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A new study from China showed that antibodies faded quickly in both asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19 patients during convalescence, raising questions about whether the illness leads to any lasting immunity to the virus afterward. The study, which focused on 37 asymptomatic and 37 symptomatic patients, showed that more than 90% of both groups showed steep declines in levels of SARS-COV-2–specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies within 2 to 3 months after onset of infection, according to a report published yesterday in Nature Medicine. Further, 40% of the asymptomatic group tested negative for IgG antibodies 8 weeks after they were released from isolation.

The authors said the findings suggest that it could be risky to assume that recovered patients are immune to reinfection, which may have implications for how long to maintain physical distancing restrictions.

The patients included in the study were among 2,088 people who were tested for COVID-19 because they were close contacts of confirmed patients in China’s Wanzhou district. Of those who tested positive, 60 had had no symptoms in the preceding 2 weeks but were hospitalized for isolation. Of those, 23 people who had mild symptoms on admission or soon afterward were excluded from the study, leaving 37. For a control group, the investigators identified 37 mildly symptomatic COVID-19 patients matched with the asymptomatic group by age, sex, and comorbidity. For additional comparisons, they also selected 37 sex- and age-matched persons who tested negative. The median age of asymptomatic patients was 41, and 22 were female. Among the main findings was that IgG levels in 93% (28/30) of the asymptomatic group and 97% (30/31) of the symptomatic group declined greatly during the early convalescent phase (by 8 weeks after release from the hospital). Antibody levels dropped by 71.1% in asymptomatic patients and 76.2% in the symptomatic group. “Moreover, 40.0% (12/30) of asymptomatic individuals, but only 12.9% (4/31) of symptomatic individuals, became seronegative for IgG” during that time, the report says. The researchers also found declines in specific neutralizing antibodies (antibodies that can neutralize a pathogen on their own, without help from other elements of the immune system), but the declines were not nearly as large as with IgG. Decreases in the neutralizing antibodies were seen in 81% (30/37) of the asymptomatic group and 62% (23/37) of the symptomatic group. The median decreases in antibody level were 8.3% in the asymptomatic group and 11.7% in the symptomatic patients. The report also notes that IgG levels were significantly higher in the symptomatic patients than the asymptomatic ones in both the acute and convalescent phases of infection. In other findings, the researchers said the asymptomatic patients shed the virus significantly longer than the symptomatic patients—a median of 19 days versus 14 days. But they cautioned that detectable viral shedding does not necessarily mean that the viral particles shed were infectious. The investigators also measured the levels of a number of cytokines and chemokines in the patients and concluded that “the asymptomatic individuals had a reduced inflammatory response characterized by low circulating concentrations of cytokines and chemokines.” The authors observe that their findings contrast with what’s known about the duration of antibodies to two other key coronaviruses, SARS-CoV, which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). Previous findings indicate that antibodies to those viruses last at least a year and often longer, they said. In combination with certain previous findings on COVID-19 antibodies, the researchers concluded that their results “might indicate the risks of using COVID-19 ‘immunity passports’ and support the prolongation of public health interventions, including social distancing, hygiene, isolation of high-risk groups and widespread testing.” The study did not address cellular immunity to COVID-19—that is, immune responses involving T-cells rather than antibodies. Some previous studies have found SARS-CoV–specific T-cells in high percentages of convalescent COVID-19 patients.  Nick Note: You can throw that heard immunity bullshit out the window. You world ad my world has changed forever. Well not so much my world. I’am a hermit and have distanced myself as much as I can from my fellow man. At least the assholes!

The World Health Organization sent out a fresh warning on Monday over the dangers of the new coronavirus even as France returned to life by staging an annual music festival and sending millions of children back to school.  In spite of numerous European countries further easing their lockdown restrictions, cases around the world are rising especially in Latin America with Brazil now registering over 50,000 deaths. There are also fears of a second wave with Australians being warned against travelling to Melbourne.  “The pandemic is still accelerating,” WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the virtual health forum organised by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.  “We know that the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it is an economic crisis, a social crisis and in many countries a political crisis.  “Its effects will be felt for decades to come.”

Ghebreyesus said the greatest threat facing the world is not the virus itself, which has now killed over 465,000 people and infected nearly nine million worldwide, but “the lack of global solidarity and global leadership”. 

“We cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world,” he said. “The politicisation of the pandemic has exacerbated it.” Brazil falls into that bracket with President Jair Bolsonaro comparing the virus to a “little flu” and arguing that the economic impact of shutdowns is often worse than the virus itself. Brazil is the second worst-affected country behind the United States, another country where political infighting has prevented a unified policy to handle the virus.  The spread of COVID-19 is accelerating across Latin America, with Mexico, Peru and Chile also hard-hit as death tolls soar and healthcare facilities are pushed toward collapse. Mexico City has delayed reopening markets, restaurants, malls, hotels and places of worship, with the country now recording over 20,000 COVID-19 deaths. Highlighting the region’s woes, Peru passed 8,000 deaths on Sunday despite preparing to reopen shopping malls on Monday. Fears remain, however, that the virus, may be on its way back even as countries where infections have ebbed lift their lockdowns to restart battered economies. Australians were warned Monday to avoid travelling to Melbourne, as the country’s second biggest city tightened restrictions over fears of a second wave. Victoria state has recorded more than 110 cases in the past week — many of them in Melbourne — prompting leaders of other regions to warn against visiting the city’s six designated virus “hot spots”. China, Germany and Japan are also battling new outbreaks with some reintroducing containment measures. Kyrgyzstan also reported a significant rise in coronavirus cases on Monday, less than a month after the Central Asian nation’s government lifted restrictions in key cities. The spike in infections increased nervousness in the business world as markets mostly fell on Monday. After enjoying a broadly positive week, with equities rallying from their March trough, traders turned cautious on news of a worrying jump in fresh cases in several US states including California, Texas and Florida.  Nick Note: Your (hahahaha) leaders and maybe even you are not taking this seriously enough. If your flying your dying. If your going to sporting events you will be ventilated, If you eating in restaurants your cheating. If your shopping in stores you will be dropping dead. Their is NO cure their is No vaccine. And their will NEVER be one!

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A separate campaign source said Trump also “has every right to be pissed” over the turnout in Tulsa.

“They gave adversaries and media a gift. It was overconfidence,” the source said of Parscale and other campaign staffers close to the planning of the event. Campaign officials should rethink the idea of holding rallies inside arenas and begin contemplating more open-air venues like aircraft hangars, the source continued. Donors and friends of the President also have been fuming Sunday in the wake of Trump’s poorly-attended rally, a person involved with the reelection effort told CNN.

The person said blame from this camp has focused squarely on Parscale, of whom some had already been skeptical. But some donors and allies feel the rally debacle — in which the campaign made a decision to inflate expectations about enthusiasm for the rally rather than manage them at a reasonable level — threw into sharp relief the existing management problems on the campaign, the person said. “What happened last night is representative of a much bigger problem,” the person noted. As CNN has reported, some Republicans working with the campaign had grown concerned that the reelection team has not adapted quickly enough to the shifting political landscape ahead of November — with the global pandemic and national movement for racial justice continuing to tilt the race away from the one campaign aides were initially planning to run.

In the hours following the rally, Parscale took to Twitter to blame the poor turnout on a myriad of factors — such as the media, protests and blocked security gates. He also pushed back on the suggestion that a coordinated effort encouraging people to register online and not show up in the days leading up to the rally could have played a role in turnout. Another campaign adviser summed up the evening by saying “it went poorly.” Parscale was already under pressure inside the Trump campaign, the adviser said, as the President has occasionally expressed disappointment in his performance over the last several weeks.

Parscale is facing a “decline of confidence,” from Trump’s inner circle, the adviser added. “Kellyanne (Conway), (Paul) Manafort and Corey (Lewandowski) never had rally size issues,” the adviser said of Trump’s former campaign managers. Nick Note: Trump really fucked up big time. He was ahead and now if he does not play how great i am i discover a vaccines and a cure card he is toast!

Inside the campaign, advisers believe disappointing attendance at the rally shows genuine fear of the coronavirus and the reality of Mr. Trump’s sliding poll numbers. President Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty Bank of Oklahoma Center in horror. Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had canceled plans at the last minute to speak at an outdoor overflow rally that was almost entirely empty, despite claims of nearly one million people registering for tickets to attend the event in Tulsa, Okla., and the president’s false boast of never having an empty seat at one of his events.

The president, who had been warned aboard Air Force One that the crowds at the arena were smaller than expected, was stunned, and he yelled at aides backstage while looking at the endless rows of empty blue seats in the upper bowl of the stadium, according to four people familiar with what took place. Brad Parscale, the campaign manager who had put the event together, was not present.

Mr. Pence spoke just after 6:30 p.m. in Tulsa and then left, the cue for Mr. Trump to come on. But there was a delay. Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, peeked out from behind black curtains to scan the fan-free seats in the top rows. Mr. Trump eventually entered the arena for a meandering performance in which he excoriated the “fake news” for reporting on health concerns before his event, used racist language to describe the coronavirus as the “Kung Flu” and spent more than 15 minutes explaining away an unflattering video clip of him gingerly descending a ramp after his commencement speech at West Point. By the end of the rally, Mr. Trump’s mood had improved, advisers said. But after he left the stage, the fight seemed to have left him, at least temporarily. Leaving the arena, he wasn’t yelling. Instead, he was mostly muted. When he landed back at the White House and walked off Marine One, his tie hung untied around his neck. He waved to reporters, with a defeated expression on his face, holding a crumpled red campaign hat in one hand. Exactly what went wrong was still being dissected on Sunday. But a broad group of advisers and associates acknowledged to one another that Mr. Trump had not been able to will public opinion away from fears about the spread of the coronavirus in an indoor space. And they conceded that myriad polls showing Mr. Trump’s eroded standing were not fake, and that he might be on course to lose to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in November.Jared Kushner, the president’s senior  adviser and son-in-law who serves as the de facto campaign manager, and who was involved in the decision to choose Tulsa as the host city, was not among the group of advisers with the president at the event. But he will be among those to whom the president turns to figure out what rallies look like going forward. Nick Note: any way you slice and dice and dissect it this is a disaster. Beware of the wounded lion. Trump will launch the nuclear option. THE (phony baloney) Vaccine that people will be forced to take. He will evoke more emergency powers as the virus in coming months spins out of control. Protect yourself and trade accordingly! If you clueless in Cleveland its OK ill show you how.

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump isn’t “fit for office” and lacks the “competence” to serve as president in part because he’s solely focused on his political fortunes, former national security adviser John Bolton said. Bolton’s comments in an interview with ABC News come as he’s promoting his tell-all memoir, which delivers withering criticism of Trump’s leadership from one of his former top advisers. The president has attempted to discredit Bolton, tweeting early Thursday that his book is “made up of lies & fake stories.” “I don’t think he’s fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job,” Bolton said of Trump in a portion of the ABC interview that aired Thursday. Bolton’s memoir, titled “The Room Where It Happened,” paints Trump as woefully uninformed and describes a series of troubling encounters with foreign leaders, which Bolton said proved the president was consumed with his political standing above all else.  The former top security aide alleges that Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win re-election by buying more U.S. farm products, one of many examples that Bolton says the House could have investigated in its impeachment probe. “There really isn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s re-election,” Bolton said. “He was so focused on the re-election that longer-term considerations fell by the wayside.” The book is poised to further hamper Trump’s re-election campaign, which has already been hurt by the president’s handling of mass demonstrations against police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic. Trump mounted his defense late Wednesday, accusing Bolton of breaking the law by trying to publish the book, which the president said contains classified information. Earlier in the day, the Justice Department sought an emergency restraining order to block its publication, scheduled for June 23. “He broke the law, very simple. As much as it’s going to be broken,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview on Wednesday night. “This is highly classified.” In a separate interview on Wednesday with the Wall Street Journal, Trump defended his handling of China and other nations while dismissing several of Bolton’s allegations as coming from a “crazy” person and a “liar.” Trump referred to Bolton as a “wacko” in his Thursday tweet, and argued the book is contradicted by his past praise for Trump. “Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him. A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!” the president tweeted. He called the book “a compilation of lies and made up stories.” Bolton writes that Trump gave Xi his blessing during last year’s Group of 20 summit to China’s detention camps for Uighur Muslims, an example of how the former national security adviser said the president valued a trade deal with China at the expense of human rights and the U.S.’s national interest. “That’s not true,” Trump said of Bolton’s description of his conversation with Xi in the Journal interview. Trump pointed out that he signed legislation on Wednesday that could lead to sanctions against China over the camps. The signing was announced soon after excerpts of Bolton’s book were published by news outlets on Wednesday. “I could have killed that very easily,” Trump said of the measure. But the president didn’t deny Bolton’s claim that he wanted to lift penalties on major Chinese companies in order to curry favor with Xi during talks over the phase one trade agreement. Bolton writes that he and other advisers persuaded Trump to reimpose a ban on Huawei Technologies Co. from doing business with U.S. companies, after Trump offered to reverse criminal prosecutions against the company. “Nobody has ever been so tough on a company as I have to Huawei,” Trump said. Trump also said ZTE Corp. was hit with a $1.3 billion penalty as well as changes to its board, even though he pulled back on harsher punishments over allegations it violated U.S. sanctions on Iran and North Korea. “ZTE was my deal,” Trump said. “It was an unbelievable deal.” Bolton also said many of Trump’s top advisers viewed the president with disdain, including Michael Pompeo, whom Bolton said considered resigning as secretary of state. Bolton writes that during one meeting, Pompeo passed him a note that said of the president: “he is so full of s–,” according to the Journal. Trump said he has a “very good relationship” with Pompeo and disputed Bolton’s account. “I would doubt that,” Trump told the Journal. “Does he have the note? Let me see the note.” Bolton said Trump’s desire to place his personal interests ahead of the country’s extended to his dealings with other world leaders, including North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. A longtime North Korea hawk, Bolton hammered Trump over his decision to meet Kim last June in the Korean demilitarized zone before Pyongyang had taken significant steps to dismantle its nuclear program. “So if he thought he could get a photo opportunity with Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone in Korea, there was considerable emphasis on the photo opportunity and the press reaction to it and little or no focus on what such meetings did for the bargaining position of the United States,” Bolton told ABC. Nick Note: I agree with Bolton 1000%