What to Know About the Covid Antibody Drugs That Could Help Many
Here’s information about who these therapies can help, how much they cost and how to find out if you can get them where you live.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/health/coronavirus-antibody-drugs.html
Lilly’s neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab
Regeneron’s Casirivimab and Imdevimab Antibody Cocktail
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For the past year, Jupiter and Saturn have been dancing ever closer in the night sky. On the evening of Dec. 21, the very nadir of winter, they will be so close — one-tenth of one angular degree — that if your eyes are as bad as mine, they will appear as one blurry, bright planet. With a little optical aid you should be able to discern them as separate orbs, almost kissing, although Jupiter will be 450 million miles in front of the ringed Saturn.
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Go out and look southwest in the hour after sunset. According to astronomers, the two planets have not appeared this close to each other in the sky since 1623 — but the sun’s glare then would have rendered them invisible. To find a conjunction that humans could see, you must skip all the way back to 1226, or ahead to March 15, 2080. You might wonder who will be around to witness that event
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/science/christmas-star-jupiter-saturn-conjunction.html This Solstice, Solace for the Darkness
A rare conjunction of planets serves as a reminder that there is more to the universe than just ourselves.
How to watch tonight’s ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn https://www.livescience.com/how-to-watch-great-conjunction-jupiter-saturn.html
visible near the horizon
Sequence Variants in TAAR5 & Other Loci Affect Human Odor Perception & Naming https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31343-9 A variant in TAAR5 affects the perception of fish odor. Interesting to consider in relation to pseudogenization of the olfactory receptors
While about half of human odorant receptors are thought to be pseudogenes with loss-of-function, the Decode Genetics folks show that some sequence variants in odorant receptor genes are not
loss-of-function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbuwmUzUhQ
– don’t use poles to get up
– snowplow to stop
– kick & glide
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pro-cyclist-who-caught-covid-twice-11606919308
Notable that the 2nd case was much milder than the 1st.
Buena Vista Drive in Stony Creek (three parking spots at end of dirt road) https://www.google.com/maps/@41.264695,-72.741259,19z/data=!5m1!1e4
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