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“I think that, at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear"
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Who knew?
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Thanks. You bet!
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HURRY!!! HURRY !!!! TRY TO DISTRACT FROM THE ECONOMIC NEWS!!!!!
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Ya think?
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Like, WOW! Just WOW.
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HURRY!!! HURRY !!!! TRY TO DISTRACT FROM THE ECONOMIC NEWS!!!!!
Yep, liberal diversion at its best.
Brasil is in the southern hemisphere. Their case numbers began rising in mid April (their late fall season). It's now winter there
and case numbers have risen dramatically.
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Just heat. Relative humidity is maximal in the winter.
WARNING: THIS LINK IS NOT FROM AN INTERNET DOCTOR........
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097773/
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William Bryan, acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/sunlight-heat-and-humidity/
"On nonporous surfaces like stainless steel, the new coronavirus takes 18 hours to lose half its strength in a dark, low-humidity environment.
In a high-humidity environment, that half-life dropped to six hours, and when the virus was exposed to high humidity and sunlight, the half-life dropped to two minutes.
Researchers found a similar effect with the coronavirus that was suspended in the air, simulating the coughing or sneezing that often spreads the disease. In a dark room,
the virus maintained half its strength for an hour. But when exposed to sunlight, it lost half its strength in 90 seconds."
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Literature Review of the Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Viruses
https://www.orf.od.nih.gov/Technica...INALPUBLISHEDPaperonHUMIDITYandViruses509.pdf
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Yale researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity.
While experts know that cold temperatures and low humidity promote transmission of the flu virus, less is understood about the effect of decreased humidity on the immune system's defenses against flu infection.
The Yale research team, led by Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, explored the question using mice genetically modified to resist viral infection as humans do. The mice were all housed in chambers at the same temperature, but with either low or normal humidity. They were then exposed to the influenza A virus.
The researchers found that low humidity hindered the immune response of the animals in three ways. It prevented cilia, which are hair-like structures in airways cells, from removing viral particles and mucus. It also reduced the ability of airway cells to repair damage caused by the virus in the lungs. The third mechanism involved interferons, or signaling proteins released by virus-infected cells to alert neighboring cells to the viral threat. In the low-humidity environment, this innate immune defense system failed.
The study offers insight into why the flu is more prevalent when the air is dry. "It's well known that where humidity drops, a spike in flu incidence and mortality occurs. If our findings in mice hold up in humans, our study provides a possible mechanism underlying this seasonal nature of flu disease," said Iwasaki.
While the researchers emphasized that humidity is not the only factor in flu outbreaks, it is an important one that should be considered during the winter season. Increasing water vapor in the air with humidifiers at home, school, work, and even hospital environments is a potential strategy to reduce flu symptoms and speed recovery, they said.
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Other authors are Eriko Kudo, Eric Song, Laura Yockey, Tasfia Rakib, Patrick Wong, and Robert Homer.
This work was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a gift from the Condair Group, the Naito Foundation, and National Institutes of Health grants.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190513155635.htm
William Bryan, acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/sunlight-heat-and-humidity/
"On nonporous surfaces like stainless steel, the new coronavirus takes 18 hours to lose half its strength in a dark, low-humidity environment.
In a high-humidity environment, that half-life dropped to six hours, and when the virus was exposed to high humidity and sunlight, the half-life dropped to two minutes.
Researchers found a similar effect with the coronavirus that was suspended in the air, simulating the coughing or sneezing that often spreads the disease. In a dark room,
the virus maintained half its strength for an hour. But when exposed to sunlight, it lost half its strength in 90 seconds."
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Literature Review of the Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Viruses
https://www.orf.od.nih.gov/Technica...INALPUBLISHEDPaperonHUMIDITYandViruses509.pdf
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Yale researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity.
While experts know that cold temperatures and low humidity promote transmission of the flu virus, less is understood about the effect of decreased humidity on the immune system's defenses against flu infection.
The Yale research team, led by Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, explored the question using mice genetically modified to resist viral infection as humans do. The mice were all housed in chambers at the same temperature, but with either low or normal humidity. They were then exposed to the influenza A virus.
The researchers found that low humidity hindered the immune response of the animals in three ways. It prevented cilia, which are hair-like structures in airways cells, from removing viral particles and mucus. It also reduced the ability of airway cells to repair damage caused by the virus in the lungs. The third mechanism involved interferons, or signaling proteins released by virus-infected cells to alert neighboring cells to the viral threat. In the low-humidity environment, this innate immune defense system failed.
The study offers insight into why the flu is more prevalent when the air is dry. "It's well known that where humidity drops, a spike in flu incidence and mortality occurs. If our findings in mice hold up in humans, our study provides a possible mechanism underlying this seasonal nature of flu disease," said Iwasaki.
While the researchers emphasized that humidity is not the only factor in flu outbreaks, it is an important one that should be considered during the winter season. Increasing water vapor in the air with humidifiers at home, school, work, and even hospital environments is a potential strategy to reduce flu symptoms and speed recovery, they said.
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Other authors are Eriko Kudo, Eric Song, Laura Yockey, Tasfia Rakib, Patrick Wong, and Robert Homer.
This work was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a gift from the Condair Group, the Naito Foundation, and National Institutes of Health grants.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190513155635.htm
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I hope she lives near you and comes over and gives you a bitch slap!
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Sao Paolo is on the Topic of Capricorn ffs, it's the middle of winter there now! First she spouts bollocks about algebra and now about Brazil!
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I bet you think it's winter in Florida too, eh? Texas? Arizona?
Your feeble apologies for #COVID45 are becoming more and more unhinged. Seek help. Oh, and take down your stupidity about abortion too. If you can't support the already-living, you don't get to call yourself pro-life any longer.
If I were the Biden campaign" I would be using the video of Trump saying in February we would soon be down to zero cases, and it will probably disappear like a miracle in April.
Her sickness of mind and spirit is too deep for me to entertain; ignore the ignorant stench.
If it is related to the weather, why are cases rising in Brazil and America? We are in different hemispheres, so in different seasons. I don't know if you have been out recently, but I would hardly call this winter in America... Well not winter in a literal sense; it is probably winter in a figurative sense.
It wasn't winter there when they became the second hardest hit country in the world, ffs.
What the fuck happened to you Tom? You have become a hot mess of rabid conservatardism. You are not even logical anymore.
I thought Havana claimed to live in Thailand. He does not seem to know much about the tropics. Most of the populated areas of Brazil are in either the tropics or the sub-tropics. Sao Paolo is among the coldest cities in Brazil, which is to say extremely hot year round. It has never had freezing weather, and its coldest time of year would be considered summer weather in Northeast USA or Europe. Rio de Janeiro is even hotter, with a tropical climate. The record low there is 50 degree.
I bet you think it's winter in Florida too, eh? Texas? Arizona?
Your feeble apologies for #COVID45 are becoming more and more unhinged. Seek help. Oh, and take down your stupidity about abortion too. If you can't support the already-living, you don't get to call yourself pro-life any longer.
Well then we all have to stop working, stop eating, stop walking outside of our homes, stop driving, stop living basically
until the entire planet's population never, ever, ever gets any form of sickness. We won't put up with humanity in general being
80, 90, 95, 98% healthy and productive...eventually dying anyway. It's 100% or nothing at all. OK then...no need to "save the planet"
anymore since now all 100% of humanity can just dry up and die to avenge the deaths of others who died of a disease. Some form of
solidarity, I guess is the idea here.
No more sickness and death is in Heaven only. There is no Heaven on earth though many seem to expect to attain that...most being those who
don't even believe in Heaven in the first place. So, they remain miserable, angry and frustrated their entire lives because no thing and
no person ever 100% conformed to their narrow view of how to be "perfect" and to be 100% in agreement with how they see things.
This will pass. Enjoy your life. Create peace and live in it. There is no utopia. Learn to be content and satisfied whether you're on the mountain top
or the valley, whether you get your way or you don't, keep your peace in the midst of the storm. Life passes quickly.