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High infection rates are most dangerous when almost nobody is infected. Once most are infected its much less likely to spread. Most will no longer be infectious, and most in the population should be immune. It might indeed close on 100% at peak infection, or it might be 50%, or much lower, like...

It all depends on how infectious this is. What is the doubling period in the early phases? I hope its low. (PS low not in number, but in it takes a long time to double ... so high, I guess, doh) Worst case scenario I have seen so far is that the doubling period for infection is only two days...

In our state of Victoria, if someone coming into the country does not self isolate for two weeks they face up to a $20,000 fine and imprisonment. I am not sure about the other states. One unfortunate lady on the news just arrived for a two week holiday.

I am using a support service which can send different people. So far not one has been trained in how to deal with Covid-19. They do all use gloves though. However I found a tendency over the years of them turning up with coughs.

This study is famous, and misleading. Most patients recovered in a few years if I recall correctly. Post viral fatigue, meeting broad CFS but not ME criteria, can last up to five years, though I also have to wonder if some of this is ME in disguise. Indeed a lot of post pathogen fatigue might be...

Its most probably just the more common post viral fatigue. If Covid-19 induces ME in any substantial number of survivors, and its a possibility it will, this is a nightmare scenario for the world. Even though I would welcome the sudden attention and recognition of ME, its far too high a price.

Multiple vaccines are in the testing phase right now. Vaccine creation is largely automated now, the procedures streamlined. However testing those vaccines is still a long process. One group in the US, I do not recall details, is talking about skipping animal testing and currently recruiting...

Because they cannot. The tests are in short supply except in countries that began manufacturing them very early, such as probably South Korea. In other words they cannot do it because globally our governments and health authorities stuffed up. Pharma is severely limited here, though no doubt...

This implies the doubling period on severe cases is about two days. That is not good.

That might have been my comment. I got it from a doctor being interviewed, by mainstream media I think, and posted on YouTube. This is an isolated event. Maybe it means that it mutated and she got infected by a different strain. Maybe she was immune compromised. Maybe this is the norm, though I...

This only applies if you are eating adequately. If you are too unwell to cook or eat, which a combination of ME and a viral infection could easily do, then its an issue. So is vomiting. In addition I am doing intermittent fasting, and fasting regimes can result in a higher need for...

Freudian and dodgy psychiatry is much more mainstream in those two countries, taught to all doctors so far as I know, and not just in passing.

No. It was about the strength of hand sanitizers, as in alcohol content. It takes a high concentration to be effective. Many are not strong enough, but work well enough on bacteria. I have read so very much on this over the last several weeks, but it all blurs together. Much of it may be...

Psychosomatic is objectively uncertain as it is, but they usually mean psychogenic, which is the mind causes symptoms. Psychosomatic is broader, to do with how physical and mental interact. To anyone who knows me it should not be surprising that I do not even agree to the existence of mind. I...

My understanding is survival is more about not having a too aggressive immune response that damages the lungs. Anything that increases the immune attack on infected lung tissue might be a problem. I vaguely recall reading that advanced treatment of these kinds of lung infections involve...

But this is probably a selection bias. The intensive care unit will get the sickest patients. It says nothing about the much less sick patient numbers.

I have heard, not confirmed, that a Japanese woman got the virus, recovered which was confirmed by serology, and got it again 19 days later. Corona viruses are notoriously hard to develop immunity to, and vaccines for. I wonder if this is due to high mutation rate. If the upper bound is 18%...

Sometimes, but the priority is to nail down the finding as a patent before doing the research and potentially giving the game away, where competitors can steal a march on them. So if you even suspect a useful finding, you patent it. I suspect most such patents never work out, and you never hear...

We are now well over 2500 known biological markers occurring, though we have yet to prove any biomarker/s is/are diagnostic, or even universal. Some biomarkers are at sixteen standard deviations from normal, just not things doctors test for. Those tests doctors use are for OTHER conditions. What...

Yes, its now a political rhetorical phrase. Yet, if you don't, you have no idea if its good advice or tripe. Yes, I found doctors hate being questioned, and hate even more being proven wrong. Very few doctors are comfortable when dealing with their limits to knowledge. Yet we all have limits to...