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"There's still a pandemic on" link roundup (incl. recovery stories, for a given value of "recovery")
June 9: "The research, led by scientists at the Britain’s Cambridge and Greenwich Universities, suggests lockdowns alone will not stop the resurgence of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but that even homemade masks can dramatically reduce transmission rates if enough people wear them in public." In case you wanted a source for that.
May 23: "Planet Earth is in terrible danger. Trapped inside the TARDIS, the Doctor calls upon some familiar faces to help save the day...#DoctorsAssemble was home-produced remotely during the 'lockdown' period of the COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020."
June roundup of developments in COVID science & research. Notably:
May 29: "...there is now a growing body of evidence to support the theory that the novel coronavirus can infect blood vessels, which could explain not only the high prevalence of blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks, but also provide an answer for the diverse set of head-to-toe symptoms that have emerged." tackles an answer I've been waiting for, on how much is "this virus having a unique effect on human bodies" vs. how much is "we're just seeing all the weird outlier symptoms because it's hitting so many people"?
May 21: "An Amazon warehouse worker in North Randall, Ohio, died from COVID-19, bringing the total known deaths at the company to eight employees." If you need something shipped, get it from anywhere other than Amazon. For example:
"Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is [as of February] in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option."
Recovery stories:
April 9: "I experience breathlessness from even mild exertion. I used to run marathons; now I can’t walk across a room or up a flight of stairs without getting winded. I can’t go around the block for fresh air unless my husband pushes me in a wheelchair. When I shower, I can’t stand the entire time; I take breaks from standing to sit down on a plastic stool I have placed inside my bathtub." A post-ventilator COVID recovery.
May 17: "After cleaning out his locker at Monsignor McClancy High School on March 18 to continue school online at home, he only left the apartment once, they said, to help his mother wash clothes in their high-rise building’s laundry room. His parents and 22-year-old sister also avoided going out and the tests they have had turned up negative." A 14-year-old's inflammation-centric COVID recovery.
May 19: "The 43-year-old nurse from San Francisco had no underlying health conditions. He normally worked out six or seven times a week. He weighed about 190 pounds. When he spoke with BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, weeks after he'd been able to start eating foods again, he weighed just 140 pounds. His lung capacity is only now starting to slowly come back."
May 24: lessons learned from being quarantined with tuberculosis from age 12 to 15. "People saying, ‘well, I want to go outside. I'm tired of being cooped up. And then I want to go to work.’ So then when your child gets sick or your grandmother or your sister or brother, then, what are you going to do?"
May 23: "Planet Earth is in terrible danger. Trapped inside the TARDIS, the Doctor calls upon some familiar faces to help save the day...#DoctorsAssemble was home-produced remotely during the 'lockdown' period of the COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020."
June roundup of developments in COVID science & research. Notably:
May 29: "...there is now a growing body of evidence to support the theory that the novel coronavirus can infect blood vessels, which could explain not only the high prevalence of blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks, but also provide an answer for the diverse set of head-to-toe symptoms that have emerged." tackles an answer I've been waiting for, on how much is "this virus having a unique effect on human bodies" vs. how much is "we're just seeing all the weird outlier symptoms because it's hitting so many people"?
May 21: "An Amazon warehouse worker in North Randall, Ohio, died from COVID-19, bringing the total known deaths at the company to eight employees." If you need something shipped, get it from anywhere other than Amazon. For example:
"Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is [as of February] in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option."
Recovery stories:
April 9: "I experience breathlessness from even mild exertion. I used to run marathons; now I can’t walk across a room or up a flight of stairs without getting winded. I can’t go around the block for fresh air unless my husband pushes me in a wheelchair. When I shower, I can’t stand the entire time; I take breaks from standing to sit down on a plastic stool I have placed inside my bathtub." A post-ventilator COVID recovery.
May 17: "After cleaning out his locker at Monsignor McClancy High School on March 18 to continue school online at home, he only left the apartment once, they said, to help his mother wash clothes in their high-rise building’s laundry room. His parents and 22-year-old sister also avoided going out and the tests they have had turned up negative." A 14-year-old's inflammation-centric COVID recovery.
May 19: "The 43-year-old nurse from San Francisco had no underlying health conditions. He normally worked out six or seven times a week. He weighed about 190 pounds. When he spoke with BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, weeks after he'd been able to start eating foods again, he weighed just 140 pounds. His lung capacity is only now starting to slowly come back."
May 24: lessons learned from being quarantined with tuberculosis from age 12 to 15. "People saying, ‘well, I want to go outside. I'm tired of being cooped up. And then I want to go to work.’ So then when your child gets sick or your grandmother or your sister or brother, then, what are you going to do?"