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Corona Virus Daily Thread #29
Posted on 03/27/2020 9:27:41 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3828581/posts?page=1
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; livethread
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To: BusterDog
801
posted on
03/28/2020 12:13:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: blueplum
Nice find. Pink eye. Yes. That’s the weird redness I saw develop in the eyes of someone sick with something. That was about a month ago. Now we have covid in town. Although that was inevitable. My guess is people who are infected through the eye, will develop the pink eye long before other symptoms. Those infected through nasal cavity may develop it later in the disease progression.
802
posted on
03/28/2020 12:16:54 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: cgbg
GMTO. Since the beginning I was reminded of this series. Hmmmm.
803
posted on
03/28/2020 12:19:34 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Professional
It's because the danger from this virus all along has been morbidity, not mortality:
if enough people become ill to require hospitalization / ICU units / intubation, then medical facilities become swamped, crowding out other sick people and making medical professionals sick too.
Wipe that Panda jizz off your chin.
804
posted on
03/28/2020 12:19:35 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
To: Fledermaus
What was the CFR rate in Italy from H1N1?
Troll-boi.
805
posted on
03/28/2020 12:20:33 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
To: mrsmith
New Orleans had Mardi Gras and (presumably) a disproportionate occurrence of close personal contact.
807
posted on
03/28/2020 12:21:35 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: blueplum
Face shield plus N95. Will probably allow some to work up to a month safely. Without face shields and only N95, two weeks heavy exposure and they get it even if 100 % in protocol. The faceshield slows air flow going to the face and exiting from the face.
808
posted on
03/28/2020 12:25:19 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: amorphous
I don't know about ACE2 expression. I'm basing it on the original studies in the 90s of metabolic syndrome. Lowering of triglycerides was immediate before weight loss. The important ratio was triglycerides/HDL. These were shown to change in days reflecting reversal of the syndrome.
Changes in protein expression is an unknown. Fasting will throw people quickly into autophagy which is part of the reversal in protein expression.
Ping me again later on the new thread and I will do some more digging.
809
posted on
03/28/2020 12:29:13 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Black Agnes
There is nothing like a catastrophe to focus the mind.
Of course, for those without..
To: Thud
Careful; I’ve read that steroids actually make the lung issues worse.
That was ~10 days ago so I no longer have the link.
Of COURSE I recommend you do your own original research on it.
811
posted on
03/28/2020 12:33:07 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: PA Engineer
Not being an expert in epidemiology, I dont know what R0 even refers to. Barring you or exdemmom explaining, Ill presume its the point of inflection she keeps referring too where the infection rate starts to drop off.
As for engineering applications, Im not expecting this epidermic to have regular periodic. As a matter of fact, it includes human behaviors with no real good models at all. If you trace back the conversation it started with dont try to extrapolate from interpolation solutions. I did not suggest Fourier analysis. I suggested a low order Fourier fit might model the long term epidemic rise and fall.
Maybe you can do a better job of explaining how fitting the daily infection rate is going to provide a prediction of future rates than exdemmom. Seems to me you cant predict until the inflection point has occurred or slightly after since R isnt going to exponential until then. So you can collect data for a model to be used next time, but this model doesnt get one to prediction all by itself.
As to apologies, I think I was about as polite and explanatory as one could be. And exdemmom was given every opportunity to carry on.
812
posted on
03/28/2020 12:33:44 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: blueplum
We are going to need good metrics to determine the best procedures to save lives and the economy. One such metric would be a bias function that allows different cities to properly compare infection rates with their testing rates normalized.
813
posted on
03/28/2020 12:38:09 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
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To: RummyChick
There are no approved treatments for coronavirus, but the CytoDyns drug is among the latest being tested to help save the lives of Americans with coronavirus, of which there are now well over 100,000 - and if it continues to show promise it could get FDA approval in as little as little as six weeks. Anyone who ever worked for the FDA should be sent to Qom.
814
posted on
03/28/2020 12:39:11 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: Paul R.
Those bats in China have thousands of viral species. Most harmless to humans. The number one bat expert in China, actually thought one of her lab viruses escaped after she was yanked out of a conference and put on fast train to Wuhan. You can have a natural virus escape a lab ya know.
815
posted on
03/28/2020 12:45:01 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
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To: Paul R.
A dog owner comes home to the trash can tipped over and trash is scattered on the floor.Of possible explanations a) The dog tipped the trash can over, or b) Someone broke into the house and sorted through the trash can, explanation a is more likely.
816
posted on
03/28/2020 12:47:29 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
To: calenel
Wonder what portion of those DP unresolved are currently on ventilators ?
817
posted on
03/28/2020 12:49:07 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
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To: RaceBannon
Chris from peak progress estimated they were 1 to 2 factors off. Your posted estimate is in that ballpark. On the low side. Lol.
818
posted on
03/28/2020 12:51:25 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
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To: cgbg
I just blame it on auto correct. Lol.
819
posted on
03/28/2020 12:59:16 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
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To: firebrand
That’s a good point that actually contradicts the position of going back to work. People untested who feel weak or have a mild cold go back to work ? Obviously everything is a gamble now until everyone outside working is masked and gloved and goggled. Healthcare workers also need face shields. Everyone needs sealed goggles.
820
posted on
03/28/2020 1:11:41 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
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