Coronavirus Definition and 47 Threads

Hello everyone, I'm a physicist so I'm not an expert in immunology etc., but I'm interested in this topic. I read the abstract of this paper (Discussion was very scholarly for me) but still, I'm not sure if I understand it correctly. So I have some questions: 1) Is there exist some possibility...

The early partial sequences were posted to National Institutes of Health in March 2020, and removed at the request of the submitting investigator in June 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/science/coronavirus-sequences.html [edit:]Which is a rewrite of...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017366/messenger-rna-vaccines-covid-hiv/ I would expect Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman to be awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The technology may be applied to other viruses.

Faceshield or respirators are getting to be as common as masks in public. What kind of bleach in basin can theoretically kill the Covid virus? What should be the concentration of bleach and now does it kill it?

What kinds of efforts will different facets of the economy take to carry on with their activities while control viral spread? How effective will they be? Different kinds of activities will require different approaches. One example is the film/entertainment industry. Here is a NY Times article...

I know that there are at least a couple of threads related to COVID-19 scattered over PF, but I want to get a specific feedback on this latest research in terms of human health and safety. This paper was published in Nature, and it presented a rather fascinating result if it is true. The...

For anyone following Remdesivir as a treatment for COVID 19: this New England Journal of Medicine report on Gilead's remdesivir and this NIH/NCBI article explain how it works. The NIH paper has a nice chart showing how different drugs might interfere with viral replication. The recent phase 3...

With social distancing likely to be still important for the foreseeable future, some schools are planning how to manage this in the new school year when students return. I spoke to one school manager this week who suggests students will work 'shifts' - in this case one week in school, one week...

hello all : there was this technology that i read about maybe a year ago, could it help in better technology fast and reliable method to detect corona virus in saliva or in blood ? http://web.mit.edu/degenlab/index.html http://web.mit.edu/degenlab/degenlab_techniques.html...

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why are there fewer reported Covid-19 cases and deaths on weekends?

https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/nmdoh-nearly-50-nursing-home-patients-have-died-from-covid-19-in-new-mexico/5715015/ New Mexico(USA) as of 29 April had 48 deaths out of 166 positive tests. All were nursing home patients, and a majority of the fatalities are clustered in two nursing home...

https://www.thegreenjournal.com/article/S0167-8140(20)30185-7/fulltext What's the relevant science here ? Would just like to hear a bit more as to whether it holds out any meaningful prospects for treatment of Covid 19.

I know Dr Fauci said that the virus might mutate by September and that we are likely to see another round of the virus then (if we have a reprieve in the summer). But I've been reading that they don't know if people that have had the virus are immune for weeks, or months. It's not very...

Hello all: Hope all are fine and well , there is this question in relation to corona virus problem : Do anyone checked if the patients have any immunity related illnesses with the patients of SARS-Cov-2 Where I can find those statistics Best regards Stay safe

This thread meets the GD guidelines for discussing medical policy where politics are concerned, I know, I made that policy. How can we expect to find cures/vaccines when the doctors capable of doing it are removed...

" Here, we report the identification of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins (Manis javanica) seized in anti-smuggling operations in southern China. " How is it that Malayan pangolins would be tested at all for the China Virus? Is it common practice to examine any smuggled...

I saw a link to this article, after reading about IBM's effort to provide COBOL training to assist some of the country's ailing government computers. I was impressed by the specs of this supercomputer. It makes the Wargames computer look like a toaster...

Summary:: Seriousness of withdrawal symptoms Since, the people who went to buy alcohol didn't follow social distancing, all the bars were shut down. As a result, many committed suicide, some started brewing alcohols illegally, some like this v...

Germany has been virus testing in groups of 10. In a high risk population where p=1/100 this requires, on average, 196 tests to test 1000 people. In a moderate risk population, it requires 109 tests to test 1000 people. But if they were to test in groups of 32 in such a population one would...

John Prine died today at 73 from Coronavirus. He wrote a bunch of great songs, such as:

As you all know, everyone is in a mad DIY mask rush right now as it has become an official recommendation. Some have been searching for the best materials, and some of them have been found to be great filters. However, these non-standard mask materials are also not tested and evaluated for use...

I keep wondering why we do not know more about the virus? How hard is it to expose some mice to Coronavirus and see what happens? Then I considered that perhaps the virus is primarily a human virus and does not effect other life forms like lab mice. There have been cases with dogs and the...

The folks at Scripps Institute and at The University of Hong Kong have found an antibody target on SARS-CoV-2 similar to the one on SARS-CoV (the 2002 SARS outbreak). They are looking for recovered COVID-19 volunteers, see bottom of this post or the San Diego Union article. The full article in...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00965-x?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf232171849=1 Cheers, Tom

Hello all: hope you are all well . as i am looking into reasons of death from Covid-19 i could see that pneumonia , is a major reason of death , but what kind of pneumonia ? i couldn't find on the internet is it only viral pneumonia or mix of types ? Best Hagop

An article published Monday in "Computers, Materials, & Continua" identifies leading indicators of which patients will go on to develop ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). From the abstract: Among the features identified as possible indicators: A pdf of the full article can be...

If oxygen is effective against bacteria virus and cancer why isn't it used against coved-19? DMSO is known to bond with certain substances and could carry HP into the blood stream and kill off COVID-19.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/mathematics-life-and-death-how-disease-models-shape-national-shutdowns-and-other This shows how policy can be informed about differing effects of control policies in different environments. One of the bleak aspects of UK choices is shown as a graph...

Ben Sparks uses https://www.GeoGebra.org to explain (and code) the so-called SIR Model being used to predict the spread of cornavirus (COVID-19). A pretty cool way to visualize a set of differential equations.

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin have been reported (By SEOM, Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica, by US President and others) to be a promising combination to treat COVID-19. A study leaded by French doctor Didier Raoult has yielded the following results: Why could such a combination...

I didn't see a thread so far in the Medical forum that addressed the specific innovations that are being worked on to help combat this pandemic, so I thought I'd start this thread. There is a thread about trying to use a single ventilator to serve multiple critical Patients (Pts) in ICU, but...

How does this work? Do you just parallel the tubing to the ET tubes? Or is there more to it? Seems like a risky move, but in these times, it may be necessary... https://abc7news.com/new-york-to-allow-hospitals-to-treat-two-patients-with-one-ventilator/6052788/ From the link in the article...

The goal is to 'flatten the curve' in terms the spread of Covid-19/corona virus. Hence, what about recommending effective gargling (3 times or more daily) with an anti-septic like Cepacol or Listerine (alcohol version) and going to the source of the problem, which is the throat/oro-pharynx? The...

I emphasize that I am not posing a rhetorical question, and am not trying to make a political statement (and would ask all respondents to steer clear of politics), but would genuinely appreciate knowing whether the report in question is considered valid by those in the field who are impartial...

Do we have data to give any perspective on these questions regarding COVID-19 victims - If a patient is deemed to need a respirator, what is the expected morbidity for them at that time if they are put on a respirator? I assume that without a respirator, the morbidity is close to 100%. Is...

I was looking for projections on how many will die from the new virus. Unfortunately I found only this site https://www.vox.com/2020/3/5/21165973/coronavirus-death-rate-explained but it is outdated as you can see. Perhaps it is because I'm not in the US? So that makes Google hide me a lot of...

I've read number of virus disaster novels, but I can't recall any of them predicting anything like what's actually going on now. Anybody know of novels where the author predicted details such as a moderately lethal virus - so not end of the world stuff - leading to lock down and governments...

My apologies if already posted here or somewhere else. These articles are about what a clinical ventilator is, what problems improper use can cause and what parts are some people creating by 3-D printing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_valve_mask...

The author, John Burn-Murdoch, shows here ( https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1237748598051409921.html ) how the logarithmic scale can give a better "sense" of what is happening. In linear scales, some countries' data is squashed to almost nonexistent, while others explode out of control. I...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3075567/people-blood-type-may-be-more-vulnerable-coronavirus-china-study This is a news report on a Chinese study, not a journal article Type O population of confirmed patients were disproportionately less like to die and less likely to become...

interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832?fbclid=IwAR3KtTRFTp9eb0aA-8ThVONEMGeGhecOnjMJtIblbClp8ufahx71HOFSWdg Objective: As the prevention and control of COVID-19continues to advance, the active nucleic acid test screening in the close contacts of the patients has been...

I have a question both with regards to the current virus as well as to other potential diseases that are carried around in aerosol form, I have seen that commonly all hand sanitizers or sanitizers in general that use substances that are safe to humans use alcohol in some form. So I would presume...

An interview on NPR with virologists discussed the reasons that this current viral pandemic is different than others in the past. Key differences were: - Ability to make new viruses - apparently 1000 times more prolific than flu. - Unlike flu viruses, it does not appear to mutate because it...

There's a good chance that the spread of the COVID-19 virus will cause colleges and universities to suspend on-ground class meetings. I know that UC Berkeley and UCLA have already done so to some degree, and the schools I teach at have suggested instructors prepare the possibility by getting...

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hello i came across an old article about crystalline shape of AEC2 receptor that is been some how associated with covid-19 my question dose knowing the crystalline profile of protein receptors some how can help with finding a better aid against this kind of outbreaks and how crystalline...

<mentor - moved to general discussion> Wondering if the containment attempts are failing and this will be a world-wide pandemic. To put this in perspective, flu has something like a 0.5% mortality rate and this Coronavirus is 2-3% (far less than SARS or MERS) so in the US 80,000 people died of...