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Oh ok. Thank you. Good Grief, how sad to walk through life so sensitive. Rick

More great news. Sounds like to me the French doctors and scientists are all but ready to call the combination use of Hydroxychloroquin & Azithromycin as a cure?. There is a link to the 29 page report within the article. https://techstartups.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-cure-new-results-french-study-shows-combination-hydroxychloroquine-plaquenil-azithromycin-successfully-treated-80-coronavirus-patients-significant-dr/

WTF are you talking about? Rick

What was the time it took to travel back from Europe on a ship back then you think? Had to of been horrible. Rick

Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065 Rick

Our nation’s innovative response to a crisis always amazes me How LSU researchers, hospital leaders created a new coronavirus test lab in a week https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_f24e3944-6fb3-11ea-84db-5fd8c3e55db7.html

Thought I would see my first case of Chinese flu yesterday but it turned out to be a stomach issue. Nothing much else going on. As many people who are staying home from work I’m surprised how many people are on the road driving in to work. Rick

That’s not what the article is claiming. Key word=“may” “may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate ofapproximately 0.1%)” Of course it is the New England Journal of Medicine. What do those idiots over there know, right? Rick

Prior to this past most recent February Texas had over 50 schools during this 19-20 school year close due to Flu. One small 2A district north of where I live was one of them. That’s what flu does every flu season. The great news about this strain is it doesn’t seem to greatly affect children or the very young and healthy considering there’s only been one death world wide(a 14 year old in China) of a child under 15. Rick

More good news in the New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

I apologize,, I didn’t intend that to come across as me having more perspective. Your comment just made me laugh after earlier having seen Nadler’s post. And great memory on the Tortilla game although I didn’t actually get escorted out. PD asked me to go to the tunnel in the stands so they could hear. They came down to ask what was going on in regards to a fight with a security guard starting shit with people in the stands and there was so much commotion we couldn’t hear each other so we moved the conversation to the tunnel and that caused a damn near riot because everyone thought I was getting the boot. It did freak my son out a little though. Then afterwards, if that wasn’t enough, after I left to go back to my seat and PD left to walked around to the outside to go to the field to go talk to the security guard...I walk up just in time at my seat to see Ramon Flanagan trying to get his hands around @SilverEagle ‘s neck and see my section of seats fighting him and the coaches in a melee. It was a freaking mess! God I can’t believe we all lived through that era? Only at North Texas. But it just proves we have the very best, most passionate fan base in the land. Rick

The $4 Billion was for non-profit museums that raise their own money through private donations for other people’s leisure and entertainment. Asking you and I for $4 Billion dollars for leisure and entertainment is beyond bizarre at this time and is what should make your blood boil. Rick

In my minimal effort to sweep the political garbage away from the virus discussion to here,.... Perspective. Rick

So probably between 12,000 -75,000? Rick

Hopefully officials in the U.S. come to the decision that that extreme is not necessary here in the majority of the country. Rick.

As did Hayden Fry and that worked out pretty well for us. Rick

Worked another 24 hour shift among millions yesterday. Everyone seemed to be moving about, going to work and doing their thing. Some good news on the research & findings towards a cure and prevention of covid19. The FDA and CDC hope to have a vaccine within a few weeks or less. Research using a combination of Chloroquine and Azythromiacin is showing promise in speeding up recovery and possibly a preventative? An interesting read on one of the clinical trials on that https://www.covidtrial.io We may be able to obtain tests readily enough that we’ll be able to test ourselves at home as early as next week? That would be incredible if the suppliers can pull that off? We’re gonna get through this. Rick

Thank for the heads up @outoftown. Rick

I wish you’d quit bitching about Trump. You did your best in the basketball threads too to bitch. The man has tried to close our borders for over three years and got nothing but negative criticisms. Then he was ahead of everyone state side in shutting down travel to China,..again, nothing but negative criticism. The guy has plenty of room for criticism but protecting American interests from the flu ain’t one of them. If you want to bitch about Trump please start a separate thread on it. Rick

I just saw that,..3233 new cases. Rick

No, nor have I made contact with a patient that is known to be infected. I work within a 7.5 million person metro area, the 4th largest in the nation so I’m sure that will change at some point? Last night for there to be so many warnings to stay home there were a crap ton of people out and about,...especially it being a Sunday night full of thunder storms. We spent most of the night running EMS calls and for fires due to lightening strikes and car wrecks on the highway. At 11 pm last night there were thousands of people on the highways. I’m guessing between 8 pm and 6am we spent 3 hours on the freeways alone. How about some good news? I’ve been searching for news anywhere that gives us a count of people who have survived Covid19. Lots of info on infections but very little on survivors. Heres a source that’s pretty interesting and their numbers seem accurate. Theres interesting updates with sources listed at the bottom. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#italian-media The numbers are updated at midnight. You can see the count by each country that is affected. . Some things that most caught my interest: 77,868 people have survived. Saturday the U.S. had 351 new cases. Sunday that number reduced to 122. Yesterday Italy reported zero new cases. That would be huge for them if that can continue. Theres been few if any deaths in children that I can tell, 15 years of age and below. If you find something interesting on the site please share. Rick

It’ll be Aune or Kuhne. Rick

That’s good to know. And even better knowing people stop contracting them around the end of March. Rick

Some interesting info on CDC.gov. Coronavirus was first discovered in 1963. This strain, Covid19 if I recall is #4, although there could be others? Flu season generally runs between October to March,...but can extend thru May. But the most interesting thing to me is according to the CDC database In the past 36 flu seasons NO MONTH between April & September has EVER been the peak month for the flu. It’s always been October, November, December, January, February or March. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season.htm So since we are halfway through March hopefully this all slows and/or comes to a quick end. Rick

Im thankful I got to see the Conference Regular Season Championship in person. Hopefully everything mentioned is done for them and the staff. Rick