Everything there is to know about Covid-19 (honest)

[cesanon]

Everything there is to know about Covid-19 (honest) - Last updated 3/28

It goes pretty deep. Some of the stuff is likely to be too deep for many of us. But still...

emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/

[LearnAll]

Thanks...Great info.

[kaptank]

Australia is trialling a TB vaccine for covid 19. Pretty large one too, directed at health workers. Netherlands, Germany and UK too.

sciencealert.com/australia-...

[noahware]

Wow... thank you.

[Fanger1]

Thank you for the post. It appears patients that are asymptomatic show positive signs on imaging. Everyone needs masks.

[kaptank]

Everyone needs to be tested. No exceptions, huge effort. Hundreds of billions of $. Orders of magnitude less than the depression heading at us. Nail it at a point in time, manage it from there. At the moment,a vaccine is just wishing for a miracle. If one comes along well hallelujah but betting the house on one is just idiocy.

[cesces in reply to kaptank]

Yes. The scarcity of test kits is actually having knock on effects.

For the cost of a few non-functional f35s, we could have blanketed the country early on with tests and would have avoided most or all of the current equipment shortages.

I hope there will be consequences for how poorly this has been handled to date.

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The Guardian: The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life.

theguardian.com/us-news/202...

[Claud68]

Thanks, canon, for this very complete information.

We can see here that until now the best medicine seems to be hydroxychloroquine . The most hospitals in southern France yet declared that they are ready to use it from now on with the antibiotic recommended by the French searchers in Marseille, to avoid any other bacterial infections in lungs.

[cesces in reply to Claud68]

It will be good to get some early clinical data on how and to what extent this will work.

Unfortunately there are already shortages of this drug.

And it can have some severe side effects that may impair it's use on the very health compromised patients that most need it.

[Claud68]

Sorry my automatic corrector reforms always cesanon to canon.

[j-o-h-n]

One more: Can I mail the virus to my ex-wife? If anyone can beat it, she can....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Sunday 03/29/2020 5:38 PM DST

[AlanLawrenson]

A report from Oz. Our TGA (FDA equivalent) have approved the use of twenty test kits for coronavirus in the last two weeks. Twelve are lab tests and 8 are point of care. Eight are of Chinese origin, one Oz, one Spanish with the rest USA origin. Our testing has been the highest in the world on a per capita basis. This has seen positives identified, their contacts traced and tested. This has flattened the infection curve significantly. The daily % increase in new positives is now less than 10% vs about 25% a week ago.

All people 70 + are told to completely isolate at home. All residents now returning are quarantined in 5 star hotels for 14 days straight from airport. Over 5000 cases nationally with 17 deaths all over 68 with co-morbidities. In my state of NSW, 23 in intensive care with 11 on ventilators.

Clinical trial running in more than 70 hospitals using hydroxychloroquine (HOC), or with another antibiotic added or an HIV drug. Initial results in one month. Reading what's happening with HOC internationally, it appears that it will become a front line therapy by May.

Manufacturing and construction industries still working. Most people are working from home. The roads are empty and road deaths are well down.

Sadly, the huge industry and citizen support packages is going to just about cripple our economy for generations to come.

Anyhow, I am of the view that Australia are getting on top of this terrible blight, and I forecast that by the end of May, things might start to return to near normal. I hope other countries follow or trend and that of Singapore, S. Korea and Taiwan. The common denominator: early and comprehensive testing.

Best wishes to you all.

[MateoBeach]

Since Hydroxychloroquine, as part of its mode of action, blocks angiotensin2 receptor which is involved in COVID infection, I wonder if there is any related benefit for those of us who are on an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) for blood pressure?