OT: Coronavirus

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"IDVikingfan" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"purplefaithful" said: Unlikely heroes

Merica loves them some Fauci...

Yes they do. They don't know why they like him though. I do, but I can't say it on this thread. 

Can't say he's a trusted MD and apolitical?  I'll listen to him long before the bloviating by the 24/7 and print media...

Try to cope.   

Belarusian leader prescribes sport, sauna and vodka to beat Covid-19Journalist arrested after criticising Lukashenko’s views on coronavirus ‘psychosis’

As most of the world turns to social distancing, face masks and hand sanitiser to slow the spread of coronavirus, Belarusians are being told that farming, sport, the sauna and a few shots of vodka are better ways to ward off the disease.
Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of Belarus, has decreed that the pandemic will not disfigure life in the country he has run since 1994, and so everything from borders to kindergartens will stay open and his 9.5 million people will not be deprived of their cinemas, theatres or football season.
“It’s better to die standing than live on your knees,” Mr Lukashenko (65) declared after playing ice hockey last weekend.
“There are no viruses here,” the burly former collective farm boss told Belarusian state television beside the rink. “Sport, especially the ice, this ‘fridge’ – it’s the best anti-virus medicine.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/belarusian-leader-prescribes-sport-sauna-and-vodka-to-beat-covid-19-1.4217093

Mass testing, empty ICUs: Germany scores early against virus

BERLIN — Late last year — long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe — scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for the virus that was causing an unusual respiratory disease in central China.
They had one by mid-January — and labs around the country were ready to start using it just weeks later, around the same time that Europe's most populous country registered its first case.
“It was clear that if the epidemic swept over here from China, then we had to start testing," said Hendrik Borucki, a spokesman for Bioscientia Healthcare, which operates 19 labs in Germany.
That quick work stands in stark contrast to delays and missteps in other countries. Coupled with Germany's large number of intensive care beds and its early social distancing measures, it could explain one of the most interesting puzzles of the COVID-19 pandemic: Why are people with the virus in Germany currently dying at much lower rates than in neighboring countries?
The numbers are remarkable: As confirmed cases in Germany passed 71,000, the death toll Wednesday was 775, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. In contrast, Italy has reported almost 106,000 infections and more than 12,400 deaths, while Spain has more than 102,000 cases with over 9,000 deaths.
France has four times as many virus deaths as Germany and Britain has twice as many, even though both countries have fewer reported infections.
There may be many factors at play, but experts said early on that fast and widespread testing gave Germany an edge.
“The reason why we in Germany have so few deaths at the moment compared to the number of infected can be largely explained by the fact that we are doing an extremely large number of lab diagnoses," said virologist Dr. Christian Drosten, whose team developed the first test for the new virus at Berlin's Charité hospital — established over 300 years ago to treat plague victims.
He estimated that Germany is now capable of conducting up to 500,000 tests a week.
Spain, meanwhile, tests between 105,000 and 140,000 people each week, about 20% to 30% what Germany is capable of. Italy did around 200,000 tests over the past week, but that reflects a significant recent ramp-up.
Early access to the test from Drosten's team is only part of the reason for Germany's head start. Before the country even registered its first case, authorities agreed the tests would be covered by its universal insurance system, and be available to everyone with symptoms and either recent travel to virus hotspots or close contact with a confirmed case
https://www.startribune.com/mass-testing-empty-icus-germany-scores-early-against-virus/569278782/

@"purplefaithful" said: Belarusian leader prescribes sport, sauna and vodka to beat Covid-19Journalist arrested after criticising Lukashenko’s views on coronavirus ‘psychosis’

Daniel McLaughlin  Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 17:32

As most of the world turns to social distancing, face masks and hand sanitiser to slow the spread of coronavirus, Belarusians are being told that farming, sport, the sauna and a few shots of vodka are better ways to ward off the disease. Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of Belarus, has decreed that the pandemic will not disfigure life in the country he has run since 1994, and so everything from borders to kindergartens will stay open and his 9.5 million people will not be deprived of their cinemas, theatres or football season. “It’s better to die standing than live on your knees,” Mr Lukashenko (65) declared after playing ice hockey last weekend. “There are no viruses here,” the burly former collective farm boss told Belarusian state television beside the rink. “Sport, especially the ice, this ‘fridge’ – it’s the best anti-virus medicine.” https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/belarusian-leader-prescribes-sport-sauna-and-vodka-to-beat-covid-19-1.4217093

@"IDVikingfan" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"purplefaithful" said: Unlikely heroes

Merica loves them some Fauci...

Yes they do. They don't know why they like him though. I do, but I can't say it on this thread. 

Can't say he's a trusted MD and apolitical?  I'll listen to him long before the bloviating by the 24/7 and print media...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YUakLzaboMo&feature=youtu.be

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China not forthcoming on the extent of the virus severity??? Maybe this explains how a country with about 1.4 billion people can have less deaths than the US.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says

@"Ralphie" said: China not forthcoming on the extent of the virus severity??? Maybe this explains how a country with about 1.4 billion people can have less deaths than the US.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says

Shocking... ;)

@"minny65" said:

@"IDVikingfan" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"purplefaithful" said: Unlikely heroes

Merica loves them some Fauci...

Yes they do. They don't know why they like him though. I do, but I can't say it on this thread. 

Can't say he's a trusted MD and apolitical?  I'll listen to him long before the bloviating by the 24/7 and print media...

Fauci is very well respected in the Infectious disease community for over 50 years.  I know because have been talking/selling to Infectious Disease experts for about 30 years.  I value "medical opinions" not political opinions when it comes to medical issues.

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Anthony Fauci MD
Fauci in 2007
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2, 1984
President	Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	Richard M. Krause
Personal details
Born	Anthony Stephen Fauci December 24, 1940 (age 79) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Christine Grady (m. 1985)
Children	3
Education	College of the Holy Cross (BS) Cornell University (MD)
Awards	Maxwell Finland Award (1989) Ernst Jung Prize (1995) Lasker Award (2007) Medal of Freedom (2008) Robert Koch Prize (Gold, 2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Anthony Stephen Fauci ( /ˈfaʊtʃi/; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States, he has served public health in various capacities for over fifty years. He has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAID at the NIH. The New York Times called Fauci "the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases".

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Oh, this is going to end well.

@"BarrNone55" said: https://twitter.com/i/status/1245428533121306624

Oh, this is going to end well.

Rita Wilson (Tom Hanks wife) was doing that too. I am sure it's some alternate phone number but it's a nice gesture. 

Healthy-looking people spread coronavirus, more studies say

NEW YORK — More evidence is emerging that coronavirus infections are being spread by people who have no clear symptoms, complicating efforts to gain control of the pandemic.

A study conducted by researchers in Singapore and published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday is the latest to estimate that around 10% of new coronavirus infections may be sparked by people who were infected with the virus but not experiencing symptoms.
In response to recent studies, the CDC changed how it was defining the risk of infection for Americans. The agency's new guidance, also released Wednesday, targets people who have no symptoms but were exposed to persons with known or suspected infections. It essentially says that anyone may be a considered a carrier, whether they have symptoms or not.
That reinforces the importance of social distancing and other measures designed to stop the spread, experts said.
“You have to really be proactive about reducing contacts between people who seem perfectly healthy,” said Lauren Ancel Meyers, a University of Texas at Austin researcher who has studied coronavirus transmission in different countries.
The new study focused on 243 cases of coronavirus reported in Singapore from mid-January through mid-March, including 157 among people who hadn't traveled.
Researchers found that so-called pre-symptomatic people triggered infections in seven different clusters of disease, accounting for about 6% of the locally-acquired cases.
An earlier study in Hubei province, China, where the virus was first identified, suggested that more than 10% of transmissions could have occurred before patients spreading the virus ever exhibited symptoms.
Researchers are also looking into the possibility that additional cases are triggered by “asymptomatic” people who are infected but never develop clear-cut symptoms, and “post-symptomatic” people who got sick, appear to be recovered, but may still be contagious.
It remains unclear how many new infections are caused by each type of these potential spreaders, said Meyers, who was not involved in the Singapore study but was part of an earlier one focused on China.
CDC officials say they've been researching asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infections, but the studies are not complete.
In the initial months of the pandemic, health officials based their response on the belief that most of the spread came from people who were sneezing or coughing droplets that contained the virus.
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@"Vikergirl" said:

@"BarrNone55" said: https://twitter.com/i/status/1245428533121306624

Oh, this is going to end well.

Rita Wilson (Tom Hanks wife) was doing that too. I am sure it's some alternate phone number but it's a nice gesture. 

Anyone bother to go back to page 1 on this? Early March???

Seems like 500 days ago now. 

Look what the hell you started MB. 

Well, I've been symptom-free for 3 days and apparently have ridden this virus out.  Looking forward to rejoining my life, though it's going to be in the dystopian wilderness of 2020....