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Q2UnME said:
I don't know about everywhere else in TrekBBSland, but it seems to me that folks are forgetting that we're still knee deep in this pandemic[....] Frustrates me to no end because I'm 55, in the demographic that is at higher risk. Come on people, wake up!
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I'm not. I wear a mask whenever I'm going to enter a building (I live in a rural area, so I don't have to wear one when walking) and carry both hand sanitizer and isopropyl alcohol (to wipe down objects like food containers and such). I handle and sanitize everything coming into the house, and I don't let ANYONE in who doesn't live here, for any reason.

I have to be REALLY careful, because I have a relative in the home who isn't in the best of health and will be 60 this year.
 
German researchers have just started a new approach: llamas are famous for producing very special antibodies. They are tiny and therefore dubbed "nano-antibodies". The researchers have now infected one Llama in a state-run medical farm with Corona and will inject the antibodies into other infected animals to see if and how they work in other mammals. If the experiment is successful, we might be able to produce a rather simple vaccine by the end of fall or early winter.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
German researchers have just started a new approach: llamas are famous for producing very special antibodies. They are tiny and therefore dubbed "nano-antibodies". The researchers have now infected one Llama in a state-run medical farm with Corona and will inject the antibodies into other infected animals to see if and how they work in other mammals. If the experiment is successful, we might be able to produce a rather simple vaccine by the end of fall or early winter.
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We might all end up sprouting long necks
 
I found out some stats from my grandmother's nursing home.

Out of 96 people there, 89 have caught the virus, and my grandmother is one of the other seven who has not.
 
Good Lord, those are scary numbers! I keep my fingers crossed that she stays uninfected! Would it be possible to get her to a different nursing home with no infections or to temporarily care for her at home?
 
rhubarbodendron said:
Good Lord, those are scary numbers! I keep my fingers crossed that she stays uninfected! Would it be possible to get her to a different nursing home with no infections or to temporarily care for her at home?
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She has a private room and there's only 4 active infections, so right now moving her would probably expose her (And the other nursing home) to more COVID than keeping her in place. The fact that everyone else got it might even end up protecting her with herd immunity, and you can't really move somebody from a place that's had COVID to a vulnerable place that hasn't no matter how sure you are she is negative.
 
rhubarbodendron said:
German researchers have just started a new approach: llamas are famous for producing very special antibodies. They are tiny and therefore dubbed "nano-antibodies". The researchers have now infected one Llama in a state-run medical farm with Corona and will inject the antibodies into other infected animals to see if and how they work in other mammals. If the experiment is successful, we might be able to produce a rather simple vaccine by the end of fall or early winter.
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Great! Then the infected llamas will escape and wreak havoc and spread a whole new virus. It'll be Wuhan all over again.

Wasn't this a Sy-Fy movie...or three?
 
As far as I know it's a very well behaved llama which is unlikely to escape. And even if it did it would be spotted immediately, llamas being rather rare in Europe.
btw, I have to correct my previous post: teh Llama is German but it was flewn to Sweden and the scientists there are experimenting with it.
The idea originated in Belgium and I found an article in English that deals with it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/16/llama-coronavirus-antibodies-study-benefits
 
Delta Vega said:
We might all end up sprouting long necks
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Worf factor9 said:
:guffaw:
It could be worse, what if it were the ostrich that was used as an experimental...uh platform.
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Don't forget that the first smallpox vaccine was developed from a virus that infects dairy cows.

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scotpens said:
Don't forget that the first smallpox vaccine was developed from a virus that infects dairy cows.
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I had not, forgotten Jenner or those that used the method earlier. Dairy cows... not to my knowledge other than as a later method to rapidly manufacture the vaccine.

Perhaps may I suggest, that you should read up a bit more upon smallpox and variolation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/

Of course I am open to being corrected.
 
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