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Masayoshi Son promised 1M coronavirus tests, then backpedalled(businessinsider.com)
1 points by Leary 7y ago|0 comments
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Covid Observations from Beijing, March 11(danwang.co)
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by Leary 7y ago
All depends on the mitigations people take. If people think it's serious, they'll take actions to prevent that serious outcome. If people think it's not serious, then it may become serious.
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by Leary 7y ago
1. It's unlikely that this coronavirus was caused by the consumption of bats. It is more likely that it was transmitted through an intermediate host such as pangolin. 2. A very small minority of people in China consume exotic food not
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Coronavirus: South Korea’s infection rate falls without citywide lockdowns(scmp.com)
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by Leary 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M Essentially it opens some ion gates that allows Zinc to inhibit the virus.
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by Leary 7y ago
South Korea is also close to managing this outbreak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_S... The US should immediately adopt measures used in South Korea.
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by Leary 7y ago
"The Lombardy outbreak came to light when a 38-year-old Italian tested positive in Codogno, a comune in the province of Lodi. According to his wife, he had met an Italian friend who had returned from China on 21 January, who subsequent
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by Leary 7y ago
"among Schoolchildren in a Tea Plantation Area" Perhaps in a tea plantation area, consumption of tea is correlated with occupations of the parents, which in turn is correlated with flu risks?
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South Korean PM says 'turning point' near in coronavirus fight(reuters.com)
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China coronavirus response slowed by bureaucracy, unstable funding(scmp.com)
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by Leary 7y ago
The US is blessed with low population density, and people don't share meals family style. We don't have to copy everything China does, just do what has proven to work: Fast testing and contact tracing.
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by Leary 7y ago
If locking down a whole city - "cordon sanitaire", doesn't work, why did Italy just do so? Do they not have the same public health experts, or were they educated at different schools.
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by Leary 7y ago
2 problems: 1. The bottleneck in testing capacity in the US will likely be labor. 2. Testing asymptomatic people is probably not very effective because they are unlikely to have high viral loads.
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by Leary 7y ago
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus... Scroll down
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China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why(vox.com)
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by Leary 7y ago
"To summarize, COVID-19 spreads less efficiently than flu, transmission does not appear to be driven by people who are not sick, it causes more severe illness than flu, there are not yet any vaccines or therapeutics, and it can be cont
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by Leary 7y ago
Rather, people should adopt a S-curve mindset, where the shape of the curve depends on the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.
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by Leary 7y ago
Surgical masks are effective against droplets from coughing and sneezing.
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by Leary 7y ago
Save them right now and have them as an insurance against if things go really bad and you have to go to a crowded place.
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by Leary 7y ago
"Across outcome variables, fluid reasoning and working-memory capacity explained 34% of the variance, followed by language aptitude (17%), resting-state EEG power in beta and low-gamma bands (10%), and numeracy (2%). " Seems fluid
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by Leary 7y ago
There were news that China's health authorities in Hubei and Beijing told local testing companies to return positive samples or destroy those samples during the crucial early days of the spread of the virus[1]. [1] https://ww
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by Leary 7y ago
And if we don't take immediate action against the Coronavirus threat, it will kill more than the flu, given it is an order of magnitude more dangerous and just as infectious.
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by Leary 7y ago
"So can you effectively prepare for an outbreak when communication is deceptive/less effective/manipulated? I think it's very difficult. " By getting enough testing kits ready so you are not in a situation where hun
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by Leary 7y ago
While i think you are right about that the coronavirus will most likely decline as the weather heats up, I think a better comparison to look at would be the Sars epidemic in 2003 rather than the flu. In that case, rather than diminishing ra
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by Leary 7y ago
Maybe buy a few temperature guns and point them at people's foreheads before they enter?
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by Leary 7y ago
US death rate so far: 6/96= 6.25% Iran death rate so far: 66/1501= 4.44% Is the US undercounting to a greater extent than Iran?!
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Seattle-area officials report new coronavirus deaths, bringing US total to 6(cnbc.com)
28 points by Leary 7y ago|12 comments
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by Leary 7y ago
The US has 12 million N95 in stockpile, another 5 million N95 that expired. The US has 30 million surgical masks in stockpile. The US needs 300 million N95 masks for medical professionals. [1] [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020&#
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by Leary 7y ago
Found some interesting reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-indian-buddhism/ Perhaps someone well versed in this can tell us how this article's theory relates to the non-self that Buddhists have b

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