Day 138 of the COVID-19 crisis, Wednesday, July 15th, 2020

Strengthen your lungs with this simple, effective exercise. 


Just do it!

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tee hee, I love this quarantine Swan Lake

Swan Lake Bath Ballet - 27 elite ballet dancers from companies across the globe perform a modern-day Swan Lake from their own home (filled) baths. Remotely directed by @CoreyBakerDance from his UK bathroom.
#FilmedInLockdown #CultureInQuarantine @ace_national @thespacearts pic.twitter.com/uzXReJtbRD

— BBC Arts (@bbcarts) July 8, 2020

And more simple lung expanding exercises here.

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Pathologist found blood clots in ‘almost every organ’ during autopsies on COVID-19 patients

Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as “dramatic” by Rapkiewicz.

In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting “in lines and various large vessels,” she said.

“What we saw at autopsy was sort of an extension of that,” she said. “The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels.

“And this was dramatic, because though we might have expected it in the lungs, we found it in almost every organ that we looked at in our autopsy study,” she said. Rapkiewicz’s study outlining her findings was published at the end of June in The Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine.

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Baby Was Infected With Coronavirus in Womb, Study Reports

Researchers said the case strongly suggests that Covid-19 can be transmitted in utero. 

A baby born in a Paris hospital in March to a mother with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus and developed symptoms of inflammation in his brain, said Dr. Daniele De Luca, who led the research team and is chief of the division of pediatrics and neonatal critical care at Paris-Saclay University Hospitals. The baby, now more than 3 months old, recovered without treatment and is “very much improved, almost clinically normal,” Dr. De Luca said, adding that the mother, who needed oxygen during the delivery, is healthy.

Dr. De Luca said the virus appeared to have been transmitted through the placenta of the 23-year-old mother.

Covid-19 Risk Doesn’t Depend (Much) on Blood Type, New Studies Find

New studies show that people with Type A blood are not at greater risk of getting sick, as previous studies had suggested.

Two studies — one at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the other at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York — did not find that Type A blood increases the odds that people will be infected with Covid-19.

The new reports do find evidence that people with Type O blood may be slightly less likely to be infected. But the effect is so small that people shouldn’t count on it. “No one should think they’re protected,” said Nicholas Tatonetti, a data scientist at Columbia University.