UPDATE (444): EARLY TREATMENT, HERD IMMUNITY, USA MOTORCYCLE RALLY

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CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 UPDATE (444): EARLY TREATMENT, HERD IMMUNITY, USA MOTORCYCLE RALLY, WHO, GLOBAL ********************************************************************** A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases In this update: [1] Early treatment [2] Herd immunity is not the answer [3] USA (Sturgis, South Dakota): motorcycle rally [4] WHO: daily new cases reported … [Read more…]

The preexisting conditions of the coronavirus pandemic

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Over on Ars Technica, a link to an essay summarizing the data found in a new report from the Global Burden of Disease project based at the University of Washington – An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020. Adam Rogers, wired.com – 10/18/2020, 4:07 AM Try to … [Read more…]

Inside the Hidden World of Legacy IT Systems

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Inside the Hidden World of Legacy IT SystemsHow and why we spend trillions to keep old software going By Robert N. Charette IEEE Spectrum

AFTER THE “FLU”

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An interesting editorial from the Fresno Republican, reprinted in the Calistoga California “Weekly Calistogian” of 14 February, 1919. It strikes me as interesting in both the thought given to what they expected after the epidemic but the need for social reform to support these expectation. – JS The Weekly Calistogian 14 February 1919 AFTER THE … [Read more…]

SPANISH INFLUENZA BROUGHT BY HUNS

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If you thought that conspiracy theories were a modern invention, this one banged around the US newspapers in September 1918. Sadly, the influenza didn’t respect any borders and raged through Europe as readily as it did the USA: Riverside Daily Press 19 September 1918 SPANISH INFLUENZA BROUGHT BY HUNS Head of Health Section of Shipping Board … [Read more…]

DR. POTTER WARNS PUBLIC

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From the Morning Press, 24 August 1918, just before the Spanish influenza epidemic began to rage on the west coast of America: DR. POTTER WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST SPAIN’S INFLUENZA That Spanish influenza, a scourge which has attacked the great armies Europe, is bound to make its presence felt in the United States, was a prediction of … [Read more…]

Post-COVID-19 Sequelae

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Post-COVID-19 sequelae Date: Fri 31 Jul 2020 13:30 EDT Source: Science [abridged, edited] [se·que·la /s??kwel?/ noun Medicine plural a condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury. “the long-term sequelae of infection”] [AA’s] neuroscience lab reopened last month [June 2020] without her. Life for the 38-year-old is a pale shadow of what … [Read more…]

I’m not so timid about germs

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Substitute COVID-19 for INFLUENZA in the article below, and you sum up how epidemics impact people. – JS. Riverside Daily Press 18 February 1919 SIDE TALKS BY RUTH CAMERON Rocking the Boat “Well, I’m thankful to say, I’m not so timid about germs. My carcass isn’t quite so valuable to me as all that,” said … [Read more…]

REDONDO BEACH USES TRAVELING SCHOOLS – 1918

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Calexico Chronicle 23 December 1918 REDONDO BEACH USES TRAVELING SCHOOLS Redondo Beach, Dec. 23.—Grammar schools have been closed here during the influenza epidemic, but the work of education goes on. Equipped with a small portable blackboard and necessary text books and records, each teacher calls upon each pupil enrolled in her classes and hears recitations … [Read more…]

Zohar Studios

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Two articles have popped up about an exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco called “Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years.” The first link was from the intrepid New York Review of Books Daily blog; Zohar Studios’: An Invented Artist’s Lively Inventions by J. Hoberman and the second link is from … [Read more…]