In March, I remember am old lady coughing every two steps
I'm pretty sure my dad caught it in the ASDA/ASDA opticians early March.
Brutal brutal thing.
Despite the massive death toll there are so many people who haven't lost someone so have just found the whole thing an inconvenience. And I'm aghast that some are keeping themselves occupied at the moment with conspiracy theories.
I have some faith in a vaccine coming, but that while field needs to progress a quantum leap from where it's at. I worked in virology early on in my career, and progress has been linear since then. We had a tiny financial boost with hn51, I think it was. Everything is very reactive and understated.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Sun 9 Aug 2020, 22:09,
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Colleague's bother bought the farm
He spent a few weeks in hospital, did not need the respirator, but still pretty sick.
Pulled through, all seemed ok, sent him home still very tired but feeling pretty good.
Died of a heart attack about two weeks later.
He was 27, apparently "moderate" bouts of COVID seem to "exhaust" the heart muscle in young fit subjects.
Total rest and recovery is to be taken very seriously.
Even in young fit subjects.
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Horrible
I'm really sorry to hear that.
My mum recovered, and seemed to make a pretty good recovery, but she still gets wiped out for a few days to a degree that concerns me somewhat.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 16:29,
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I mean it kind of has to be reactive, you're not going to get grant money to make a vaccine for a theoretical mutation
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 7:51,
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Vaccines aren't the entirely of virology though
And I'm certain we could reduce the turnaround on creating candidate vaccines.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 7:57,
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