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by devy 7y ago
The simple answer is it probably can, but the actual facts are more nuanced than a simple confirmation. All bio-safety labs or hospitals or water treatment plants or special HVAC systems have UV-C lamps to sanitize pathogens because UV-C ra
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Covid-19 hospital charges may exceed $1.4T in the U.S.(modernhealthcare.com)
7 points by devy 7y ago|2 comments
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by devy 7y ago
> hypothesize Of course not! We've got half a million cases now, hundreds of thousands cases in hospitals, and hundreds of papers published in all the medical journals. So yeah, data is rich.
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by devy 7y ago
No. The point is, COVID-19 testing kit is in extreme short supply everywhere in the world right now given most countries are locked down and the viral outbreak patients are growing at an exponential rate, the next reliable way to diagnose C
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Duke University uses vaporized hydrogen peroxide to clean face masks for reuse(techcrunch.com)
2 points by devy 7y ago|0 comments
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by devy 7y ago
Yep! CT scans and clinician's experience is more reliable than any tests for COVID-19 diagnostics (which should only serving as a definitive confirmation). This also why I believe human doctors are still unbeatable by AI
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by devy 7y ago
Exactly! For any medical tests, there are 2 measurements: sensitivity and specificity, one to judge false positive and another judge the false negatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
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by devy 7y ago
Can someone explain what "D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate and glycine" are in laymen's terms? I saw some comments mentioned about Aspirin/NSAID. But what's the practicality of this research? Btw, this was dated 2016.
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Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection upon male gonadal function(medrxiv.org)
1 points by devy 7y ago|0 comments
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Covid-19 Ventilator Course: Learn or Review Mechanical Ventilation(youtube.com)
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Mechanical Ventilation Explained Clearly: Ventilator Settings and Modes(youtube.com)
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New analysis of coronavirus risk: Young adults are not invincible – STAT(statnews.com)
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by devy 7y ago
There was a 18-year-old died in L.A. appeared to be youngest death due to COVID-19 in the U.S. so far. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/los-angeles-health-officials...
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by devy 7y ago
Adafruit make circuit boards and microelectronics in Manhattan. In that blog post, Adafruit Industries located at 150 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 by Executive Order 202.6, “Essential Business” by New York State: https:/&
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Coronavirus shutdown not a recession but an investment in survival(reuters.com)
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The Hardest Questions American Doctors May Face: Who Will Be Saved? Who Won’t?(nytimes.com)
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by devy 7y ago
Also just to point out, for 2009 Swine flu pandemic, we had vaccines (effective 43%) and antiviral treatments can significantly help. This time since COVID-19 is a novel virus, we have nothing.
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by devy 7y ago
The public health experts in Trump administration (CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, DHH Secretary Alex Azar has been a bunch of clowns) had not been forthcoming from late Jan up until National Emergency declared last week, either due to gag
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by devy 7y ago
It's a difficult decision to be made. On one hand, short term strong measure will guarantee unemployment and bankruptcies and potentially long term economic impact (talk about another the Great Depression). On the other hand, inaction
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by devy 7y ago
California's population density cannot compare to Downstate New York, so there are some advantages to implement social distancing measures in CA than in NY/NYC.
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by devy 7y ago
Is there an accumulative data chart for the entire nation?COVID-19 has no state boundaries!
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Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance(medium.com)
5 points by devy 7y ago|0 comments
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by devy 7y ago
South Korea has got over the hump of death count growth NOT because they are preserving the open society, but because they act swiftly. In fact, they acted in late January. When did U.S. acted upon? U.S. squandered 2 months and wait till WH
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by devy 7y ago
Unless Fremont factory is 100% automated with robots, this sounds reckless. However, the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai has been reopened and working in full speed (except when it's bottlenecked by upstream suppliers)
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Genetically engineered ACE2 via CRISPR-Cas9 could produce a cure for Covid-19(threadreaderapp.com)
1 points by devy 7y ago|0 comments
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by devy 7y ago
The closest outbreak to COVID-19 is probably the 1918 Spanish flu (forward-looking statement). And we are going to have 100% likelihood that this year's COVID-19 death count is going to surpass 30k people globally.
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by devy 7y ago
> but I am not sure that's true, in Italy they are building hospital wings or re-adapting abandoned hospitals in many places. Rome has 4 planned covid hospitals as of now. True. But those are being done after the fact. It's too
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by devy 7y ago
It's disingenuous to compare COVID-19 death with traffic death in Dr. Lin's presentation. Here are the facts: - The 30k U.S. traffic death count is for the ENTIRE YEAR. The 3k death in Wuhun happened in a matter of weeks(6-8 weeks
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by devy 7y ago
Here is a paper from clinicians: "Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies." What China did there was they spent huge effort to find possible
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Scientists debate risks of accelerated testing due to vaccine enhancement(reuters.com)
4 points by devy 7y ago|1 comments

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