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by fspeech 7y ago
Public mask wearing prevents the wearer from emitting droplets. You don't need n95 for that. Also please read the article in discussion, this virus is not that easy to transmit, even for hospital workers.
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by fspeech 7y ago
80% compliance would eliminate flu outbreaks and flu is upper respiratory. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968 The New Yorker article we are supposedly discussing literally says the coronavirus is not very eff
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by fspeech 7y ago
Why isn't that the evidence that mask is effective?
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by fspeech 7y ago
Don't they wear masks on trains?
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by fspeech 7y ago
"Draconian" as in I don't see it practicable in my country. Not a moral judgment.
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by fspeech 7y ago
You could lose your residency right for violating quarantine. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid19-coron... https://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-countries-wield-fines-jai...
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by fspeech 7y ago
China has ramped up production by 12 fold in February alone. Even exporting a small portion of it would exceed their normal export volume.
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by fspeech 7y ago
We need universal mask wearing AND unlimited testing. South Korea showed it works. In Japan, even without widespread testing the spreading is still slower than the west. It's true Singapore does not mandate mask use, but they have thor
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by fspeech 7y ago
Yes this is a low tech war. There are simple ways to win it but people are curiouly unaware of what others are doing or have done.
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by fspeech 7y ago
China had a similar shortage (actually more severe due to their population size) but they got on with the program and furiously ramped up their production. We need to do the same here. Remember the whole world will be looking to buy masks a
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by fspeech 7y ago
Please write to your political and opinion leaders to advocate this. If you need supporting evidence please consider my letter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22641943
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by fspeech 7y ago
Here is what I wrote to my governor and local newspaper. Feel free to adapt and forward if anyone agrees: Universal Mask Wearing Is the Quickest Way to Restart the California Economy We urgently need universal mask wearing to slow down the
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by fspeech 7y ago
Universal mask wearing combined with unlimited testing is the quickest way to get the economy restarted. We need to ramp up both. And of course more ppe for medical workers. We don't need a ton of ventilators. Without skilled medics ve
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by fspeech 7y ago
As non-specific antivirals the benefits of these drugs are most likely at disease onset or as preventives. A trial has started in the US for people with known exposure: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT043086
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by fspeech 7y ago
You may be interested in this study then: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150618 Note in the full text article they show simulation of how long it takes for the drugs to reach therapeutic concentration at the lun
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by fspeech 7y ago
The main dangers for the general public are the acute toxicity and drug interactions. Take chloroquine, which comes in 500mg tablets, it does not take many tablets to get to toxic or even lethal dose. The drugs can prolong QT intervals, so
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by fspeech 7y ago
These are approved drugs so the use would be "off label". Doctors are allowed to prescribe anyway they see fit.
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by fspeech 7y ago
You don't need live viruses for testing. You only need some viral RNA material so you can inactivate the virus by heating the samples to a certain temperature for example. Hazardous work for sure.
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by fspeech 7y ago
They were talking about abysmal testing rate: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/scie... ”We estimate 86% of all infections were undocumented (95% CI: [82%–90%]) prior to 23 Jan
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by fspeech 7y ago
It's 0.5% of people who were tested for the flu, not the general public.
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by fspeech 7y ago
The study is on the initial outbreak in Wuhan when testing was in short supply.
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by fspeech 7y ago
I think the term "asymptomatic" gives a wrong picture of the severity of the disease, when various authors use it to mean "testing positive before disease onset" or even outright untested due to testing criteria and avai
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Mass Testing Is Crucial: The US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19(promarket.org)
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Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero(ft.com)
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by fspeech 7y ago
Wild bats can live atop a market or somewhere else with feces picked up by animals living below. Also patient zero is thought to be not associated with the Huanan Market, although the first discovered major cluster did happen there.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Lombardy is not the worst hit place so far. Wuhan is.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Read medical journals like the Lancet or JAMA. Much of the initial research were from Chinese authors and they are peer reviewed.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Wearing a mask is to protect others from your own droplets. This is CDC protocol: if a doctor suspects covid, the patient is given a mask to put on. If that is enough to protect the doctor in close proximity, it is good enough to protect th
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by fspeech 7y ago
Its concentration in lung can be 100 times or more of that in serum. This may be helpful for its efficacy against the virus.
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by fspeech 7y ago
This drug accumulates in various tissues, so for retinopathy what matters is the cumulative amount of the drug consumed over time.

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