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by tcbawo 7y ago
Once testing is widely available, I hope to see wearing masks in public as a precondition for ending lock-downs/quarantines and returning to normal life. This might be something most state governments of all stripes could sign onto.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
It also seems that during development, we pass through various stages, as if the organs of higher order life forms are a series of hacks added on top of the prior ones.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
We have both a supply shock and a demand shock. We can't fix the supply shock while on quarantine. We can mitigate the demand shock (somewhat) through short term stimulus
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Published literature suggests that surgical masks reduce the amount of escaped virus by 3x. If we can make enough masks, we need everyone to start wearing them. They should be handing them out at grocery stores!
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by tcbawo 7y ago
For those who can't get enough information from the front lines, this is a clearing house of background information, diagnosis, and treatment.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
I don't have medical advice for you (not a doctor), but if you need assistance breathing you should call a doctor immediately. Hopefully, we'll get more guidance as we learn from what is working.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
The links I added in my edit suggests that using non-invasive, constant positive air pressure (C-PAP) with a closed mask could help certain patients from needing intubation and ICU as early (or at all). If this turns out to be the case, th
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Some emerging theories of pathology suggest that lung function can be increased by reinflating collapsed alveoli with constant pressure: https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/cpap-covid/ . It describes cases where oxygen sup
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Some emerging theories of pathology suggest that lung function can be increased by reinflating collapsed alveoli with constant pressure: https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/cpap-covid/ . This source describes cases where
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by tcbawo 7y ago
This looks very promising given some emerging theories of pathology: https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/cpap-covid/
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by tcbawo 7y ago
If you read enough news and Twitter, you will find some really heartbreaking descriptions of the folks on ventilators. For most, this is a Hail Mary attempt with only 50% survival rate. Many will have significant lung damage if they survi
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Yes. Without proper cleaning, it is a highway for infection. You also need to maintain a balance of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide. Many of these people require supplemental oxygen. So, you have to control respiration rate and oxygen m
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by tcbawo 7y ago
I was curious of a genetic link after hearing about a family in New Jersey where four members died after one dinner party [ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51978164 ]. Being relatives, though, they may have all
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Their guidance does not seem to suggest that people should not wear masks in public, nor does it comment on the effectiveness of doing so. From their site: If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a p
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by tcbawo 7y ago
People need to stay home, but they also need to go to the grocery store, bank, or other essential activities. When they do, they should be wearing a mask.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
What hospitals need are N95 respirators and surgical masks. A family member of mine is a doctor at a large hospital system. They have a mask shortage and have been encouraged to use scarves and t-shirts if necessary. Plain cotton masks
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by tcbawo 7y ago
If Amazon wanted to win immediate trust and lasting goodwill, they should secure suppliers for "Amazon's choice" cotton surgical masks, providing priority service to hospital systems in regions of need, but also (publicly), t
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by tcbawo 7y ago
If only we had a system for 'fingerprinting' individuals, and digitizing the results into a searchable 'database'
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by tcbawo 7y ago
The wider this disease spreads, the more likely mutations and new strains will appear. This could very quickly spiral out of control. If you are insinuating that an economic shutdown will cause more deaths, you are probably incorrect. Al
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by tcbawo 7y ago
How can you reliably use confirmed cases to suggest a trend given the disparity between states in test availability, population density, and timeline of introduction?
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Nobody knows the asymptomatic rate for certain, one way or the other. We don't know the rate of false positives with existing tests.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Do we even have to do nanofiltering? What about a breathing mask/apparatus like firefighters use? In theory they should be quite reusable.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
My biggest issue with pcap files is lack of random access capability. If you wanted to search a large file for a packet by time or contents, you can't just hop around. You have to scan sequentially. Some people chunk a capture into
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by tcbawo 7y ago
The US may have already passed 100k cases. Is anyone performing randomized tests and publishing the results? That should give us a real sense for how far it's spread. The trouble is that the growth rate is so great, it's a movi
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by tcbawo 7y ago
Maybe something like GoFundMe but with gift cards that have <100% redemption value, so it's neither entirely charity or unfunded liability. You need some transparency into the funding goals. Maybe even provide some sliding scale w
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by tcbawo 7y ago
There are a lot of mom and pop stores and restaurants that will suffer and may go out of business. If there is a secure, convenient website to set up gift card purchases, it might keep these places afloat.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
If cheap improvised medical equipment turns out to be feasible, I hope government will provide adequate legal cover for those willing/able to do R&D, manufacture, and distribution.
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by tcbawo 7y ago
If hospitals are overwhelmed and begin turning people away, improvised solutions could save lives. Informed discussion is critical, though. The evacuation of Dunkirk was crazy and unorthodox, but it worked!
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by tcbawo 7y ago
This would be true now, but over several weeks and months serious damage will be done (layoffs, bankruptcies, regulatory disruption) that will result in a permanent reduction in economic activity. The economy will repair itself, but the lo
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by tcbawo 7y ago
The state of Ohio has only 26 confirmed cases, but two days ago the Director of the Ohio Department of Health estimated that 1% of the state's population (100k) may be infected due to the high ratio of cases being community-spread [1].

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