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by fspeech 7y ago
You also need universal mask wearing. South Korea had a huge cluster, but mask wearing practice saved it from spiraling out of control.
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by fspeech 7y ago
The South Korean model: 1. Build up testing and contact tracing capabilities. 2. Massive mask making, everyone required to wear a mask in public. 3. Hospitals reconfigured to deal with covid patients. People can then go outside and mingle a
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by fspeech 7y ago
Schools happened to be on winter break so they just didn't reopen.
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by fspeech 7y ago
We only know that you are likely to be immune for six month. Whether you will have life time immunity is anyone’s guess.
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by fspeech 7y ago
As suggested by others, you do have a sick mind. Why don't you simply propose that people just quarantine the masks in a stock room for 72 hours instead?
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by fspeech 7y ago
They officially aided Italy, Iran, Iraq and others with material and medical teams.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Why not spend a little time learning how long the virus can survive on any mask before making nonsense comment like this? It deserved a stronger rebuke than "cmmon man" since it's wasting everyone's time.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Number of deaths is a lagging indicator while number of PUI (patients under investigation) would be a leading indicator. But since number of deaths is the number that can be easily aggregated let's hope in a few weeks we will find out
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by fspeech 7y ago
And now they can export medical supply to the rest of the world. Just imagine if they had not been able to halt the spread.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Or even just more personal protective gears for medical personnel, more isolation wards, and more ventilators could be readied. The medical system can be built up and reconfigured to take care of this disease but it needs time.
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by fspeech 7y ago
ECB already implicitly backs every country's bonds. They just need to stick to their stance. After the crisis is over there will be time to work out the cost sharing among European countries.
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by fspeech 7y ago
If the ECB forbears they can in turn forbear with their own customers. That is the only sane thing to do. This is not the banks' doing and they don't need to be disciplined at this particular moment.
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by fspeech 7y ago
National debt is merely a number's game. ECB can simply eat it. They are suffering from deflation after all and they could use some inflationary move. Debt accounting for the national governments is there to enforce financial disciplin
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by fspeech 7y ago
Note this is a last resort move for patients in critical condition.
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by fspeech 7y ago
The key point is information (more precisely "mutual information"). A positive test gives you information that says you have it while a coin toss tells you nothing.
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by fspeech 7y ago
ACE2 receptors, through which the virus infects the cells, are highly expressed in parts of the lung and the digestive tract. They are not in the upper respiratory tract however. The accuracy of the swab test depends on the amount of viral
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by fspeech 7y ago
"Coin flip" would imply half of the people who don't have the disease will test positive. There is no evidence for that. It is a super inept analogy. The infection is at the lung while the swabs are done to the upper respirat
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by fspeech 7y ago
You can find Korean recommendation here http://m.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7428 Chinese recommendation is more aggressive and dependent on patient weight: https://www.chinalawtranslate.com&
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by fspeech 7y ago
The critical question here is the same with any other candidate drug: what is the level of concentration needed to achieve the desired antiviral effect and can it be safely reached at the targeted tissue?
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by fspeech 7y ago
At the dosage recommended here one could suffer acute drug toxicity. The national guideline has since moderated the prescribed doses.
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by fspeech 7y ago
If it works it will block infection of new cells. Already infected cells will die and be shed.
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by fspeech 7y ago
Pneumonia is the inflammation of the lung. You will find covid patients more reliably through lung CT than nucleotide tests of swabs. People are confused about what "mild" means: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0
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Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the WHO, got a rare glimpse into Beijing’s campaign(nytimes.com)
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by fspeech 7y ago
The virus infects the cells through ACE2 receptors, which are highly expressed in some lung cells but not the upper respiratory tract. High fever and dry cough are the most common symptoms while runny nose is rare. So no the symptoms are no
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by fspeech 7y ago
You use the word "pneumonia" to describe seriousness, but this IS a viral pneumonia. The virus infects the lung first. Detection is through the sputum coughed up from the lung. If you test positive you basically have pneumonia. Ch
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by fspeech 7y ago
15% of all confirmed cases in China were serious at some stage and require some kind of oxygen assistance. This is the one number we need to focus our minds on. Death rate is entirely dependent on the availability of resources. If we don&#x
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by fspeech 7y ago
Antibody diversity is created through a process called hypervariation. It is basically a random generation process. We then filter out those that recognize markers produced by our own body. So each person's antibody will work differen
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by fspeech 7y ago
They used the word "aggressiveness", which does not necessarily associate with "virulence". As they are only looking at frequency data at the genomic level it is everyone's guess on how the distribution is achieved.
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by fspeech 7y ago
These cases were first identified through the test kits, so apparently the tests do catch both strains. Since the difference is only a single nucleotide the tests can not distinguish between the two. This study uses results from full genome
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by fspeech 7y ago
The main point of the finding is actually there were two strains to begin with. Each strain may create different pattern of transmission. See the original here https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/

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