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> According to the complaints of a survivor, the medical graduate student (24 years old) from Wuhan University, she must stay awake and breathe consciously and actively during the intensive care. She said that if she fell asleep, she might die because she had lost her natural breath Sounds like something from a horror movie!
As a side observation: most reporting seems rather binary, i.e. you either die or survive, period. What interests me the most, however, is how often survival means full recovery, especially now that the nervous system comes up. Are there any long term effects? Should one generally expect to come out of it worse, the same, or stronger? I'm much less afraid to die from this than to end up with chronic respiratory and/o…
EDIT - Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't take precautions or that it's not worth protecting vulnerable groups. I'm simply suggesting that perhaps there is news coverage about other things (remember the whole Hong Kong situation that we aren't hearing about suddenly?) that might still deserve some air time. The media is profiting off this story big time. It's like when the plane went missing and a…
This doesn't lead to protesting easily. It doesn't stop the fact that pretty much everyone here is unhappy with Carrie Lam.
And to be fair, the relatively slow growth of the number of cases we have in Hong Kong might be due to all the precautions people take (although I haven't found any information on the total number of people tested in Hong Kong so it might be because not enough people are tested)
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I'm not sure I would call them impractical for everyday wear. I wear N95 masks when commuting during active wildfires. The news always says not to wear them because you won't put them on properly, but it's really not that hard to ensure the fitment is correct. It's not like the construction workers that wear them occupationally are rocket scientists. My partner is more vulnerable to respiratory problems and has alway…
Telling people they should wear masks because they don't put them on properly is like telling people they shouldn't drive cars because some people drive them into trees.
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This is super scary. Before I read this I was happily thinking hey it's no worse than flu. Now... I'm wishing I didn't live in a huge city riding the subway daily.
Are you able to ride a bike to work?
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I don't understand the worry. As of yesterday, China, a country of 1.4B, had 80,000 cases and 3,000 dead. Last year, the US had 36M infected with the flu and 34,000 died.[1] Are you panicking about the flu? [1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
The rates in China are dropping because they have some form of travel restrictions for 780m people. If those restrictions would be removed, the rates would go up immediately as seen before and now in other countries. Edit: source added https://inews.co.uk/news/world/china-coronavirus-covid-19-de...
My point is that based on how many die from the flu each year, you’d have to see 130,000 deaths in China for the impact to be the same as the flu.
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Meanwhile in South Korea everyone has masks. In WWII we built one bomber an hour at one plant, and now we can't figure out how to build millions or billions of masks.
That's because that bomber was built by the "greatest" generation. By definition, we aren't the greatest generation.
Anyone has any link to secondary sources where other scientists try to put this in perspective?
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I'm not sure I would call them impractical for everyday wear. I wear N95 masks when commuting during active wildfires. The news always says not to wear them because you won't put them on properly, but it's really not that hard to ensure the fitment is correct. It's not like the construction workers that wear them occupationally are rocket scientists. My partner is more vulnerable to respiratory problems and has alway…
Telling people they should wear masks because they don't put them on properly is like telling people they shouldn't drive cars because some people drive them into trees.
How many fucking names does this thing have?
2019-nCoV (2019 Novel Coronavirus) was a temporary name.
SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related Coronavirus 2) is the official name for the virus.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is the official name for the disease that the virus causes.
[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bit-chaotic-christen...