Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Not enough to worry you know who.

 

Good grief. That means the next time a tornado wipes out a neighborhood, the Governor can’t restrict access? Or impose a curfew during riots?

 

Because freedum.

Nobudduh tellz us whut ta dew

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maine wedding ‘superspreader’ event is now linked to seven deaths. None of those people attended.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/15/maine-wedding-covid/

Only about 65 close family members and friends were on the guest list for a bride and groom’s rustic wedding celebration in a small Maine town in early August.

But the nuptials began an outbreak now traced to more than 175 reported novel coronavirus infections and also to the deaths of seven people, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

 

The more we learn, the more this thing scares me.

The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can sometimes hijack brain cells, using the cells' internal machinery to copy itself, according to a new study.

The research, posted Sept. 8 to the preprint database bioRxiv, has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, but it provides evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect brain cells called neurons. Although the coronavirus has been linked to various forms of brain damage, from deadly inflammation to brain diseases known as encephalopathies, all of which can cause confusion, brain fog and delirium, there was little evidence of the virus itself invading brain tissue until now. …

While setting up shop in infected cells, the virus also caused metabolic changes in nearby neurons, which were not infected. These nearby cells died off in large numbers, suggesting that the infected cells might steal oxygen from their neighbors in order to keep producing new virus, the authors noted.

"We do not know if similar events are taking place in infected people," though there is some evidence they might be, Iwasaki noted. In the autopsied tissue, the team found SARS-CoV-2 had infected some neurons in the wrinkled cerebral cortex. Near these infected cells, they found evidence of "small strokes" having taken place, hinting that the virus might steal oxygen from nearby cells in the brain just as it did in the organoids, Iwasaki said.

Notably, the infected brain tissue was not flooded with immune cells, as might be expected. When the Zika virus or rabies virus invades the brain, a large number of immune cells usually follow, the authors noted. So it's possible that when SARS-CoV-2 manages to infiltrate the brain, it may somehow escape the body's typical defense against such invasions. It's not yet known how this unusual immune response might affect the course of the infection, but it may make the virus more difficult to clear from the brain. And though few immune cells flock to the site of infection, dying neurons nearby can trigger a chain-reaction in the nervous system that still leads to harmful inflammation, the authors noted.

Finally, in the mouse experiments, the authors genetically modified one group of mice to express human ACE2 receptors in their brains, while another group of mice only bore the receptor in their lungs. The first set of mice rapidly began losing weight and died within six days, while the second set did not lose weight and survived. In addition, in the mice with brain infection, the arrangement of blood vessels in the brain changed dramatically, presumably to redirect nutrient-rich blood to "metabolically active hot spots" where the virus had taken over, the authors wrote.​

The new coronavirus can infect brain cells, study finds | Live Science

 

LSU's head football coach reveals 'most' of his team has had Covid-19 - CNN

Probably puts him in the Outkick HOF. Of course, I imagine a few NFL prospects will fail their pre-draft physicals and have to give up their NFL dreams,

BUT FREEDUM!!!!!

 

A person who had it told me her short term memory seems to be different now, and she's more forgetful.

 

Meanwhile . . .

 

I can only say that in France, local semi-lockdowns have been re-imposed in several cities, including Bordeaux where my daughter lives. No indoor gatherings of more than 10 people, work from home if possible, changed transit schedules, no bar seating at cafes or bars, earlier closing hours for restaurants and bars. It's not draconian, but it does show one European country is prepared to re-instate covid prevention measures.