Stoics reflect on character strengths such as wisdom, patience and self-discipline, which potentially make them more resilient in the face of adversity. They try to exemplify these virtues and bring them to bear on the challenges they face in daily life, during a crisis like the pandemic. They learn from how other people cope. Even historical figures or fictional characters can serve as role models.
Dr. Sanjay Maggirwar, chair of the George Washington University School of Medicine’s department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine, recently told CBS MoneyWatch that researchers think coronaviruses “can stay on surfaces in their fully active states for at least 10 days. That includes cash and all kinds of other surfaces that people normally touch. So certainly with the coronavirus, cash handling is a concern.”
But a reminder: While dogs can enrich our lives, they can also expose us to dangerous pathogens — such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Campylobacter jejuni — thus increasing the risk of potentially deadly infections and diseases, including septicemia and rabies.
A recent study suggests that two meters may not be far enough away if someone lets an uncovered cough loose in your direction — meaning sneeze and cough etiquette is more than a simple social nicety, but a key to stopping the spread of diseases like COVID-19. By the time you react to your neighbor’s cough, it is probably too late; it has reached you.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been used for decades as a treatment for malaria, and are generally well-tolerated; but one major complication is the risk of a serious heart rhythm problem called “QT prolongation,” the Brazilian authors said. As such, the drugs are not safe for people with heart rhythm problems, or arrhythmia, Live Science previously reported.
Fifty-three patients received the antiviral drug remdesivir (Gilead Sciences) as apart of a “compassionate use” clinical trial. Please note that this was not the gold standard double-blind, placebo-controlled approach that would offer more definitive evidence of efficacy. In addition, the experiment included only 53 patients from the USA and around the world. So grain of salt: We cannot yet conclude that the drug works.
We have been tormented by three major plague epidemics, including the so-called Plague of Justinian in the sixth century, the “Black Death: of the fourteenth century (with an associated up to twenty-eight million deaths), and at the end of the nineteenth century linked to an infection from China. Each of these epidemics is fascinating, but let’s go back to ancient Greece to get a sense of the scourge that the Plague represented.
The computer game is designed to identify a structure that would bond with protein spikes on the coronavirus, which in turn would create an anti-viral that effectively disables the virus in the body. Gamers have been working on the coronavirus for just over one month.