Blurt!Commonplace Book

Beth Mole

“[T]he modeling estimated that COVID-19 vaccination [in the United States] prevented 3.25 million deaths…. Averted hospitalizations were estimated at 18.6 million…. For infections, the model estimated a dodge of 119.85 million.”

posted Dec. 24, 2022, 8:00pm

“[P]eople who were homozygous (had two copies) of this protective gene variant involved in antigen presentation were 40 percent more likely to survive the plague than those with two copies of a deleterious variant, which encodes a broken protein.”

posted Nov. 3, 2022, 8:00pm

GISAID, a global database of influenza virus genetic sequences that typically gets thousands of flu sequences each year, has not received a single B/Yamagata sequence with specimen collection data after March 2020.”

posted Oct. 20, 2022, 8:00pm

“[T]he cases may arise from a co-infection of two different viruses—one of which could be an adenovirus and the other a hitchhiking virus—in children who also happen to have a specific genetic predisposition to hepatitis.”

posted Oct. 4, 2022, 8:00pm

“[A] new report published in The Lancet describing 41 early cases in the outbreak indicate that the earliest identified person sickened had no epidemiological links to the [Wuhan animal] market.”

(Added November 2022: This was the first thing I posted about the plague, and the first thing that really made me think it might be something that would affect my family.)

posted Jan. 28, 2020, 10:26pm