85 Comments
author

Zoom users: what are you using as a background?

Expand full comment
author

From Ian Karmel: "IF band names were literal, what would be the scariest band to fight? I'm torn between Megadeth and 10,000 Maniacs"

Expand full comment
author

Irish whiskey

Expand full comment
author

Currently, how long between your gas tank refills?

Expand full comment
author

What is far more dangerous than people realize?

Expand full comment
author

Garfield

Expand full comment
author

Today in Coronavirus-19

Expand full comment
author

OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

Expand full comment
author

PRO

Expand full comment
author

CAL

Expand full comment

A feel-good story for your soccerheads: Harry Kane has taken the shirt sponsorship for Leyton Orient and is using it to recognize two charities on the away and third shirts, and frontline workers on the home kit.

https://www.leytonorient.com/2020/05/14/breaking-the-os-announce-groundbreaking-shirt-sponsorship-guess-whos-back/

Expand full comment

http://mg.ucanr.edu/?utm_source=UCnetwork+-+systemwide+staff&utm_campaign=01f3f1b3f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_30_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f094b95b76-01f3f1b3f3-186913985

"UC Master Gardener volunteers are still available to support your home gardening questions by e-mail, telephone, or ZOOM. Please note that many UC Master Gardener Program public education events statewide are being rescheduled, postponed or moved to a later date."

Expand full comment

I don't know how to make this link not-ugly (sometimes I can get rid of the extra social media referral parts) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/13/coronavirus-treatments/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNWNjY2E1ZmQ5YmJjMGYwYmY4MGE3YjE3IiwidGFnIjoiNWViYzU3MGZmZTFmZjY1NGMyZGMyNDA5IiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL2hlYWx0aC8yMDIwLzA1LzEzL2Nvcm9uYXZpcnVzLXRyZWF0bWVudHMvP3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj13cF90b195b3VyX2hlYWx0aCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ3cGlzcmM9bmxfdHloJndwbWs9MSJ9.XbAkYF4WH0hbfbsvNhRorp9k-eRfkqTnr_td3kitAzM&utm_campaign=wp_to_your_health&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_tyh&wpmk=1

Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus

There are no proven treatments, but knowledge about the pathogen — and how to help those infected — have increased over the past two months

Jose Pascual, a critical care doctor at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, recalled those first, mad days treating the sick when he had little to offer beyond hunches and Hail Marys. Each new day brought bizarre new complications of the coronavirus that defied textbook treatments.

“We were flying blind,” he said. “There is nothing more disturbing for me as a doctor.”

Now, for the first time since a wave of patients flooded their emergency rooms in March, Pascual and others on the front lines are expressing a feeling they say they haven’t felt in a long time — glimmers of hope. They say they have devised a toolbox, albeit a limited and imperfect one, of drugs and therapies many believe give today’s patients a better shot at survival than those who came only a few weeks before.

To be clear, these are not therapies proved to kill or stop the virus. They range from protocols to diagnose and treat dangerous, but sometimes invisible, breathing problems that can be an early warning of covid-19 in some people, to efforts to reduce the illness’s severity or length. At this stage, they are still experimental approaches by doctors desperate to find ways to help gravely ill people and throwing everything they can think of at the problem.

Expand full comment

Twice in three years. Plug in hybrid.

Expand full comment