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    Can You Become Immune to the Coronavirus?
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/health/coronavirus-immunity-antibodies.html#click=https://t.co/1e6eEfEYwh

    A study in macaques infected with the new coronavirus suggested that once infected, the monkeys produce neutralizing antibodies and resist further infection. But it is unclear how long the monkeys, or people infected with the virus, will remain immune.

    Most people who became infected during the SARS epidemic — that virus is a close cousin of the new coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2 — had long-term immunity lasting eight to 10 years, said Vineet D. Menachery, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

    Those who recovered from MERS, another coronavirus, saw much shorter-term protection, Dr. Menachery said. People who have been infected with the new coronavirus may have immunity lasting at least one to two years, he added: “Beyond that, we can’t predict.”

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    #Immunité #Coronavirus #Pandémie

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  • @arno
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    13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hospitals.html

    In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions at Elmhurst Hospital Center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiancé. All had tested positive for the coronavirus and had gone into cardiac arrest. All eventually died.

    Elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in Queens, has begun transferring patients not suffering from coronavirus to other hospitals as it moves toward becoming dedicated entirely to the outbreak. Doctors and nurses have struggled to make do with a few dozen ventilators. Calls over a loudspeaker of “Team 700,” the code for when a patient is on the verge of death, come several times a shift. Some have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed.

    A refrigerated truck has been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. Over the past 24 hours, New York City’s public hospital system said in a statement, 13 people at Elmhurst had died.

    “It’s apocalyptic,” said Dr. Bray, 27, a general medicine resident at the hospital.

    Across the city, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, hospitals are beginning to confront the kind of harrowing surge in cases that has overwhelmed health care systems in China, Italy and other countries. On Wednesday evening, New York City reported 20,011 confirmed cases and 280 deaths.

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      Coronavirus: London hospitals facing ’tsunami’ of patients
      ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/london-hospitals-facing-tsunami-of-coronavirus-patients-overwhelmed

      London hospitals are facing a “continuous tsunami” of coronavirus patients and some are likely to be overwhelmed in a few days, according to Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers – which represents hospital bosses.

      Hopson said hospitals had expanded critical care capacity between five and sevenfold in the last weeks, but chief executives have been alarmed by the speed at which beds are filling up in the capital.

      He said the problems had been exacerbated by medical staff off sick with suspected coronavirus or in vulnerable groups, with 30% to 50% not at work in some trusts.

      Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said: “They are struggling with the explosion of demand in seriously ill patients. They are saying it’s the number arriving and the speed with which they are arriving and how ill they are. They talk about wave after wave after wave. The words that are used to me are that it’s a continuous tsunami. As one said to me, it’s much bigger and large numbers with a greater degree of stretch than you can ever have possibly imagined.

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  • @nicolasm
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    Food Supply Anxiety Brings Back Victory Gardens - The New York Times
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/dining/victory-gardens-coronavirus.html

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    Americans were once urged to plant in every patch of available soil — and produced about 40 percent of the nation’s fresh vegetables.

    #coronavirus #covid-19 #jardinage

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      ▻http://CoopGardens.org

      As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc around the world, economies are tanking, supply chains are being disrupted, and shortages of critical supplies and food items are already commonplace. Given the likelihood of skilled farmworker shortages due to restrictions at the US-Mexico border, along with the possibility of farmers and truck drivers and other key people in the supply chain choosing to stay home during this pandemic, further shocks to the food system over the coming months are now a distinct possibility. Many believe they are inevitable, and that fear has fueled a rush to buy seeds from companies and non-profits like ours.

      In response to this crisis, Experimental Farm Network (EFN) is urging all people who can to establish “Cooperative Gardens” to grow as much food this year as they possibly can. We hope this effort will help people across the country (and potentially in other countries as well) to provide themselves and their communities with healthy fresh food, reduce our reliance on the faltering industrial food system (which is terrible for the environment and human health even when fully functioning), and make it easier for folks to stay in their communities and avoid further transmission of the virus.

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