The F.D.A. authorizes the first coronavirus breath test.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/the-fda-authorizes-the-first-covid-19-breath-test.html
Posts Tagged ‘covid19’
14virus-brief-breath-sample – The New York Times
April 23, 2022Commit to transparent COVID data until the WHO declares the pandemic is over
April 14, 2022Liked the line: “A simple text file would do.” People should be more aware of how useful the most basic of formats is!
Does Part of Putin’s Wartime Mindset Reflect Pandemic Isolation? – The New York Times
March 6, 2022https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/putin-pandemic-mindset.html
QT:{{”
Now Mr. Putin has in-person visitors — including the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who met with Mr. Putin for about three hours on Saturday. (Mr. Putin’s residence and the Kremlin are outfitted with disinfectant tunnels that all visitors must pass through.)
Some of the world leaders who have met with Mr. Putin in recent diplomatic overtures were seated 20 feet from him at a behemoth of a table, having refused to submit to Russian P.C.R. tests that would make their DNA available to the Russians. Otherwise, people who meet him face-to-face generally have spent as long as two weeks in quarantine first.
Mr. Putin’s extreme caution reflects not only his age — he is 69, putting him at relatively high risk of severe illness from the coronavirus — but also what critics describe as paranoia honed during his former career as a K.G.B. spy.
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What Will the Next Variant Look Like After Omicron? – The Atlantic
February 5, 2022The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts
February 5, 2022Opinion | What We Know About Covid-19, the Flu and the Air We Breathe – The New York Times
January 30, 2022Ventilation!
opening windows, running fans; applicable to the flu too!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/opinion/covid-flu-air-transmission.html
Lucira Check It COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit – LUCIRA
January 25, 2022https://checkit.lucirahealth.com/
$75 per test
Omicron Is in Retreat: ‘What’s Next?’ – The New York Times
January 23, 2022extended QT: {{”
A typical 65-year-old American woman — to take one example — is five foot three inches tall and weighs 166 pounds. If she had been vaccinated and did not have a major Covid risk factor, like an organ transplant, her chance of dying after contracting Covid would be 1 in 872, according to the calculator. For a typical 65-year-old man, the risk would be 1 in 434.
Among 75-year-olds, the risk would be 1 in 264 for a typical woman and 1 in 133 for a typical man.
Those are meaningful risks. But they are not larger than many other risks older people face. In the 2019-20 flu season, about 1 out of every 138 Americans 65 and older who had flu symptoms died from them, according to the C.D.C.
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Liked this qt: “A typical 65-year-old…woman…If…vaccinated and did not have a major Covid risk factor…her chance of dying after contracting Covid would be 1 in 872…In…2019-20…about 1 out of every 138 Americans 65 and older who had flu symptoms died from them.” …
But wonder if these stats are distorted by asymptomatic infections — i.e. if the 1 out of 872 reflects those showing Covid symptoms.
Omicron Is in Retreat: ‘What’s Next?’ – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/briefing/omicron-variant-cases.html
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