Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
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Re: Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
#2I am impressed how fast Chinese scientists developed a genetic test distinguish 2019-coronavirus from other kinds of pneumonia. I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more for slow (two week) test.
Re: Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
#3It’s interesting to watch the response to this crisis ricochet around the world. Results come from China, the CDC sequences the virus from the Chicago and Seattle patients and releases them, researchers in Seattle process the merged data through their open source tool[0]. Researchers in China then translate these results to Chinese [1]
The internet is our immune system.
[0] https://twitter.com/nextstrain/status/1221181133884256256?s=...
[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/nextstrain/status/122154827481917...
Re: Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
#4I am impressed how fast Chinese scientists developed a genetic test distinguish 2019-coronavirus from other kinds of pneumonia. I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more for slow (two week) test.
I'm not surprised. The Wuhan virology center was studying viruses just like this and probably found this virus years ago.
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#5Of the initial 41 patients, 13 were admitted to ICU and 6 died(15%). This is the data the news has been missing and shows why China is taking this so seriously.
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#6Of the initial 41 patients, 13 were admitted to ICU and 6 died(15%). This is the data the news has been missing and shows why China is taking this so seriously.
And of the dead patients, 5 were in the ICU and one was not.
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#7We have 2700 confirmed cases, 80 dead. Some also in the West and we are still talking about these initial 41?
Are we a pre or post internet civilisation?
Honestly 4chan is doing better than this. Reading through their noise is better than the clean data coming out of the officials. For example they have people in pools of blood on the street with people in the bio suits China are using.
Maybe it's obvious people will throw up blood with this new SARS, but the officials aren't mentioning it. Sperm may contain the virus for months. Again obvious, not seeing it on official feeds.
Re: Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
#8I am impressed how fast Chinese scientists developed a genetic test distinguish 2019-coronavirus from other kinds of pneumonia. I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more for slow (two week) test.
> I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more for slow (two week) test.
HIV is rather fragile, no? It only spreads in specific bodily fluids and shows very little viral load when dormant.
2019-nCoV spreads in air. That's a significantly hardier virus that produces quite a lot of virus particles that are way easier to detect.
In addition, please remember that molecular biology was just getting started when the AIDS epidemic hit. AIDS (1981) predates PCR (1983). Molecular biology and computing have come a long way in 40 years, and we have a lot more tools at our disposal nowadays.
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#9It would be interesting to see less accurate statistics on the total CURRENT number of cases rather than this OLD NEWS. Cool for whoever published that, but we need more focus on speed of information dissemination, even prioritising it over accurracy, we're moving at pre-Internet pace here or someone is actively hindering the flow of info...
Re: Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
#10We have 2700 confirmed cases, 80 dead. Some also in the West and we are still talking about these initial 41? Are we a pre or post internet civilisation? Honestly 4chan is doing better than this. Reading through their noise is better than the clean data coming out of the officials. For example they have people in pools of blood on the street with people in the bio suits China are using. Maybe it's obvious people will…
Where are you getting the 2700 and 80 numbers from? I couldn’t find a reliable up to date counter. Even the CDC only lists countries.