Keep Calm and Trust the Science: An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist by Luke O'Neill

Author:Luke O'Neill [O'Neill, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, General, Medical, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Immunology, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences, biology
ISBN: 9780717191826
Google: 7LlHEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Gill
Published: 2021-10-29T20:59:00+00:00

MONDAY 7 SEPTEMBER

Just how many people has COVID-19 killed? It’s so hard to get an accurate number. And excess deaths are complicated, as people might not be dying from, say, flu, but might be dying of cancer because of a lack of treatment. Worldwide, the number of deaths from COVID-19 is 413,000. But Russians have reported a strong antibody response for Sputnik V.

Big call with our Belgian collaborators today. We went through their data. Itaconate does seem to be protecting the lungs of the infected hamsters. One experiment, but hopeful. The only trouble now is that Laurens, the scientist there who did the work, is moving on to a new job so it might be tricky to get someone else to repeat it. We may need other options. Reminds me of a couple of months back when I was approached by immunologists in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who said I was welcome to come over anytime to do experiments there. They have been given loads of funding and they are ‘hoovering up talent’, to quote. The analogy they used was the US recruiting rocket scientists from Germany in World War Two.

I may well take them up on their offer. The key thing is for us to make progress in our research, so I might send some of the team over. We’ll see. It’s better if they did experiments for us, as it would take time to train up the people from my lab over there. Sometimes research can be about tactics and interpersonal relationships as much as anything else.

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