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“Long lockdowns to slow a disease can also have catastrophic economic impacts that may themselves affect public health. “It’s a three-way tussle,” Leung says, “between protecting health, protecting the economy, and protecting people’s well-being and emotional health.”
The economic fallout isn’t something epidemic models address, Longini says—but that may have to change. “We should probably hook up with some economic modelers and try to factor that in,” he says.” “}}
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01246-3
“Open hardware” via 3D printing + readily available plastic materials => instant #PPE for #COVID19
Is the following quote on #covid19 from @BBCNews
true? “The [Swiss] health ministry’s infectious diseases chief Daniel Koch said scientists had concluded that young children did not transmit the virus… They just don’t have the receptors to catch the disease.”
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According to the Tracking Project’s figures, nearly one in five people who get tested for the coronavirus in the United States is found to have it. In other words, the country has what is called a
“test-positivity rate” of nearly 20 percent.
That is “very high,” Jason Andrews, an infectious-disease professor at Stanford, told us. Such a high test-positivity rate almost certainly means that the U.S. is not testing everyone who has been infected with the pathogen, because it implies that doctors are testing only people with a very high probability of having the infection.
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The positivity rate is not the same as the proportion of COVID-19 cases in the American population at large, a metric called
“prevalence.”* …
Prevalence is a crucial number for epidemiologists, in part because it lets them calculate a pathogen’s true infection-fatality rate: the number of people who die after becoming infected.
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The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients
This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital.
By Richard Levitan
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.amp.html
pulse oximeter!
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The paper also found that of those who were hospitalized, 57 percent had hypertension, 41 percent were obese and 34 percent had diabetes which is consistent with risk factors listed by the Centers for Disease for Control and Prevention. Noticeably absent from the top of the list was asthma. As doctors and researchers have learned more about covid-19, the less it seems that asthma plays a dominant role in outcomes.
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Interesting that asthma was not found as one of the top risk factors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-ventilators-survival/
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