Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

Coscar, glad to hear you keep getting better. Not that it’s any of my business but you got me curious what your “fighting weight” was before the virus hit you.

Superb news, Coscar. Great progress. :+1:

180
Thanks yall…… :beer:

Are your doctors recommending the vaccine? Just wondering if you are immune now.

Hang in there Coscar! You’re pulling through! Thanks for the update.

I'm glad you're doing better, Coscar!

I hope you can gain some more of your weight back.

When I had a nervous breakdown decades ago I dropped down to 130 pounds.

I was just skin and bones.

Now I weigh about 175, and that is a good weight for me.

We’re now facing the result of the second wave. About 400 deaths per day where the infections spiked in the past. Later we’ll be counting permanent health issues of the survivers.

What if we had done nothing?

The CDC says it found Corona Virus in RED Cross blood donations in early December 2019

EXCERPT

What the numbers mean:

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5ced5692ade4e21968ecfd82&s=5fc6b4659d2fda0efb7af6d6&linknum=1&linktot=53

In the pfizer document describing their study, half were given vaccine and half placebo. In the general population for worldwide and USA (pfizer is in Belgium) you would expect to see between 181 to 935 cases across a placebo group of 22,000 people.

i hope this is real and the vaccine is effective, and not just some sort of bs marketing gimmick with the data.

Universities usually are bastions of free speech, free exchange of ideas, etc (even if the ideas are not entirely correct, the policy has been to allow people to have their say and let people make up their own minds). It’s interesting that Johns Hopkins engaged in censorship of the student newspaper. Apparently the university now wants to make up students’ minds for them.

Have you never read an article that was followed by a disclaimer like:

This [explain activity] was prepared or accomplished by [insert author’s name] in his personal capacity. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the United States government.

Maybe Johns Hopkins wanted more assurance to avoid the (mis)conception that this was an official message from Johns Hopkins.

As a matter of fact, it isn’t true that private universities like Johns Hopkins have had a policy to allow people to say whatever they want to say in publications with the universities’ names on them. All universities, public and private, have a responsibility not only to allow students the freedom to say what they want, but also to protect the students from information promoted under the banner of the universities’ names that can harm the students. Freedom of speech, like all other freedoms, has never been absolute and unlimited at universities, public and private.

It isn’t clear to me who at the university caused the student newspaper to withdraw the article at issue, but it is a reasonable decision in light of the fact that the article addressed issues relating to the probability of death for those contracting a very deadly and contagious virus, the article was posted on a website with the University name on it, the article contained the purported results of research that had not been peer reviewed in the usual manner for such research, the article came to conclusions that did not appear to be supported by the information provided in the article, and the article’s conclusions differed significantly from the conclusions reached by other reliable scientific research on the same topic published by others.

All universities, public and private, also have a responsibility to students, alumni, and others with a stake in the universities’ futures to protect the universities’ reputations for scholarly and scientific integrity. It seems reasonable to conclude, given the facts above, that leaving this particular article on the website could harm the University’s reputation significantly.

To put it more succinctly… The right to free speech does not mean what most Americans think it means.
The constitution is only a limit on government. It’s an agreement between you and your government, nobody else. Your fellow citizens (or businesses) are totally free to delete your posts for any reason. No explanation required.

Exactly. The right of free speech is much misunderstood by many.

It appears UK is first in approving a vaccine.

Fingers crossed.

I'm pretty sure Russia (prematurely) approved a vaccine months ago.

It was all over the news, and widely considered a bad move.

(No offense to Russia or any Russians out there.

That's just how the story was reported.)

Russian marketing gag. That was the beginning of a stage 3 test or something similar. Nothing bad happened.

I found an article from October:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-approves-second-covid-19-vaccine-after-preliminary-trials-idUSKBN26Z1T3

If you don't like Reuters, there are plenty of other articles available (on this subject) online.

EDIT:

And here's an article from August on the first vaccine:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/russia-approves-worlds-first-coronavirus-vaccine-67810

(I don't know how reliable The Scientist is.)