COVID-19 Science Thread

[Xtrema]

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I'm gonna need to see a picture of a virus next to a banana for scale. Can a mask also filter a banana?

Let me do some research on Pornhub under the Japanese section, will get back to you.

[killramos]

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I'm gonna need to see a picture of a virus next to a banana for scale. Can a mask also filter a banana?

Rurr Jurr already posted that confirmation

[ExtraSlow]

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anxiety seems out of place?

Jesus how long have I been infected?

[The_Rural_Juror]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....15.20209817v1

Remdesivir, Lopinavir, Interferon Regiments, Hydroxychloroquine found to have little or no effect on hospitalized C19 patients.

[Buster]

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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....15.20209817v1

Remdesivir, Lopinavir, Interferon Regiments, Hydroxychloroquine found to have little or no effect on hospitalized C19 patients.

Anti-virals are only likely to be beneficial in the "stage 1" ...viral part of the disease, not the "stage 2" cytokine storm/immune response part of the disease - which is what gets most people hospitalized.

[Modelexis]

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Maserati Shamal sighting at 15:52

326hp V8 RWD - 6spd

[Buster]

Michael Mina discussing the binaxNow technology in this twitter thread. Basically it's sensitive enough for usage (ie it doesn't get a lot of false negatives), but perhaps more importantly it has high specificity (ie not many false positives). False positives are a problem because if these tests are used by millions of people, even a 1% false positive will lead to 10s of thousands of people seeking treatment unnecessarily.

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/...56641012359169

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Good medcram

[Buster]

Guess when cheap at home antigen testing became available in Slovakia? Our gov't leaders are idiots.

[killramos]

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Guess when cheap at home antigen testing became available in Slovakia? Our gov't leaders are idiots.

BUT ELON SAYS

Space Karen. Ha

[Xtrema]

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Guess when cheap at home antigen testing became available in Slovakia? Our gov't leaders are idiots.

While it's not at home self test but they tested the whole country in a weekend and take 1% of population out of circulation. Even if it missed the other 1%, it should still slow it down. I don't know what else is going take people to buy into this.

So between Slovakia testing 5M over a weekend and China testing 9M over a week, people are still holding onto our current policies which isn't working.


But at least FDA approved a rapid kit via prescription, so adds a bit of hope.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...rus-covid-fda/

[Buster]

yes, that helps...but it isn't cheap enough

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Guess when cheap at home antigen testing became available in Slovakia? Our gov't leaders are idiots.

I'm sorry, but could you please explain this, more?
I see a graph where the dotted line is assumedly confirmed gov't measured cases in Slovakia and it recently hit about 2500 and is now dropping. So then it looks like the blue bar shows home tests demonstrating either antibodies for previous infections, or, active infections as like 15x higher. Which is it?
Then the green bar is showing the same home tests about a week later with insanely higher numbers than the "known" govt tests.

What's the takeaway you're getting at? It seems like you're saying if we had cheap home antigen tests, we'd be better off.

[Tik-Tok]

They tested their entire population. The first round, and the second round. Then isolated everyone who was positive.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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They tested their entire population. The first round, and the second round. Then isolated everyone who was positive.

Not unless their population was 3.4 million and then 2.0 million a week later...

[pheoxs]

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Not unless their population was 3.4 million and then 2.0 million a week later...

Their population is 5.5 million ... guessing they tested half then half?

[ExtraSlow]

Marth is hard guise.

[Buster]

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I'm sorry, but could you please explain this, more?
I see a graph where the dotted line is assumedly confirmed gov't measured cases in Slovakia and it recently hit about 2500 and is now dropping. So then it looks like the blue bar shows home tests demonstrating either antibodies for previous infections, or, active infections as like 15x higher. Which is it?
Then the green bar is showing the same home tests about a week later with insanely higher numbers than the "known" govt tests.

What's the takeaway you're getting at? It seems like you're saying if we had cheap home antigen tests, we'd be better off.

The take-away is that large scale (and rapid) testing can have a dramatic impact on transmission. Most people who test positive don't go out and deliberately put other people at risk.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Marth is hard guise.

But it's just this chart about Slovakia that appeared out of nowhere. Did I miss the background context about where it came from?
I want to know more.
*Without watching a 2hr YouTube video