Click on the graph for full animation of COVID-19’s rise:
Insane graphic about coronavirus that deserves to go viralhttps://t.co/CX3tlt1zlF
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) June 14, 2020
Meanwhile:
Trump on the number of coronavirus cases, per pool: “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) June 15, 2020
New projection puts U.S. COVID-19 deaths at over 200,000 by October https://t.co/XZE9QHBbAs pic.twitter.com/GccXNizG18
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 16, 2020
This is unfair and inaccurate. The American Covid-19 strategy revolves around wishful thinking and sneeze guards. Lots of sneeze guards. https://t.co/MF2NefGgFL
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) June 14, 2020
don't forget the all-important first phase of "government pretends there isn't a problem" https://t.co/15UdrVGDQN
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) June 15, 2020
your blood thick as hell. Or that you may have to be on oxygen for the rest of your life. COVID is designed to kill. It is a highly intelligent virus and it attacks everything. We will run out of resources if we don’t continue to flatten the curve.
I’m exhausted.
— Cherie Antoinette (@sheriantoinette) June 14, 2020
US scientists have found the first direct evidence that coronavirus could infect the human brain and replicate inside its cells https://t.co/evF2Ke2cxZ
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) June 15, 2020
… Thomas Hartung and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University made the discovery after adding low levels of Sars-Cov-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, to tiny neuronal balls known as mini-brains that are grown from human stem cells.
The researchers found the virus infected neurons in the mini-brains via the ACE2 human protein that is known to be an important entry point for Sars-Cov-2. The virus then multiplied within the neurons; within three days the number of copies had increased at least tenfold…
The study, which is under peer review at the journal Altex but not yet published, follows unconfirmed reports of neurological symptoms in Covid-19 patients, including in the original outbreak in Wuhan. More than a third of coronavirus victims who were hospitalised in the Chinese city exhibited neurological symptoms, including dizziness, headache and seizures.
However, it has never been clear whether the virus affects the brain and nerve cells directly or whether such symptoms are a secondary result caused by damage to the patients’ immune and cardiovascular systems…
Although the Johns Hopkins mini-brains show some features of a human brain, including electrical activity and communications between neurons, they lack other features, including the blood-brain barrier.
“Whether or not the Sars-Cov-2 virus passes this barrier has yet to be shown,” Prof Hartung said, “but it is known that severe inflammations, such as observed in Covid-19 patients, make the barrier disintegrate.”…
A critical mutation is helping #SARSCoV2 infect more human cells https://t.co/Cd9634dS0g via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 15, 2020
New FDA warning advises that, based on a recently completed non-clinical study, the co-administration of hydroxychloroquine with remdesivir may interfere with the antiviral activity of remdesivir and reduce remdesivir's effectiveness. https://t.co/lnyuh49wle
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 15, 2020
Gulp.
@DrTedros @WHO :
"Globally, more than 7.8 million cases of #COVID19 have now been reported to WHO, and more than 430,000 deaths.
It took more than 2 mos for the 1st 100,000 cases to be reported. For the past 2 wks, >100,000 new cases have been reported almost every day."— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 15, 2020
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