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@Michiel Tack is correct about that 17 days number being misleading. CDC just posted a correction this morning. https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1242860162458759168

I thought this article had already been posted but a forum search did not find it so I'm posting it now. Here's an article from Dr. Atul Gawande: Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers: What Singapore’s and Hong Kong’s success is teaching us about the pandemic...

Thanks @Trish :heart: I happened to see a web page debunking some other myths on the WHO website: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters A few facts (lots more on the website): COVID-19 virus CAN be transmitted in areas with hot and...

A timely message from Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD, Chief Medical Officer of Open Medicine Foundation https://www.omf.ngo/2020/03/20/a-timely-message-from-ronald-tompkins It's a short message so I'm not going to try to post any quotes from it (might mess up and get something out of context by...

Sorry if it was too old, thought it was worth passing on.

Just saw a tweet with image titled "The Case Fatality Rate Varies by Country" dated 16th March 2020. I'll just copy the image here in case some folks have trouble with embedded twitter. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1240669044300296192

I don't know anything about that. But it reminded me of news reports from a few weeks ago saying that the virus found in Washington state had been circulating for about six weeks. Article dated March 2nd...

On the one hand, I completely understand. The losses associated with temporary self-isolation seem trivial. So many M.E. patients have been homebound or bedbound for years, and dealing with so many difficult/painful symptoms on top of that. Patients have lost jobs, friends, and sometimes even...

Reminder, this call is tomorrow - Tuesday, March 17th, 11 am Eastern Time.

It looks like officials and scientists who've been trying to convince our president to take this pandemic seriously have finally made some progress Live updates: Trump says outbreak could last months and gatherings should be limited to 10 people...

Someone on this thread asked about how infectious this new coronavirus is (sorry, lost the reference). This article is several days old but their estimate is higher than seasonal flu with "R naught" about 2-3.1 vs. 1.3 for seasonal flu. So it appears to be more infectious than seasonal flu...

Good one, I saw that earlier. The New York Times has a simulator (US centric) that lets you change infection rate and fatality rate and then compare deaths from COVID-19 against other causes of death. Could Coronavirus Cause as Many Deaths as Cancer in the U.S.? Putting Estimates in Context...

Articles that I've read say that doctors think most transmission has been person to person. Also, the information I've read says to keep a distance of 6 feet, not 3 feet. But surfaces are not zero risk! So, clean your counters, wipe down your phone, wash your hands, etc. Some articles about...

EDIT #2: I'm putting this second edit up at the top to make it more visible I'm not up to posting another message on this thread so I'm editing this one again. Thanks to folks who posted further details on the recommendations in this video. Even after only watching a few minutes I got a...

This article has some interesting charts: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/12/21172040/coronavirus-covid-19-virus-charts Chart 6 shows how contagious they think COVID-19 is with respect to some other diseases (less contagious than measles, more than seasonal flu). Chart 8 compares...

The Oregon decision was very recent, announced yesterday, then a further update this morning. Don't remember about the other states.

Merged thread Article by Miriam Tucker - Low-Dose Naltrexone: An Inexpensive Medicine for Many Ills? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/926611 (to read article I think you must register with Medscape)

Just FYI, @lunarainbows - Regarding the tweets you posted they show the USA as having no restrictions on mass gatherings. But recently several states have restricted mass gatherings. For example, Oregon state has said no gatherings greater than 250...

This interactive map allows you to see cases on a country by country basis: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Thanks for that! :) :) I thought recipes using vodka had already been thoroughly debunked? Maybe some folks had not gotten the message yet. (Edit - forgot to comment on the witch hazel and tea tree oil recipe - that one I had not seen before, very weird) I did not see them testing a recipe...