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09-02-2020, 11:54 AM | #44116 |
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Not really all that scary. Shoot, if the bradykinin hypothesis is correct, then we already have therapeutic treatments to help stop those storms.
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09-02-2020, 11:55 AM | #44117 |
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Another good reason to at least try to delay getting it as long as possible (at a personal and social policy level) - new and better treatments inevitably emerge as we learn more about this thing. Let Belarus and Iran be the guinea pigs.
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09-02-2020, 12:07 PM | #44118 |
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09-02-2020, 12:18 PM | #44119 |
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09-02-2020, 01:40 PM | #44120 | |
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Minnesota biker becomes first COVID-19 fatality linked to Sturgis rally
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09-02-2020, 01:46 PM | #44121 |
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Remember when Europe "crushed this thing" because they were "taking it seriously"?
Covid-19 cases in Europe "almost back" to March levels, EU health body says |
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09-02-2020, 01:56 PM | #44122 |
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09-02-2020, 01:56 PM | #44123 |
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09-02-2020, 02:15 PM | #44124 |
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09-02-2020, 02:20 PM | #44125 |
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09-02-2020, 02:25 PM | #44126 |
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"The current increase in cases was due in part to more testing."
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09-02-2020, 02:42 PM | #44127 |
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09-02-2020, 02:54 PM | #44128 |
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A look into "cases".
The importance of the cycle threshold is shown in a Canadian study of 96 samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected patients that reported live virus was only detected when the cycle threshold was less than 24. The difference in a threshold might not look like much, but samples can differ by more than a million more copies of viral RNA per millilitre. Some of the testing threshold used is attempting to detect one viral copy in the sample, which further exacerbates the problems. Out of the 19 individuals who tested positive, one had been PCR positive three months earlier and was also antibody positive. The immune system works to neutralise the virus and prevent further infection. The infectious stage lasts about a week. Inactivated RNA, however, degrades slowly: it can be detected weeks after infectiousness has gone. In one case, RT-PCR continued to pick up fragments of RNA until the 63rd day after symptom onset. The duration of faecal shedding of viral RNA in one patient was up to 47 days from symptom onset. PCR detection of viruses is helpful so long as its limitations are understood; while it detects RNA in minute quantities, caution needs to be applied to the results as it often does not detect the infectious virus. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...arm-than-good- |
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09-02-2020, 03:18 PM | #44129 |
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"Keep them at the university in a place that's sequestered enough from the other students. But don't have them go home, because they could be spreading it in their home state," Fauci told NBC's "Today" show in an interview aired Wednesday.
Campuses shouldn't shut down after an outbreak because it would scatter and spread the virus further, Fauci said. "It's the worst thing you could do," he said. |
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09-02-2020, 03:30 PM | #44130 |
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