"It's not the old alone...after all?" Confirmed Cases Max at 40-59 years olds at 1/3 of ALL. 20-39 and 60-79 year olds hold the same percentage. Is SAR-CoV-2 REALLY spreading from urban to rural areas? (a sample of urban and rural below) Or was it in the rural areas all along? Why the difference in …
“From Sailors To Swine” (not my title)
"If pandemic influenza spread from sick-to-well by contact, then it should diffuse with reasonable rapidity over short distances. Yet it does not seem to do so. Could it be that somehow the organism that caused the epidemic was already present, but unrecognized, in various parts of the country?" Medical doctors of all stripes and physicians …
Japan today – 20 to 50 years olds “at risk” and infected with SAR-CoV-2
Tokyo JR line yesterday at rush hour I read the headlines in Japanese from the Kyodo News Service yesterday (02APR20 in Japan) with apprehension. Here is an English link to that same story which is mostly the same. It has begun. If you recall how pandemics occur, they appear unevenly in waves. By the time …
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“FLU” – the dynamics of a pandemic
From the perspective of a well-regarded science writer for SCIENCE magazine and The New York Times, Gina Kolata unravels the dynamics of the most devastating pandemic to confront humanity - the 1918 N1H1 Influenza A. From its potential avian-porcine origins to it evolution between humans and swine in Mid-West America during the Summer of 1918 …
A root explanation of Richard Feynman’s PhD thesis by Tibees!
"Do you know Tibees?" Usual not a question you will encounter. Either you do and think it's a superfluous question. Or if you don't, well then, here she is. She is a one-woman explainer, instructor, teacher, YouTuber of mathematics and physics. And the force behind explaining some pretty esoteric subjects. If you like what …
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Hospitalizations for COVID-19 declined last week in Washington State
By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times staff reporter "Hospitalizations for patients with symptoms of COVID-19-like illnesses in Washington declined last week by more than 20%, a hopeful sign for the region and a nation gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. "The state Department of Health (DOH) survey, covering the seven-day period that ended Saturday, tallied 193 admissions …
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“In the time of the corona…”
[This is from my friend, Kjersti, a representative of the Green Party of Norway (Miljøpartiet De Grønne - MPG) to Oslo from the ØstMark (Eastern Land). She has served with the MPG in the European Parliament and at home. She was reared on a dairy farm (like millions of others youth her age in Norway) …
The Arctic Report Card 2019 – delivered home a little late, my fault. We got F’s…
The Arctic Report Card is issued annually by NOAA and NOAA scientists in both an essay format and a hard numbers format. Both presentations are valid and draw on ALL OUR SENSES to learn. The video (below) posted on YouTube is a clear summation of the FY 2019 (Fiscal Year). We got F's, no question. …
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Mars Rover Perseverance 2020 is delivered and “Good-To-Go!” at Cape
Photo Credit: KSC - NASA March 26, 2020 The plate affixed to the aft crossbeam of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover— seen here on March 16, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida — carries 10,932,295 names submitted by people during NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign and essays of the 155 finalists in …
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NASA Shows Perseverance with Helicopter, Cruise Stage Testing
NASA’s Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage undergo functional testing in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 10, 2020. Credits: NASA/Cory Huston By Jim Cawley NASA's Kennedy Space Center "The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA’s newly named rover — Perseverance — received a significant boost following the completion …
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