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To learn more about coronavirus, treatment and vaccine development from the perspective of doctors in S. Korea, try watching these interviews in order. Each is

To learn more about coronavirus, treatment and vaccine development from the perspective of doctors in S. Korea, try watching these interviews in order. Each is about 30 - 50 min long. I posted the links and the dates they were uploaded. The videos are excellent because the doctors are not interrupted with questions. 1) 2020.03.27 1st interview with Professor Kim, leading expert on coronavirus in Korea. In Korean with excellent English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU 2) 2020.04.14 2nd interview with Professor Kim, leading expert on coronavirus in Korea. In Korean with excellent English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwoNP9QWr4Y&t=1081s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwoNP9QWr4Y&t=1081s 3) 2020.04.25 Interview with the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) about COVID-19 Vaccine. It's in English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYWd0N8nO4&t=120s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYWd0N8nO4&t=120s 4) Note in the interview with Prof Kim uploaded on 2020.04.14, they were still not sure if a recovered patient testing positive again was due to reactivation/reinfection or not. They were still trying to confirm it as of 2020.04.14. But it seems the yna.co.kr article posted on 2020.04.29 confirms recovered coronavirus patients may have tested positive again due to traces of virus fragments that have been inactivated. 5) I'm hoping the Youtube channel will upload another interview with Prof Kim about covid-19 soon.

kragen 6y ago
Interviews with doctors are interesting from a human empathy perspective, but I really want to be reading papers, not watching interviews, and I want the papers to be by epidemiologists, not just doctors.
- dba7dba 6y ago
  Have you watched the 3 interviews? I'm not picking a fight nor judging. Just curious. I called them interviews but really they are like lectures in my opinion. The doctors speak most of the time. I'm not a doctor but I figure doctors are too busy collecting/digesting data to publish quality papers? Especially when new data is being generated at a fast rate? There is an issue of many research papers covering Covid-19 not getting enough peer review before being made available to public and covered by news media. Prof Kim's called this a "Thesis Pandemic", a flood of Covid-19 related research papers being put out by researchers that get covered by new media before they are peer reviewed. And apparently many of the papers are made public by the researchers without enough data to really back up their thesis. Because the virus is so new, there is really not enough data. And the researchers are doing their best to help with finding treatment, but apparently many of the papers are not peer reviewed enough before being picked out by news media to be covered. I did google and found a few reading material below but not sure if it's what you are looking for. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article
  - kragen 6y ago
    No, I haven't, because I don't want to spend my time watching videos; not only are they agonizingly slow, they are also a medium actively hostile to quantitative data and critical analysis, which is perhaps why the news media is so fond of them. (I don't want to pick a fight either, but I sure as hell am judging!) Everything you say is true, except that mostly doctors are not busy collecting data, but rather treating patients. You may have intended to link a different paper; the one you linked is about Gansu in China, not Korea, and does not mention rt-PCR, false positives, viral RNA, or reinfection or recurrence. It does mention "secondary infection" and "secondary cases", but, as it explains, that means people who were infected within the study region by other people ("indigenous"), rather than coming into the region from outside ("imported").
    - dba7dba 6y ago
      1. Googled "Korea University Medicine covid-19 papers" and found below 2 links. Professor Kim in video 1 and 2 is from Korea University. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036368v1.article-info https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036368v... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220301508 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122... 2. Also found below link on cnn.com https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article Yah my quick search didn't return much on papers discussing false positives, viral RNA, or reinfection or recurrence. I'm guessing it's too new for formal papers. I should've said doctors are busy treating patients and researchers are busy collecting data. 3. But I did find below article posted 12 hrs ago https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-patients-infected-twice-test-a9491986.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-so... South Korean expert panel has concluded that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of more than 290 people in the country testing positive after recovery for coronavirus. 4. The 2 videos with subtitles can be consumed fast if you skip forward a few seconds at a time as you can read English subtitles. Commenters also posted helpful summaries so you can get to just the topic you are interested.
- funcDropShadow 6y ago
  Maybe, the following research papers from germany's top expect on Sars-Cov-II are interesting to you: - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x?utm_source... - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0695-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0695-z and his latest article, on Twitter yesterday: https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc05/virologie-ccm/dateien_upload/Weitere_Dateien/analysis-of-SARS-CoV-2-viral-load-by-patient-age.pdf https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites... He is also doing a podcast with already 37 episodes about Covid-19, but it is only available in German. But the German transcripts contain links to articles he discusses. And those are articles he deems good enough to discuss them in public, even though they are often just preprints. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-Die-Podcast-Folgen-als-Skript,podcastcoronavirus102.html https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-Die-P... -
  - kragen 6y ago
    While these three papers are indeed good and valuable, they do not seem to mention Korea or touch on the question of why, and how often, rt-PCR tests continue to return positive after remission of symptoms, and in particular whether these apparently reinfected patients are contagious. I am not sure why you mentioned them.

kragen 6y ago

Interviews with doctors are interesting from a human empathy perspective, but I really want to be reading papers, not watching interviews, and I want the papers to be by epidemiologists, not just doctors.

dba7dba 6y ago
Have you watched the 3 interviews? I'm not picking a fight nor judging. Just curious. I called them interviews but really they are like lectures in my opinion. The doctors speak most of the time. I'm not a doctor but I figure doctors are too busy collecting/digesting data to publish quality papers? Especially when new data is being generated at a fast rate? There is an issue of many research papers covering Covid-19 not getting enough peer review before being made available to public and covered by news media. Prof Kim's called this a "Thesis Pandemic", a flood of Covid-19 related research papers being put out by researchers that get covered by new media before they are peer reviewed. And apparently many of the papers are made public by the researchers without enough data to really back up their thesis. Because the virus is so new, there is really not enough data. And the researchers are doing their best to help with finding treatment, but apparently many of the papers are not peer reviewed enough before being picked out by news media to be covered. I did google and found a few reading material below but not sure if it's what you are looking for. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article
- kragen 6y ago
  No, I haven't, because I don't want to spend my time watching videos; not only are they agonizingly slow, they are also a medium actively hostile to quantitative data and critical analysis, which is perhaps why the news media is so fond of them. (I don't want to pick a fight either, but I sure as hell am judging!) Everything you say is true, except that mostly doctors are not busy collecting data, but rather treating patients. You may have intended to link a different paper; the one you linked is about Gansu in China, not Korea, and does not mention rt-PCR, false positives, viral RNA, or reinfection or recurrence. It does mention "secondary infection" and "secondary cases", but, as it explains, that means people who were infected within the study region by other people ("indigenous"), rather than coming into the region from outside ("imported").
  - dba7dba 6y ago
    1. Googled "Korea University Medicine covid-19 papers" and found below 2 links. Professor Kim in video 1 and 2 is from Korea University. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036368v1.article-info https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036368v... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220301508 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122... 2. Also found below link on cnn.com https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article Yah my quick search didn't return much on papers discussing false positives, viral RNA, or reinfection or recurrence. I'm guessing it's too new for formal papers. I should've said doctors are busy treating patients and researchers are busy collecting data. 3. But I did find below article posted 12 hrs ago https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-patients-infected-twice-test-a9491986.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-so... South Korean expert panel has concluded that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of more than 290 people in the country testing positive after recovery for coronavirus. 4. The 2 videos with subtitles can be consumed fast if you skip forward a few seconds at a time as you can read English subtitles. Commenters also posted helpful summaries so you can get to just the topic you are interested.
funcDropShadow 6y ago
Maybe, the following research papers from germany's top expect on Sars-Cov-II are interesting to you: - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x?utm_source... - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0695-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0695-z and his latest article, on Twitter yesterday: https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc05/virologie-ccm/dateien_upload/Weitere_Dateien/analysis-of-SARS-CoV-2-viral-load-by-patient-age.pdf https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites... He is also doing a podcast with already 37 episodes about Covid-19, but it is only available in German. But the German transcripts contain links to articles he discusses. And those are articles he deems good enough to discuss them in public, even though they are often just preprints. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-Die-Podcast-Folgen-als-Skript,podcastcoronavirus102.html https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-Die-P... -
- kragen 6y ago
  While these three papers are indeed good and valuable, they do not seem to mention Korea or touch on the question of why, and how often, rt-PCR tests continue to return positive after remission of symptoms, and in particular whether these apparently reinfected patients are contagious. I am not sure why you mentioned them.