Covid-19

[X Factor]

I don't know when that interview occurred, but based on the graphic under that doctor, 45,000 more people have died since it was filmed.

And do you know what is the median age of the people who have died from Covid-19?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c....htm#AgeAndSex

That's why it's stupid to close schools, cancel sports, etc. If you're young, there is virtually no risk.

Keep the elderly safe and let everyone else go about their lives.

[Muskie in dayton]

I’ve read several studies that show masks to be effective with aerosols. But the real answer is “it depends”... on material, fit, etc.

Why did Fauci day in January? It’s 48 minutes long...

Sorry, it starts at minute 44. He said very emphatically, and I roughly quote: "In all the history of respiratory-borne illness of any type, the asymptomatic transmission is never a driver for major outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person.

[X-man]

I have argued on this thread that there should be enough data on covid and the demographics of who is getting sick and what they did that caused the infection that publication of such information would be extraordinarily helpful to each of us trying to decide the risk level each of us faces at various activities. Such a calculation is critical for making good decisions as to what each of us might choose to do weighing benefits and costs. An economist at Brown, Emily Oster, is advocating doing just that, and is working to get such a database available. Emily is an extraordinary economist, and one whose work I have followed ever since she wrote her doctoral dissertation at Harvard on why standard AIDS policy recommendations make no sense when it comes to much of Africa. I predict that she will win the Nobel Prize in economics some day.

Here is the link: http://https://www.washingtonpost.co...ge%2Fstory-ans.

[GoMuskies]

Your link is broken. Maybe one too many http/https?

[Lloyd Braun]

Is this it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini....co/nGeiptzMfJ

[Lloyd Braun]

Sorry, it starts at minute 44. He said very emphatically, and I roughly quote: "In all the history of respiratory-borne illness of any type, the asymptomatic transmission is never a driver for major outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person.

Is he now saying asymptomatic people are the main drivers of outbreaks? Even if he is, there is a first time for everything. I’m not sure asymptomatic people are the main drivers of outbreaks in this though either.

Edit: here is a study that approximated half of cases due to asymptomatic and presymptomatic people. Probably not constitutes as THE driver for outbreaks but A driver of outbreaks.

Our results indicate that silent disease transmission during the presymptomatic and asymptomatic stages are responsible for more than 50% of the overall attack rate in COVID-19 outbreaks. Furthermore, such silent transmission alone can sustain outbreaks even if all symptomatic cases are immediately isolated.

[X-man]

Is this it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini....co/nGeiptzMfJ

Yes.

[STL_XUfan]

Turns out the answer was shit all along:

https://www.kold.com/2020/08/27/wast...cases-ua-dorm/

In all seriousness hopefully this idea works and can be implemented at more colleges.

[GIMMFD]

For those that are interested in epidemiology, virology, prevention of the thing, here's a great link: UpToDate: COVID 19, this is the link for clinicians, but what UpToDate is basically is a database that compiles the most recent information and makes it basically like a Wikipedia page with it's sources pulled from medical research journals. It's a quick way to make sure you're well.. up to date on something, it's pretty beneficial in practice when you see a zebra every now and then. They made the COVID information completely free, and it'll be quicker to reference stuff for you guys about respiratory droplet transmission/how long it survives on surfaces/etc.

And if anybody wants the patient/societal information, here's a link to where you can scroll through and click on the particular question you may have, absent of all of the fun whacky medical words we like to throw in. Society guideline links: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – Resources for patients

[XU_Lou]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website disclosed the shockingly small number of people who died from only the Wuhan coronavirus, with no other cause of death mentioned. Hold on to your hat because here it is: out of the 161,392 deaths in the CDC data, just six percent, about 9,700 deaths, were attributed to the coronavirus alone. According to the CDC, the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of deaths, such as heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronso...virus-n2575306