COVID-19/Coronavirus Information and Support Thread (see OP for useful links)

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...An interesting article popped up in my local news feed.

Cape Town hospitals prove oxygen therapy can improve Covid-19 patients' survival rate

It's regarding a treatment called "high-flow nasal oxygen", which apparently saw noticeable success in a couple of South African hospitals suffering from a lack of ventilators. The result of the treatment has been published in a medical journal run by Lancet, with the link to it in the article itself.

I'm not smart enough to make heads nor tails of what the Lancet study says, but it does sound rather encouraging.

Edit: just noticed that the sample pool was less than 300 patients. I guess it's still a bit of unknown, then...
 
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Touring Mars
The 'blended learning' idea that you guys are talking about sounded/sounds eminently sensible to me, as is the idea that parents should have the option of whether to keep their kids at home or not.
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It was probably the best option available from a pretty awful situation, but it's not without issues. For students my daughter's age, who are able to work a bit more independently, it has merit. Though it does also bring a whole new set of problems. But for younger children, who are too young to be left at home alone, let alone not mature and responsible enough to log in and follow lessons remotely, there are no easy solutions. Even staying home for 2 or 3 days per week with their children is not an easy option for some parents.

And on the flip side, just six weeks into the school term, with her class effectively split into two groups, my wife has already come to the dour realization that there is no way they're going to be able to accomplish what they typically set out to do in a single school year. The school, the local board of education and the state of New Jersey have very clear guidelines what they need to accomplish and what the students should be able to comprehend (i.e. their reading level, their writing level, their basic math skills, basic science knowledge). Mind you, she teaches at a first grade level but at this age, teaching revolves around a lot of repetitive enforcement, which they're not able to do. And she's finding herself rushing through lessons and covering material at a pace which earns her too many blank looks.

There will be many tolls of the Covid crisis which which we have not yet even begun to realize.
 
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Back to work finally!
 
It seems that we've developed tests that give the results within the hour that are as good and reliable as the one where they try to poke your brain out. One of them is a breathalyser type of test.
 
Dennisch
It seems that we've developed tests that give the results within the hour that are as good and reliable as the one where they try to poke your brain out. One of them is a breathalyser type of test.
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The breathalyser one can also tell how many Coronas you have drunk as well, which can result in some embarrassment.

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The UK has now reported more positive tests in the last 6 days than China has in total...
 
Touring Mars
The breathalyser one can also tell how many Coronas you have drunk as well, which can result in some embarrassment.

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The UK has now reported more positive tests in the last 6 days than China has in total...
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So if you test positive and drank 3 Coronas.... does the quadruple positive mean you don't have it?
 
Danoff
Colorado just hit an all time high in terms of cases per day, we appear to be taking off.
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Was just there for a few days. In most of the smaller towns on the west side of the state, mask wearing was minimal. Even with signs on the doors.
 
R1600Turbo
Was just there for a few days. In most of the smaller towns on the west side of the state, mask wearing was minimal. Even with signs on the doors.
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Yea, it looks like the major expansion of cases in in Denver and the surrounding areas, where mask wearing is pretty common, and statewide it is required indoors.
 
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I've got my first practical class a week on Wednesday :ill: A 3-hr practical with 2nd year undergrad students.

I'll be wearing my McLaren FFP3 mask for the duration, so hopefully that will come in handy... I should really charge it to work, since it was pretty expensive.

Anyway, I reckon there's a chance it might get shifted to online - seems a bit crazy to still be organising practicals given the current state of play with COVID-19.
 
This is sorta off-topic, but I thought it was funny:

Would spraying some kind of oil — like WD-40 or a silicone or lube-type spray — on the outside of my mask help trap viral particles better?
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The guy's heart is in the right place since he clearly wants to help himself and others be even more safe, and I can almost make the jump with him into thinking "K&N Filter = Face mask;" but much more noteworthy and amusing to me is the long answer the editor gave from scientists about how trapping bacteria like that could be extra dangerous and it could damage the efficiency of the natural filtration of the mask, and nothing at all about for the love of God don't spray something in WD-40 and put it in your face all day.
 
Things just get better during an already tough time for me personally.
I've been in contact with a positive covid case.
Now I have to get tested.
I work at a school.
By default, no work until test results.
No work, no pay.
Screws over all of my colleagues too.
English programme closed as a precaution.

Cheers.
 
Well mister loud mouth himself, University of Florida head coach Dan Mullen, who said after their game with Texas A&M last week in which they lost that he wanted 90,000 fans in "The Swamp" this weekend for their game with LSU (which got postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak among the Florida players) has himself tested positive for COVID-19.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...tors-coach-dan-mullen-tests-positive-covid-19

I hope he does recover and his family is healthy but he should have NEVER said he wanted the stadium packed with fans. It was a stupid and irresponsible comment.
 
Jezza819
Well mister loud mouth himself, University of Florida head coach Dan Mullen, who said after their game with Texas A&M last week in which they lost that he wanted 90,000 fans in "The Swamp" this weekend for their game with LSU (which got postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak among the Florida players) has himself tested positive for COVID-19.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...tors-coach-dan-mullen-tests-positive-covid-19

I hope he does recover and his family is healthy but he should have NEVER said he wanted the stadium packed with fans. It was a stupid and irresponsible comment.
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I disagree life has to go on. It should be the over 65 isolating and the rest getting about normal lives.
 
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Of course life has to go on, but thats going to look far from normal,

https://news.sky.com/story/influenc...covid-19-after-denying-its-existence-12107174
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Do you have more information on his general health? The first thing I think about when I read "fitness influencer" is steroid abuse.. He would have been the 5th person in his age group to die from covid if he had lived in the Netherlands on a population of 17 million and number 391 in de age group 0 to 65. (age group 0 to 35 is at 8 covid deaths for the Netherlands)
 
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VolkswagenX
Do you have more information on his general health? The first thing I think about when I read "fitness infulencer" is steroid abuse.. He would have been the 5th person in his age group to die from covid if he had lived in the Netherlands on a population of 17 million and number 391 in de age group 0 to 65. (age group 0 to 35 is at 8 covid death for the Netherlands.
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Why would you think fitness influencer = steroid abuse?

I have no more information about his general health other than what the article presents

“promotes healthy living and fitness influencer...” which in of itself doesn’t present anything other than what someone wants to present publicly who makes a living from a public presentation.

What is most interesting is he thought he was one of the “invincible” ones, my case isn't about who is more at risk compared to others in different age groups, there is just no way of knowing whose life is more at risk than others (within age groups), which 35 year old will die, or which 21 year old will die compared to another of the same age.

So to expect “normal” to reappear is unrealistic. Moreover if I became a “spreader” which lead to the deaths of any person of any age could I live with myself? Do I value my freedoms over that of anyones life? Frankly no, I am more than willing to do my bit however small, to reduce transmission and therefore get us the time needed for science to catch up to be able to save more people.
 
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rono_thomas
Why would you think fitness influencer = steroid abuse?

I have no more information about his general health other than what the article presents

“promotes healthy living and fitness influencer...” which in of itself doesn’t present anything other than what someone wants to present publicly who makes a living from a public presentation.
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I'm not saying he was on steroids because I don't know him and I've never heard of him before you brought him up. All I know is that I used to follow a few of the "healthy lifestyle/fitness" types on social media and most of them turned out to be frauds promoting body types that can only be obtained with using roids. I can't prove it, but he does look like he was on something other than protein shakes..

What is most interesting is he thought he was one of the “invincible” ones, my case isn't about who is more at risk compared to others in different age groups, there is just no way of knowing whose life is more at risk than others (within age groups), which 35 year old will die, or which 21 year old will die compared to another of the same age.

So to expect “normal” to reappear is unrealistic. Moreover if I became a “spreader” which lead to the deaths of any person of any age could I live with myself? Do I value my freedoms over that of anyones life? Frankly no, I am more than willing to do my bit however small, to reduce transmission and therefore get us the time needed for science to catch up to be able to save more people.
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Statistics show that there is a very low risk of dying from Covid-19 in the age group 0 to 50 and it slowly pics up after that. Yeah it's bad and I would rather not get it, but we are now acting like getting it is a death sentence and that is simply not true. Even a healthy person at 65 has a very high chance of serviving this.

I would rather have our government focus on higher risk groups instead of destroying the lives of healthy young people with very low risk of heaving health problems or dying from covid.
 
I get the impression that people who deny the virus exists and actively avoid any kind of preventative measures are more at risk than those who at least try to protect themselves and others. But let's listen to what the virologists and epidemiologists recommend rather than just going with our gut feelings, eh?
 

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