Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Covid-19 has mutated to be more infectious but not more severe https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-infectious-strain-covid-dominates-global.htmlSample quote "Data provided by our team in Sheffield suggested that the new strain was associated with higher viral loads in the upper respiratory tract of patients with COVID-19, meaning the virus's ability to infect people could be increased. "Fortunately at this stage, it does not seem that viruses with D614G cause more severe disease." End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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In England, the more non-direct-patient care workers such as cooks and maintenance the faster Covid-19 spread into nursing homes. Shortages of facemasks and eyeshields also increased spread. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-ppe-shortages-fuelled-covid-homes.htmlSample quote The risk of COVID-19 entering a care home was just over six times higher in care homes that employed between 11 and 20 non-care workers, nearly 10 times higher in homes employing 21-30 non care workers, and almost 19 times higher in homes employing more than 30 non-care workers. Dr. Brainard said: "We also found that once introduced into the home, the subsequent spread of COVID-19 was largely associated with inadequate access to PPE, particularly facemasks and eye protection. End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 01:47 PM
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Loss of sense of smell more accurate predictor of persons infected with Covid-19 than fever above 99 degrees F https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/02/smell-tests-temperature-checks-covid19/Sample quote A Monell analysis of 47 studies finds that nearly 80% of Covid-19 patients have lost their sense of smell as determined by scratch-and sniff tests, Reed said. But only about 50% include that in self-reported symptoms. In other words, people don’t realize they have partly or even completely lost their sense of smell. That may be because they’re suffering other, more serious symptoms and so don’t notice this one, or because smell isn’t something they focus on. In a recent study of 1,480 patients led by otolaryngologist Carol Yan of UC San Diego Health, someone with anosmia was “more than 10 times more likely to have Covid-19 than other causes of infection,” she said. Nasal inflammation from some 200 cold, flu, and other viruses can cause it, she said, but especially during the summer, when those infections are pretty rare, the chance that anosmia is the result of Covid-19 rises. “Anosmia was quite specific to Covid-19,” she said. Fever, in contrast, has many possible causes. Temperature checks will therefore flag more people as potentially infected with Covid-19 than smell tests will. The likelihood that anosmia indicates Covid-19, called a test’s positive predictive value, increases as the prevalence of Covid-19 increases, as it is in many areas of the U.S. A key unanswered question is a smell test’s “negative predictive value”: If someone has a normal sense of smell, the chance that he or she is nevertheless infected and likely contagious. Because at least some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will have a normal sense of smell, especially early on, even experts who believe that anosmia screening can be widely beneficial — “I hope it will be used as a screening measure for the virus across the world,” Yan said — say it should be added to fever checks or other screening tools End quote
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 04:06 PM
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the "smell test" doesn't work for me because i have never really had a good sniffer. it takes a huge stink [pun intended ] for me to smell stuff, such as terrible chemical smells and really dead animals. My son and I did a back to back dump in the toilet at home today. I’m glad I was first because my smeller is working just fine.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 04:12 PM
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Not a cut, paste, and copy about coronavirus but did I ever show you guys pictures of my kitty cats. Ohhh I did, well here are some more. They will probably be sideways or upside down but that happens around here.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 04:16 PM
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Here’s some of the 30 Bass my son and I caught while not worried about coronavirus a couple of weeks ago
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 04:19 PM
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Here we are out racing enjoying life and not stuck at home worrying about coronavirus
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 05:44 PM
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That's pretty fast for going straight up. Moparts special. Lol. Turning pictures sideways for years.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 06:28 PM
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The numbers say over 2 persons died today of COVID during the time it took you to post your cat pics on a long running COVID thread..
I fail to see the jocularity here with this topic.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 06:31 PM
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The numbers say over 2 persons died today of COVID during the time it took you to post your cat pics on a long running COVID thread..
I fail to see the jocularity here with this topic.
You would because you are in the gloom and doom crowd. I million cut, copy, and paste links do zero controlling coronavirus
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/03/20 08:31 PM
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The numbers say over 2 persons died today of COVID during the time it took you to post your cat pics on a long running COVID thread..
I fail to see the jocularity here with this topic.
You would because you are in the gloom and doom crowd. I million cut, copy, and paste links do zero controlling coronavirus Your wisdom and help here is greatly appreciated, Moving on, I have not seen this discussed. It seems a majority of the world is waiting on the Covid vaccine to restore some semblance of normalcy. We have heard i believe there are over 100 labs working on their own vaccine solutions. it sounds like they all have different paths for their vaccine to be effective. I don't expect all of them to be sufficiently effective, so only a few will likely hit the market in quantity. We have also been told the efficacy of the vaccine will be likely in the 70%? range, partly because of the rush to market driving force. But a 70%? efficacy rate, will gain the world "herd" immunity to likely help get COVID under control. I personalty don't care to be in the 30% group. My question, can or could or should different type Covid vaccines be combined over time, once the vaccines become easily available to potentially increase efficacy, and if so, what might be the downsides, other then cost/availability?
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/04/20 04:11 AM
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The numbers say over 2 persons died today of COVID during the time it took you to post your cat pics on a long running COVID thread..
I fail to see the jocularity here with this topic. You would because you are in the gloom and doom crowd. I million cut, copy, and paste links do zero controlling coronavirus Unless those cats of yours can sniff-out a virus; Cute but what? It's Information for us: good, bad, right, or wrong. Scientific data; what all the "experts" say we need to "follow". It's an ever evolving situation this virus. Lots of studies & research being done worldwide. Hopefully it will get widdled-down soon for a "solution". "controlling": what your perspective here for a remedy?
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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The numbers say over 2 persons died today of COVID during the time it took you to post your cat pics on a long running COVID thread..
I fail to see the jocularity here with this topic.
You would because you are in the gloom and doom crowd. I million cut, copy, and paste links do zero controlling coronavirus I do not believe in gloom and doom attitude. I would rather die fighting. I do believe in using tried and tested information to solve automotive problems. (Moparts attitude?) I go further and believe in using information to solve problems in disease, especially new disease. Reading a post in this thread is voluntary Warning. It is not possible to make each post 100% correct, or even easy to read or understand, much less fun and uplifting to read Pittsburgracer, I am all for fishing, and it is highly likely that I have caught bigger fish than you, and in more different countries. It is also likely that my 4’10 inch tall 95 lb grandmother caught bigger and more fish than any of your grandmothers. And both of my grandfathers “specially” taught me by example how to tell tales about fishing, at the dock, and around the campfire.
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Re: The official Coronavirus thread
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07/04/20 01:40 PM
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I do not believe in gloom and doom attitude. I would rather die fighting.
I'm of the same thought, but see/approach it differently, the current mode of "preservation" seems to cower and wait in seclusion for hope of a vaccine that may never appear or be effective for the herd, or a feeble hope it'll just dissipate and go away if we wait it out long enough.... I'm for "herd immunity", and if it has to be achieved thru "thinning/culling of the herd" by transmission, so be it... yes it sounds cruel, but mother nature has always intended survival of the fittest.... On a lighter side....
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