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That 24% that don't feel positive about kittens need to be found and "talked too".

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases explodes across Africa, the creeping involvement of the WHO has made some leaders suspicious of the NGO. Tanzanian President John Magufuli was growing suspicious of the organization, so he reportedly decided to investigate whether the organization was as trustworthy and reliable as it claimed to be.
He played what the local press described as "a trick" on the organization: He sent the WHO samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing.
All three samples reportedly tested positive. When the president heard the news, he reportedly confronted the WHO, then kicked the organization out of the country. Though, to be sure, the WHO has yet to comment on the situation.
CNN announced Wednesday that teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is in the lineup for a Thursday town hall on the coronavirus, baffling observers and drawing heavy scorn from critics.
Thunberg will join former acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Richard Besser and former Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the panel. The 8 p.m. ET program will be hosted by Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta
The rushed Covid-19 Public Health Response Bill passed within 48 hours and will potentially allow police to enter homes without a warrant.
With 63 votes in favour and 57 against, the bill passed on Wednesday.
The country’s Human Rights Commission called the bill “a great failure of our democratic process”.
Those against the bill in New Zealand are calling it an “overreach of powers”.
To be clear, these are not survival rates of COVID-19. They are the proportion of a country's population that has not yet died of COVID-19, including those who have never had COVID-19.
The number sounded high.^ your math is off c.h.
0.17% of 300 million is 51,000
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Fixed.To be clear, these are not survival rates of COVID-19. They are the proportion of a country's population that has not yet died of COVID-19, including those who have never been tested for COVID-19.
The president said that distributing the vaccine would be a “massive job” and that he would move quickly to get it distributed.
“Unless you’re mobilized and ready, you’re not going to be able to do it for a long time. So we’re starting now,” he said.
President Trump predicted a vaccine would become available by the end of 2020, and manufacturers are already mobilizing the production of millions of doses of potential vaccine candidates while they are tested.
The president has also set an “Operation Warp Speed “task force goal of getting 100 million vaccine doses available in the fall, with 300 million doses by January.
Read the full story here.Immune warriors known as T cells help us fight some viruses, but their importance for battling SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been unclear. Now, two studies reveal infected people harbor T cells that target the virus—and may help them recover. Both studies also found some people never infected with SARS-CoV-2 have these cellular defenses, most likely because they were previously infected with other coronaviruses.
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All of the patients carried helper T cells that recognized the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which enables the virus to infiltrate our cells. They also harbored helper T cells that react to other SARS-CoV-2 proteins. And the team detected virus-specific killer T cells in 70% of the subjects, they report today in Cell. “The immune system sees this virus and mounts an effective immune response,” Sette says.
The results jibe with those of a study posted as a preprint on medRxiv on 22 April by immunologist Andreas Thiel of the Charité University Hospital in Berlin and colleagues. They identified helper T cells targeting the spike protein in 15 out of 18 patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
The teams also asked whether people who haven’t been infected with SARS-CoV-2 also produce cells that combat it. Thiel and colleagues analyzed blood from 68 uninfected people and found that 34% hosted helper T cells that recognized SARS-CoV-2. The La Jolla team detected this crossreactivity in about half of stored blood samples collected between 2015 and 2018, well before the current pandemic began. The researchers think these cells were likely triggered by past infection with one of the four human coronaviruses that cause colds; proteins in these viruses resemble those of SARS-CoV-2.
The results suggest “one reason that a large chunk of the population may be able to deal with the virus is that we may have some small residual immunity from our exposure to common cold viruses,” says viral immunologist Steven Varga of the University of Iowa. However, neither of the studies attempted to establish that people with crossreactivity don’t become as ill from COVID-19.
THANK GODT cells found in COVID-19 patients ‘bode well’ for long-term immunity
Mitch Leslie
ScienceMag.org
May 14th, 2020
Read the full story here.
After World War II, Fort Detrick became a site of horrifying scientific experiments conducted under a top-secret CIA quest to control the human mind, known as Project MK Ultra. After more than 20 years, the project ended in abysmal failure and led to an unknown number of deaths, including a scientist who participated in the project, and at least hundreds of American and Canadian victims subjected to mental and physical torture. The experiments not only violated international law, but also the agency's own charter which forbids domestic activity.
As explained by David Talbot in his book The Devil's Chessboard, many spies recruited in the early days of the Cold War were sketchy, undependable characters motivated by inner vulnerabilities such as greed, lust or revenge. Meanwhile, the agency was looking for ways to rule out these psychological variables by creating human machines that would act on command, even against his own conscience.
In official terms, the main goal of the program was "research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior," according to a declassified memo produced by the CIA Inspector General. It quickly ballooned in scale, branching into 149 sub-projects involving at least 80 institutions including universities, hospitals, prisons and drug companies across the United States and Canada.
Unbeknownst to neither the White House nor Congress, people of the forgotten corner of America - the prisoners, prostitutes and the homeless - were picked off the streets as unwitting participants in the mad science at Fort Derrick: "People who could not fight back," in the words of Gottlieb. However, the program also relied on people who could, including American soldiers and unsuspecting patients who inadvertently stumbled into MK Ultra-associated hospitals and clinics across North America.
There a good follow up about that article in that blog post . If you ever wondered what your thymus has done for you lately, you'll find out !T cells found in COVID-19 patients ‘bode well’ for long-term immunity
Mitch Leslie
ScienceMag.org
May 14th, 2020
Read the full story here.
I really fuckin' hope I have immunity I am not going to deal well if I get sick againThere a good follow up about that article in that blog post . If you ever wondered what your thymus has done for you lately, you'll find out !
I really fuckin' hope I have immunity I am not going to deal well if I get sick again
if there is no immunity how do people not just die everytime? does the virus get bored and decide not to do its thing any more? engage brains people. Blood borne antibodies, humoral immunity is not the only thing that gives immunity, more importantly antibodies really really struggle to clear or destroy infected cells, almost like there is some other part of the adaptive immune system (let's call this cell mediated immunity)
This coronavirus is nothing special, it is not a weapon, it is not virus X. If the immune sytem was as weak and maladaptive as some of the deranged thought processes I have seen here recently, humans and most likely all mammals would have been wiped out long ago.