Air Travel During The Pandemic Air Travel is one of the industries that has been heaviest hit by the pandemic over the last 6 months. Between the order to avoid all non-essential travel outside of Canada and the additional risks associated with spending hours in an enclosed space with a large group of strangers, peopleContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 202”
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COVID-19 Diary – Day 200
BCCOVID19.INFO – GRAND OPENING It has now been 200 days since BC first took action to help stem the spread COVID-19, about 197 days since I decided to make regular posts detailing the experiences of living in a pandemic, about 145 days since I decided to make my posts more focused on sharing facts andContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 200”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 196
Today marks 2 weeks since schools across BC have been open, and during that time there have been 31 exposure events, and luckily 0 outbreaks of COVID-19. Of those 31 exposure events, 23 of them have been located within the Fraser Health Authority, and 15 have been located specifically within the Surrey school district. TheseContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 196”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 195
ScienceMag recently published a report on an investigation into COVID-19 led by the University of Bristol. The research team says they have discovered a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, which could theoretically be used to target the virus with specialized small-molecule antiviral drugs. The pocket specifically collects linoleic acid, which is a freeContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 195”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 178
COVID-19 is well known to be a complicated virus with a wide variety of potential symptoms and long terms effects. Recently there has been a speculative line drawn between COVID-19 and myocarditis. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle, which can affect your heart’s electrical system, reducing your heart’s ability to pump and causingContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 178”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 177
Periodically I go through old COVID-19 blog posts and take a look at things that sounded very promising months ago, and do some checking to see if they ever came to be. An example of this is the antibody treatment that Sorrento Therapeutics has been working on. We don’t know too much about Sorrento’s STI-1499Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 177”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 171
Despite the lack of report from public health, there’s still lots to talk about today, so let’s dig in! Researchers from the University of Alberta are currently studying whether a drug used to treat a deadly corona virus in cats, may help prevent COVID-19 infection in humans as well. Since it’s already being used withContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 171”
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