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Chinese researchers might be collecting data, now that the initial chaos is Wuhan has been addressed. “Some of the reasons for the lack of autopsies and biopsie
by pdm55 7y ago
Chinese researchers might be collecting data, now that the initial chaos is Wuhan has been addressed. “Some of the reasons for the lack of autopsies and biopsies include the suddenness of the outbreak, the vast patient volume in hospitals, shortage of healthcare personnel, and the high rate of transmission, which makes invasive diagnostic procedures less of a clinical priority.”
https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-examined-in-lung-tissue-of-symptomless-patients/ https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-...
The Italians are obviously overwhelmed:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-h...
The Germans would be my best guess for methodical data collection
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-of-coronavirus-study-finds-but-most-are-likely-not-infectious-after-recovery-begins/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-...
But the South Koreans have done the most tests of their population.
Dennis Carroll points out that addressing the COVID-19 disease requires international cooperation:
nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming
One guy has been collecting lots of resources, including journal articles:
https://virus.travel/cs https://virus.travel/cs
- pdm55 7y agoUK Gov advice to "Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms ... testing is not needed" is another reason for the paucity of data. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
- oriettaxx 7y agoyes, http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p... is a very good read, and it is actually what woke up my (mostly forgotten) background in statistics