Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Monday defended his decision to not self-quarantine while he awaited the results of his coronavirus test, a move that has been met with criticism and concern after he announced a day earlier that he had tested positive for the virus. read more
Stephen Collinson: President Donald Trump's legal team will go into his Senate trial on Tuesday arguing that he should never have been impeached because his conduct over Ukraine does not amount to a criminal offense. read more
The University of Vermont: A team of scientists has repurposed living cells -- scraped from frog embryos -- and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These millimeter-wide "xenobots" can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a payload (like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place inside a patient) -- and heal themselves after being cut. "These are novel living machines," says Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research. "They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism." The new creatures were designed on a supercomputer at UVM--and then assembled and tested by biologists at Tufts University. "We can imagine many useful applications of these living robots that other machines can't do," says co-leader Michael Levin who directs the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts, "like searching out nasty compounds or radioactive contamination, gathering microplastic in the oceans, traveling in arteries to scrape out plaque." read more
From the WHO site:
Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.
www.who.int
I am aware that young people can get ill from the coronavirus but the question is how ill. Ill enough to be hospitalized? If so, keep the economy shut down. However, if they aren't ill enough to require hospitalization, open up the economy.
Of the young people that I have heard that got seriously ill, they all seemed to have some type of underlying health condition that weakened their immune systems. Hopefully these young people know who they are and can self quarantine.
Massie's Stunt May Have Exposed House to Coronavirus
Massie shouldn't take all of the blame. Much of the blame goes to congress woman because she was diagnosed as having the virus based on her symptoms prior to making the trip! She should have kept her --- home. There were plenty of people that wanted the bill to pass. Her vote was not going to be a tie breaker. Passage of the bill was not in question.