outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

BREAKING: A Republican Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has tested positive for COVID-19 and now every single one of us who’s been here for Session has to be tested! More than half of the Republicans on the Floor refuse to wear masks!

— Brian Sims (@BrianSimsPA) October 1, 2020

Truly he is the bigliest misinformer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-misinformation.html

A licky boom boom down

Amazon says more than 19,000 workers got Covid-19 — 😬 https://t.co/lvjE3EynbM

— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) October 1, 2020

amazon sucks, but that's 1.4%, which is less than the rate in the US population (2.4%).

SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks prior to symptom onset: a systematic review and individual-pooled analysis of coronavirus viral load from 66 studies

https://i.imgur.com/eommGJx.png

Explains a great deal about how difficult this has been to eradicate.

yeah totally clear as day

People are most infectious seven days before they start showing symptoms?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ interesting from Tufekci pointing out that this isn't evenly infectious like flu, and how we need to be more aware of super-spreaders and environments for super-spreading

xp:
Only in a minority that has such a long presymptomatic period, as from contact tracing studies the medium time from contact to first symptoms is about 5 days.

But from individual data underlying this meta, the subgroup consisting of asymptomatic people who tested positive, and subsequently developed symptoms 7 days later, had the highest viral titer. Given the wide shaded range for the graphed model (viral titers from ~5000 to ~200000 copies/ml 7 days before onset), there probably were very few patients that fall in that subgroup.

dick noses very much in character

WATCH LIVE: Baltimore mayor Jack Young is giving a coronavirus update https://t.co/HkLC1Ar0BO

— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) September 30, 2020

https://www.scotblood.co.uk/news/find-out-more-about-convalescent-plasma-donation/

This is encouraging

Scientific evidence has shown that transfusing patients with plasma from people who have recovered from Covid-19 can reduce the mortality rate by up to a half, shorten the illness and make it less severe.

(disclaimer:I have not read the science)

shhh don't tell the president

"Pence, get in here!"

I like the super-spreader article but parts are a little hard to follow. Is the theory that certain individuals are predisposed to be super-spreaders, or just that their behavior (e.g. attending a big banquet event sick) makes them super-spreaders in practice? Or do we have no idea? Because the latter sounds more likely to me.

Evidence on convalescent plasma is mixed. As with hydroxychloroquine, observational and retrospective studies find benefits, but the randomized trials (in this case, just two to date Gharbharan et al, Ling et al) found no significant effect.

Yeah unless it's controlled, you will get those folks who are all like, "I used UV light and drank convalescent plasma and I'm fine now." Like it would have been totally different otherwise

Assuming superspreader is both: early days high viral load pre-symptomatic plus lots of Shake hands with your Uncle Max, my boy activity.

iirc some people simply exhale a LOT more particles, and that's a factor?

But really came to post that I feel like I should have some kind of DN counter whilst walking around.

In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly.
But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog.

The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum. pic.twitter.com/X4a8keSEHK

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 5, 2020

you mean "maxium"

wait they used the columns to keep track of the patients? what the hell!?

Maxium R&D

wait they used the columns to keep track of the patients?

they didn't say that, whoever max roser is said that

the release just said it had reached it's maximum maxium size (1,048,576 rows?)

either way though, yiiiikes

Yeah it was Excel, and it wasn’t the column thing, it was saving in .XLS according to BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54422505

"If you are six feet apart you do not need to wear a mask," Cuomo says of not wearing a mask inside if you are six feet across.

When asked about virus traveling through air: "The law is a mask. The law is not a helmet."

— Nick Reisman (@NickReisman) October 5, 2020

i'd've used .xls tbh. but surely it warns you about truncation?

the law is not a helmet

the lawmakers, however

https://live.staticflickr.com/5309/5599895348_4b5777e538_z.jpg

Europe passed the US in new cases over the past seven days. Why'd you have to ruin our anti-Trump talking points?

Anyone else heard of the rash symptom? I hadn't but seems they're lobbying to get it included as it apparently presents in something like a fifth of cases (and sometimes is the *only* symptom)

https://covidskinsigns.com/

never heard of that.

I’m very curious about this as I read about it elsewhere and I developed a rash about five weeks back, out of the blue, not sure what it was in response to, and it wasn’t an eczema type rash either, it was this kind which they think comes from viral infections. Hasn’t itched for around a month or so, but I still have the bumps all over my back. No other symptoms and I’ve felt well for the most part.

I had one immunocompromised friend get COVID and a massive rash on her back simultaneously. Nobody knew for sure that COVID caused, whether it was an opportunistic infection, or just a coincidence, but I have heard at least one person report it

There are always a lot of viruses out there, and it's not uncommon for them to cause rashes. My wife had some mild symptoms and a rash, got the PCR test, and came up negative.

gyac, are you on the Zoe app? https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/skin-rash-covid

I’m not, but I’ll look into that, thanks :)

Maybe this will get the boat/truck compensator crowd interested:

The Jerusalem Post: COVID-19 could cause male infertility - new Israeli study

there was a 50% decrease in the sperm volume, concentration and motility in patients with moderate disease even 30 days post diagnosis.

“As normal sperm maturation takes 70 to 75 days, it is possible that if we are doing a sperm examination two and a half months after recovery, we may see even more reduced fertility,” Aderka said. “It could be even more detrimental.”

children of men

wow

was waiting for something like this tbh

Society for COVID'ing Up Men

cool now when I don't have kids I finally have something to blame besides "don't want them"

lol

Saw some speculation about that a few months ago just based on there being a lot of ACE2 receptors down there.

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oh no don't you Jurassic Park me out of this

Hasn’t male fertility been on the decline the past decade even before this