The ongoing decline of Portland continues:
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Homeless encampment has Portland residents begging for help, scared to go outside
- Gov. Kotek wants to uglify Portland will tiny box houses.
- Crime is destroying the Parkrose neighborhood.
- Portland is a lawless hellscape. 'You can't run a business when people are pooping on your front porch,' she told DailyMail.com. 'Nor when they're doing drugs in your doorway. 'You can't do business when patrons feel unsafe coming onto your property. It's not possible.'
- Left-wing DA refuses to prosecute assaults against public transit drivers.
- WTF? Mass transit delays because buses need to have time to air out fentanyl smoke.
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Downtown Crowne Plaza hotel may turn into a homeless shelter.
Amazing: Tulare Lake is back. The heavy rains in California allowed it to reappear.
OHSU has an outpatient remdesivir clinic to treat people with moderate COVID-19 infection. This is probably the best we can do at this point. Paxlovid (nirmaltrevir/ritonavir) has many drug interactions that make it unsuitable, and molnupiravir did not seem to convey benefit in terms of death or hospitalizations in vaccinated individuals. That said, a Cochrane meta-analysis showed the limitations of benefit with remdesivir. It is likely to be of most benefit if someone is ill enough to require oxygen, but no benefit was seen in another meta-analysis of those who needed mechanical ventilation, or those who had mild enough disease not to require supplemental oxygen. Interestingly, the benefits were best seen in studies where there was a low concomitant usage of systemic corticosteroids (ACTT-1 and Spinner et al). Perhaps this is an antagonistic factor?
I keep seeing these headlines saying that "Biden's approval is the lowest of his presidency", and it's always around 38%. Sheesh.
This newly-discovered aperiodic tiling that never repeats would make a cool bathroom floor tile in a mathematician's house.
