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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #300 on: June 10, 2020, 10:20:51 PM »
This is where all 2020 articles on things that will kill us all go, right?
https://onezero.medium.com/a-deadly-mosquito-borne-illness-is-brewing-in-the-northeast-d3283c71c6a0
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #301 on: June 11, 2020, 01:04:37 AM »

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #302 on: June 11, 2020, 08:29:53 AM »
someone needs to show this article to Cuomo so he will be comfortable sending his daughters to camp
They're too old for camp anyways
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #303 on: June 11, 2020, 11:09:40 PM »
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What complications can arise when the sense of smell is recovering?

Reiter: One potential issue with recovery from a significant loss of sense of smell can be a distortion of smells. All parts of the system may not recover at the same time and to the same degree. Any complex odor isn’t going to just trigger a response in one receptor. It’s going to trigger responses in a number of different kinds of receptors. And your brain integrates all that information together to say, “Well, that’s a rose,” or “that’s chocolate.” In some people, if they have a significant loss, some of the receptors may recover, whereas others may not, or some may recover to different degrees. That can lead to distortions of odors so things that previously were pleasant odors may be unpleasant. And in rare cases we’ve seen, people can have severe food aversions because they get incomplete recovery of their sense of smell, and it causes such distortion that really leads to appetite problems.

https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/What_does_loss_of_smell_mean_during_COVID19
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #306 on: June 14, 2020, 12:22:00 PM »
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #312 on: June 16, 2020, 05:33:18 PM »
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #313 on: June 16, 2020, 07:28:40 PM »
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-data-are-in-its-time-for-major-reopening-11592264199?mod=mhp

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The reason is that shelter-at-home policies don’t so much reduce Covid-19 deaths as delay them. Delaying deaths will reduce them if a vaccine or cure is found in time. But we can’t be sure that an effective vaccine will be produced and available any time soon.


This point has been made in the past. It is unrealistic to expect 12-18 months of lock down (optimistically speaking about the availability of a vaccine, not to mention that the efficacy of a vaccine in building immunity over actual exposure to the virus is questionable). As such the focus should be on reopening ASAP with reasonable measures and focus on better treatments for the ill.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #314 on: June 16, 2020, 07:35:55 PM »
Most important point IMHO is

This point has been made in the past. It is unrealistic to expect 12-18 months of lock down (optimistically speaking about the availability of a vaccine, not to mention that the efficacy of a vaccine in building immunity over actual exposure to the virus is questionable). As such the focus should be on reopening ASAP with reasonable measures and focus on better treatments for the ill.
This point has been made in the past. Of course it was always about reasonable measures and finding better treatments for the ill. (Not to mention the obvious point of not overwhelming hospitals). Those don’t *delay* deaths, they *prevent* them. Case in point is the breakthrough study on the efficacy of dexamethasone released today.

Nobody ever called for 12-18 months of lockdown. Nobody. EVER. You’re debating against a nonexistent viewpoint.

Of course, some seriously vulnerable people may want to take even more measures than the standard “reasonable” measures generally accepted until there is a vaccine or even better treatment/prevention protocols in place.
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