got nothing to worry about

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Did he go away MAD?

I'm going to guess you will only have long term immunity to this particular strain.

This is just a guess, so feel free to check better sources... but this is a corona virus, same basic structure as your common cold (also a corona virus). There's no reason I can think of to imagine that what has become COVID-19 can have enough small mutations on the outer capsid to make it undetectable to antibodies to the original one.

Could be something as simple as getting an annual vaccination to the predominant strain though, same thing we do with the flu.

Right. I wondered if anyone else caught that. 😂

Defending?

Look through my posts over the years and think to yourself whether it would seem logical that I would defend anyone who took medical advice from our moron of a president.

Does that seem consistent at all to you?

Yet that's the stance you take?

Not every situation is "win/lose"... sometimes both the idiots blaming the president for giving them medical advice AND the idiot president giving medical advice are BOTH losers.

And you're upset I'm pessimistic when someone's trying to give you hope that a cure will come and save you?

I'm pointing out issues with the study in which they are trying to prove the cure will work. That's not pessimism... that's actual reality.

Are you seriously on here upset because I'm not willing to join in with the blowing of smoke up your ass just because it makes you feel bad?

I was wondering why I smelled smoke when you farted.

I deleted my response to his post.

You have better things to do.

His nickname used to be "stud" - it was short for Studebaker.

Especially if, as some have said, this virus has been here much longer than the recent China crisis.

While they're still going to try to keep the unit clean, they're shifting staff around. Higher risk staff is getting moved to my unit, and lower risk is getting moved to the covid units.

I've been reassigned to covid units starting my next workweek.

Stay safe.

Just as I predicted, more highly positive results of the hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combo are coming in. The Fox News Channel primetime shows had more patients interviewed last night, including a guy who, just like the last guy they interviewed the other day, thought he was done for, and after getting those two drugs, he's now back home and cured and feeling perfectly normal and great, after being at death's doorstep previously. Because both were discharged from the hospital, that means they both had to have two negative tests in a row.... which means it's a cure.

I also noticed a shift in tone from the professionals being interviewed about it. They went from "well we can't say yet, let's wait and see, beyond that I have no comment" to "let's wait and see but gosh we're starting to see some good results here..."

It's happening, like I said it would. Next week the anecdotal "IT WORKS!" floodgates will probably open much wider.

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I disagree with you on the tone of the professionals and think you or fox are seeing what you want to see. Remember fox is entertainment and highly controlled or produced.

Anyone who has ever worked with health care professionals, especially at the public health or delivery model knows the tone around clinical trials etc. it doesn’t change for this or anything else.

Love your optimism though. I hope you are right. I just wouldn’t rely on fox or msnbc for my info.

Yes, I'm aware of that. My analysis rests on multiple and varied pieces of real data and evidence, not on cable news content.

However, the cable news interviews with people who were about to die and then were suddenly cured after taking the two drugs are interesting to watch and do have limited value. It's also nice to hear reports of the two-drug combination being used nationwide "off-label" and hearing from the M.D.s who are doing it.

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