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A Look Inside the Navy Hospital Ships Fighting COVID-19

At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, which has so far claimed 385 lives across the state, patients were mostly elderly or sick, according to one respiratory therapist, who works in the New York City borough of Queens.

Now it’s 50-year-olds, 40-year-olds, 30-year-olds,” said the employee at the Jewish Medical Center, who declined to give his name.

Many of the proposals now under study come from research groups that have spent years working to combat similar coronaviruses, particularly SARS and MERS. All that accumulated knowledge has allowed scientists to advance at unprecedented speed.

We know, for example, that the genome of the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, is 79% like that of SARS. We know the “key” used by the virus to get into human lung cells is protein S and that the “lock” in the cell is the ACE2 receptor. We also know that the entry of the virus is facilitated by a protease, or an enzyme that breaks down proteins, from the cell itself, called TMPRSS211.

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Stacks of Urns in Wuhan Prompt New Questions of Virus’s Toll

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Health official warns churches are becoming coronavirus ‘hot spots’ as congregations ignore warnings

Of the numerous patients being treated for coronavirus in the hot spot of Alabama's Lee County, many of them have one thing in common: they recently attended services at churches that have refuse to participate in lockdowns.As AL.com reports, East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika has called on...

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Pastor dies from COVID-19 — after claiming coronavirus was a ‘mark of the beast’ conspiracy

According to The Christian Post, Pastor Ronnie Hampton of the New Vision Community Church in Shreveport, Louisiana, has died of COVID-19 — after telling his followers that the virus was not a huge deal and suggesting that God was just testing the faithful.“This virus that is out now, look at...

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No rattlesnakes required.

Is Kool-Aid next?

O' Be Joyful said:

No rattlesnakes required.

Is Kool-Aid next?

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I guess the Baby Jesus was pissed off at the Rev. I lost Baby Jesus's cell phone number but it would be great if Baby Jesus could articulate his thoughts on CV19.
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Kirk's Raider's said:

I guess the Baby Jesus was pissed off at the Rev. I lost Baby Jesus's cell phone number but it would be great vif Baby Jesus could articulate his thoughts on CV19.
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Unless you can explain....that is just plain, stup...

Dräger: There is little point in adapting unused production capacity to manufacture respiratory aids. I spoke with Daimler* over the weekend. They would also like to help. But it’s unfortunately not so simple. We can’t build cars either. Before we invest too much thought into this, we should focus on getting devices that are sitting around in a basement somewhere back into working order. Or can we repurpose other devices? There is a lot of potential there.

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* that's mercedes benz for those who don't know it

IIRC, it took at least a year and and half to "tool" up for full-production during WW II.

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IIRC, it took at least a year and and half to "tool" up for full-production during WW II.

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an m4 sherman is also a lot less complex than a respirator and a lot closer to what car manufacturers usually do. companies like dräger can get into higher gear because they can absorb rookies and train them on the job. daimler benz (or gm) does not have one single employee who doesn't need some sort of training themselves. when they are ready to go that thing is either over or we are all dead anyway.

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an m4 sherman is also a lot less complex than a respirator and a lot closer to what car manufacturers usually do.

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Or the B-29. And, we know how long that took.

https://www.boeing.com/history/products/b-29-superfortress.page