CarolKing
Always in search of the perfect vaporizer
You are right @LesPlenty. I think I was being too bitchy sorry @Helios.
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Lo and Behold! The transformative power of Vapor.
I'm trying not to get worked up when I see people wear a mask improperly. 
Some people don't seem to get 'the why'. And new info about masks is coming out.
Makes me want to wear a fan on my head like the good doctor. Say maybe my glasses won't fog over?
Avoid these Wrong Mask-Wearing Techniques
Some people don't seem to get 'the why'. And new info about masks is coming out.Makes me want to wear a fan on my head like the good doctor. Say maybe my glasses won't fog over?
Avoid these Wrong Mask-Wearing Techniques
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Hmm... what proud, blasphemous, big-mouthed beast has had authority for three-and-a-half years?
Positive air pressure works! Use it with grows to prevent mold and pests. (Source of the hilarious meme - took less than a minute to find.)
EXCELLENT video - everyone should watch. Unless those who have lost faith in the evidence of their senses have abandoned reason (and math) as well.
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CarolKing
Always in search of the perfect vaporizer
This is by the door to my weed store.
ated 8:06 AM; Today 8:06 AM
www.cnn.com
ated 8:06 AM; Today 8:06 AM
Controversial coronavirus testing guidance came from HHS and didn't go through CDC scientific review, sources say
A controversial update to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's coronavirus testing guidance last month was not written by CDC scientists and was posted online before it had undergone the normal scientific review process, two sources confirm to CNN.
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I'm sure this will shock some of you but thought I would let you all know, that today I volunteered for the vaccine trials for Covid-19. The vaccine is one that was created in Russia.
I received my first shot at 9:00 am, and I wanted to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι χoρoshό я чувствую себя немного странно и я думаю, что вытащил ослиные уши.
I received my first shot at 9:00 am, and I wanted to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι χoρoshό я чувствую себя немного странно и я думаю, что вытащил ослиные уши.
Good for you, but a search for the Russian returns numerous results with precisely the same message. Serious?
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Not even a little....Serious?
Helios
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@momofthegoons do it!! Do it!
CarolKing
Always in search of the perfect vaporizer
Been a bit worried. Our area is getting ready to think about in person learning for some schools. Heath department suggests staring with k - 2 then 3 -5 if everything works out health wise. Around 20 people have died from covid in the county which seems low compared to elsewhere.
thehill.com
Despair at CDC after Trump influence: ‘I have never seen morale this low’
The Trump administration’s bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent efforts to meddle with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are takin…
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ClearBlueLou
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You’d think any sane person would....
Dogs may well be humanity's best friend....
The Nose Needed for This Coronavirus Test Isn’t Yours. It’s a Dog’s.
Several animals now working on a trial at Helsinki’s airport have been trained to detect the virus by scent on arriving passengers.
One of the dogs trained to detect the coronavirus with its trainer at the Helsinki airport.Credit...Lehtikuva, via Reuters
Travelers arriving at Helsinki’s airport are being offered a voluntary coronavirus test that takes 10 seconds with no uncomfortable nasal swab needed. And the test is done by a dog.
A couple of coronavirus-sniffing canines began work at the Finnish airport on Wednesday as part of a pilot program that aims to detect infections using the sweat collected on wipes from arriving passengers.
Over the past months, international airports have brought in various methods to detect the virus in travelers, including saliva screenings, temperature checks and nasal swabs. But researchers in Finland say that using dogs could prove cheaper, faster and more effective.
After passengers arriving from abroad have collected their luggage, they are invited to wipe their necks to collect sweat samples and leave the wipes in a box. Behind a wall, a dog trainer puts the box beside cans containing different scents, and a dog gets to work.
The dogs can detect a coronavirus-infected patient in 10 seconds, and the entire process takes a minute to complete, researchers say. If the dog signals a positive result, the passenger is directed to the airport’s health center for a free virus test.
Why dogs?
Dogs have a particularly sharp sense of smell and have long been used in airports to sniff out bombs, drugs and other contraband in luggage.
They have also been able to detect illnesses such as cancer and malaria. So in the middle of a pandemic, training dogs to detect Covid-19 became an obvious choice, said Anna Hielm-Bjorkman, a researcher at the University of Helsinki who is monitoring the trial.
And they seem to be doing the job, she said. In the first stage of the trial, the dogs could sniff out the virus in a person who is asymptomatic, or before the symptoms appear. They detected it at an earlier stage than a PCR test, the most widely used diagnostic tool for the new coronavirus.
In July, researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany also found that with a week of training, dogs were able to distinguish saliva samples of people infected with the coronavirus from noninfected samples with a 94% success rate.
Dogs seem to not be easily infected with the coronavirus, although they appear to have been in a few instances. Other animals like cats appear to be much more susceptible. There is no evidence that dogs develop any symptoms or that they can pass the virus on to people or other animals.
How do they do it?
The sniffer dogs, who are trained to recognize the virus’s scent, detect it by smelling urine or sweat samples, according to the University of Helsinki’s veterinary faculty.
Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman said she and her team had trained the dogs by making a specific sound as soon as the dogs indicate a positive sample — “and yes, a treat, too,” she said. When the dogs smell a negative sample, nothing happens, and they move on to the next.
Wise Nose, a Finnish organization that specializes in scent detection, partnered with the faculty to train 16 dogs, four of which are starting work at the airport this week. Six are still in training, and the others were unable to work in a noisy environment.
“All dogs can be trained to smell the coronavirus, but they are individuals and not all of them can work in an airport,” said Virpi Perala, a representative of Evidensia, a network of hospitals and veterinary clinics that funded the trial’s first stage.
Does this mean the coronavirus has a scent?
This is what researchers believe. But what exactly the dogs detect when they sniff out the virus is the million-dollar question, Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman said.
“We know how dogs detect it — by smell — but we have no clue what they detect yet,” she said. “If we find this out, we can train thousands of dogs across the world.”
Scientists in the United States are investigating whether an infected person secretes a chemical that dogs can smell. And a French study published in June found “very high evidence” that the odor of an infected person’s sweat was different in a way that dogs could sense.
Could this become a thing?
The Helsinki airport is the first to use the dog-sniffing program. Credit...Kimmo Brandt/EPA, via Shutterstock
The pilot program in Finland is the first to be used at an airport. Susanna Paavilainen, the managing director of Wise Nose, said she aimed to have 10 dogs working at the airport by the end of November, and Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman of the University of Helsinki said she would collect data until the end of the year.
More such programs could also be on the way. In recent months, trials conducted in Britain, France, Germany and the United States have assessed how dogs could detect the coronavirus.
In Finland, researchers say that if the pilot programs prove effective, dogs could be used in retirement homes to screen residents or in hospitals to avoid unnecessary quarantines for health care professionals.
But scaling up such programs could be tricky: Dogs need to be trained and then assisted by their trainers once they can work outside laboratories.
At the Helsinki airport, two dogs worked simultaneously on Wednesday while two others rested.
Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman acknowledged that the resources were modest — at least for now. The program will try to assess how long dogs can work in a day and whether the same animals can be used to detect substances like drugs.
Ms. Perala, of the Evidensia network, said that Finland would need 700 to 1,000 coronavirus-sniffing dogs to cover schools, malls and retirement homes, but that more trained animals — and trainers — would be required for even broader coverage.
“We could keep our country open if we had enough dogs,” she said.
www.nytimes.com
The Nose Needed for This Coronavirus Test Isn’t Yours. It’s a Dog’s.
Several animals now working on a trial at Helsinki’s airport have been trained to detect the virus by scent on arriving passengers.
One of the dogs trained to detect the coronavirus with its trainer at the Helsinki airport.Credit...Lehtikuva, via Reuters
Travelers arriving at Helsinki’s airport are being offered a voluntary coronavirus test that takes 10 seconds with no uncomfortable nasal swab needed. And the test is done by a dog.
A couple of coronavirus-sniffing canines began work at the Finnish airport on Wednesday as part of a pilot program that aims to detect infections using the sweat collected on wipes from arriving passengers.
Over the past months, international airports have brought in various methods to detect the virus in travelers, including saliva screenings, temperature checks and nasal swabs. But researchers in Finland say that using dogs could prove cheaper, faster and more effective.
After passengers arriving from abroad have collected their luggage, they are invited to wipe their necks to collect sweat samples and leave the wipes in a box. Behind a wall, a dog trainer puts the box beside cans containing different scents, and a dog gets to work.
The dogs can detect a coronavirus-infected patient in 10 seconds, and the entire process takes a minute to complete, researchers say. If the dog signals a positive result, the passenger is directed to the airport’s health center for a free virus test.
Why dogs?
Dogs have a particularly sharp sense of smell and have long been used in airports to sniff out bombs, drugs and other contraband in luggage.
They have also been able to detect illnesses such as cancer and malaria. So in the middle of a pandemic, training dogs to detect Covid-19 became an obvious choice, said Anna Hielm-Bjorkman, a researcher at the University of Helsinki who is monitoring the trial.
And they seem to be doing the job, she said. In the first stage of the trial, the dogs could sniff out the virus in a person who is asymptomatic, or before the symptoms appear. They detected it at an earlier stage than a PCR test, the most widely used diagnostic tool for the new coronavirus.
In July, researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany also found that with a week of training, dogs were able to distinguish saliva samples of people infected with the coronavirus from noninfected samples with a 94% success rate.
Dogs seem to not be easily infected with the coronavirus, although they appear to have been in a few instances. Other animals like cats appear to be much more susceptible. There is no evidence that dogs develop any symptoms or that they can pass the virus on to people or other animals.
How do they do it?
The sniffer dogs, who are trained to recognize the virus’s scent, detect it by smelling urine or sweat samples, according to the University of Helsinki’s veterinary faculty.
Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman said she and her team had trained the dogs by making a specific sound as soon as the dogs indicate a positive sample — “and yes, a treat, too,” she said. When the dogs smell a negative sample, nothing happens, and they move on to the next.
Wise Nose, a Finnish organization that specializes in scent detection, partnered with the faculty to train 16 dogs, four of which are starting work at the airport this week. Six are still in training, and the others were unable to work in a noisy environment.
“All dogs can be trained to smell the coronavirus, but they are individuals and not all of them can work in an airport,” said Virpi Perala, a representative of Evidensia, a network of hospitals and veterinary clinics that funded the trial’s first stage.
Does this mean the coronavirus has a scent?
This is what researchers believe. But what exactly the dogs detect when they sniff out the virus is the million-dollar question, Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman said.
“We know how dogs detect it — by smell — but we have no clue what they detect yet,” she said. “If we find this out, we can train thousands of dogs across the world.”
Scientists in the United States are investigating whether an infected person secretes a chemical that dogs can smell. And a French study published in June found “very high evidence” that the odor of an infected person’s sweat was different in a way that dogs could sense.
Could this become a thing?
The Helsinki airport is the first to use the dog-sniffing program. Credit...Kimmo Brandt/EPA, via Shutterstock
The pilot program in Finland is the first to be used at an airport. Susanna Paavilainen, the managing director of Wise Nose, said she aimed to have 10 dogs working at the airport by the end of November, and Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman of the University of Helsinki said she would collect data until the end of the year.
More such programs could also be on the way. In recent months, trials conducted in Britain, France, Germany and the United States have assessed how dogs could detect the coronavirus.
In Finland, researchers say that if the pilot programs prove effective, dogs could be used in retirement homes to screen residents or in hospitals to avoid unnecessary quarantines for health care professionals.
But scaling up such programs could be tricky: Dogs need to be trained and then assisted by their trainers once they can work outside laboratories.
At the Helsinki airport, two dogs worked simultaneously on Wednesday while two others rested.
Ms. Hielm-Bjorkman acknowledged that the resources were modest — at least for now. The program will try to assess how long dogs can work in a day and whether the same animals can be used to detect substances like drugs.
Ms. Perala, of the Evidensia network, said that Finland would need 700 to 1,000 coronavirus-sniffing dogs to cover schools, malls and retirement homes, but that more trained animals — and trainers — would be required for even broader coverage.
“We could keep our country open if we had enough dogs,” she said.
The Nose Needed for This Coronavirus Test Isn’t Yours. It’s a Dog’s. (Published 2020)
Several animals now working on a trial at Helsinki’s airport have been trained to detect the virus by scent on arriving passengers.
A word of caution regarding neti pots, suggested earlier. You should boil the water and let it cool before flushing your sinuses. Don't think anyone has ever been infected with ameobae from using a neti pot, but it's a possibility that's sometimes discussed.
Brain-Eating Amoeba Found in a Texas City’s Water Supply
By Allyson Waller
Sept. 27, 2020
It's no conciliation, but it always seemed having your brain eaten by ameobae - starting with the olfactory bulbs - was a pretty cool way to go.
Brain-Eating Amoeba Found in a Texas City’s Water Supply
By Allyson Waller
Sept. 27, 2020
It's no conciliation, but it always seemed having your brain eaten by ameobae - starting with the olfactory bulbs - was a pretty cool way to go.
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