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Does nitric oxide nasal spray (Enovid/VirX/FabiSpray) help prevent or treat COVID-19?
*This post was updated on Aug 21, 2023 to clarify that we don’t yet know impact on symptoms or disease severity Read more below about what we do and don’t know about this nitric oxide nasal spray. What is it? Enovid, also sold as VirX or FabiSpray, is a nasal spray that may help prevent or treat COVID-19. This product has a proprietary formulation that creates nitric oxide when the spray is released from the bottle.
Pulumi Insights: Intelligence for Cloud Infrastructure
We’ve seen incredible acceleration of cloud adoption over the past 5 years. Pulumi’s flagship open source IaC solution gives engineers great tools to scale up their cloud infrastructure using the same programming languages and tools they already know and love. As a result, thousands of companies of every size and scale have adopted Pulumi as a lynchpin of their cloud infrastructure strategy.
Do masks work?
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD Yes. Despite a recent high-profile review, high quality masks DO reduce transmission of COVID-19 (and other respiratory viruses). A recent Cochrane review grabbed headlines for concluding there was “insufficient” evidence that masks are effective in reducing respiratory illness. Several good articles have outlined the limitations of this review. Read the links below for detailed critiques, but we sum up a few key points: Apples & Oranges.
Are we over-counting Covid deaths?
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD No. Sadly, we are most likely still UNDER-counting Covid-19 deaths. Among the most persistent COVID-19 myths is the idea that COVID-19 deaths are being over-counted, which recently resurfaced in a Washington Post editorial. We’ve all heard stories of COVID positive motorcycle accident victims being counted or the saying that people are dying *with* COVID-19 rather than *of* COVID-19.
How can I stay safe during the holidays?
As we approach the festive season how can we enjoy precious moments with family and friends while lowering the risk of illness? Small steps you take to reduce risk are worthwhile. A little bit better…is a little bit better. And the prevention steps that work for COVID will reduce the risk of RSV, flu, and many other nasty viruses. Top Nerdy Girl Holiday tips: Start being more cautious *today* to lower the chances of being sick on Christmas Day.
Is this bad RSV and flu season due to an “immunity debt?”
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD A: Yes and No. But the term itself is proving confusing and unhelpful. TL;DR: There is no “immunity debt” for individuals. We don’t need to get infected to protect us from…. getting infected. The fewer pathogen exposures over a lifetime, the better. (Just ask previous generations who suffered through measles, cholera, polio, smallpox, etc). For kids to develop a healthy immune system, they need exposure to “friendly” microbes in the natural environment (e.g. dirt).
Can IUDs be used as emergency contraception?
IUD’s will not remove a fertilized egg that is already attached to the uterus. In other words, they DO NOT terminate an existing pregnancy. ❓Where can I get an IUD for emergency contraception? Gynecologists, family planning clinics, and many family medicine and pediatric clinics are able to place IUDs. Time is of the essence when it comes to emergency contraception, so you’ll need to get an appointment very quickly.
Where do new variants come from?
Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4, BA.5… while we’re all getting lost in an alphanumeric soup, it’s important to understand why we continue to see new variants. Some have speculated vaccines are to blame, arguing that vaccination itself drives the development of variants. Is this true? Vaccinations do not produce new variants. Thankfully, no. Variants are not a sign of something nefarious, nor are they the product of vaccination.
Pulumi YAML: A Simple Declarative Interface for Pulumi
Since we first launched Pulumi 4 years ago, a core point of differentiation between Pulumi and other Infrastructure as Code offerings has been the ability to use popular general purpose programming languages - and their rich software engineering ecosystems - in order to scale up the complexity and richness of cloud infrastructure workloads.
Pulumi Universal IaC: New Support For Java, YAML and AWS CDK
Over the last year since the launch of Pulumi 3.0, we’ve seen incredible growth in adoption and usage of the Pulumi open source project and Cloud Engineering platform, with more than a thousand new open source contributors, tens of thousands of new users, and millions of new cloud infrastructure resources being managed by Pulumi.
Introducing AWS CDK on Pulumi
One of our key goals with Pulumi’s Universal Infrastructure as Code platform is to offer access to the widest range of cloud infrastructure building blocks for use within your cloud engineering projects. Over the years, that has led us to support interoperating seamlessly with a variety of alternative infrastructure definition formats, like Helm, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager and Kubernetes YAML.
Announcing the Pulumi AWS Native Provider, Powered by the AWS Cloud Control API
Posted on Thursday, Sep 30, 2021 Luke Hoban We are excited to announce the release of the new AWS Native provider for Pulumi, which is available today in preview. AWS is the most-used cloud provider across the Pulumi ecosystem, and with the new AWS Native provider, we are focused on delivering the best possible support for the AWS platform to all Pulumi users.
Announcing Pulumi 3.0
Luke Hoban Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Pulumi 3.0, the next major version of the Pulumi open source project, and the foundation for Pulumi’s Cloud Engineering Platform. Pulumi offers the most complete infrastructure as code platform for building, deploying and managing modern cloud infrastructure and applications.
Announcing New Pulumi Open Source Projects for Kubernetes
Luke Hoban Today, we’re excited to announce several new open source projects that advance Pulumi’s Kubernetes support. These projects and features have been developed while helping leading cloud native engineering teams like Snowflake, Lemonade, and Mercedes-Benz go into production with Kubernetes, and include new deployment automation options, improved ecosystem integrations, and tools to make it easier than ever to adopt Pulumi for new and existing projects.
Programming the Cloud: Empowering Developers to Do Infrastructure
Transcript Hoban: My name is Luke Hoban, and today I'm going to be talking about programming the cloud. When I talk about programming the cloud, what I really mean is taking advantage of all these amazing building block services that we have in the cloud providers today.
Programming the Cloud with TypeScript
Transcript Hoban: Today I'm going to be talking about "Programming the Cloud with TypeScript." I'll go into detail on all the parts of that, but first I want to talk a little bit about why I am in particular interested in this intersection of programming languages and developer tools on the one side, and cloud, a deployment on the other side.
Introducing Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS: The Easiest Way to AWS
Tweet Amazon Web Services provides an incredible platform for developers to build cloud-native applications, and is used by millions of customers of all sizes. The building block services that AWS offers enable teams to offload undifferentiated heavy-lifting to AWS. To maximally benefit from these services though, cloud engineering teams must learn how to compose all of these building blocks together to build and deliver their own applications. Today, this is still too hard.
Pulumi ❤️ Google Cloud Platform
Tweet Google Cloud is one of the most exciting cloud platforms available today, with a breadth of powerful infrastructure services from Google Container Engine (GKE) and Google Cloud Functions to Cloud Firestore and Cloud Spanner. Pulumi is the most productive tooling available today for teams building cloud applications and infrastructure, in your favorite languages.
The fastest path to deploying Kubernetes on AWS with EKS and Pulumi
Tweet Provisioning, managing, and monitoring a Kubernetes cluster is no mean feat. We wanted to be able to provide the fastest path to getting a cluster provisioned and ready for apps, so we built the @pulumi\eks package to help do just that. Installing Amazon EKS with Pulumi To get started, sign up at pulumi.com and download the Pulumi Command Line Interface (CLI). The Pulumi CLI requires AWS credentials to access your AWS account and provision resources.
Pulumi + Epsagon: Define, Deploy and Monitor Serverless Applications
Pulumi makes it incredibly easy to use serverless functions within your cloud infrastructure and applications - an AWS Lambda is as simple as writing a JavaScript lambda! const bucket = new aws.s3.Bucket("my-bucket"); bucket.onObjectCreated("onNewObject", async (ev) => console.log(ev)); By making it so easy to introduce serverless functions into cloud infrastructure, Pulumi programs often incorporate many Lambdas, all wired together as part of a larger set of infrastructure and application code.
United States WNT Rolls Past Japan to Win Women's World Cup
The United States defeated Japan 5-2 in the final of the Women’s World Cup to win their third title. The win, which was highlighted by an early hat-trick by captain Carli Lloyd, earned the US revenge for a loss in penalties against Japan in the final of the 2011 tournament. Coupled with wins in 1991 and ‘99, the US becomes the first nation to win three Women’s World Cups. The goals came thick and fast for the Americans.
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