Southern Islands Hospital School of Nursing (SIHSN) Grand Reunion 2019

 SIHSN Grand Reunion 2019

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/D8Hh7yR_aG4

Thank you SIHSN great Mentors and Organizers.

Thank Eljay Borrz for sharing your time and talent - this heart touching film.

Thank you Thea for coming and spending time with us.

Thank you Zena and your daughter for my beautiful make up.

Thank you for my families for your support.

I am grateful for all you do!!!

COVID-19 Vaccine

 Re-written as is from the Sources that might interest you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483 I believe this positively right and correct. At first, I just saw this as an ordinary paper at the desk top of the Allergy clinic where I work, which I just ignore to pick up nor read the whole info for we are busy preparing to start the clinic. Then our Allergy Chief, our best friend, an awarded researcher, remarkable MD immunologist and Chief Professor at Baylor Medical College, gave this paper to me and said he wrote this info to share to clients. Then I read and it is the first simple positive scientific explanation that make me more brave to fill up the online data to take the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 Vaccination Messenger RNA, abbreviated mRNA, is a sequence of genetic units that encode the information needed by cells to make proteins; mRNA strands resemble the strings of letters emitted by a labeling machine. The letters in mRNA, called bases, are read out one by one in tiny factories inside cells called polyribosomes. These bases, strung along in strands of mRNA, dictate the amino acids that are linked together in sequence to make specific proteins. Living cells have been doing this for eons. Scientists have been working for over 30 years to do this in a laboratory. The mRNA vaccines, developed by the pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Moderna, to protect against the virus that causes Covid-19 represents a culmination of this long research endeavor. The federal government funded “Operation Warp-Speed”, was designed to pay for production and full evaluation of vaccines to protect against the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus by end of 2020. It’s important to understand that “Operation Warp-Speed” simply enabled drug companies to use the basic research accumulated over the past 30 years to manufacture these novel vaccines. Yes, they are new but every bit of the science that’s gone into making has been checked and rechecked. The resulting vaccines have been tested carefully executed double blind clinical studies to establish their safety, over 90% effectiveness in protecting against community spread SARS-Cov-2 and nearly 100% effectiveness in preventing severe COVID-19 that requires intensive care unit-level care. So how do these vaccines work? First of all, it’s important to that mRNA is fragile and unstable. To stabilize it, the mRNA in vaccines is suspended in special lipids, fatty substances, that help it survive packaging, freezing, thawing and finally, injection into a vaccine recipient’s arm. When the mRNA is injected into muscle cells, it’s taken up by these cell’s polyribosomes which then produce a critical protien of the coronavirus. What protein? The protien and only that protien that allows the virus to attach to and enter people’s cells. The genetic information for parts of the virus that can cause disease are excluded. The lipids that protect the mRNA have an important secondary role. They stimulate inflammation, which we recognize as soreness, warmth and redness at the site of injection. At the level of the injected cells, inflammation calls cells of the immune system, most importantly a cell known as a dentrites cell to the site of injection. These cells take up the virus protiens being made by the muscles cells and carry them to lymph nodes. Lymp nodes are the factories of the immune system where antibodies and specialized lymphocytes, called T cells are made under instruction of the dendritic cells. Antibodies stimulated by these vaccines prevent the virus from invading our cells; killer T cells destroy those few cells invaded by viruses that fail to be coated by antibodies. How long will the vaccine protect? We don’t know yet because the vaccine is so new. But immune response system typically generates memory cells. These long-lived cells continue to make specific immune responses for a long time. While it’s currently too early to tell, scientists think that COVID-19 vaccines may actually provide better and longer-lived protection against disease than the actual infection.

RNA vaccine - Wikipedia

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