ICU nursing is a specialty that can’t just be assigned to nurses who lack this extensive training. I worked ICU for ten years, but I’ve been out of it for so long, I would never agree to do it again without time in the classroom and significant hours under the supervision of an experienced preceptor.
Lynika Strozier was an accomplished woman of science in Chicago — a researcher in the DNA lab at the Field Museum with masters degrees in sciences from two Chicago universities. She was exacting in her lab work, but more than that, there was hardly a person at the Field Museum who didn’t know her.
“This is a big, big place,” said head of botanical collections Matt von Konrat, her supervisor for more than a decade at the Field. “And she would walk through the halls, with her long stride, and always, always, a smile and hello for everyone. For all of us, for strangers, it didn’t matter.”
Strozier, of Chicago, died June 7 from complications from coronavirus; her death was announced by the Field Museum on Twitter June 10. She was 35.
Strozier first came to the Field Museum in 2009 as an intern.
I believe that black Americans are much smaller than 32% of the population- unless I’ve missed something?
I thought African Americans made up 13% or so of the US population. That statistic above doesn’t sound right to me.
Well, you did indicate that people “instead of going out to a lot of stores and restocking” should be limiting store visits. I take that to mean you would think going to three different grocery stores in one week is not limiting store visits. No need to get defensive. I was just illustrating that for some, limiting store visits can be difficult and we don’t need to feel like we are being judged for doing so.
I think some people, especially empty nesters or very small households, might forget how much food it takes to feed a family with teens and growing males. And then try to do that when you can’t just go to the grocery store and buy exactly what you had planned on. You get there and you have to improvise based on what they have, try to do so quickly so you can get out, etc. It’s stressful. What might look like “restocking or hoarding” to someone in the store with me is really just me trying to feed my family for two weeks.
In context with previous comments, it’s clear that @greenwitch was talking about data from Louisiana, not the whole United States.
In other parts of the country, males and females are about equally likely to test positive for covid. In all parts of the country where I’ve looked at the data, people of color are much more likely to be infected with covid, and much more likely to die of it, than white people.
It is statewide data and the 32% is accurate @Nrdsb4 and @milgymfam
Actually, it is 33%, according to 2019 census data
I am planning to continue my weekly trip to the grocery store. I will continue to keep two or three months inventory of everything people went crazy over (toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes). Going forward, I don’t think the supply chain will be quite as chaotic as it was either. Businesses are still experimenting and figuring things out, but they have learned a lot and have a better grasp on things too.
There isn’t a shortage of anything near me right now, except, oddly, Rice-A-Roni.
@greenwitch, Got it, didn’t key into the fact that it was state data. Those figures make sense.
I’m tired and the painters have been in my house all day every day this week. They just finished FINALLY, but I think I have brain fog from paint fumes.
No meat or poultry shortages here in my area of Dallas. Impossible to find cream of celery soup, though. Cream of chicken, yes, cream of mushroom, also available, but cream of celery is nowhere to be found.
I just use it for the occasional casserole, so it’s not the end of the world, but I just found it rather interesting.
I heard today that wastewater samples from Milan and Turin show Covid-19 from mid December. It was found in samples from Bergamo from early January.
So, do scientists regularly sample wastewater and keep it around for a while just in case they need to check for something?
That was the first question about this that popped into my mind, lol. I guess we all realize that this disease was here longer than we thought, and it seems to take about 6 weeks to cause noticeable trouble.
I found this headline in the NYT this morning disturbingly misleading.
“You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long.”
Scary, huh!
Apparently the author of the study was nearly apoplectic when he saw it. After he contacted the Times, They did add a sub-headline to indicate that this doesn’t mean immunity is gone but the head of infectious diseases at the hospital where my kid works is really displeased.
Here’s the crucial information which isn’t found til several paragraphs down ( like more than half way) in the original story
“In the new study, antibodies to one viral protein dropped below detectable levels. But a second set of antibodies targeting the so-called spike protein of the coronavirus — needed to neutralize the virus and prevent reinfection — were still present.
“The neutralizing antibody is what matters, and that tells a very different story,” Dr. Krammer said.
Moreover antibodies don’t tell the whole story. “Most people are generally not aware of T cell immunity, and so much of the conversation has focused on antibody levels,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University.
Apart from T cells, which can kill the virus on encounter, people who have been infected make so-called memory B cells, which can rapidly ramp up antibody production when needed.
“If they find the virus again, they remember and start to make antibodies very, very quickly,” said Florian Krammer, a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who has led several studies of antibodies to the coronavirus."
I absolutely HATE misleading headlines. People do not have attention span long enough to read the story to the end. Argh.
Isn’t it often the case that headline is written by a different person from the one who wrote the article? If so, it could be that the headline writer was the one who did not have a long enough attention span to read the entire article before writing the headline. Or the headline writer may have some other motivation to over-sensationalize the story or otherwise mislead.
I’ll admit to being somewhat amused at the discussion/debate about stocking up.
For some of us, what y’all are calling “stocking up” is called “regular grocery shopping”.
There are a few different groups that fall into this. One, for example, is people who get paid monthly, who are much more likely to do a big monthly shopping day than multiple trips through the week. Another is people who live at the end of the supply chain, and so you always need a bit extra just in case.
For a concrete example: Most of the groceries that come into Alaska come in on twice-weekly barge deliveries to the Port of Anchorage, and then get distributed from there throughout the state. If you’ve been here any amount of time you know how quickly the shelves go bare when just one of the barges needs repair (as happens every couple years). If both barges break down, or an earthquake seriously damages the port? We’ve got three or four days worth of food in the state’s grocery stores at that point, the end. So everybody who has storage space and can afford it has at least a week or two worth of frozen and shelf-stable stuff plus things like extra toilet paper socked away, and most have much more than that. (Less so where I am in Anchorage, but still.)
Anyway, just wanted to point out that despite the demographics of boards like this leading to a rough similarity of experience, that can’t be extrapolated to the population as a whole. And though my example here is shopping styles/methods, that’s the case for a bunch of the other “lifestyle” things that we’re talking about here.
@dfbdfb, I live in Wisconsin. There were never shortages of dairy products here, so I can relate to your “different strokes for different folks” comments.
I don’t go to the mall at all. It’s just not my thing. The last time I was in an indoor mall was to shop for the dress I wore to DDs wedding over two years ago.
But we have one of those outdoor mall areas. I was there on Wednesday. Only half of the stores are open. All open ones had an employee at the entrance with a table with hand sanitizer and masks. Masks required by every open vendor. I only went in two stores. I was in and out in no time. Everything was wiped down before I used it…and after. I was very impressed.
I did patio brunch twice this week…two different places. They both handled the outdoor dining very nicely. Again. Impressed.
Had to go to the store today and it was the first time that I’ve seen people without masks in the grocery store. It’s absolutely required in our state and also separately in the store (signs everywhere) but o saw three people sans mask- one was an employee. Not a fan of that at all.
Masks are required in my state also. Doesn’t matter one iota, lots of non mask wearers every where I go in my hometown. More people not wearing masks than wearing them. My husband and I are rule followers and wear our masks.
I think that as time goes on, more and more people will forgo masks, even if they are required.
Happy that it took you so long to see people without masks. I’m sort of shocked when there are people besides me with a mask on.
We received an email from the kids’ pediatrician office saying they have the rapid test and that anyone can get a test now too (also in Illinois). No symptoms needed.
S21 starts playing baseball games next week, so might get him tested every so often, seems easy enough to do and probably prudent.