Typical BS for kids with chronic conditions: doctors are sympathetic at first, they grow impatient when they don’t spontaneously get well or respond to treatment, so they blame the parents and malingering.

first multiple sclerosis, now transverse myelitis.

These are all things that adults and kids with disabilities have been advocating for, for YEARS.

“In this cohort study of 489 patients who had a vitamin D level measured in the year before COVID-19 testing, the relative risk of testing positive for COVID-19 was 1.77 times greater for patients with likely deficient vitamin D status compared with patients with likely sufficient vitamin D status, a difference that was statistically significant.”

Anyone with income under $99k ($198k for married) or who received a stimulus check or did not have to file a 2019 tax return: no evictions until January. No documentation accept for a signed declaration.

Looking forward to the boom of Entrepreneurs selling covid-friendly sex masks.

FEMA has been untrustworthy since Katrina, but now they’re effectively redefining the word “emergency” to avoid helping anyone but the State.

“In some cases, doctors gave patients do-not-resuscitate orders without family or patient consent, sometimes overruling families that wanted everything done for their loved one, three nurses said.“

Legionella is growing in stagnant water fixtures.

Schools aren’t required to test for it, or report it if found.

The disease tolerance hypothesis

And it turns out that questions about distancing don’t end at 6 feet. In the past few months, environmental scientists, physicists, engineers, epidemiologists, and others have become increasingly vocal with concerns that the virus might be transmitted through smaller droplets that can reach as far as 26 feet on violent exhalations like coughs and sneezes. The droplets can slow down, dry out, and hang in the air for hours.

Family members, lawyers, and advocates have placed calls to prisons to grant early-release to the elderly, and the infirm to prevent more deaths as well as decrease the population. Frustratingly, research shows that out of 668 jails being tracked, 71% of them saw an increase in population from May 1 to June 22, while 84 jails had more people locked away on July 22, then they did in March (Prison Policy Initiative).

"Among the 143 people interviewed for the report, only 18 were symptom-free 60 days after their hospital discharge. More than half of the people interviewed said that they still experienced three or more symptoms, among which fatigue was the most common issue cited."

Maybe Covid-19 will result in some good research for people with ME/CFS.

Thousands of pages of emails provided to The Associated Press under open-records laws show that governors across the U.S. were inundated with reopening advice from a wide range of industries — from campgrounds in New Hampshire to car washes in Washington. Some governors put economic interests ahead of public health guidance, and certain businesses were allowed to write the rules that would govern their own operations.

...meanwhile, every small town I've traveled to in the last year has had a shiny new Edward Jones investment office.

maybe lets build fewer EdJo's and more hospitals.

second strain was very slightly different from the first (confirming reinfection), but first infection helped him be immune to a more severe infection.

not known: how contagious is a second infection?

“He’s tried to meet all the students,” said Weathers.

According to a letter sent home to parents, Zink had been in every classroom.

As if the FDA wasn’t useless enough...