The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

[teachercd]

11 minutes ago, Crusader Husker said:

Sorry you guys have been harassed for wearing masks.  Did you harass people for not wearing one, when not required?

This is sort of interesting as to who got harassed more...maskers or non-maskers.

 

 

[Crusader Husker]

4 minutes ago, teachercd said:

This is sort of interesting as to who got harassed more...maskers or non-maskers.

 

 

Interesting question.....

[teachercd]

1 minute ago, Crusader Husker said:

Interesting question.....

I feel like non-maskers were "shamed" more while maskers were harassed more.  

 

 

[JJ Husker]

16 minutes ago, Crusader Husker said:

Sorry you guys have been harassed for wearing masks.  Did you harass people for not wearing one, when not required?

I didn’t. When they were obviously required everywhere to help protect others I wouldn’t say I harassed anyone but I did mutter some snide comments from behind my mask.

[Crusader Husker]

Just now, teachercd said:

I feel like non-maskers were "shamed" more while maskers were harassed more.  

 

 

You are a smart one!  

[teachercd]

1 minute ago, Crusader Husker said:

You are a smart one!  

You should see me when I play Tetris on level one.

[JJ Husker]

5 minutes ago, teachercd said:

I feel like non-maskers were "shamed" more while maskers were harassed more.  

 

 

The wild thing is all the fights and yelling that broke out. Over. Masks.

[knapplc]

One million Americans died from this plague.

 

Medical experts wear masks to combat the spread of pathogens.

 

The top Medical experts in the world recommended wearing masks to combat the spread of this plague. Really, any plague.

 

A bunch of people don't wear masks because of their political ideology.

 

Stop me when I say something unfactual here...

[teachercd]

1 minute ago, JJ Husker said:

The wild thing is all the fights and yelling that broke out. Over. Masks.

Or people filming each other at grocery stores and posting it!

 

Hahahha!  f#&%ing morons. 

[JJ Husker]

4 minutes ago, teachercd said:

You should see me when I play Tetris on level one.

[knapplc]

One. Million. Americans. 

 

[DevoHusker]

 

 

 

[knapplc]

How much money changed hands before that decision?

 

 

 

The ‘very, very bad look' of remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug

 

October was a good month for Gilead Sciences, the giant manufacturer of antivirals headquartered in Foster City, California. On 8 October, the company inked an agreement to supply the European Union with its drug remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19—a deal potentially worth more than $1 billion. Two weeks later, on 22 October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved remdesivir for use against the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the United States—the first drug to receive that status. The EU and U.S. decisions pave the way for Gilead's drug into two major markets, both with soaring COVID-19 cases.

 

But both decisions baffled scientists who have closely watched the clinical trials of remdesivir unfold over the past 6 months—and who have many questions about remdesivir's worth. At best, one large, well-designed study found remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe illness. A few smaller studies found no impact of treatment on the disease whatsoever. Then, on 15 October—in this month's decidedly unfavorable news for Gilead—the fourth and largest controlled study delivered what some believed was a coup de grâce: The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Solidarity trial showed that remdesivir does not reduce mortality or the time COVID-19 patients take to recover.

 

Science has learned that both FDA's decision and the EU deal came about under unusual circumstances that gave the company important advantages. FDA never consulted a group of outside experts that it has at the ready to weigh in on complicated antiviral drug issues. That group, the Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee (AMDAC), mixes infectious disease clinicians with biostatisticians, pharmacists, and a consumer representative to review all available data on experimental treatments and make recommendations to FDA about drug approvals—yet it has not convened once during the pandemic.

 

The European Union, meanwhile, decided to settle on the remdesivir pricing exactly 1 week before the disappointing Solidarity trial results came out. It was unaware of those results, although Gilead, having donated remdesivir to the trial, was informed of the data on 23 September and knew the trial was a bust.

 

"This is a very, very bad look for the FDA, and the dealings between Gilead and EU make it another layer of badness," says Eric Topol, a cardiologist at the Scripps Research Translational Institute who objected to remdesivir's FDA approval.

[teachercd]

As of today, I have two students that are wearing masks.  I have about 100 students each day in class.  

 

That is the lowest amount I have seen since it all started.  

[ColoradoHusk]

48 minutes ago, teachercd said:

As of today, I have two students that are wearing masks.  I have about 100 students each day in class.  

 

That is the lowest amount I have seen since it all started.  

My 7th grade daughter is still wearing a mask at school.  We don't pressure her either way, and she's triple vaxxed.  It's just her preference.

 

Maybe I need to pwn her and yell at her to take the mask off!!!