"The immune system recognizes the virus you're infected with and tries to find a challenge to it in order to clear the body of this infection. If the virus mutates very fast the next time it infects you, the immune system might not be capable of recognizing...
“I am scared, I do not want to lie”: exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on engagement in care, perceived health, relationship dynamics, and parenting among postpartum women with HIV in South Africa Article Open access 03 April 2023 Stigma, Facility Constraints, and Personal Disbelief: Wh...
Another heart complication seen in COVID-19 is myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. The cause is unclear, with some researchers speculating the coronavirus may sometimes directly infect the heart. But at this point, Parikh said, actual evidence of that "isn't great." Another possib...
In this post, I explain why, in my view, COVID-19 seems likely to become endemic, like the flu. The vaccines won’t be enough to make it go away completely. I will also look at the issue of how we should respond to the cases of COVID-19 that we will almost certainly ...
Don’t believe me. You can prove this easily. Tell the next scold you meet that you aren’t vexxed. Let them vent a while. Then say: You misunderstand.I REALLY WANTthe vex! It’s just that I can’t have it because the doctor said it could kill me with my terrible immune system...
My Thoughts:I can’t believe I had my phone in my pocket, and yet instead of thinking to pull it out and call 911, I ran to find someone else to help me. What is wrong with me? I am a terrible person that I didn’t try to help myself and just ran for someone else. How ca...
It is my view that when energy supply falls, it falls not because reserves "run out." It falls because economies around the world cannot afford to purchase goods and services made with energy products and using energy products in their operation. It is r
I had nothing to do with its actual creation, though my essay, along with the men who embodied the idea, apparently inspired it.” Alas, even after all this time, “men” don’t appear to understand thatthey’rethe joke when they continue to mansplain. Many of them are still too young...
when an unpredicted event like extreme cold winter weather hits the USA, they go to their models to try to find out why. The way they do this is to tweak the many parameters in the models, until they get a match with what they are looking for. They then analyse how the models got ...
(ACE, RAS member) activity in the sera of both hospitalized COVID-19 patients and a subgroup of convalescent patients. The data had been obtained using labeled bradykinin (BK) as a reporter peptide, which is a target of both CPN and ACE. The data were supplemented with mass-spectrometry-...