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India's tests/M is 149. Brazil's 296. Compared to 8894 of USA as of today.Positive % out of tests: USA ~20%, India: ~5%, Brazil: ~38%.But at least here in India we test when we are like really really ...
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Or it's just inaccurate data. I wonder how many cases of COVID19 deaths being reported as "pneumonia" [1] (technically correct, but also untrue) as in this story?Also keep in mind the "...
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There's a couple problems with this:* deaths are also likely to be under reported (although, I agree, probably still better than the total unknown people who haven't been tested)* a decreasing number ...
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In the UK we have two death counts.The one that's used most (the one that appears every day) is here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c9...That is people who test positive fo...
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Best data is excess mortality.Many deaths won't be attributed to covid19 but still caused by it.Here an explanation:https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1249996541424816128...
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Belgium has this specifically for our country [0]. It has a 4 week lag, but they've started to include interim data in the weekly updates by the national bureau for epidemics. The last weekly update i...
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I saw an interesting alternate statistics where you measure the overall mortality rate and compare to previous years. EU only, but something like this might exist elsewhere as well:http://euromomo.eu/...
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> This study tries to estimate Rt in several European countries from the death rates though there are issues with those statistics too: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19estimates/Most ob...
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If you look at test results you probably won't learn much. There will be far fewer tests than cases and most cases will never be tested. It seems more likely that you'll just be measuring some other e...
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COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema)....
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COVID-19 attacks hemoglobin and that is how it damages the lungs. With your hemoglobin unable to exchange oxygen with blood in the lungs, it causes terrible damage.https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-...
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[IANAD] hydroxychloroquine is an immunosuppressant and shouldn't be combined even with vaccines ( https://www.medicinenet.com/hydroxychloroquine/article.htm#w... ), so using it when immune system is ...
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The thought occurred to me as well, I got a strong sense of "playing with fire." However, viruses have a very high mutation rate as it is [1], so I'm not sure how much difference it makes.Bt...
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> a promising treatment https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/03/scitrans...That is frightening. Increasing the mutation rate must carry a large unknown risk. Also surely the first thing to...
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An in-vitro pre-print study ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.014407v1 ) showed that administering Hydroxychloroquine only after Covid-19 infection is not helping much, while admini...
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That would be just as shallow. The issue isn't brevity, it's genericness. Are we really making the assumption that every study with a small sample is worthless, and that our reflexes know better than ...
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Somehow the hivemind decided a few years ago (it would be interesting to trace how and when) that every study with a small sample size is worthless and merely mentioning sample size is enough to cance...
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Because they didn't intend to use chloroquine as a way to reduce the immune response to cytokine storms.They intended to use it to prevent virus replication in the cells at the early stages of the imm...
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Nobody seems to be talking about the actual reason Chinese doctors found chloroquine (and HCQ) interesting and it has nothing to do with it's immunosuppressing effect:1) Chloroquine (and HCQ) is a zin...
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HarryHirsch says "The zinc notion is total bunk..."I am unclear what you mean here but this in-vitro experiment. which studied interaction of zinc ions with chloroquine in a human ovarian ca...
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