RIP, Colin Powell
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"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family wrote on Facebook.
"We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American," they said, noting he was fully vaccinated.
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Damn.
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From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. â Mike Ditka
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Wow, he looked young for his age. I thought he looked to be in his late 40's when he was serving under Bush.
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From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
@catseye3 said in RIP, Colin Powell:
From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Yet people will still point to this as a breakthrough case, positing that the vaccine doesn't work.
âI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.â ~Winston S. Churchill
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-021-01354-7
Thus, most MM patients have impaired responses to mRNA vaccination against COVID-19, and specific clinical and myeloma-related characteristics predict vaccine responsiveness.
Oh, and Parkinson's.
Add Parkinsonâs disease to the list of health conditions that increase a personâs risk of hospitalization after contracting COVID-19, according to research from the Hartford HealthCare Chase Family Movement Disorders Center (CFMDC).
A team of researchers led by CFMDC Medical Director Dr. Joy Antonelle de Marcaida also found that patients with Parkinsonâs and other movement disorders are more likely to have more severe outcomes than the general population if they get COVID-19, especially if they have concomitant dementia.
âWhile the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our work, our personal lives, our society . . . we had questions and concerns as to how this disease specifically affects the patients we care for,â said Dr. Jeffrey Lahrmann of CFMDC, part of Hartford HealthCareâs Ayer Neuroscience Institute.
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@catseye3 said in RIP, Colin Powell:
From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Yet people will still point to this as a breakthrough case, positing that the vaccine doesn't work.
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@catseye3 said in RIP, Colin Powell:
From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Yet people will still point to this as a breakthrough case, positing that the vaccine doesn't work.
@mik said in RIP, Colin Powell:
@catseye3 said in RIP, Colin Powell:
From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Yet people will still point to this as a breakthrough case, positing that the vaccine doesn't work.
What I've seen are people posting that this proves how important the boosters are... Though, as @bachophile noted, he could have been getting boosters every day and it would;dn't have helped.
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@mik said in RIP, Colin Powell:
@catseye3 said in RIP, Colin Powell:
From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Yet people will still point to this as a breakthrough case, positing that the vaccine doesn't work.
What I've seen are people posting that this proves how important the boosters are... Though, as @bachophile noted, he could have been getting boosters every day and it would;dn't have helped.
@lufins-dad said in RIP, Colin Powell:
@mik said in RIP, Colin Powell:
@catseye3 said in RIP, Colin Powell:
From CDC: "Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that protect us from infection. In myeloma, the cells grow too much, crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow that make red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells."
Makes sense, in this case.
Yet people will still point to this as a breakthrough case, positing that the vaccine doesn't work.
What I've seen are people posting that this proves how important the boosters are... Though, as @bachophile noted, he could have been getting boosters every day and it would;dn't have helped.
Not everyone has the health issues that he had.
Please love yourself.
