A BBC article today made me furious www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Conservative leadership frontrunner Robert Jenrick says that David Starkey, who denied that slavery was genocide because "so many damn blacks" survived, should be given a dukedom
āA 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body.ā š #Diabetes
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.
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They should be all over this...
I haven't seen any sequences for these patients, are they available? R could change as the virus does...
What might below say about transmission potential? If (still a big if) this is a transmission cluster, then we now have 14 reported spillover cases (i.e. single human cases unrelated to others) and one possible cluster of 9 (i.e. unknown source case + patient + 7 suspected onwards cases)....
BREAKING: A possible cluster of bird-flu infections in Missouri has grown to include eight people, in what may be the first examples of person-to-person transmission in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/h...
Seven people in contact with a patient hospitalized with bird flu also developed symptoms, the C.D.C. reported. Some are undergoing further tests.
And here he breaks down while explaining the absolute trauma experienced by smaller hospitals in particular - the "healthier" ICU patients were transferred out, leaving them coping with so much death. They felt so alone. youtu.be/dY_CdenZyrg
Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
When it comes to Covid we are really scraping around to try to piece fragments of data together to give us a proper picture of whatās going on. Not knowing whatās happening makes it so much harder to know how to respond.