2020-09-27, 18:58 | Link #1041 |
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Didn't have to wait long for the debunk: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity....sponse-yan.pdf
Answers all my questions to satisfaction, and has many more nitpicks and alternate hypotheses besides. I'm happy with how they stuck to the science instead of going for character assassination.
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2020-10-02, 18:02 | Link #1048 |
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So this is the stuff Trump is taking.
Seems pretty safe, complications from antibody therapies are negligible compared to standard drugs. And if done right, it's very effective. The problem is, it's pretty high-tech, and takes a lot of resources to design and produce, and scaling up production is also a big challenge. That's why antibody therapies have mostly been used on cancer until now - the thing needs to make a lot of money to recoup the heavy investments, and there's usually little money to be made from curing infectious disease. Thanks to the pressure from this pandemic, companies have now had the funding to make these therapies for COVID. But even then, it's difficult, since every time an antibody is changed or added to the mix, they need new patents, new clinical trials, new FDA approval.. In an ideal world, these therapies could make for a system to automatically generate cures for new infectious diseases. Just need to sequence the B-Cell genes from a recovered patient, have a computer sort them out, do some gene transfer magic, and finally some mechanized bio reactor cranks out the antibodies. The experience from this pandemic might be a stepping stone towards that.
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2020-10-04, 14:35 | Link #1049 |
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Some individuals have pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV2.
That's been speculated well before, but direct evidence has now been produced.
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2020-10-04, 15:18 | Link #1050 |
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It also could be said that some people have preexisting weakness to the disease:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...id-19-patients Where I live, deaths by covid19 of people with no pre-existing conditions (old age is not considered one) is about 20%. |
2020-10-19, 15:48 | Link #1052 |
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Covid-19 and Public Health: A Message from Crash Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4rcv3p7AYg Hopefully, this might helpat least someone.
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2020-10-21, 03:28 | Link #1053 | |
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Around the beginning, I think there was a question of if blood types have any effect on the virus. Turns out, there's more substantial evidence of this. Basically, while ANYONE can still get Covid, it turns out that those with A or AB type blood are going to experience worse symptoms than someone with O type blood.
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2020-10-26, 08:34 | Link #1056 |
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Well Trump has apparently admitted that they give up on controlling Covid. They apparently are just going to pray a vaccine eventually appears. Oh but he still wants you to vote for him anyway. Because he's like an amazing leader or something.
"We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas," is what White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said. Way to go Trump administration. Way to go. It's called sarcasm for a reason folks.
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2020-10-26, 10:11 | Link #1057 |
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Bit old, but the WHO estimates that around 10% of humans have been infected.
Some places like China and Korea seem to have it under control, but the cost of that control is eternal vigilance, until hopefully somehow the virus is eliminated in the rest of the world. It's not clear to me, even from a public health perspective, which side of that "fence" I would like to be on. If leaders like Trump admitted sooner that there was no intention of controlling Covid, they could have managed expectations, and it might even have played out better for them politically (Sweden model). Being indecisive is always the worst.
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2020-10-26, 13:21 | Link #1058 | |
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2020-10-26, 13:36 | Link #1059 | |
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So far only one relative (he lived nearby) I know of has died (he was in his 70s) of covid19, which is kind of a miracle considering how extended the branches of my family are. One neighbor recently died of a heart attack, but can't be sure since I doubt they tested him for covid19 after his death. I suppose this is the part where I say "When this is all over I hope to (fill the blanK)" >_< |
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2020-10-26, 18:40 | Link #1060 | |
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I don't know. Umm... Because the media is evil and everyone is plotting against him... or something?
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