New York is starting to trial them for treatment of the virus.
If this works, it’s good news on at least two fronts: It will help save lives, and it would indicate that getting infected and recovering does confer immunity.
Category Archives: Science And Society
A Heart Attack?
Great.
The CDC And FDA
Regulation kills.
[Update a few minutes later]
Distillers have to fight the FDA bureaucracy to produce hand sanitizer.
The Media
The American people think it’s been doing a terrible job of covering the coronavirus. The American people are right.
Factory Farms
Hey, I’d like to end them, too, but his solution–to go vegetarian–is not nutritionally viable to me. It would be in no way a dietary improvement.
It sure would be great if we could somehow manufacture meat without the suffering, though. It’s a technology that would be very useful for spaceflight.
Remaining U.S. Hospital Capacity
A hard look.
I’m unlikely to be killed by this thing, but I don’t want to even get it, let alone be hospitalized.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Why that doomsday scenario is likely way off.
[Bumped]
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman doesn’t think that this will overwhelm our national hospital capacity. Though it does seem to be doing so in New York city.
Five Needed Paradigm Shifts
…revealed by the pandemic. The latter two are particularly important.
[Update a while later]
Related: A litany of useless laws have been exposed as well.
[Update a while more later]
The coming age of dispersion.
We’ve been wanting to get out of the city for a long time. Most people don’t realize how large and empty the American west is, including California itself. New technology is going to make it increasingly possible and affordable to live comfortably off the grid.
Turning Back The Clock
Rejuvenating cells by reprogramming them.
Faster, please.
Woke Speech Trumps Free Speech
So says a terrible court ruling.
Bad Regulations
Yes, the best response next time would be to shut down the CDC and FDA. Even Cuomo admitted that the regulations were slowing things down.
[Update a while later]
Stop panicking over bad data.
I won’t be surprised to find out when this is all over that the mortality rate was one in a thousand.
[Update a few minutes later]
Ford is making ventilators from seat fans.
#Murrica
[Update a while later]
Sorry, first link is fixed now.