results of startling Santa Clara coronavirus antibody study

Thanks. There's now a Los Angeles County study that somewhat duplicates Santa Clara, but it may have the same issues raised with Santa Clara. We may not know for awhile.

New studies suggest huge undercount of coronavirus infections — but are they right?

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Ultraviolet light can be used against coronavirus — just not in the way Trump imagines

Article summary: Scientists rock, PINO is still an idiot.

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6 monkeys given an experimental coronavirus vaccine from Oxford did not catch COVID-19 after heavy exposure, raising hopes for a human vaccine

Six monkeys given a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford are said to be coronavirus-free 28 days after sustained exposure to the virus.

The result is a promising early sign for the vaccine, which is also undergoing human trials. A working human version, however, remains months away even in the best-case scenario.

The monkey experiment was carried out in late March by government scientists at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, The New York Times reported Monday.

Six rhesus macaques received a vaccine produced by the Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group. They were then exposed to heavy levels of the coronavirus that were known to have previously sickened other monkeys. These monkeys suffered no ill effects, however, and remained healthy at least 28 days later, The Times said....

The vaccine given to the rhesus macaques is called hAdOx1 nCoV-19. Human trials began Thursday and are expected to be finished in September. The process of developing a vaccine is long, and even having a usable product by September would be unusually fast.

On Monday, the world's largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India, said it would not wait for the trial to end and was preemptively making 40 million doses to save time in case it worked.

Sinovac Biotech, a Beijing-based company, is also hunting for a vaccine to the coronavirus. It found last week that its vaccine also appeared to be effective in macaques. Human trials have now begun....

As many as 80 coronavirus vaccines are in development, but some are choosing to skip the animal-testing stage to save time.

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Scientists are perplexed by the low rate of coronavirus hospitalizations among smokers. Nicotine may hold the answer.

... In France, for example, 25 percent of the population smokes, but only 5.3 percent of coronavirus patients have been recorded as smokers, and studies have found low rates in China and New York City, as well.

Hmmm, buy some patches?

... The lower rates could be a result of some other chemical in tobacco producing a protective effect ...

Maybe I should start smoking again. :confusion-shrug:

[neoplacebo]

Scientists are perplexed by the low rate of coronavirus hospitalizations among smokers. Nicotine may hold the answer.

... In France, for example, 25 percent of the population smokes, but only 5.3 percent of coronavirus patients have been recorded as smokers, and studies have found low rates in China and New York City, as well.

Hmmm, buy some patches?

... The lower rates could be a result of some other chemical in tobacco producing a protective effect ...

Maybe I should start smoking again. :confusion-shrug:

I;ve been smoking and drinking and generally carrying on like there's no tomorrow for decades and I don't have any plans to stop. I mean, hell, people were doing that before I got here. I feel I owe it to them. Most people that don't have much fun die quicker than those who do have a lot of fun and die sooner. And you can figure that for fake news, sarcasm, or just something the trumpoon would say. I inject fun right into my eyeballs. Just about every goddamn day. And on the days I don't, I wish I had. Let the good times roll.

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I've been smoking and drinking and generally carrying on like there's no tomorrow for decades and I don't have any plans to stop. I mean, hell, people were doing that before I got here. I feel I owe it to them. Most people that don't have much fun die quicker than those who do have a lot of fun and die sooner. And you can figure that for fake news, sarcasm, or just something the trumpoon would say. I inject fun right into my eyeballs. Just about every goddamn day. And on the days I don't, I wish I had. Let the good times roll.

My MD and his nurse were not impressed when I told them I was considering starting smoking again.


Teen befriends elderly neighbor during lockdown by communicating with Post-It notes

[neoplacebo]

I've been smoking and drinking and generally carrying on like there's no tomorrow for decades and I don't have any plans to stop. I mean, hell, people were doing that before I got here. I feel I owe it to them. Most people that don't have much fun die quicker than those who do have a lot of fun and die sooner. And you can figure that for fake news, sarcasm, or just something the trumpoon would say. I inject fun right into my eyeballs. Just about every goddamn day. And on the days I don't, I wish I had. Let the good times roll.

My MD and his nurse were not impressed when I told them I was considering starting smoking again.


Teen befriends elderly neighbor during lockdown by communicating with Post-It notes

If you really want to impress them, get yourself a baggie and dump a nice big amount of baking soda into it, go and visit that doctor and nurse and say something like "excuse me while I whip this out." Then slam it down on the examining table and invite comments by opening with something like "have you ever seen so much fine cocaine? This just came in on the plane from Peru yesterday. I just wanted to get a second opinion."

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If you really want to impress them, get yourself a baggie and dump a nice big amount of baking soda into it, go and visit that doctor and nurse and say something like "excuse me while I whip this out." Then slam it down on the examining table and invite comments by opening with something like "have you ever seen so much fine cocaine? This just came in on the plane from Peru yesterday. I just wanted to get a second opinion."

Speaking from experience? How did that work out for you?

[neoplacebo]

If you really want to impress them, get yourself a baggie and dump a nice big amount of baking soda into it, go and visit that doctor and nurse and say something like "excuse me while I whip this out." Then slam it down on the examining table and invite comments by opening with something like "have you ever seen so much fine cocaine? This just came in on the plane from Peru yesterday. I just wanted to get a second opinion."

Speaking from experience? How did that work out for you?

I have plenty of baggies, plenty of baking soda, and have not seen a doctor or nurse in nearly ten years if I don't count you.