Clinical trials begin in Canada https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ial-of-experimental-covid-19-treatment-using/
I have some family members who applied today for CERB, and a friend who chose to go for EI instead because the payout would be more than it.
I saw on Reddit that some people who applied for it yesterday, have already received the money today via direct deposit.
The provincial government on Tuesday passed an emergency order allowing for legal cannabis stores to offer curbside delivery and pickup service.
Plasma from coronavirus survivors found to help severely ill patients
Ian Sample Science editor
Tue 7 Apr 2020 14.22 BST
Doctors have found tentative evidence that seriously ill coronavirus patients can benefit from infusions of blood plasma collected from people who have recovered from the disease.
Two teams of medics working at separate hospitals in China gave antibody-rich plasma to 15 severely ill patients and recorded striking improvements in many of them.
In one pilot study, doctors in Wuhan gave “convalescent plasma” to 10 severely ill patients and found that virus levels in their bodies dropped rapidly. Within three days, the doctors saw improvements in the patients’ symptoms, ranging from shortness of breath and chest pains to fever and coughs.
Xiaoming Yang, from the National Engineering Technology Research Center for Combined Vaccines in Wuhan, described the treatment as a “promising rescue option” for severely ill patients, but cautioned that a larger randomised trial was needed to confirm the findings. Details of the pilot study are reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Another team of doctors led by Lei Liu, from Shenzhen Third People’s hospital, gave convalescent plasma to five critically ill patients. All showed improved symptoms after the infusions and within 10 days, three patients were able to come off the ventilators that had been keeping them alive, according to a preliminary report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Hints that the therapy may help have prompted US doctors to trial infusions in the outbreak in New York and similar studies are expected to start in the UK in the coming weeks. Britain’s national blood service has begun screening blood from patients to find plasma rich in antibodies to use in those trials.
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Plasma from coronavirus survivors found to help severely ill patients
Blood transfusion studies by teams in China report striking improvementswww.theguardian.com
Its to prevent hoardingHad a "virtual appointment" with my doctor via the internet. It was to get my prescription renewed for the year. (Will have my annual physical later in the year, once COVID-19 has settled down.)
Normally, the prescriptions would be for 90 doses, every 3 months. This time its for 30 doses, every month. WTF? This mean I have to go to the pharmacy to pick them up EVERY MONTH, instead of every 3 months. How will this help combat COVID-19, if we have to stand in line to pick up prescriptions?
The pharmacy I use does not deliver, because they have a lower dispensary fee. Now there will be a dispensary fee added on each time the prescription is filled.
(Insert inappropriate graphic meme here.)
I thought most of them were because it's a retail holiday, although I guess this extends to those in designated tourist areas that were able to stay open. (I used to own a grocery store -- this Saturday was always the busiest day, people don't prep for Easter like they do for Christmas)