https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/polit...rce/index.html
A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/polit...rce/index.html
A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say
Kyle gets BUCKETS!
https://youtu.be/NJWPASQZqLc
We ordered a new microwave about 6 weeks ago. Nothing so far.
My wife has purchased toilet paper, facial tissue, and paper towels pretty much every time she's been shopping over the past 6 months. I'm glad I have a fairly large storage closet!
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
In sobering news for the return of live music the Met cancels the 2020-'21 season.
https://www.metopera.org/about/press...202021-season/
That really is awful news. I know that compared to other things that have been effected by the pandemic, it may not seem that important but the Met is one of the things that make NY special. For those people thinking about coming to NYC (if we ever can love around again) going to Lincoln Center and seeing the two huge Chagall paintings in the window of the opera house should be on the list.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...id-19-vaccine/
Good info. I appreciate the heavy lifting the experts in this thread have done on this topic. RSVMAN and tbyers11 specifically but not solely. I follow this thread religiously. Thoughts from the experts?
Hard to argue with much in that article. Nothing there that surprises me or is earth-shattering. I would be thrilled if the eventual vaccine(s) is(are) shown to be 50% protective and safe. One thing they didn't talk about in the article is that protection engendered by vaccination, though often dichotomized into "protected" and "not protected" is actually, like most things in biology, a continuous variable; many of the hypothetical 50% who don't get absolute protection will likely still benefit from having been vaccinated, by having the severity of disease lessened, which should also yield a survival benefit.
There are obviously a lot of unknowns, and I don't expect the eventual vaccine to be anywhere near as great as people want it to be, but I think, at this point, partial protection with reduction in morbidity and mortality would be a good thing.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust