Coronavirus (No Politics)

a pibbur said:

a pibbur who didn't watch the video

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Kordanor said:

Just imagine what would happen if a nice big solar wind would hit the earth now and fry all electronics as it did in 1859.

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1. COVID-19 can absolutely cause nasal congestion, including a runny or stuffy nose (e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554776/). In fact, nasal congestion is a common symptom in mild cases, which are most common, and typically present as upper respiratory illness.


2. If you have a dry cough and fever, the best idea is to stay isolated from any other people not to spread it, until you recover – that’s when you gonna need all that food and toilet paper you stocked. After you fully recover, it's good to stay isolated for another week to make sure that you won't infect others.

3. Paracetamol helps to reduce the symptoms of the infection. Most of traditional anti-cold/flu means do not work, you can only rely on your immune system.

4. Seeing a doctor if you got these symptoms is a bad idea because you might infect others (and the medical personnel) and the doctors are already overloaded to the extreme - unless you start having difficulties with breathing. But the artificial lungs ventilation machines will be extremely scarce, so the chances to get timely treatment vs. lungs obstruction are very low. RIP.

5. People 60 y.o. and older (the highest risks group) should better stay completely isolated (also from their relatives), to prevent their infection. The absolute majority of people under 60 will safely overcome the infection. Women are noticeably less likely to get infected and get the life-threatening complications.

6. In the course of the epidemic, 60-80% of the population will probably get infected. The later that happens the better, as the virus naturally evolves to become less harmful to humans (since its less harmful mutations get spread more effectively).

7. One person may catch the virus several times in a series.

8. Most mask types will not save you from being infected, but will reduce the risks to infect others if you’ve caught the virus. An unmasked sneezing/coughing infected individual creates a ~5 meter wide sphere of tiny infected droplets that stays suspended and drifting in the air for > 10 feet for many hours. The virus can also invade the organism through eyes.


9. The virus survives and stays active for 2-3 days on metal, plastic, stone, wood, rubber, glass, paper, and other surfaces. It can be destroyed by direct sun ultraviolet or spirit. So also stock vodka for your quarantine time.

10. The virus and its spread are not significantly affected by environment temperature, it stays active in a wide temperature range around 0 and 35 Celsius.

11. The virus does not infect pets and they are not active carriers of it. Unless you have a bat, a pangolin, or a Chinese lizard.

12. The virus is considerably less contagious and harmful to children and teenagers, but they also do get infected and spread it. Frequently they have unusual symptoms, such as nausea and diarrhea. They recover much faster.

13. Most infection cases occur within a family circle, among relatives and close friends.

14. The virus is more likely to infect people taking blood pressure lowering medicines.

15. The SARS-Cov-2 vaccines are already passing trials on humans, but it’s going to take at least 3-6 months more till they become really available.

16. The mass epidemic and the lockdowns in Europe will last until June 2020 or rather longer.

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JDR13 said:

The number of confirmed cases in the U.S is still quite small compared to the harder hit European countries.

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Hexprone said:

Sure.

And the number of tests?

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Hexprone said:

I'm pretty sure I do, in its mild sniffles-with-dry-cough mode.

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Coronavirus is most contagious before and during the first week of symptoms
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Patients produced thousands to millions of viruses in their noses and throats, about 1,000 times as much virus as produced in SARS patients, Clemens Wendtner, director of infectious disease and tropical medicine at Munich Clinic Schwabing, a teaching hospital, and his colleagues found. That heavy load of viruses may help explain why the new coronavirus is so infectious.
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“Some of it is discouraging news because when you are mildly [ill] or just [getting] sick, you’re putting out a whole lot of virus, which explains why we’re seeing so much transmission within our communities,” says Khan, was not involved in the study.
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Both Patient 1 and his Shanghai colleague transmitted the virus before developing symptoms, the first documented cases of asymptomatic spread.

As health officials tested other employees of the company, they found the study participants and placed them in isolation at the Munich clinic. In one case, Patient 1 sneezed during a meeting with one person, Wendtner says. “That was enough for infection.” In other cases, “they had simple business meetings, sitting together for 60 minutes, 90 minutes [at a table or] in front of a computer, with no physical contact — just one handshake, that’s all,” Wendtner says. “The infectivity is quite high.”

Most had coughs, but only two developed a fever, the most common symptom reported in other studies. Most symptoms were mild and one person never developed any at all. One patient developed severe pneumonia.

Two of the nine had runny noses, previously reported as a rare symptom of COVID-19. Another four had stuffy noses and reported that they couldn’t smell or taste anything. “In all of our patients, it cleared up, but it was a little bit annoying for two weeks or so,”

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