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> In the area around Puget Sound, the University of Washington team found, the spicy residues that remain in wastewater end up flowing into the sound's inland waterways.> Of all the flavors trickling ...
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Here's a recent wastewater analysis study showing the prevalence of several illegal drugs in Europe.http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/waste-water-analysis......
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We don't know yet. These numbers are still preliminary, but it helps us to understand better the impact of the workarounds that doctors have needed to use, to tell the CDC it's COVID, when the softwar...
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Before anyone goes collecting sewage samples, consider deriving your scaling factors from discrepencies in ICD-10 diagnostic encoding practices.- Stacked bar chart: https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/st...
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"It's flattening the curve, not shrinking the area under the curve"That's not necessarily true. Numberphile recently did a piece on "The Coronavirus Curve." It describes "the ...
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There were actually several high profile experts around the world (WHO, US Surgeon General, most European authorities, even children's programmes) that said without any qualification:"Don't wear ...
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Sweden stopped testing people who don't get hospitalized about 3 weeks ago. Before that their death rate was extremely low, on par with Germany.> However, that strategy has now changed. Authorities ha...
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I don't understand why Sweden is being held up as a paragon. Their death rate is currently 9th worst worldwide and over 2x that of the United States':https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105914/corona...
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Here is a good overview: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871783Proof:1. China's numbers simply do not match models that take all their measures into account.2. China only tested syptomatic peop...
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Hate to break it to you, but hospitals are going to be overrun either way. 70-year-olds outnumber ICU beds 1,000 to one in many counties, some counties have no ICUs, some counties have no hospitals! [...
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None of those numbers are accurate. Latest research: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3....66% CFR, with 3.3% hospitalized (and fewer ICU) under age of 40. Even in the >80 ...
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The NYTimes article seems to disagree with you [1]> Across the city, hospitals are overrun. Patients have died in hallways before they could even be hooked up to one of the few available ventilators i...
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That's false. Death is the natural and inevitable outcome of life. The people who would die of COVID are nearly exclusively people who would die relatively soon anyway. For an average 85 years old pe...
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Confirmed cases depend on testing. What’s the testing capacity in Indianapolis vs rural areas?There’s also a time lag. I think it hit New York first because of all the travel connections.But why would...
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Curious, does that spreadsheet include everything applicable from https://elonmusk.today ?Because I am not sure how you average out against an infinite time frame (E.g. where are the country-wide summ...
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Researchers crunching data from a COVID-19 symptom tacking app in the UK have come to similar conclusions [1][1] https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/research-update-april-1-2020...
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Hendrik Streeck, the researcher who identified loss of smell and/or taste as a covid symptom in the first place, recently stated that it seems to occur primarily in the later stages of the disease (al...
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Yes, people are trying that. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/highly-trained-dogs-could-...Note that this article is about a corona symptom, Anosmia, not about the ability to smell patients. Accordin...
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Body Zinc levels are linked to the sense of smell.One of the many places linking Zinc and sense of smell:https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-zinc/art-203661...There have been reports of Zinc ...
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I've seen two other neat ways proposed to try to track the virus:(1) Do PCR tests on wastewater. Viruses show up in excrement, and sewer pipes are a ready-made aggregate sample collection system. See ...
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