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Roseland Hospital phlebotomist: 30% of those tested have coronavirus antibody

Coronavirus: low antibody levels raise questions about reinfection risk

Scientists struggle to explain how coronavirus moves through the air

No, NYC Is Not Running Out of Burial Space Due to COVID-19

I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary.

Preliminary German Study Shows a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate of About 0.4 Percent

Covid-19 in India: Food prices surge 3 times as supply chain takes a hit

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Shout it from the roof tops!!! Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical care physicians are questioning the widespread use of the breathing machines for Covid-19 patients, saying that large numbers of patients could instead be treated with less intensive respiratory support.If the iconoclasts are right, putting coronavirus patients on ventilators could be of little benefit to many and even harmful to some.What’s driving this reassessment is a baffling observation about Covid-19: Many patients have blood oxygen levels so low they should be dead. But they’re not gasping for air, their hearts aren’t racing, and their brains show no signs of blinking off from lack of oxygen.That is making critical care physicians suspect that blood levels of oxygen, which for decades have driven decisions about breathing support for patients with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress, might be misleading them about how to care for those with Covid-19. In particular, more and more are concerned about the use of intubation and mechanical ventilators. They argue that more patients could receive simpler, noninvasive respiratory support, such as the breathing masks used in sleep apnea, at least to start with and maybe for the duration of the illness.

Virus May Spread Twice as Fast as Earlier Thought, Study Says

This is the problem with lock downs. It is not that they don’t work in the short term it is just that they can never end. Particularly if there is no vaccine and the virus is particularly virulent as the above link suggests. They remembered what happened two decades ago with SARS: People died, economies suffered. So they locked down their immigration hardest and soonest, deployed public health workers to follow up contacts of cases, got their hospitals shored up, and started publishing clear and consistent information and data. They flattened their curves before the rest of the world understood there would be curves to flatten. But in recent weeks, those curves have taken another chilling turn. The numbers of new cases in these places are creeping upward.

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For what it is worth…Hydroxychloroquine Update For April 6

Coronavirus: Can Japan’s ‘soft lockdown’ stop COVID-19?

In the interest of fairness, it remains to be seen if Sweden sticks to their guns. They have had a lot more deaths per capita then other Nordic countries and a lot more even then the US at this point. I still think they are doing it right for the long term, but it remains to be seen if they can stick to it. Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus?

Germany’s coronavirus response: Separating fact from fiction

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Shout it from the roof tops. Divergence of fortunes with nearby Lombardy stems from keeping more patients away from hospitals, experts say

REMEMBERING THE 1957 ASIAN FLU EPIDEMIC

Coronavirus: why the Nordics are our best bet for comparing strategies

China Thought It Had Beaten Coronavirus, But New And Asymptomatic Cases Are Cropping Up

How Misinformation About the U.S. Needing ‘1 Million Ventilators’ Spread

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Most of the mistakes are understandable and likely to be repeated in this country. But there was one really criminal mistake the someone should be shot for. The lessons Italy has learned about its COVID-19 outbreak could help the rest of the world

Azure Cracks, AWS Strong: COVID-19 Stress Tests the Cloud

Only in mice so far. Coronavirus: Potential vaccine generates enough antibodies to fight off virus, first peer-reviewed study suggests

The Wages of Flattening The Curve. Chinese county goes into coronavirus lockdown amid fear of second wave

Headline Lies. He was shot dead for attacking the police with a scythe. But still the Philippines is being very irrational. Man shot dead for flouting coronavirus rules

Kinda of funny they are destroying the state and yet still letting this happen. Coronavirus News: Social distancing is not happening on the NYC subway

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What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage

France’s coronavirus death toll jumps as nursing homes included

Coronavirus update- TB vaccine in childhood may offer Covid-19 protection: Researchers

Coronavirus cases are increasing so rapidly that one New York nursing home CEO is advising families to take their loved ones home if possible.

Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19

what does Iceland‘s unique dataset tell us?

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I wonder how long it will take before the mob forces Medium to take this down: A call to honesty in pandemic modeling

The next big story to come out of Italy. Singing stops in Italy as fear and social unrest mount

I am surprised they have not blinked yet. I don’t know what they think they are accomplishing. They can make every US shale producer go bankrupt but that will not make the tech or the people who know how to do it go away. Saudi Power Play Could Send Oil Below $20 a Barrel for an Extended Period

The bottom line is that most US masks are being sold outside of this country because they can get a better price that way due to US polices. I Spent A Day In The Coronavirus-Driven Feeding Frenzy Of N95 Mask Sellers And Buyers And This Is What I Learned And here is more along the same lines.