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Obviously, the people in Florida are not paying attention. Every day I check the numbers for new cases of COVID-19 and the numbers were dropping. Social distancing was actually working. Was is the operative.
The numbers are on the rise. We've lost a month now. Yesterday on local news they were talking about reopening some businesses. Not if this is what is happening. On a chart by county, I look at the age groups who are most affected.

The blue and dark blue areas in the bottom (east coast) is significant to me.
Dade County (Miami area) 45-54
Broward County (Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale area) 45-64
Palm Beach County (West Palm Beach, Boca Raton area) 55-74

There are many 55 and over communities in Palm Beach County where I now live. There was a spike last Saturday, dropped for a dew days and nearly doubled at the end of the week. This is raising the overall state numbers, but the activity is concentrated in these 3 counties.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Vaccine Development and Surveillance

Strategy Overview

Our Goal:

Advance public goods for global health through technological innovation. We do this by accelerating the development and commercialization of novel vaccines and the sustainable manufacture of existing vaccines, defining the global disease burden through better primary data and world-class modeling, and reducing the threat of epidemics through the development and use of innovative tools.
The Challenge

At A Glance

Tackling diseases individually won’t solve many global health challenges. Working across disease areas allows us to identify the public goods that can accelerate global health impact and reduce the threat of epidemics.

We believe technical innovation has a critical role to play in the design, development, and deployment of these public goods.

We invest in deep technical expertise and novel platforms in vaccine development and manufacturing to accelerate innovation for better, faster, and cheaper vaccines.

We also invest in building high-quality modeling and forecasting capabilities informed by trustworthy primary data. We make this information public to allow all experts to better prioritize our collective global health resources.

In global health, the focus we’ve put on fighting individual diseases has had enormous impact, yet many of the most stubborn challenges we face are shared across disease areas. Whether it’s accelerating the development of new vaccines, forecasting the global health challenges of tomorrow, or preparing for epidemics, we must work beyond the scope of one disease area and create durable public goods whose benefits permeate global health.

Vaccines are some of our most powerful tools in combating diseases. Yet despite substantial scientific advances and investment, bringing vaccines to market affordably and reliably remains a challenge. Promising candidates can fail late in development, and existing vaccines can face supply shortages, resulting in wasted time, investments, and missed opportunities to improve human health. The diseases of low-resource settings—whether they are entrenched, like malaria and HIV, or they are the next outbreak pathogen—are often some of the hardest to address scientifically. They are also often the least attractive commercially. These challenges mean vaccine development for low-resource settings will only be successful if we use innovation in technologies, platforms, processes, and business models to accelerate timelines and reduce costs.

Because developing new vaccines is a lengthy and expensive undertaking, it is particularly important that we understand how to prioritize our efforts. Some diseases lend themselves to vaccine intervention. Others, like the neglected tropical diseases, are best tackled through better deployment of existing interventions. And others, like noncommunicable diseases, require non-vaccine approaches. Unfortunately, because the quality of our primary data is so poor, it is difficult to answer questions such as how many deaths a malaria vaccine could prevent. Parents who experience the tragedy of losing a child may never know the true cause of death. The mystery behind these individual tragedies are then accumulated into a public health conundrum, making it impossible for product developers, governments, and funders to effectively prioritize the resources of global and public health.

The Opportunity

We believe we can accelerate the impact of vaccines in low-resource contexts by cultivating deep expertise in the vaccine-manufacturing process, quality control, and clinical evaluation. This expertise allows us to advise on more effective vaccine development programs and identify new areas of innovation to benefit multiple disease programs.

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I saw this last night 3/30/2020

It came out on 3/31/2020 which is today's date.

....Highly specialized staff and technology, where the most compromised of Covid-19 patients stay, often for weeks. Similar units for trauma, post surgery, cardiac stepdown and in some ways for psychiatry. Considerable mortality among such staff working with these sickest of patients. Today, a young doctor talked on radio about staff experience over the past months. While always an intense and demanding practice environment, all supporting each other as a team, allowing some respite for individuals, even if only for a few minutes to eat, to rest and possibly to call home. Highly skilled nurses, pulmonary and Xray technicians, and many more make it happen. Monitors for nearly every vital bodily, and even brain function, and life support pumps/medication delivery pumps, etc. do contribute. Nearly instant laboratory results. Yet, we hear that things are more demanding these days. And that's for places with enough equipment, staff and no overload of patients. Burn out is always a risk in demanding work places. Normally, the importance of the jobs, and neediness of their charges, keep morale high. But it seems even these folks have their limits. This young physician seems close to reaching his. And many are getting sick---and worse. Many Europeans are out on their balconies applauding these medical heroes. Why not?

Seriously people, there is an end for women to produce trophy babies for some old fart! Its called "geriatric pregnancy". If you start a pregnancy for a woman at 60 please do the math. I find it a bit ridiculous.
The question on the profile is Want kids? most of answers are" not sure", really at 60 years you don't know if you want kids? what planet have you guys been visiting? Just because technology allows people to play God, is this a mentally health issue? ego? .

A friend of mine came back from his chiropractor and he informed my friend that this virus is interesting. My friend told me, he was not sure using the word mutate was correct...but he explained it this way to me. He said, according to his doctor, if he got the virus and gave it to me, I would have a different virus than him.

I have just heard tonight on tv....not only can you get the virus more than once, but the second time around it is more vicious than the first time. That would make sense if my friend was told correct by his chiropractor.

It sounds like this virus is like a moving target...if everything I had been told is correct.

It sounds like a vaccine is essential with this....otherwise, is there a way of stopping it without everyone being effected by it?




...sounds serious....and something to be treated as such...

be safe all

Hopefully I have heard wrong...and drew the wrong conclusions.

Patient came in ER showing symptoms of COVID
Transferred to ICU SOB need to intubate
Isolated in negative pressure
Complete PPE
5 hours stayed inside
Hope it turn out to be just fine

vs. MY unique suffering. The first is a Buddhist view, the latter, that of most addicts. Crippling self pity, powerful enough to support any level of denial, and to justify all selfish and hurtful behaviors. Recently, an Asian clinical friend shared this concept with me. Hit me like a brick. We worked some with addicts of many so called types, who now boastfully all carry the badge of having a 'Disease", bestowed by leftie clinicians, who really should know better, for selfish reasons. Selfish? Well try to challenge it, and quickly it seems based more on the need to signal, and to bestow, virtue, than for scientific ideas. Addictions as well, to the smug feelings of superiority, after hatefully and angrily calling someone---well, we all know the pejoratives. Enabling, and codependent in the extreme. .Sure, there are differences in receptor biology, perhaps making paths to addiction just a bit more sweet, for some. But once in the deep pit, what to do?
Well, in some Eastern drug and alcohol addiction treatment practice (? overeating, sex as well?), the initial emphasis is less on first admitting having the problem, and being powerless over it, and more on the generalized existence of suffering in God's good world. Can snap that sense of somehow being special, right out from under the feet of any self worshiping addict. Not a bad way then to begin the real work. And the new real life.

Easy as......no no easier than pie.