Ho Hum – Another Pack of Lies.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/15/does-trumps-coronavirus-charge-sheet-against-stack/

In looking for somebody, anybody to blame for his massive pandemic failures, Trump has decided that the World Health Organization, part of the United Nations, is an ideal scapegoat for his racist and Xenophobic base to munch on. Bunch of foreigners and busy doing China’s dirty work of destroying America. A British newspaper provides the facts which – surprise – do not match Trump’s lies very well.

More scapegoating.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/trump-world-health-organization-funding-186786

The WHO declared a global pandemic on January 30th but somehow it is their fault that the country suffering the most is the one ruled by Trump. Yeah, sure.

In a rare moment of truth telling Trump got it right on March 13th when he said “I don’t take responsibility at all.” That was about the failure of the United States compared to other countries to roll out effective testing but it is true of everything that does wrong. It is ALWAYS someone else’s fault.

So, Awhile Back…

There was a comment discussion on “plasma therapy” and the use of survivor antibodies to kick-start a patient’s immune system.  Cool interview on, maybe CNN, with the CEO/Researcher of a bio-company.

His company mass produces antibodies in the lab.  They have a library of human antibodies and they can select a handful depending on the target virus receptors and other details, and then mass produce a cocktail of “synthetically reproduced” human antibodies for therapy.  The interviewee told of the first (possibly only) use on a doctor dying of Ebola in a rural hospital during the last outbreak.  Within an hour, the guy was up and walking.

Apparently, the injection contains a boatload of antibodies and that the immune system can determine which antibodies are actually working and begin replicating its own.

ZDNet: NYU scientists: Largest US study of COVID-19 finds obesity the single biggest ‘chronic’ factor in New York City’s hospitalizations

https://www.zdnet.com/article/nyu-scientists-largest-u-s-study-of-covid-19-finds-obesity-the-single-biggest-factor-in-new-york-critical-cases/

Wouldn’t it be funny (strange) if it turns out our social/political overreaction to Covid-19 was based not on a threat to all of us, but to just a few of us? The article doesn’t say that, exactly. But it does tell us something useful about the virus that science is just beginning to confirm.