15% of competitive college athletes at Ohio State who had tested positive for #COVID19 but suffered few or no symptoms displayed cardiac magnetic resonance results suggestive of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), supporting a study at Penn State.
56% of patients who suffered acute #COVID19 symptoms, according to studies done by French and Austrian researchers, still displayed shortness of breath, cough, and lung impairment at their 3-month check-in. hcplive.com/view/covid-19-…
These are small-scale studies, and symptoms may lessen over time. But the effects, across the board, seem to be much worse than SARS1, which typically took patients two years to fully recover from. We're likely looking at years of recovery from #COVID19 for millions of Americans.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA), leaving some 20 million people uninsured—many of whom could be denied coverage entirely due to pre-existing conditions, including #COVID19. cbpp.org/research/healt…
There have been 6.5 million confirmed cases of #COVID19 in the US. A study of coronavirus antibodies in blood samples collected found that the real number ranged from 6 to 24 times the number of reported cases, with most sites at more than 10 times higher. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
That would conservatively put the estimated number of #COVID19 cases in the US at 50 million by the end of 2020, and we know that the virus disproportionately affects BIPOC, especially African Americans.
The prospect of long-term symptoms and the widespread loss of insurance, among the same BIPOC communities most likely to have contracted the virus, adds up to a health care crisis in the near term.
And the ripple effects of reduced employment and productivity due to protracted illnesses are hard to even fathom. If 5-10 percent of the country is suffering from some degree of chronic lung, heart, or brain damage by the start of 2021, the impact will be incalculable.
Last but not least, when you figure in the cascading effects of underlying conditions and work and living conditions like those caused by fires in the West, the health of the whole nation is at risk—but especially the health of essential workers.
Think how mad Gov Ricketts would be, how Larry the Cable Guy would denounce me (again), how all would say that the program had not only lost its winning tradition but now its connection with "real Nebraska values." Great TV.
Plus, I'm willing to work for half of what Frost got.
Also, to build fan interest, instead of blaming players or assistant coaches in the post-game interviews, I would blame individuals across the state.
"I lay this at the feet of the Carpenter family of Scottsbluff, who didn't scream very loudly during Oklahoma's FG attempt."
"The FBI’s search... was carried out as part of the government’s effort to account for documents that one person briefed on the matter said related to some of the most highly classified programs run by the United States."
"Investigators had been concerned about material from what the government calls 'special access programs,' a designation even more classified than 'top secret' that is typically reserved for extremely sensitive operations carried out by the United States abroad."
Also in that @washingtonpost story: "A person familiar with the inventory of 15 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago in January indicated that signals intelligence material was included in them..."
Years ago, I got sent by @MotherJones to Alaska to write a story about an ice jam that flooded the Yukon River Valley. @CuriousDukes did a radio companion story for @Studio360show and wanted the sound of ice chunks dripping and calving into the river.
We went out onto the river with Andy Bassich who has since become a celebrity on @LifeBelowZeroTV. We waited and waited while @CuriousDukes recorded. Suddenly, a giant chunk of black ice calved and teetered toward the water. I yelled out, "Holy shit, look at that!"
Of course, my one job was to stay quiet in that situation. I looked down at my feet in dismay. Finally, Andy said, "Hey, Jesse, do you have something that that recorder that filters out human voices?" Jesse replied, "No, Andy, I do not have such a device."
It's almost Day of the Dead, so I'll be sharing a bit about the life of José Cuervo. (Yes, a real guy.)
For unknown reasons, @JoseCuervo, the brand, hasn't answered my requests for access to their archives for years.
So please boost w/ RTs. Let's recover this history together!
José Cuervo Labastida, the second son of Malaquías Cuervo Flores and Francisca Labastida, was born on October 9, 1869, on the hacienda El Pasito in the foothills west of the town of Tequila in Jalisco. He was christened two days later in the parish church in Tequila.
Malaquías Cuervo was already a successful maker of vino mezcal (later known as vino tequila or simply tequila) at El Pasito and the neighboring hacienda, San Martín, where he had a small-scale distillery (or fábrica).
To be clear: the source of the story, claiming that Trump and Giuliani had called Mike Lee on Jan. 6, was Mike Lee's own spokesman. cnn.com/2021/01/08/pol…
Is it now the position of @SenMikeLee that the extended account that he was quoted as giving to the @DeseretNews and that his spokesman confirmed to multiple news outlets over a period of days was ALL false?