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Coronavirus : Update 22 from the Epicenter

OK, so the results are in on the world’s clinical trial testing the effectiveness of vitamin D3 on the outcome of Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital. The study, “Effect of Calcifediol Treatment and best Available Therapy versus best Available Therapy on Intensive Care Unit Admission and Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Pilot Randomized Clinical study,” was published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on 29 August The trial involved only a small number (76) of consecutively admitted patients), however the procedures utilized were robust. Although this was…read more

Caterham Roadtrip!

Posted by alastair in Uncategorized

An epic journey from Atlanta, Georgia to Genova, Italy – by way of Paris, London, Dover, Reims, Champagne, Lyon, Sansicario, and Asti. 7,500 km flying 100 km in trains 1,486 km driving The mission – to bring my little Caterham 7 140 Roadsport from Sevens & Classics at Brands Hatch in the UK, home to Genova, Italy. I started the journey after a trip for work to the US. Thursday was a digitalisation workshop with 24 executives at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, followed by a couple of hours…read more

Oct.31

Welcome

Posted by alastair in Uncategorized

Did you ever read an article, watch a TV show or hear a story from a wise-woman and think “I’ll have to remember that”, only to promptly forget it? I do it all the time, and so I thought I’d start to document these snippets of shiny goldy colored information, if only to remind myself what a crappy memory I’m got… You can follow along if you’re interested. Much of what I write will be from other online sources, but I hope to mix it with original material.

Feb.23