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Posts Tagged ‘covid19’
Opinion | My Isolation Breaking Point – The New York Times
April 16, 2020Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone? – The New York Times
April 15, 2020Great article & observation by @hmkyale. One wonders if some of the people labeled as dying from #covid19 were, in fact, dying from these missing heart attacks, while simultaneously having serious coronavirus disease (CC @MLevitt_NP2013)
Hopes of pandemic respite this spring may depend upon what happens indoors | YaleNews
April 15, 2020New research from @VirusesImmunity indicates “cold, dry air as a factor in spread of viruses such as the novel coronavirus causing”
#COVID19. https://news.YALE.edu/2020/03/30/hopes-pandemic-respite-spring-may-depend-upon-what-happens-indoors Great to remember next year. Unfortunately, buildings @Yale tend to be exceptionally freezing & dry in the winter!
TMPRSS2 Gene – GeneCards | TMPS2 Protein | TMPS2 Antibody
April 15, 2020https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=TMPRSS2
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 & TMPRSS2 to enter particular cells in the human airway
ACE2 angiotensin I converting enzyme 2 Homo sapiens (human) – Gene – NCBI
April 15, 2020https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/59272The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 & TMPRSS2 to enter particular cells in the human airway
Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing | Science
April 15, 2020https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/30/science.abb6936
Great idea for #covid19… However, digital contact tracing has serious #privacy issues that have to be considered and perhaps ameliorated.
Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing
Luca Ferretti1,*, Chris Wymant1,*, Michelle Kendall1, Lele Zhao1, Anel Nurtay1, Lucie Abeler-Dörner1, Michael Parker2, David Bonsall1,3,†, Christophe Fraser1,4,†,‡
Science 31 Mar 2020: eabb6936
DOI: 10.1126/science.abb6936
Fig 2 shows the breakdown of infections into four types:
pre-symptomatic, symptomatic, environmental, and asymptomatic, and they contribute 0.9, 0.8., 0.2, and 0.1 each to the basic reproduction number of 2. To stop the spread of infections, you need to take measures to get the area under the curve to below 1. The paper then shows that when you do quarantining and contact tracing, you can’t get the reproduction number below 1. However, if you improve the speed of quarantining and contact tracing with a digital app/centralized system, then you can get it below 1.
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