Let's hope this is just a sensible precaution. I've read there is a Presidential Suite at Walter Reed used exclusively by, believe it or not, the POTUS.
Trump is taking a Regeneron antibody cocktail drug that is still in trials. FDA has approved compassionate use for other patients (so they company says) and now for Trump.
Their Sept 29 upbeat press release with preliminary results is here.
Eli Lilly also has an antibody cocktail which worked well, so this medical decision made lots of sense. There results are also more comprehensible, as presented here:
Eli Lilly reports this morning interim results from a placebo-controlled trial of one such compound, cloned in quantity from an antibody captured from the blood of a patient who recovered from COVID-19. In June, the company began a trial delivering either placebo or one of three doses of the antibody, called LY-CoV555, to 452 patients. These were not gravely ill people, but patients with mild or moderate symptoms who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 within the past 3 days and had not been hospitalized.
Five of 302 patients who received the drug ended up being hospitalized—1.7%. But nine of the 150 placebo patients ended up in the hospital—6%—meaning there was a 72% reduced risk of being hospitalized for patients who received the antibody versus those who received a placebo. The drug produced no serious side effects, the company reports.
So - among people with mild to moderate symptoms (like Trump, so far) 94% on placebo avoid serious illness, versus 98.3% of those who got the Eli Lilly treatment. Great odds versus even better odds, in other words, although that is across a range of ages and pre-existing conditions.
Damn got willowed!
Was talking to WonderBoy last night about the virus science that ND is doing. One of the most interesting things that they have done is that they are monitoring the sewage out of each dorm. When someone in a dorm is infected, it shows up there a good two days before they can get a positive nasal swab or spit test from anyone.
(Only the dorm residents and staff are allowed into any dorm right now.)
Posted by: cathyf | October 03, 2020 at 09:39 AM
"Great odds versus even better odds"
Most can live with this ...
Posted by: JimNorCal | October 03, 2020 at 09:39 AM
Not Government approved yet. Do you mean DEEP STATE approved?
Posted by: GUS | October 03, 2020 at 09:41 AM
cathyf-
Same science that Barcelona pulled when their samples showed the “Dreaded Virus” was present in March of 2019.
Inconvenient Data Point, Inc.
(Full disclosure, we were there the following September.(
Posted by: Melinda | October 03, 2020 at 09:54 AM
Posted by hoyden back thread, but for anyone skipping ahead ...
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-week-in-pictures-post-debate-edition-2.php
Posted by: JimNorCal | October 03, 2020 at 09:56 AM
The Cardinals with Gibson, Flood, etc were a fun team to grow up watching / listened to the World Series on a crystal radio during school. (Teacher just wanted updates on the score).
Posted by: henry | October 03, 2020 at 09:59 AM
What’s still unclear is what the significance is of the virus’s presence. Logically, you would expect immune people to shed the virus whenever they have been exposed during the period when their immune systems are doing away with the virus.
I’d love to know what you would find if you looked for parvovirus B16 (Fifth Disease) in a similar way. That’s a disease with a high level of immunity in the population where at least half the people who get infected are oblivious to the infection.
Posted by: cathyf | October 03, 2020 at 10:04 AM
Bob Uecker won a ring with St. Louis in '64.
Back up catcher.
Bob Harlan former PRESIDENT of the PACKERS worked in the front office same year. Got a ring and 2 Super Bowl rings.
Posted by: GUS | October 03, 2020 at 10:06 AM
A bit more on Ginormous Research after thinking about it after 35 yrs gone.
Battelle was unusual in that you had in my day essentially 3200 specialists with their own booths in a farmer’s market. Now it’s roughly the same in-house plus nearly 30,000 in the National labs it manages and a $6.2B annual budget.
A customer with a problem would get a team of two or twenty with the right skilz to solve that particular problem.
One week you solved the problem of a blast furnace stove in Aliquippa that shook all the fire bricks into a pile at the bottom of the stove when the burner was cranked up.
The next week you engineered an experiment on the Space Shuttle that explored growing synthetic collagen in micro-gravity.
After that, you measured the crickets chirping in a Lusianna swamp for a lame environmental impact statement to justify a new power plant.
Next you proved that tarring up a Yankee bat had no dynamic effect on hitting baseballs.
How about a sensor package that allowed a payload on the end of a boom on a barge bobbing around in heavy seas planting that payload on a ship deck without smashing everything in sight.
And the infamous Glomar Explorer that plucked the broken Ruskie sub off the floor of the Northern Pacific.
Of course, I already mentioned the GAU-8 Gatling gun gas diverter that Hoyden played with.
And those were just a few of the non-railroad projects I worked on. The RR stuff occupied prolly 90 pct of my time.
A few of the other things done there:
The sandwich coins that took out all the silver in our pocket change.
Developing the Xerox copy process invented by Chester Carlson (who the Swedes claim as one of their own even though he was born in Seattle).
Bar codes.
CD/DVD encoding.
Security threads in folding money.
Nuke fuel rods. Including first fuel for our subs.
Snopake!
No-melt chocolate.
Ceramic armor plate.
Tooth implants.
Inspection probes that find thin walls in nuke cooling tubes.
91 yrs X several thousand researchers = a lot of cool stuff.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | October 03, 2020 at 10:12 AM
B19
(Damned dysgraphia!)
Posted by: cathyf | October 03, 2020 at 10:13 AM
I remember going to Battelle and talking to one of their guys on my residential end use model. I thought it was a pretty neat place to work except for being in Columbus. No slam on the locals, it was just too damn hot compared to Cleveland.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 03, 2020 at 10:21 AM
MT
My nephew Andy is really enjoying his work at Battelle. Sounds like his Internship morphed into long term.
Posted by: Buckeye | October 03, 2020 at 10:32 AM
except for being in Columbus. No slam on the locals, it was just too damn hot compared to Cleveland.
That’s why it works for those of us with Southern hillbilly blood.
Just like home:)
Posted by: Buckeye | October 03, 2020 at 10:54 AM
I don't know how my daughter managed to do it, but these two half-grown kittens are the most energetic, acrobatic cats I have ever seen.
They jumped on the counter to see what I was doing when I was doing dishes, and they managed to remove the drain sieve off the shower! And it's not 11:00 AM yet!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 10:55 AM
At the risk of drawing a sharp rebuke from the jazz hounds here (CH,) the new Diana Krall album is very nice.
Posted by: peter | October 03, 2020 at 11:05 AM
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson had quarantined himself for 14 days after being "exposed" to someone who had themself been tested positive. He was finished with this quarantine, and was tested and found to be positive for SCARY CHINESE FLU.
He is asymptomatic. Draw your own conclusions.
It's a joke.
Posted by: GUS | October 03, 2020 at 11:21 AM
I saw a pickup truck with an American flag and a Trump 2020 flag flying on poles at the back of the bed yesterday and today, on a cross street west of me, high on a pole at a lumber yard was another Trump 2020 sign.
I saved my Trump-Pence sign from 2016 and I think I will tape it on the inside of my back door of my SUV. It will probably make my daughter mad but she can live with it for a month.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 11:23 AM
That was a flag at the lumber yard.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 11:24 AM
I'm with you on DK, Peter.
Posted by: Old Lurker | October 03, 2020 at 11:27 AM
She's all yours, peter.
Buckeye, did you have any hundred degree days? We had a higher than average number of 90+ days but it stayed right around 90 and never exceeded 95 that I remember; so it was more uncomfortable than miserable.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 03, 2020 at 11:32 AM
NOW the left is griping that Trump doesn't have a dog. Lord, I am SO tired of these people!
Reasons he might not have a dog:
1. Allergies
2. Too much traveling and different locations (hotels, golf courses, resorts)before campaigning, even.
3. Melania has allergies or a fear of dogs.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 11:34 AM
Eric Trump and his wife have rescued several beagles. These people aren't even grasping at straws anymore if that is all they can gripe about!
Posted by: Momto2 | October 03, 2020 at 11:40 AM
A note on Trump being treated with Pepcid for the Kung Flu (among other things). Last time I got treated for a bee sting, I got a shot of Pepcid via IV (by its drug name). Then told to take Pepcid every day for a week. It is an anti-inflammation treatment. Swelling went down in about 5 minutes, and breathing opened up just as quick.
Posted by: henry | October 03, 2020 at 11:43 AM
11am presser from Trump’s medico.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | October 03, 2020 at 11:43 AM
MM "I am SO tired of these people!"
word
Posted by: Old Lurker | October 03, 2020 at 11:45 AM
Trump may not own any dogs but he owns the Democrats. Cork soakin mutants.
Posted by: KevlarKid | October 03, 2020 at 11:49 AM
CH
Neither Mrs. Buckeye nor I remember breaking 100 this summer, although high 90s pretty frequently.
We are about 20 miles north of city center, and is normally a few degrees cooler here than there.
Posted by: Buckeye | October 03, 2020 at 11:49 AM
SBW where are you??? I need you to read this utterly 6th grade writing. Notice something in the last sentence too. PLEASE.
https://wkow.com/2020/10/03/senator-ron-johnson-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/
Posted by: GUS | October 03, 2020 at 11:53 AM
Glad Trump’s doctor needled the press a bit with a smile on his face.
Bet Trump hand picked the guy.
Posted by: Buckeye | October 03, 2020 at 11:56 AM
I went to a diana krall concert peter.
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:01 PM
’I saw a pickup truck with an American flag and a Trump 2020 flag flying on poles at the back of the bed...’
A common occurrence in my area. Thank goodness, I’ll add!
~ ~ ~
Roll Tide!!
Posted by: BeastsEngland | October 03, 2020 at 12:02 PM
Weasel:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1312414271918178305
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:08 PM
Wombat
https://mobile.twitter.com/ErinMPerrine/status/1312413903352193027
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:09 PM
Gus: Notice something in the last sentence too.
That’s easy. WKOW is ASSHOE!
Posted by: sbwaters | October 03, 2020 at 12:13 PM
Maybe Trump doesn’t want a dog!
Good Morning! Kiwi’s birthday is today! She’s 9 again. (I got it wrong last year)
Posted by: Jane | October 03, 2020 at 12:14 PM
Cam Newton has the virus
Posted by: Jane | October 03, 2020 at 12:15 PM
Roseboro clipped Marichal's ear on his throwback to the mound. R is on tape saying it was a strat he worked out with Koufax in lieu of Koufax throwing at Marichal in retaliation for M putting Fairly and Wills on the deck in succession.
After Roseboro's first toss back to Koufax "behind Marichal from the crouch" M warned R "don't throw that ball at me." After next pitch R did it again and clipped his ear.
M turned to face R and R charged him. M pounded him good. Mays rushed in and got his friend R out of what became a brawl.
Folks make a lot of M's bat move and rightfully so. Little is ever said about the clip more than "Marichal claims"...The bat is a lethal weapon...but so is a baseball rifled from a crouch out to the mound which, had it hit Marichal on the rear side of the skull is point blank. A lethal weapon.
Marichal lost his cool. Roseboro got caught and was lucky Dominican justice dint kill him. He really never came clean about the ball contacting Marichal. He admitted to the scheme but the witnesses to his throwbacks were legion.
One Giant fan's perspective.
Posted by: KevlarKid | October 03, 2020 at 12:22 PM
SBW, that entire, and very short story about RON JOHNSON was written as though the writer is still in high school.
Posted by: GUS | October 03, 2020 at 12:24 PM
"Reasons (Trump) might not have a dog"
Doesn't own a car top carrier? :) :) (mitt)
Hasn't found any good recipes? (barrack)
Posted by: JimNorCal | October 03, 2020 at 12:26 PM
Like dr evils head table
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/01/big-techs-backing-of-the-transition-integrity-project-lacks-integrity/
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:28 PM
Revenge of the Whale? Chris Christie tests positive for COVID, was part of Trump's debate prep team (Guiliani tests negative).
Posted by: hrtshpdbox | October 03, 2020 at 12:29 PM
"Cam Newton has the virus"
Looks like we are in a second wave ... are deaths and hospitalizations still trending down?
Posted by: JimNorCal | October 03, 2020 at 12:30 PM
Gus, more precisely, correlation does not indicate causation.
AP does it all the time.
Posted by: sbwaters | October 03, 2020 at 12:33 PM
The World’s Largest Private Whiskey Collection Is Up For Auction
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevingray/2020/10/02/the-worlds-largest-private-whiskey-collection-is-up-for-auction/#666c4e9f33d8
Posted by: mike in houston | October 03, 2020 at 12:33 PM
At the Gators v Gamecocks game looks like they have a limitation on crowd size at Ben Hill stadium.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | October 03, 2020 at 12:40 PM
LOL, jimsunnyvale.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 03, 2020 at 12:40 PM
The hotde pointed out that the breonna taylor grand jury was much less clear cut than was described initially.
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:44 PM
Deaths are still trending down and are slightly above the lows of early July.
Hospitalizations are at a trough that is slightly above the lows of mid June.
Both trends are down significantly from the secondary peaks in late July/early August.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 03, 2020 at 12:47 PM
'Source Familiar With' Alert
A source familiar with Trump's health told reporters: “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1312430936294739968
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 03, 2020 at 12:51 PM
Surprise otters
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1312433649636302854
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:51 PM
We were on the same wavelength dave
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 12:53 PM
Thanks for that explanation, KK. That was a dumb agreement with Koufax. Gibson would've never had McCarver do that when he could buzz the hitter himself and then face the music himself at bat.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 03, 2020 at 12:55 PM
Yep! 20% crowd limitation at Ben Hill Griffin stadium for Florida game.
At least it is not 0%.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | October 03, 2020 at 12:59 PM
Mollie@MZHemingway
·
This is the worst possible media at the worst possible time to be covering an unfolding event with massive implications. They could not be more ill-suited to the moment. Their behavior over the last four years by itself has been unconscionable. Now? Nightmare scenario.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 03, 2020 at 12:59 PM
A little pinch of salt
https://mobile.twitter.com/dmartosko/status/1312430129071652869
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 01:03 PM
Heres another snippet
https://mobile.twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1312298058328076288
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 01:08 PM
They got lost in traffic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/murder-hornets-colony-Washington-state.html
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 01:14 PM
Some remain credulous,
https://twitter.com/Tom_Maguire/status/1312437072553107456
Had to login twice in about 15 min.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 03, 2020 at 01:16 PM
Dave I do not believe that source knows anything.
Posted by: Old Lurker | October 03, 2020 at 01:17 PM
But they are very confident about what they dont know.
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 01:18 PM
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this PLAGUE. With their help, I am feeling well!
1:19 PM · Oct 3, 2020
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 01:24 PM
What say you nate aluminum
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1312361383930081281
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 01:24 PM
It is an anti-inflammation treatment.
It's a histamine blocker. Benadryl blocks H1 receptors, Pepcid H2. So it blocks the swelling and itching that circulating histamine can cause.
A week is rather generous for a sting. Though my three day old mosquito is still itchy!
Posted by: anonamom | October 03, 2020 at 01:26 PM
Per Conley this morning, fever-free since Friday morning and not on oxygen.
Posted by: Another Bob | October 03, 2020 at 01:27 PM
Sure, he is 74 and overweight, which is offset by being POTUS and gets the gold standard of medical care in the world.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | October 03, 2020 at 01:28 PM
Dave I do not believe that source knows anything.
Mark Meadows? Isn't he in the room with Trump, practically?
Posted by: hrtshpdbox | October 03, 2020 at 01:29 PM
The anonymous source in nprs report. But its like the russian bounties or the funeral in france.
Posted by: Narciso | October 03, 2020 at 01:30 PM
Dave (in MA) | October 03, 2020 at 12:59 PM
Yep. And almost literally everyone in the media is parsing every syllable of every announcement finding the holes in which to inject "Trump is lying".
Posted by: Another Bob | October 03, 2020 at 01:32 PM
Back in the day grudges were grudges and none greater than the Dodgers-Giants rivalry. Marichal still pisses me off on general principles as a Dodgers fan. I think I had every Dodger and Angel baseball card from @ 1960 onwards. My brother traded the whole collection for a skateboard.
Now they have fake fights and all retreat to their cubbies and then their bubbles. They have lost contact with the underlying camaraderie and bickering of what sports used to be.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | October 03, 2020 at 01:40 PM
This is truth;

Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 03, 2020 at 01:44 PM
Scanning through Twitter I want to say this:
There are truly evil people in the world and they will gain power if the President isn't re-elected. I don't really have an oar in the water as regards to taxes, or finance, or anything that is usually on the GOP platform.
What I see on Twitter is a lot of Evil, with a capital E. If you can't get relatives or friends to vote for President Trump, maybe get them to stay home. It is WRONG to wish for someone's death and to gloat over their illness.
I can't get over it.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 01:48 PM
Some of those old Dodger-Giant games with Drysdale and Marichal pitching ... not a good day for anyone to be at bat.
Posted by: Art in Newport | October 03, 2020 at 01:49 PM
Trump tweets are continuing.
But I think we've established he's not necessarily the only person tweeting from that account?
Posted by: Another Bob | October 03, 2020 at 01:50 PM
’...and gets the gold standard of medical care in the world.’
Thanks, ObamaCare!! 😜
Posted by: BeastsEngland | October 03, 2020 at 01:50 PM
I think I had every Dodger and Angel baseball card from @ 1960 onwards.
Matt,
👊
Posted by: Barbara | October 03, 2020 at 01:51 PM
Too many to link, but I recommend a trip to the Babylon Bee. Between the debate and Trump with the flu there is much honey being made.
Ok just one with a whiff of Chuck Norris jokes to it;
Coronavirus Panics After Testing Positive For Trump
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 03, 2020 at 01:52 PM
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
5m
OUR GREAT USA WANTS & NEEDS STIMULUS. WORK TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE. Thank you!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 01:52 PM
OK, one more for MM;
Party That Wants To Run Your Healthcare Roots For Political Opponent To Die
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 03, 2020 at 01:53 PM
Thanks, Ignatz!
I don't know what the political leanings of the people on the Bee are, but at least they see some irony in the behavior of the left.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 01:58 PM
A source familiar with Trump's health told reporters: “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”
That is total BS.
It is INSANE to be talking about "full recovery" at this point in time, when he is barely ill. This disease takes a ZILLION different paths; no one can speak with any kind of authority about any one patient.
There is no "typical" anything about its course, that would allow an informed person to be speculating about outcomes.
What will be, will be.
Ignore these anonymous sources, unless your kid or niece happens to be POTUS's senior medical resident in the unit.
And MD-- not nurse, not PA, not NP, not pharmacist.
The person RESPONSIBLE for making the decisions about his care. Who will have the whole picture, not a piece of it.
Posted by: anonamom | October 03, 2020 at 01:59 PM
source familiar with Trump's health told reporters: “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”
Here's an OH JUST FUCK THE HELL OFF alert.
Posted by: KevlarKid | October 03, 2020 at 01:59 PM
He probably got the virus because he doesn't have a DOG!
That was their gripe this morning. I think it was to bury the leak from the hospital that he was charming and nice to the staff. Couldn't have THAT!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 02:03 PM
Wretchard wrote his column again.🥱
Posted by: peter | October 03, 2020 at 02:08 PM
We've certainly seen the "medical professionals" be completely willing to participate in misleading the public.
Posted by: Another Bob | October 03, 2020 at 02:11 PM
Marichal was pretty effective against dem Bums:
37-18 with a 2.36 ERA against the Dodgers all time. In 64 games, he whiffed 305 and walked 93, while pitching ten shutouts against the Dodgers.
Posted by: KevlarKid | October 03, 2020 at 02:12 PM
In Re: Dodgers-Giants.
I met Johnny Podres in Lake Placid, NY after he pitched the Bums to their first WS. My Dad was stationed at Plattsburgh AFB north of Lake Placid. And he being a Long Island man was a Dodger fan. There was no way he wouldn't go done to see Podres.
Being in full USAF uniform with hat with scrambled eggs and silver oak leafs on his shoulder caused Podres to walk direct to him. When my Dad said he was a Long Island life-long Dodgers fan, Podres gave him a baseball signed by the 1955 WS winning team. Johnny was MVP of the series.
That was the one with the great Sandy Amoros catch on the left field line.
When they and the Giants moved to CA, I stopped supporting them.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | October 03, 2020 at 02:12 PM
Here's a beautiful segment from Laura Ingraham from last night. And by the way, at 10:06 PM there were people outside of Walter Reed waving Trump and American flags, and to whoever did that, my thanks to them for letting him know that the evil people aren't out there wishing him harm.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 03, 2020 at 02:15 PM
Does "the dogma live deep within" Laura Ingraham?
IHTFP
Posted by: KevlarKid | October 03, 2020 at 02:18 PM
anonamom,
You posted about Pepcid, the D and C, and also mentioned this:
"ASA helps keeps clots from propagating."
What is ASA? Aspirin? I'm not familiar or am simply thickheaded and can't figure out what ASA stands for.
Thanks for an answer.
Posted by: joan | October 03, 2020 at 02:36 PM
I'm not a-mom, but I assume that it means acetylsalicylic acid, A/K/A aspirin.
Posted by: DrJ | October 03, 2020 at 02:41 PM
aspirin
Posted by: anonamom | October 03, 2020 at 02:43 PM
Two of my cats are on Famitodine (Pepcid), which has become hard to find, and the last two times I found any it was about the same size as a baby aspirin, less than half the normal size, so I've had to master cutting the tiny 10mg pills into 2½mg pieces that the vet calls for. Maybe I can become a diamond cutter.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 03, 2020 at 02:44 PM
I think Ingraham was required to join AMY BARRETT'S
cult as part of her RCI.
Posted by: GUS | October 03, 2020 at 02:47 PM
Happy Birthday Kiwi!
Posted by: Barbara | October 03, 2020 at 02:49 PM
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/chris_wallace_caps_a_bad_week_with_a_strange_attack_against_scott_atlas.html
Posted by: clarice | October 03, 2020 at 03:00 PM
Very nice video of Trump supporters
(1) Henry Rodgers on Twitter: "Wow. Washington DC. You don’t see this everyday. A TON of Trump supporters: https://t.co/lPNQnfvnsV" / Twitter
Posted by: lurkersusie | October 03, 2020 at 03:00 PM
cathyf: Do adults get 5th Disease, as well as children? Years ago when our son was in pre-K or K in Greenville, SC, he came down with this rash (mostly on legs) and a fever, I took him to the doctor and he didn't know what it was. Told me to give him liquid children's aspirin, he might have mentioned Tylenol, don't remember. (This was in about 1974.)
The doctor was in a group with two or three other pediatricians. Some days later, our little toddler daughter broke out in the rash on her cheeks and legs. I took her to the pediatrician's office and we saw the same doctor. He had a diagnosis that trip -- 5th Disease; and he proudly said, 'I think I saw one of the first cases here in Greenville, a little boy a few days ago. We're just getting familiar with this thing.' The little boy had to be our son because at that visit he'd said, 'I don't think it's anything' -- he gave me no diagnosis, just said to watch him.
It had to be our son. The man didn't remember me as the boy's mother. :) I guess their group had a lot of mothers in and out. :) I didn't tell him I was probably the mother of that little boy. I just shook my head admiringly.
Anyway, I've never forgotten that, and any time I see the words '5th Disease', I think of those visits.
Posted by: joan | October 03, 2020 at 03:01 PM
Dave(inMA), I just ordered the Pepcid on amazon.
I had told myself that I was going to dial back on using amazon and switch to Walmart, but it's almost automatic for me to use amazon. I joined Prime when it started and thought it was wonderful service.
Posted by: joan | October 03, 2020 at 03:07 PM
Dave(MA)'s 2;16 if you didn't click.
TM's twitter:
"For his age and obesity, Trump has a 64.7% chance of hospitalization, 31.7% of death.
KEY CAVEAT: That's based on US history from CDC"
One respondent notes that hospitalization odds have risen to 100%. Duh.
I'm still going with 95% chance of survival LOL
Posted by: JimNorCal | October 03, 2020 at 03:07 PM
Interesting
Cleveland Officials Traced COVID Cases Back to the Debate... Before Trump Was On-site
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/10/03/cleveland-officials-say-at-least-11-coronavirus-cases-can-be-traced-back-to-debate-planning-n2577413
Posted by: lurkersusie | October 03, 2020 at 03:15 PM