That's certainly true, but as an epidemiologist he shouldn't be implying they will/could happen when he has no evidence that they will. If he does throw those things out at least present the studies where he is basing his ideas from. I tried to do some quick research and did find that coronaviruses can have possible long term issues in rare cases. Respiratory infections certainly can have longer term issues.
If Swedish social distancing is dramatically slowing the virus Finland must be just about disease free.
From what I read, mild cases don't appear to have long term impact (too early to be sure). Severe cases do appear to have long term impact (too early to be sure to what extend and for how long but I recall 20-35% have lung, heart, kidney, and/or neurological impact after recovery). Of course, if you were on a vent, that probably go way up. I think it's a good reminder that this thing is new and we won't know for awhile... be careful, respect it and don't take it lightly.
This is the problem with relying on Twitter for news. He's a guy with 1000 followers posting his own thoughts and opinions. If this was on CNN or some medical journal, that would be one thing. But twitter is not that. You're holding him to standards of sourced journalism, which is not what he is trying to offer.
Well things seem to be looking better for once. Sundays are always iffy to gather data from, but today we hit a new daily high in tests processed at 167k and 16.2% were positive. That is basically the lowest number since we have started wide scale testing. Daily deaths are up on the week but down from their peak this week. Last Sunday we were at 1564 deaths and today we are at 1654. However, we did peak mid-week at 2492 deaths. I think the trend downward for daily deaths will finally be sustained this time around. New York percent positive continues to decline to 28.9% and the rolling 4 day average of daily deaths has been declining everyday for the past 8 days. That number has dropped from 784 deaths at its peak to 632 today. Also, NJ percent positive finally dropped below 50% to 47.6%. That's the lowest number in 3 weeks.
For those following the hydroxychloroquine saga in the US : Novartis, U.S. drug regulator agree to malaria drug trial against COVID-19 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ria-drug-trial-against-covid-19-idUSKBN2220DW Excerpt : Novartis (NOVN.S) has won the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct a randomized trial of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 disease, the Swiss drugmaker said on Monday, to see if it helps patients. The decades-old generic medicine got FDA emergency use authorization this month for its unapproved use for coronavirus disease, but so far there is no scientific proof it works. There are currently no approved COVID-19 medicines. Novartis plans to start recruiting 440 patients for its Phase III, or late-stage, trial within weeks at more than a dozen U.S. sites. Results will be reported as soon as possible, the company added.
Wow. I never heard of this dish and googled it and just looks mouthwatering. I wish I could travel all over and taste all these amazing dishes.
Excuse me robbie but what you are expecting? Epidemiological population studies on the chronical consequences on covid19 pneumonia? The pandemic is only 4 months old. This is like expecting from a newborn to start doing cartwheels. They first have to grow up, start walking so we can see what they can do. HOWEVER there are already studies that describe patients developing Barr-Stein tetraplegia, studies from Wuhan that show patients with limited lung capacity, damage to their kidneys and their heart. For the reliable evidence you are asking for we need 10 years. But in the meantime evidence or no evidence, people are going to be sufferring. It is also the duty of a doctor to warn people on the consequences. By the point when he has the studies on hand, it may be too late. Especially since there are millions of idiots who think that it's not a big deal. We know that there are severe sequelae we just don't know how prevalent they are. They are prevalent enough to have shown in one city, Wuhan in a significant number of people. They are prevalent enough to pose a public health risk
I was going to say it was some kind of flying horse demon. I know flying foxes get to be huge, but I couldn't tell you if this is one. Whatever it is, I don't think I'd ever want to hold one.
I used to watch youtube videos of fruit bats and think they were cuties. Being fed bananas cuddling, getting tickled. Now I have become completely bat phobic. Don't want to get near any of these virus infected beasts
It feels like forever ago when people on the chronicle's comment sec. complained about closing the Rodeo down. Did the people get their refunds?
