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似乎使用英語寫句子更快些,海外朋友讀下麵段落應該沒有問題,其他朋友就當是跟著免疫學家學英文了。
我的英語打字速度在兒子、女兒和專業秘書之下,但是超過很多土生土長的美國人。肯定在阿肯森之上,他六尺英俊帥才,打起字來像捉蟲子,所以他一輩子需要兩個秘書,永遠手寫他那500多篇科學論文。
We are very lucky to be so close to Forest Park, the gorgeous city park that can rivalry with its peers in London and Paris. I could go through Forest Park daily with four seasons in plenty of lakes, flowers, and birds, what a life! Now the Queeny Tower was gone and the new Cardiology Tower is on the rising.
Our CSRB (Clinical Science Research Building) was a giant when I arrived in St. Louis more than thirty years ago, now is only a nobody among those huge buildings in the medical center.
One of the unique gifted talents of John Atkinson is his humor which is always with him. When our department hired an artist to paint his portrait that will be placed in a visible location on campus where we were all interested in knowing. People ask him in the ceremony where the portrait will be hung, his spontaneous response was: "I think they will hang it in the Queeny Tower" when everyone knew Queeny is going to be demolished.
關於奧密克戎的好消息與壞消息並存,好消息是葡萄牙的新病例和死亡病例明顯脫鉤,支持Omicron輕症的推測。壞消息是美國住院病人仍然在向上衝,尤其以紐約和羅德島的數據令人擔憂,華大ICU也趨飽和,顯示新病例和重症沒有明顯分離,這對於全美國不是一個好的預兆。當然美國的加強針比例奇低,隻有21%,美國麵對Omicron仍然是對未打疫苗人的戰爭。如果你想以身試病毒,不要在插管前才開始留戀人間。
本來我應該遵循阿肯森的建議,不要與nuts爭論科學。所以沒打加強針的民眾應該抓緊時間去打,小孩也應該去打,因為現在小孩的感染與住院也在猛升。根據CDC的資料,即使疫苗誘發男孩心肌炎也很低。
我等到昨天深夜睡覺前看周末後的最reliable numbers, 發現這絕對是個奇跡,美國一天新病例創141萬之記錄,死亡仍然隻有1673,兩個曲線脫鉤了。雖然死亡人數會滯後幾周,但是現在數據粗略計算美國的死亡率:1673/1417493=0.12%,與英國的曲線一致,真是神奇啊!
通過我的文章出名的人和事很多,尤其是通過我的一些專用詞匯,像“阿肯森”,“麥律師”,“肖同學”,“古董房”和“古董社區”。有些我還要保護著名朋友的隱私,像美國南方哈佛的係主任。但是這位特定朋友我每次必須這樣說:“我的朋友華大MD和斯坦福本科老爸”,很多人問我他是誰,我閉口不談。
最近他給我留言:
”俺家的華大MD中招了”;
我隻好這樣安慰:“是吧,保重,應該問題不大,華大內科的一個分科6/14(42%)位醫生感染新冠????”。
其實我的潛台詞是我們都會得,他家華大MD先敬了職,那可能50萬的年薪也沒有白賺[偷笑][偷笑][Worship][Worship]
他最近這樣告訴我:
二月八日:“兒子情況在好轉中。他也就第一個晚上有發點燒,但主要症狀是累。昨天下午去送飯,在門口聽到他在電話上。我開車回家的路上,他來了個電話,說當時正在給自己的病人“視頻”看病。我問,“你自己找醫生看了看嗎”?他說,”Dad, I am THE doctor”! 一付不知天高地厚的嘴臉[捂臉]”
二月十日:“我家華大MD今天上班了[強]”
我們基本上都會得新冠,早晚而已。透露一下“我的朋友華大MD和斯坦福本科老爸”是武大人。那個不要我們同濟的天朝最美大學,也是現在相當沉淪的一所大學。
我開始懷疑是假的,現在似乎是MGH感染科主任說過的話,這位應該是接了華大校友CDC主任Walensky 在MGH的類似位置。
“美國著名的麻省總醫院國際傳染病主任Edward Ryan對新冠疫情的樂觀判斷。全文如下:
“與馬薩諸塞州總醫院國際傳染病主任、哈佛大學醫學教授Edward Ryan MD 會議記錄如下:
1. 麻省陽性病例近100%為奧密克戎。Delta幾乎完全從新英格蘭消失了。
2. 這種波動將在1/10到1/21之間達到峰值,然後開始一個2到4周的快速下坡旅程。
3. 我們最終會有20-50%的陽性率。
4. 2月4日將進入清理模式,3月將開始恢複“正常”。
5. 奧密克戎存在於感染者的鼻子和上呼吸道區域,這就是它如此具有傳染性的原因。它不能像其他變種一樣與你的肺結合。
6. 對增加的住院人數應持保留態度,因為其中大多數是二次入院(即之前接受手術、骨折等檢查的患者)。
7. 我們不需要針對奧密克戎的疫苗。因為在其完全消失之前,我們無法研製出加強針。大部分人都將被感染,這將給我們提供所需的免疫力,以渡過難關。
8. Omicron將加入已有其他4種冠狀病毒的行列,它們會導致普通感冒、上呼吸道感染、呼吸道合胞病毒等。它將成為一種兒科疾病,主要影響無免疫力的幼兒。
9. 40%的感染者將無症狀。
10. 快速檢測對有症狀者50-80%敏感,對無症狀者僅30-60%敏感。追蹤接觸者是毫無價值的,因為我們都將被感染,我們不可能跟上它的傳播速度。
11. 我們正在與COVID進行最後一場戰爭,應該回歸正常生活,但社會還沒有完全做好準備。
12. 除非你免疫功能低下或85歲以上,否則沒有必要遠離工作或隱居在家,但建議在接下來的六周內遠離大型聚會。
13. 春末/夏初情況將會變好!”
同時,這一傳言的英文版本也在推特、Facebook等平台廣泛傳播”
MGH的聲明。
孩子們上學不知道算不算大型聚會。請想象一下,坐校車,吃午餐,上課,,,
昨天NPR裏聽到費城一位兒科醫院頭兒說,孩子在家裏比在學校有更多機會被感染。我想他這話應該有依據吧。不知道美國孩子在家都幹嘛了。
I'm not an epidemiologist so not in the business of predicting when the surge will peak. But I think its important to keep in mind that these predictions that the surge will peak in a week are predictions based on experiences in other countries like South Africa. And the United States is not South Africa, there are many other variables.
Some of the hospitalizations are people coming in for other reasons who also happen to have COVID with mild symptoms or no symptoms. However, there are still plenty of people coming to the hospital because of COVID and it is still massively straining the hospital in terms of beds and staff. And if the surge isn't going to peak for another week, at the rate of increases in cases, hospitals will not be able to keep up.
I think its irresponsible to say that COVID will become like the other coronaviruses. It may mutate to cause less symptoms and be less serious, but there's just as much possibility for it to mutate to become more serious.
I hope his optimism becomes reality and we can return to some kind of new normal. But I think its far too premature to make such statements, and honestly, irresponsible. Because if the pandemic doesn't slow down, people may take what he says and drop their precautions like masks and avoiding large gatherings and cause more outbreaks.