SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

that's what i use. something is wrong with the 'now' numbers

am i reading it wrong? 'yesterday' says 20,353

 

That was Monday on the UTC clock that is uses. I am on the PDT clock, where it still is Monday, so it is still 'today' for me. And also for you on the EDT clock.

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/IVAA-COVID19-Hospital-Use-Anderson-03.24.2020.pdf

 

Here are some interesting graph projections for US and per state. They are projecting 17 days until peak in US and 8 days for New York.

COVID-19

 

So I read most of the refs listed on the topic of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus. What I gathered was that while zoonotic transfer must have occurred sometimes in the past, phylogenetic analyses of many SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in nature (a paper suggests more than 200) seems to suggest this jump might have taken place some times ago, maybe years. An intriguing possibility is that it means, after all, the SARS-CoV-2 virus may not have originated in the Huanan seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan, China as widely believed. The notion that unmutated SARS-CoV-2 virus may have been transmitted among human populations for years may complicate surveillance and testing effort.

 

mit associate professor lydia bourouiba, in a newly published paper says 'studies show corona virus can be orally projected up to 27 feet, linger in the air for hours, and live in hospital hvac systems.'

 

shame the graph isn't broken down by countries / multiples
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Five days later, we are now #3 on the reported death toll list, having surpassed Iran and France yesterday, and China today. I won't get into the suspicions about China possibly under-reporting. The two countries ahead of us, Italy and Spain, are unlikely to change positions on the leaderboard anytime soon.

For total cases (not deaths), we are rapidly expanding our lead and will likely cross 200,000 tomorrow. Italy joined us in the 6-digit club yesterday.

China and the European countries should be essentially done reporting for today,. The U.S. is not similarly done for the day, so expect more.

 

Many folks use a Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) machine for breathing assistance at night. A CPAP provides air under light pressure that keeps the air passages more open than they would otherwise be and allows some of us to sleep normally.
The Italians have adapted such machines with the help of the Mercedes Formula 1 team to use for the cases of COVID-19 pneumonia that are not severe enough to require intubation (link below). One disadvantage of using a CPAP for treating COVID-19 in a hospital is that it tends to aerosolize the droplets with virus in the exhaled air, and thus may spread the virus.
However, In a home setting where the patient is living alone or all other humans have already recovered from the virus, that disadvantage may not be as significant. Thus, folks with a CPAP system at home may have an emergency backup breathing aid if they are only having slight difficulties and proper medical care is completely unavailable. But I surely wish I could purchase one of those Mercedes F1 adaptors!

Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid - BBC News

 

ny times: 'kinsa corp. temperature map shows virus slowing everywhere in the country'

 

Read the whole article at : Coronavirus: How scientists are tracking 8 strains of SARS-CoV-2 virus

SAN FRANCISCO – At least eight strains of the coronavirus are making their way around the globe, creating a trail of death and disease that scientists are tracking by their genetic footprints.

While much is unknown, hidden in the virus's unique microscopic fragments are clues to the origins of its original strain, how it behaves as it mutates and which strains are turning into conflagrations while others are dying out thanks to quarantine measures.

Huddled in once bustling and now almost empty labs, researchers who oversaw dozens of projects are instead focused on one goal: tracking the current strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that cause the illness COVID-19.

Labs around the world are turning their sequencing machines, most about the size of a desktop printer, to the task of rapidly sequencing the genomes of virus samples taken from people sick with COVID-19. The information is uploaded to a website called NextStrain.org that shows how the virus is migrating and splitting into similar but new subtypes.

While researchers caution they're only seeing the tip of the iceberg, the tiny differences between the virus strains suggest shelter-in-place orders are working in some areas and that no one strain of the virus is more deadly than another. They also say it does not appear the strains will grow more lethal as they evolve.

“The virus mutates so slowly that the virus strains are fundamentally very similar to each other,” said Charles Chiu, a professor of medicine and infectious disease at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.​

 

If the New York Times wrote,"The Sun rises in the East." I would be up the next morning with a compass.

Bob Wilson

 

agreed, but they were just covering the story. you can find the data elsewhere

 

how long until the world grows weary of being locked up?

 

put another way, how long till our wives kill us

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massachusetts 15% positive test rate. that seems pretty low, but i have nothing to compare it to.