Coronavirus is one mutation away from infecting millions

[Winehole23]

Florida police raid home of fired data scientist who built state's COVID-19 dashboard

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida police brandishing firearms raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former state Department of Health employee who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to manipulate data.

"They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids," Jones tweeted shortly before 5 p.m. Monday.

Jones — who launched her own COVID-19 dashboard after she was fired, and used crowdsourcing to raise money to support it — said agents knocked on her door around 8:30 a.m., took all her "hardware and tech" after showing her a warrant based on a complaint filed by the Florida Department of Health.

A video accompanying the post shows Florida Department of Law Enforcementagents in vests entering the house with guns drawn, asking who else was in the house. She said her husband and two children were inside as they escorted her out of the house.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rd/6483329002/

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We'll see how this develops, but not a good look so far for DeathSantis...

Looks like a vendetta to me. Ms. Jones showed up the state of Florida by building a better COVID dashboard when Florida was --is -- trying to hide the ball.

[DarrinS]

Florida police raid home of fired data scientist who built state's COVID-19 dashboard

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida police brandishing firearms raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former state Department of Health employee who built the state's much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to manipulate data.

"They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids," Jones tweeted shortly before 5 p.m. Monday.

Jones — who launched her own COVID-19 dashboard after she was fired, and used crowdsourcing to raise money to support it — said agents knocked on her door around 8:30 a.m., took all her "hardware and tech" after showing her a warrant based on a complaint filed by the Florida Department of Health.

A video accompanying the post shows Florida Department of Law Enforcementagents in vests entering the house with guns drawn, asking who else was in the house. She said her husband and two children were inside as they escorted her out of the house.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rd/6483329002/

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We'll see how this develops, but not a good look so far for DeathSantis...

No thought to the "data scientist" doing something wrong?

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, she's one of those pedophile baby eaters your side is always talking about.

[Winehole23]

No thought to the "data scientist" doing something wrong?

What did she do wrong beside providing better data than Florida?

[hater]

Lol state police

Wouldnt the feds supposed to handle this ?

[boutons_deux]

What did she do wrong beside providing better data than Florida?

Her political "crime" of free speech being punished with most probably FAKE legal crime.

Even if the charges are dropped in some months, the fascist objective is to down all opposition, to shut her up.

[MultiTroll]

If I die of that, I agree. I dropped 35 lbs three years ago.

Its easy. Stop eating so much.

and visualize your goal.

-85 lbs.

[boutons_deux]

Baker says Mass. hospitals will ‘curtail’ inpatient elective procedures amid COVID-19 e

Governor Charlie Baker said Monday that

hospitals in Massachusetts effective Friday will temporarily stop conducting in-patient elective surgeries that can safely be put off,

amid the recent e in coronavirus infections.

-- Boston Globe email

[ChumpDumper]

If I die of that, I agree. I dropped 35 lbs three years ago.

Its easy. Stop eating so much.

And smoke like a ing chimney.

[TimDunkem]

Imagine losing weight and taking vitamin D supplements, then pretending to be some sort of beacon of good health when you're an admitted alcoholic and chain-smoker.

[boutons_deux]

An NYT analysis of CDC data reveals that

345,000 more people than normal have died in the U.S. from March 15 to November 14.

The tally of excess deaths is 41% higher than the official coronavirus fatality count.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12...ets-get-small/

[tholdren]

Imagine losing weight and taking vitamin D supplements, then pretending to be some sort of beacon of good health when you're an admitted alcoholic and chain-smoker.

Imagine crying on the internet about having covid

[ElNono]

^ gossip

[tholdren]

^ gossip

Fla mandating ct

[Ef-man]

^ gossip

[tholdren]

Fla mandating ct

[hater]

Lol

"Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine," states the new MHRA advice, PA Media reported. It said that vaccines "should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available."

[hater]

And yet Grassley and Ghoiliani live

[Will Hunting]

Imagine losing weight and taking vitamin D supplements, then pretending to be some sort of beacon of good health when you're an admitted alcoholic and chain-smoker.

him smoking 1-2 packs a day. I’ll bet he’s one of those disgusting people who smells like cigarette smoke even when he’s not smoking.

[hater]

[hater]

3,000 rotting carcasses today

Not funny anymore

God damn can u believe we most likely will have over 3,000 deaths on christmas day?

Thats basically a 9/11. On img christmas

[DarrinS]

Yeah, if a damn peanut might send you to the hospital, maybe be cautious of the vaccine.

[hater]

What we drinkin tonight Darrin?

[DarrinS]

What we drinkin tonight Darrin?

Watered down ty American light beer.

[phxspurfan]

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/e...nd-viral-load/


Dr Michael Skinner, Reader in Virology, Imperial College London, said:

“Some comments on virus dose, load and shedding.
“Viruses are not poisons, within the cell they are self-replicating. That means an infection can start with just a small number of articles (the ‘dose’). The actual minimum number varies between different viruses and we don’t yet know what that ‘minimum infectious dose’ is for COVID-19, but we might presume it’s around a hundred virus particles.
“When that dose reaches our respiratory tract, one or two cells will be infected and will be re-programmed to produce many new viruses within 12-24 hours (for COVID-19, we don’t yet know how many or over how long). The new viruses will infect many more nearby cells (which can include cells of our immune defence system too, possibly compromising it) and the whole process goes around again, and again, and again.
“At some time quite early in infection, our ‘innate immune system’ detects there’s a virus infection and mounts an innate immune response. This is not the virus-specific, ‘acquired immune response’ with which people are generally familiar (i.e. antibodies) but rather a broad, non-specific, anti-viral response (characterised by interferon and cytokines, small proteins that have the side effect of causing many of the symptoms: fever, headaches, muscle pain). This response serves two purposes: to slow down the replication and spread of the virus, keeping us alive until the ‘acquired immune response’ kicks in (which, for a virus we haven’t seen, is about 2 to 3 weeks) and to call-up and commission the ‘acquired immune response’ which will stop and finally clear the infection, as well as laying-down immune memory to allow a faster response if we are infected again in the future (this is the basis of the expected immunity in survivors and of vaccination).
“With COVID-19, these two arms of the immune system (innate and acquired) obviously work well for 80% of the population who recover from more or less mild influenza-like illness.
“In older people, or people with immunodeficiencies, the activation of the acquired immune system may be delayed. This means that the virus can carry on replicating and spreading in the body, causing chaos and damage as it does, but there’s another consequence. Another job of the acquired immune system is to stand-down the innate immune system; until that’s done the innate immune response will keep increasing as the virus replicates and spreads. Part of the innate immune response is to cause ‘inflammation’. That is useful in containing the virus early in an infection but can result in widespread damage of uninfected tissue (we call this a ‘bystander effect’) if it becomes too large and uncontrolled, a situation named ‘cytokine storm’ when it was first seen with SARS and avian influenza H5N1. It is difficult to manage clinically, requiring intensive care and treatment and carries with it high risk of death.
“The scenarios described above describe what happens following infection with ‘normal’ doses of virus, both in those who make a recovery, those who require intensive care and those (mainly elderly and/or immunosuppressed) who might suc b. Those with other comorbidities probably suc b due to additional stress of their already compromised essential systems by virus and/or cytokine storm.
“It is unlikely that higher doses that would be acquired by being exposed to multiple infected sources would make much difference to the course of disease or the outcome. It’s hard to see how the dose would vary by more than 10 fold. (Although differences have been seen in lab animal infections with some viruses, those animals are inbred (genetically similar to respond in the same way). It’s unlikely that we’d see the differences as statistically significant in out-bred humans.)
“We must be more concerned about situations where somebody receives a massive dose of the virus (we have no data on how large that might be but bodily fluids from those infected with other viruses can contain a million, and up to a hundred million viruses per ml), particularly through inhalation.
“Unfortunately, we don’t yet know enough about the distribution of the COVID-19 virus throughout the body of the infected patients in normal, and unusual situations.
“Under such cir stances the virus receives a massive jump start, leading to a massive innate immune response, which will struggle to control the virus to allow time for acquired immunity to kick-in while at the same time leading to considerable inflammation and a cytokine storm.
“For most of us, it’s hard to see how we could receive such a high dose; it’s going to be a rare event. In the COVID-19 clinic, the purpose of PPE is to prevent such large exposures leading to high dose infection. Situations we should be concerned about are potential high dose exposure of clinical staff conducting procedures on patients who are not known to be infected. I read about a Chinese description of an early stage COVID-19 infection of the lung, which only came about because lung cancer patients (not known to be infected) had lobectemies. There have been suggestions that such situations contributed to the deaths of medics in Wuhan, who were conducting normal procedures (including some that could generate aerosols of infected fluids) before the spread and risk had been appreciated.
“Obviously, testing of patients for infection should now be a priority for any such procedures. Some of the relevant elective procedures have been postponed or scaled back (for patient and staff safety) but we can’t do the same for non-elective procedures (especially in emergency and maternity departments).”