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Small study out of Spain



Saw a study around labor day that said to take vitamin d to help prevent/reduce severity.
 
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From CNN on WHO relationship with China

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Mixing health and politics









The WHO was founded in 1948 under the auspices of the still infant United Nations (UN), with a mandate to coordinate international health policy, particularly on infectious disease. Since then it has had many successes, chief among them the eradication of smallpox and a 99% reduction in polio cases, as well as work against chronic disease and tackling tobacco usage.

But in its seven-decade history, the WHO has rarely been without its critics. They argue that it is overly bureaucratic, bizarrely structured, too dependent on a handful of major donors, and often hamstrung by political concerns. Following his election in 2017, Ethiopian politician Tedros became the latest WHO director general to promise large-scale reforms.

The first African to hold his position, Tedros took over following the WHO's self-acknowledged poor response to the 2013-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The WHO took five months to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over Ebola, a delay that "undoubtedly contributed to the unprecedented scale of the outbreak," according to one academic assessment.
 
We have a little girl with CF and have taken it as serious as anyone. Wife broke her toe two weeks ago and has been home resting. I think she left the house maybe 3 times and I left maybe once in those two weeks. She got COVID. Thankfully pretty mild symptoms and no symptoms for me or our daughter. We get tested tomorrow. She is also an NP than handles calls for the U of I. The last few months if they got near 400 calls in a day she thought that was a lot. They had 675+ calls today about covid. Sounds like its been over 600 calls all week.
 
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