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Daily Bread for 4.24.20

Good morning.

Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of fifty-three.  Sunrise is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:48 PM, for 13h 51m 56s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

Today is the one thousand two hundred sixty-third day.

 On this day in 1977, the Morris Pratt Institute moves from Whitewater to Waukesha.

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Allyson Chiu and Katie Shepherd report Trump asked if disinfectants could be injected to kill coronavirus inside the body. Doctors answered: ‘People will die’:

After a presentation Thursday that touched on the disinfectants that can kill the novel coronaviruson surfaces and in the air, President Trump pondered whether those chemicals could be used to fight the virus inside the human body.

“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute,” Trump said during Thursday’s coronavirus press briefing. “And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets inside the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”

The question, which Trump offered unprompted, immediately spurred doctors to respond with incredulity and warnings against injecting or otherwise ingesting disinfectants, which are highly toxic.

“My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea,” Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, told The Washington Post. “This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous.”

Cara Giaimo reports 5 Rules for Rooming With Lab Animals During Coronavirus:

Last month, the coronavirus pandemic prompted universities and museums around the world to dial down their operations, leaving scientists to make difficult decisions about the animals they work with. While some released or culled their specimens — or set up a visitation schedule — others decided to take theirs home, embarking on a different sort of relationship. We checked in with half a dozen scientists about how they’re making it work with their new roommates in this time of social distancing.

Rule #1: No cockroaches in the common area

As a postdoctoral fellow in a University of California, San Diego, lab that studies small-scale locomotion, Glenna Clifton is used to observing insects quite closely. But since the lab moved to remote work in March, she has forged a new intimacy with some of her research subjects: nine cockroaches that now live about two feet from her bed.

Dr. Clifton wanted to take the roaches home so she could continue working with them. (Plus, her supervisor has a cat with a taste for bugs.) But like many young academics, she shares housing, and her housemates were “a little hesitant,” she said. So she promised she would keep them in her bedroom.

SpaceX previews Demo-2 and Crew-1 launches:

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