Diogenes

I fear for those parents that sent students to college. Once they contract the virus, they'll bring it home. My son is visiting his girlfriend in Knoxville this week and he'll probably contaminate everyone again, once he returns home. I still have SARS-covid-2 antibodies from last month but no one knows if I have immunity.

Rinse, wash, repeat

1. Nebraska leads the nation in sellouts in Lincoln. The streak started in 1962.
2. Nebraska vs Oklahoma was a great rivalry game until 2010. This rivalry existed for 86 years, while Oklahoma leads, 45–38–3
3. Nebraska is the 8th winningest football team of all time with 902 wins.
4. Nebraska generates $136m in revenue annually.

what a novel idea, a super conference!!!

Brilliant !

“The SEC is trying to see if they can pick off some of these schools and see if they want to join them,” Dan Patrick said. “If you can get Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 and they’re going to join you in the SEC, you’ve got a super conference.”

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Younger people aged 10 to 19 years old are more likely than other age groups to spread the coronavirus in their household, according to a large contact tracing study in South Korea soon to be published by the Centers for Disease Control, a concerning sign as U.S. school districts weigh whether to reopen for in-person classes in the fall.

KEY FACTS

The study is an early release of a forthcoming article in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a peer-reviewed journal published by the CDC.

Researchers followed 5,706 coronavirus patients from January 20 to March 27—when schools in South Korea were closed—who were the first to report COVID-19 symptoms in their household and traced all of their contacts to determine how the virus spread.


The study found that young people, between the ages of 10 to 19, were not often the first in their household to show symptoms—but when they were, 18.6% of their contacts contracted the disease, which is more than any other age group.

By contrast, children 9 years old and younger were the least likely group to spread coronavirus in their household, with 5.3% of their contacts—which represents three people—testing positive.

The second-most likely age group to spread the coronavirus in their household are older adults 70-79, who had 18% of their household contacts become infected (60-69 year olds follow with 17%).

Outside the household, older people between the ages of 70 and 79 were the most likely to spread the disease, with 4.8% of their non-household contacts becoming infected.

The authors say the study has limitations, such as the fact that all asymptomatic cases may not have been identified, but Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told the New York Times that this is “one of the best studies we’ve had to date on this issue.”

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“We showed that household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was high if the index patient was 10–19 years of age,” the study says. “... The role of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 amid reopening of schools and loosening of social distancing underscores the need for a time-sensitive epidemiologic study to guide public health policy.”

Cognitive dissonance shows the soul dies in the process. Basic human rights are a bridge too far.

The story of the good samaritan is a fairy tale.

According to the Mayo Clinic - However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. First, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection.

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Multiple industry insiders tell @TheAthletic that they expect the Pac-12 to go to conference-only scheduling as well in the coming days:

The June 28 email to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was ominous: A senior adviser to a top Health and Human Services Department official accused the CDC of “undermining the President” by putting out a report about the potential risks of the coronavirus to pregnant women.

The adviser, Paul Alexander, criticized the agency’s methods, and said its warning to pregnant women “reads in a way to frighten women .?.?. as if the President and his administration can’t fix this and it is getting worse.”

The latest clash between the White House and its top public health advisers erupted Wednesday, when the president slammed the agency’s recommendation that schools planning to reopen should keep students’ desks six feet apart, among other steps to reduce infection risks. In a tweet, Trump — who has demanded schools at all levels hold in-person classes this fall — called the advice “very tough & expensive.”

“While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!” Trump tweeted Wednesday. Within hours, Vice President Pence had asserted the agency would release new guidance next week.

“The president said today we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough,” Pence told reporters. “And that’s the reason next week the CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools.”

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At the Georgia Institute of Technology, which is scheduled to hold in-person classes, more than 800 of its 1,100 faculty members have published a letter outlining their concerns. The letter, reported by Georgia Public Broadcasting, criticizes the state university system for mandating statewide reopenings this fall that "do not follow science-based evidence, increase the health risks to faculty, students and staff, and interfere with nimble decision-making necessary to prepare and respond to Covid-19 infection risk."

A virus doesn’t care about your politics. Once a school is labeled typhoid mary, the doors will close. A virus has always been an ethnic cleanser that moves survivors