Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f8bfor/hi_this_is_a_risk_analysis_from_the_german/

"In the paper the Scenario is mostly same with what actually happens. Sars
coronavirus from south east Asia comes via Two People to germany. What
german goverment will do. Impact on industrys, people and so on. Numbers
for you: day 180 After first infection, 4.000.000 people simoltanously sick,
healthcare Collapse if Epidemic measures are from the beginning are
implemented. Without 7.500.000 sick. Day 800 or so deaths around 7.500.000.
Not all direct linked to Virus but all serious Sick People are in trouble."

[Ike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkb4TMT_Cc

Video showing a side profile of a mask wearer with aerosol coming out.

[Ike]

r - The WHO sent 25 international experts to China and here are their main findings after 9 days

"The most common symptoms are fever (88%) and dry cough (68%). Exhaust-
ion (38%), expectoration of mucus when coughing (33%), shortness of breath
(18%), sore throat (14%), headaches (14%), muscle aches (14%), chills
(11%) are also common. Less frequent are nausea and vomiting (5%), stuffy
nose (5%) and diarrhoea (4%). Running nose is not a symptom of Covid."

[delovski]

r - First-hand tips from Wuhan

"Hellu friends! These are just some things off the top of my head that I
thought would be helpful in case your city goes into lockdown. I wish things
won't ever get bad enough for you to come back here for reference but just
in case they do, here are some things that might be helpful!

- Have a system in place

Work out a system, coordinate w your neighbours how everyone will get
food/necessities when the quarantine begins. This might mean a couple of
things

i) Have volunteers. These are the people who will coordinate/facilitate stuff
so everyones needs will be met. For example, my grandfather is diabetic,
but we can't go to the chemist to get his meds. So, we take photos of his
prescription, send them to one of the volunteers, who will then collate
requests from other residents and visit the chemist to help get meds on
everyones behalf.

ii) Organise pickups like the one in the video. You can see the volunteers
have a list and they're calling out numbers and the resident w the
corresponding number comes forward to pick up his groceries. But this is
just the final step. Every building has a representative, each household tells
that rep how many people there are in their household. Rep reports to
volunteers, volunteers collect food from vendors, pack them, assign
numbers to package and residents, call around 10 residents down to collect
at a time...

These are just some examples of what's going on in my own neighbourhood.
Don't have to do what we do but point is, talk to your neighbours
beforehand and come up w a system that works for you.

Also, be nice to volunteers and don't request ridiculous stuff. They're not
your errand boy. They've given up their time to help so don't be an ass. i.e.
don(t haggle w the volunteers. They're not the ones setting the price and if
they tell you can only get 1kg of flour, don't ask for 213g and start yelling at
them when they tell you that's not possible... Some people also requested
for alcohol like bruh... we just trynna stay alive now so maybe get pissed
after this blows over

- Plan for your pets!!!

i) Leave your precious cattos at the doggy daycare (but like for cats idk what
it's called) or at a friends even if you're only going away for a weekend. They
literally announced the lockdown one day before it kicked in so people who
were away couldn't possibly make it back in time to make appropriate
arrangements for their pets. Thank goodness my friend left her cats at the
daycare before she left wuhan cuz she still isn't able to come back yet. Many
people have already lost their cats it's really sad.

ii) Don't forget about stocking up for you pets! Food, cat litter, medication
etcetc

- Leave your outerwear outside

i) If you really do have to go out, try to wear the same coat/shoes and don't
bring them back into the house. Or if you really have to, take them straight
to the wash. On top of masks, people wear disposable rain ponchos, shoe
covers, gloves. Take them off at the door and dispose of them properly
before going into your house. Also, what my mum does is, she will call me to
let me know she'll be home in 5 mins, I'll then take a new set of clothes and
fresh towel for her and leave them in the bathroom. Once she's home, she
can go straight to the shower and wouldn't need to walk around the house
looking for a change of clothes and stuff.

- Don't use cash

Cuz cash iz nasty!! Or at least try not to if possible. You don't know who has
touched it before. It's easy in china since most people already use wechat
pay/Alipay even in normal times. Also, on a similar note, make sure you
have enough money in your bank account for bills. We pay for
electricity/water/gas/internet thru their apps but if you don't alr do that
maybe set one up so they won't be cut during the quarantine when you can't
physically go out to pay.

- Disinfect often (esp your phone!)

Even if you wash your hands every 5 mins if you never disinfect your phone,
there's really no point. If you're just staying in it's still not too bad you
maybe get away w wiping down your phone w alcohol wipes every week or
so but if you're still out and about please disinfect your phone like everyday.

- Stay active

In the event that your city really goes into lockdown for an indefinite amount
of time, try to stay active even if it's just walking around the house. It's a
stressful time ngl and maybe you just want to stay in bed all day but you'll
feel much better if you actually did something I'm serious. I don't think I
have to go in depth about the benefits of exercise on your mental health I'm
sure everyone knows so this is really just a reminder to please stay active.
It'll really help w the anxiety and stress. There are heaps of things to do like
yoga and whatnot so just hop onto youtube and get moving!"

[Ike]

https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/svijet/kao-da-me-pregazio-parni-valjak-nevjerojatna-ispovijest-britanca-koji-je-u-wuhanu-zarazen-dok-jos-nitko-nije-ni-cuo-za-covid-19/10056451/

KAO DA ME PREGAZIO PARNI VALJAK' Nevjerojatna ispovijest Britanca u Wuhanu

[delovski]

git - Corona Virus Tracker & Advices iOS App with SwiftUI

"Current statistics of global total confirmed, deaths, recovered cases.
Statistics of countries and regions total cases count
World map with annotation pin and description of affected regions
Datasets is provided by ArcGIS Esri Corona Virus dataset.
Basic advice to prevent and handle"

git - Coronavirus tracker app for iOS with maps & charts

"The app shows a distribution map, charts, and a timeline for every country.
You can also see the data at city level for the US, Canada, and Australia,
and at province level for China."

[delovski]

r - What it's like in China 03.06

"As said previously, what amazes me as a westerner was the willingness and
the desire of the people to take these actions and take them seriously. Full
scale adoption and compliance from the people. Absolutely incredible. And
this is what it takes."

[Ike]

YT - Coronavirus expert: 'War is an appropriate analogy'

"CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Dr Richard
Hatchett explains the long-term dangers of the Covid-19 coronavirus, saying
it's the scariest outbreak he's dealt with in his 20-year career."

[Ike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezikcoCr4o


Matrix

[Ike]

I think most people aren't aware of the risk of systemic healthcare
failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven't run the numbers
yet. Let's talk math.

"As COVID19 cases saturate virtually every state and county, which seems
likely to happen any day now, it will soon be irresponsible for all HCWs to not
wear a mask. These HCWs would burn through N95 stockpile in 2 days if each
HCW only got ONE mask per day."

[Ike]

http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article52289

Expert Advice: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/f8a45l/this_guy_predicted_italy_if_what_he_is_saying_is/

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/ff1kp0/an_expert_on_the_1918_spanish_flu_epidemic_about/

An expert on the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic (about 50-100 million people
died) wrote an article 2 yrs ago on lessons of why that outbreak was so
deadly. His conclusion: govt officials, desperate to keep morale up during
WWI, didn't tell the truth. And because the govt lied, more people died.

[Ike]

r -Testimony of a Surgeon working in Bergamo, the heart of the Coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

"Because that's the difference (now I get a little technical): in classical flu,
besides that it infects much less population over several months, cases are
complicated less frequently: only when the virus has destroyed the
protective barriers of our airways and as such it allows bacteria (which
normally resident in the upper airways) to invade the bronchi and lungs,
causing a more serious disease. Covid 19 causes a banal flu in many young
people, but in many elderly people (and not only) a real SARS because it
invades the alveoli of the lungs directly, and it infects them making them
unable to perform their function. The resulting respiratory failure is often
serious and after a few days of hospitalization, the simple oxygen that can
be administered in a ward may not be enough. Sorry, but to me, as a doctor,
it's not reassuring that the most serious are mainly elderly people with other
pathologies. The elderly population is the most represented in our country
and it is difficult to find someone who, above 65 years of age, does not take
at least a pill for high blood pressure or diabetes."

[delovski]

r - Coronavirus, doctor in Bergamo: 'It's like a war, we have to
choose who to treat and who not'

"The doctor: Stay at home, you have no idea what's going on in here"

[Ike]

EuropeLeading German virologist: summer will decrease R0 only by 0.5 from 3.0 to 2.5 (n-tv.de)

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/ffuetd/leading_german_virologist_summer_will_decrease_r0/

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fh18tj/my_husband_is_suspected_to_have_covid19_he_has/fk8apc2/

My husband is suspected to have COVID-19. He has been sick for 16 days. I
wrote an essay of our personal experience with the disease and the ordeal of
trying to get tested in the USA

[Ike]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/20/the-world-knows-an-apocalyptic-pandemic-is-coming/

The World Knows an Apocalyptic Pandemic Is Coming
But nobody is interested in doing anything about it.

[Ike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNjpH5lBZ8w

Experts devise do-it-yourself face masks to help people battle coronavirus

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/filzln/personal_protective_tips_from_a_wuhan_girl_who/

The most and most dangerous one, do not eat together with the patient, remember!

[Ike]

https://cv-masks.github.io

If you are wearing a homemade mask, then no medical professional or emergency service worker is being deprived of a mask. A list of "how to" articles on homemade face masks:

Doctor (Chen Xiaoting) from Tainan City in the far-east shares DIY cloth facemask how-to - Feb 7th 2020, Facebook (click translate in page)
Face Mask Sewing Pattern - 2013, Craft Passion (blog)
Face Mask - 2009, Cloth With Pegs (blog)
How to make your own mask: Hong Kong scientists reveal temporary solution for those unable to get protective gear - 14th Feb 2020, South China Morning Post
Made in Hong Kong face masks a joint effort by ?chemistry godfather? and social enterprise - 21st Feb 2020, Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong theatre group volunteers make reusable masks for medical workers to combat shortage - 20th Feb 2020, Youtube clip
HK Mask Manual (Unofficial) - videos and patterns based on Dr K Kwong's designs - Feb 2020
Your local "alteration service" can make you a facemask for $10/?7/?6 - (google maps link)

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fj1owh/over_half_of_the_coronavirus_patients_in/

Worth noting that the Chinese numbers were not so different for severe/critical. For example the 15-49 age group accounted for 41%:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
The reason people think it's just old people is that nearly all age breakdowns focus on the mortality rate with hospital care, rather than the ICU rate.

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fjuj24/5075_of_covid19_cases_are_completely_asymptomatic/

50-75% of COVID-19 cases are completely asymptomatic but contagious (a whole city got tested in Italy, ~3k population)

[delovski]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nCoronaVirus/comments/fk4ote/new_york_times_finally_tells_the_truth_about_masks/

Why Telling People They Don't Need Masks Backfired

"Now that we are facing a respirator mask shortage, the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that surgical masks are 'an
acceptable alternative' for health care workers - again, obviously because
some protection, even if imperfect, is better than none. In the face of this,
publicly presenting an absolute answer - 'You don't need them' - for
something that requires a qualified response just makes people trust
authorities even less."

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/

I'm Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA about COVID-19

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fmf0d4/an_excellent_interview_with_epidemiologist_larry/

"The N95 mask itself is extremely wonderful. The pores in the mask are three
microns wide. The virus is one micron wide. So you get people who say, well,
it's not going to work. But you try having three big, huge football players who
are rushing for lunch through a door at lunchtime -- they're not going to get
through. In the latest data I saw, the mask provided 5x protection. That's
really good. But we have to keep the hospitals going and we have to keep the
health professionals able to come to work and be safe. So masks should go
where they're needed the most: in taking care of patients."

[Ike]

What you need to know about surgical masks, N95 respirators and coronavirus

"Buying respirators online is a gamble because shoppers cannot confirm
whether they are built to the correct standards. Sellers on Amazon may
use deceptive keywords to get people to buy respirators that are not as
advertised."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/20/calling-all-people-who-sew-and-make-you-can-help-solve-2020-n95-type-mask-shortage/#5a3f5c954e41

Calling All People Who Sew And Make: You Can Help Make Masks For 2020 Healthcare Worker PPE Shortage

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fpmvxo/the_university_of_florida_has_developed_an/

USAThe University of Florida has developed an "innovative mask" that is supposedly 4% more effective than N95 respirator masks 5K-10k can be made per day simply from material UF Health hospitals typically throw away

[Ike]

The U.K. backed off on herd immunity. To beat COVID-19, we'll ultimately need it

"Finally, a team at Imperial informing the government's response put up-to-
date COVID-19 data into the historical models that the UK plan was based on
Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf, and predicted in a
best case scenario 250,000 deaths and excess of 8x surge capacity of UK
intensive cares. They concluded that our approach was wrong, and that
Epidemic suppression is the only viable strategy at the current time"

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fnt1j7/italys_1st_known_virus_patient_leaves_hospital/flc9y3d/

On the 8th day, my condition deteriorated extremely rapidly, roughly 3 hours. Experienced shortness of breath. Also the mucus lining of my trachea felt like it was stripped off. Breathing burned. And every breath felt like it wasn't enough.

If I tried exerting myself in any way, including mentally, the symptoms would get worse and the shortness of breath would return. Even as I type this comment, I'm making a conscious effort to be slow and methodical. The symptoms also got worse when eating. I attribute this to my body reserving energy for immune defense (thinking and digesting are both energy intensive).

[delovski]

vice - Surveillance Company Says It's Deploying 'Coronavirus-Detecting' Cameras in US

"Our Fever Detection COVID19 Screening System is now a part of our platform
along with our gun detection system which connects directly to your current
security camera system to deliver fast, accurate threat detection"

[delovski]

sd - Koronavirus je svugdje, zaraziti se neće samo oni koji mijenjaju navike: donosimo najveći znanstveno potvrdjeni vodic kako zastiti svoj dom od virusa

Pranje ruku
Koja sredstva najbolje ubijaju virus?
Trebam li se izuvati kad dodjem kući?
Koje dijelove stana ocistiti nakon povratka kući?
Kako se ponasati nakon kupovine?
Sto uciniti s kupljenom hranom?
Kako odrzavati vlagu u prostorijama?

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fppga1/a_british_company_behind_a_10minute_coronavirus/


A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validation

[Ike]

https://www.covid19-archive.com/?repost

Project (/r/all)I started to collect news articles connected to the virus, and categorize them by date, to see, how did this whole thing evolve. The website is not finished, but you are alredy able to read news from january/february 2020.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fr632u/i_started_to_collect_news_articles_connected_to/

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/frl4ri/notes_by_a_doctor_diagnosis_planning_and_treatment/

I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have now seen several hundred Covid 19 patients and this is what I think I know.

[Ike]

US intelligence warned in November that coronavirus spreading in China could be 'cataclysmic event': report

"You know who would have read that report? The white house world pandemic
team. Had they not all been fired in 2018"

[Ike]

yt - I Found The Source of the Coronavirus

[Ike]

y - How 'My Corona' made Voice star Chris Mann the Weird Al of the COVID-19 era

[Ike]

r - In 1918, there was an anti-mask league in San Francisco

"In 1918, there was an anti-mask league in San Francisco, which objected to
wearing masks to prevent the spread of influenza. They held meetings of
thousands of maskless people. San Francisco was ultimately was one of the
cities that suffered most from the Spanish Influenza pandemic."

[Ike]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/best-coronavirus-face-mask-materials-new-study-120000624.html

"Based on a combination of breathability and filtration effectiveness, the study
recommended denim, bed sheets (80-120 thread count), paper towels, canvas
(0.4-0.5mm thick) and shop towels for homemade masks."

[Ike]

njutarnji - VELIKI OBRAT U SINGAPURU

Bogata grad-drzava od zvijezde borbe protivkorone pretvorila se u sustu
suprotnost, evo u cemu su najvise pogrijesili

[Ike]

r - Doctors puzzled by COVID toes

"Doctors puzzled by COVID toes - purple blotches that are appearing on
children's toes, and occasionally fingers, that seem to be an indicator that
a child is an asymptomatic carrier of coronavirus"

[Ike]

Johns Hopkins Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic

"Johns Hopkins University is hosting a free, publicly available course entitled
Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Johns Hopkins University
Experts. This course is set up as a series of short modules to explore the
COVID-19 pandemic. Registration is not required."

[Ike]

Coronavirus: Hospital cuts COVID-19 death rates with 'black boxes' for sleep disorder

"Doctors at Warrington Hospital have modified devices known as 'black boxes'
which usually treat sleep apnoea - a condition which means breathing stops
and starts whilst sleeping."

[delovski]

r - Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe COVID-19

"In those studies I read, vitamin d supplements were just as useful as vitamin
d produced from sunlight in fulfilling its role in the body. The caveat, of course,
is that the vitamin d is taken properly, with a fatty meal or with something like
coconut oil already blended in with the vitamin d."

[Ike]

guardian - Revealed: the inside story of the UK's Covid-19 crisis

"The day after the 2 March Cobra meeting and SPI-M statement, Johnson held
the first televised press conference with Vallance and Chris Whitty, the chief
medical officer. Whitty did say solemnly that a worst-case scenario estimated
80% of people could become infected, and 1% of those could die, but the
message best remembered is Johnson joshingly telling the nation: 'I was at a
hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus
patients and I shook hands with everybody.'"

[delovski]

outlookindia - Vitamin D Linked To Low COVID-19 Death Rate In
European Countries

"The highest average levels of vitamin D are found in northern Europe, due to
the consumption of cod liver oil, and vitamin D supplements, and possibly less
sun avoidance, the researchers said."

[Ike]

sciencemag - Finally, a virus got me

Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19

"After fighting viruses all over the world for more than 40 years, I have
become an expert in infections. I'm glad I had corona and not Ebola, although
I read a scientific study yesterday that concluded you have a 30% chance of
dying if you end up in a British hospital with COVID-19. That's about the same
overall mortality rate as for Ebola in 2014 in West Africa. That makes you lose
your scientific level-headedness at times, and you surrender to emotional
reflections. They got me, I sometimes thought. I have devoted my life to
fighting viruses and finally, they get their revenge. For a week I balanced
between heaven and Earth, on the edge of what could have been the end."

[Ike]

r - People who had covid-19 or know someone who did how bad was it?

[delovski]

telegraph.co.uk - Has the British scientific establishment made its biggest error in history?

"Government advisers became over-reliant on models that were both too
complex and too simplistic at the same time, and failed to challenge under-
lying assumptions. The Imperial College model does not take into account
high variability in social connectedness or susceptibility to infection among
otherwise similar people. We now know that about 10pc of 'superspreaders'
cause 80% of infections, primarily because they meet many more people -
which also makes them much more likely to become infected."

[delovski]

That guy: https://i.imgur.com/7NZJQW6.jpg

[delovski]

y - Think a 'mild' case of Covid-19 doesn't sound so bad? Think again

"It's almost like a blow to your ego to be in your 20s and healthy and active,
and get hit with this thing and think you're going to get better and you're going
to be OK. And then have it really not pan out that way"

[Ike]

r - Lower cognitive ability linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak

"The study found that the most relevant mental ability was working memory.
What's that?

Working memory is a limited capacity store for retaining information for a
brief period while performing mental operations on that information. Working
memory is a multi-component system which includes the central executive,
visuospatial sketchpad, phonological loop, and episodic buffer. Working
memory is important for reasoning, learning and comprehension. Working
memory theories assume that complex reasoning and learning tasks require
a mental workspace to hold and manipulate information.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/working%20memory.html

What about fluid intelligence, which was mentioned in the news article?

Fluid intelligence indexes people's ability to identify the underlying rules or
concepts in novel problem-solving domains (Cattell, 1963; Horn, 1968). As
Cattell stated, 'Fluid general ability ... shows more in tests requiring
adaptation to new situations, where crystallized skills [domain-specific
knowledge] are of no particular advantage'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/fluid-intelligence

Working memory can change. For example, aging seems to weaken this
ability."

[delovski]

y - Inside Trump's Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus

"Over a critical period beginning in mid-April, President Donald Trump and his
team convinced themselves that the outbreak was fading, that they had given
state governments all the resources they needed to contain its remaining
'embers' and that it was time to ease up on the lockdown."

[delovski]

r - 26M - Recovered from COVID, wrote down my timeline

"I just recovered from COVID, confirmed infection though a positive antibody
test. Since the first day I strongly suspected it was COVID because of the
symptoms where familiar with 2009 H1N1 (Guess I already survived 2 pan-
demics). Since I have spent a lot of time researching about the disease, I was
curious about what I was going to experience, so I logged everything from day
one. I hope this information can be of help to others, and while each body is
different, maybe can serve as a guideline."

[Ike]

y - New study identifies 6 'clusters' of COVID-19 symptoms, could help 'predict' severe cases

"Cluster 1 ('flulike' with no fever): Headache, loss of smell, muscle pains,
cough, sore throat, chest pain, no fever

Cluster 2 ('flulike' with fever): Headache, loss of smell, cough, sore throat,
hoarseness, fever, loss of appetite

Cluster 3 (gastrointestinal): Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite,
diarrhea, sore throat, chest pain, no cough

Cluster 4 (severe level one, fatigue): Headache, loss of smell, cough, fever,
hoarseness, chest pain, fatigue

Cluster 5 (severe level two, confusion): Headache, loss of smell, loss of
appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain, fatigue, confusion, muscle pain

Cluster 6 (severe level three, abdominal and respiratory): Headache, loss of
smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain,
fatigue, confusion, muscle pain, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal
pain"

[delovski]

git - Stop COVID-19 Hrvatska

"The app is based on a service jointly developed by Google and Apple and uses
Bluetooth technology to enable the exchange of random 'keys' between smart
devices of users who are in close proximity. These randomly generated strings
of characters are changed several times a day, which guarantees maximum
protection of privacy. If a user tests positive, they can choose to share the keys
stored on their smartphone."

[delovski]

r - I had COVID-19, and these are the things nobody tells you

"Then there are the late nights, when your quarantine feels most acute - when
you are the most alone. You start coughing into a wet pillow and you can't stop
and your breath becomes ragged and your bed is soaking and you wonder, is
now the time? Do you try to drive yourself to the hospital? Do you call an am-
bulance? Are you just being a baby?"

[delovski]

r - Thread for how you got exposed to the virus?

"Did you leave your house? Do you know the time and place? I've heard a lot
of people say they were following all guidelines and still caught the virus and
are unsure how."

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/jfzq5o/how_to_use_face_id_with_a_mask_set_up_alternate/


How to use Face ID with a mask. Set up alternate appearance while covering 1/4 your face like this. Just tried and it works.

[delovski]

biomedcentral - Body temperature correlates with mortality in COVID-19 patients

"Importantly, patients presenting with BT ≤ 36C had the highest mortality
(26.5%, P = 0.003 relative to 36C < BT ≤ 37C), and this became even higher
when the analysis was restricted to those with BT ≤ 35.5C (44%), indicating
low body temperature at the initial presentation is a marker of poor prognosis."

[Ike]

elpais - A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air

"The risk of contagion is highest in indoor spaces but can be reduced by
applying all available measures to combat infection via aerosols. Here is an
overview of the likelihood of infection in three everyday scenarios, based on
the safety measures used and the length of exposure"

[delovski]

wbur - Pandemic Has 'Fat Tail' With More Superspreading Events Than Expected, MIT Study Finds

"What are the policy implications?

Policy-wise, I would say that our work suggests imposing a tight limit of around
10 people in a gathering. And actually, when we did a mathematical simulation
of this, a simulation in which everyone was limited to at most ten contacts, we
found out COVID would have rapidly died down."

[delovski]

y - Common cold antibodies hold clues to COVID-19 behavior; lung scans speed COVID-19 diagnosis in stroke patients

"Together, these findings may help explain higher COVID-19 susceptibility in
older people and provide insight into whether pre-established immunity to
seasonal coronaviruses offers protection against SARS-CoV-2"

[delovski]

r - Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of the Pandemic

"I'm a respiratory therapist working the covid ICU at my facility. Let me tell
you, it's wearing on us. Hard. My sanity is unraveling. We need help. I
personally will be seeking therapy soon. It's negatively impacting every
single area of my life.

I often fantasize about getting into an accident on the way to work so I don't
have to go. Or thinking about flushing my entire life down the drain, quitting
my job, moving back home. Being broke and hungry with no place to call my
own still seems better than going to work.

The insult to injury is just what you said. People scoffing at masks, laughing
at/disregarding the experts, etc.

Just tonight, I had the pleasure of caring for a COVID POSITIVE patient, in
the COVID ICU, STRUGGLING to breath, telling me she 'knows this whole
thing is a hoax to wreck Trumps presidency'. I'm just... sad. And tired."

[delovski]

Y - Five key genes linked to severe COVID-19 found, suggesting drug targets

"Five key genes are linked with the most severe form of COVID-19, scientists
said on Friday, in research that also pointed to several existing drugs that could
be repurposed to treat people who risk getting critically ill with the pandemic
disease."

[delovski]

r - This programmer reverse engineered the Pfizer mRNA vaccine source code

"Thinking of DNA/RNA as a programming code with file headers etc. is funny,
but even without that the breakdown and high level explanation of the different
segments was great.
...
This was incredibly fascinating and the writing was golden: The people that
discovered this should be walking around high-fiving themselves incessantly.
Unbearable amounts of smugness should be emanating from them. And it
would all be well deserved."

[delovski]

r - Physician Tells Senate, Ivermectin Is a COVID Wonder Drug: 'If You Take It, You Will Not Get Sick'

"In an impassioned presentation, Dr. Pierre Kory, a physician at Aurora St.
Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee, begged the National Institutes of Health
to review his study of Ivermectin, a drug that's been around for decades and
is used to treat parasites."

[Ike]

r - Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2

"The beginning of the process started with someone dropping the virus into
a RNA reader, which converted the RNA code into bytes on a disk.

Then scientists read and interpreted the code (more computer assistance)
and figured out which bits were harmless but characteristic.

Then the code got loaded to a RNA printer. The printed RNA gets loaded into
injections bundled up with nanoparticles that can get through your cell walls
(basically an artificial virus of our own).

This RNA then hijacks our own cellular processes in the same fashion as the
actual virus. These processes translate RNA into protein.

Our body detects this protein and thinks it's under attack, and sets up to
defend against the invaders. Then when the real virus comes, it's ready."

[Ike]

vitamind4all.org - Over 100 Scientists, Doctors, & Leading Authorities
Call For Increased Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19

"Evidence to date suggests the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic
sustains itself in large part through infection of those with low vitamin D,
and that deaths are concentrated largely in those with deficiency. The mere
possibility that this is so should compel urgent gathering of more vitamin D
data. Even without more data, the preponderance of evidence indicates that
increased vitamin D would help reduce infections, hospitalizations, ICU
admissions, & deaths."

[delovski]

Y - A Dentist Explains the Unusual Link Between Gum Disease and Severe COVID-19 Infection

"They found that COVID-19 patients with gum disease were nine times more
likely to die, 4.5 times more likely to require a ventilator, and 3.5 times more
likely to be admitted to the ICU than patients without signs of dental issues."

[Ike]

Y - 'When will it end?': How a changing virus is reshaping scientists' views on COVID-19

"Murray had until recently been hopeful that the discovery of several effective
vaccines could help countries achieve herd immunity, or nearly eliminate
transmission through a combination of inoculation and previous infection.

But in the last month, data from a vaccine trial in South Africa showed not
only that a rapidly-spreading coronavirus variant could dampen the effect of
the vaccine, it could also evade natural immunity in people who had been
previously infected."

[Ike]

prevention.com - Some People Who Had Mild COVID-19 Are Reporting Lingering Heart Rate Problems

"One study of 187 patients with COVID-19 that was published in JAMA
Cardiology found that nearly 28% of them had a cardiac issue that led to
heart dysfunction and arrhythmias, i.e. irregular heart beats."

[Ike]

y - India COVID-19 variant exhibits resistance; antibody drug shows promise

"Antibodies in blood from unvaccinated COVID-19 survivors and from people
who received both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were 3-fold to 6-fold
less potent against the India variant than against the UK variant and a variant
first identified in South Africa...

The two-dose AstraZeneca vaccine, which does not protect against the South
Africa variant, is likely to be ineffective against the India variant as well."

[Ike]

y - 12 signs of long COVID to discuss with your doctor

"That is, in part, why estimates of how common long COVID is vary widely. A
large UK study found that about one in 10 COVID-19 survivors will develop
long COVID - defined as experiencing lingering symptoms for more than three
weeks after being infected. A University of Washington estimate, meanwhile,
put the figure at closer to one in three COVID-19 patients."

[Ike]

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

[Ike]

covid-datascience.com - Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe
disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

"However, while these numbers are true, to quote them as evidence for low
vaccine efficacy is wrong and misleading. Sometimes, with observational data
there is confounding of multiple factors that can make it easy to misinterpret
simple percentages like this, and the current vaccination situation in Israel
brings a perfect storm of confounding factors that lead to confusion if not
thought through carefully."

[Ike]

u/Berkamin Makes the Case How Zinc and Hydroxychloroquine Falsely Became COVID-19 "Cure"

"COVID's effect on the endothelium and its formation of blood clots all over the
body appears to be why large numbers of men who get sick with COVID but
manage to recover still end up impotent. The infection badly damages the fine
blood vessels in their penises, giving them erectile dysfunction that Viagra
might not even be able to fix"

[Ike]

ctv - Doctors warn of possible rise of debilitating nervous-system disorder in patients with long COVID-19

"Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a form of dysautonomia,
which is an umbrella term used to describe several medical conditions that
cause the autonomic nervous system to malfunction. The autonomic nervous
system controls the body's 'automatic' functions, such as heart rate, blood
pressure, digestion, kidney function, and temperature control."

r - https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/q5j8tz/doctors_warn_of_possible_rise_of_debilitating/

"My neurologist did a pre-screen that's useful.

1 - Lie down for at least 2 minutes. Take BP/heart rate.
2 - Sit up for 2 minutes. Take BP/heart rate.
3 - Stand for 2 minutes. Take BP/heart rate.
The differences between those are not deterministic, but can be useful for
diagnosis."

[Ike]

r - COVID-19 Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3

"COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and
a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL
25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"

[Ike]

msn.com - Tilda Swinton refuses to follow Covid-19 protocols on film sets

"I'm about to shoot a picture in Ireland, and I was told to wear a mask at all
times, and I'm not...
... as she has already had Covid-19 multiple times. ... revealed to W magazine
that she was unable to get out of bed for three weeks when she had Covid-19
in August 2021. She was also suffering from long Covid, which had affected her
memory. ... I couldn't remember my lines."