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Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by dharma1 »

rhexs wrote: post #54
benrrio wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Zijainternational-SuperMix-Moringa-Ol... We forgot about it until I was gasping for air and then my wife remembered and we had some laying around. I could breath again in about 20 minutes. My chest and lungs still hurt until today.

An 85$ "detox" supplement with a herbal ingredient that doesn't seem to have any controlled studies. Hmm. Edit - While I greatly appreciate the downvotes folks, this is not the correct time to start ingesting random "potions" (as a previously deleted comment wonderfully called them) you're sourcing from Amazon of all places. Goodness.

You can buy moringa seeds/leaf for much, much less. There is some anecdotal evidence it helps with asthma but I agree you would want to see more studies

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by Symbiote »

benrrio wrote: post #12

I have had a fever for a week and difficulty breathing. I have asked my doctor about getting tested for Covid19 and they have declined to test me because I don't meet the critical criteria: age > 60, around large groups of people, etc. I run in circles with someone that returned from Italy and has been confirmed to have Covid19. I'm assuming I have it. The fever isn't so bad for me but there have been a few times whe…

> there have been a few times where I thought I would die from not being able to breath

That easily justifies calling an ambulance, even in the present circumstances.

(At least according to the current advice in the UK and Denmark.)

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by e12e »

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #7
jsjddbbwj wrote: post #5

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Are there any major differences between this and the annual, regular flu?

It's essentially a somewhat more intense flu with no herd immunity, which means instead of spreading itself nicely throughout the year it comes in at once in a massive exponential spike that blows out the medical system I'm kinda curious though if this quarantining is also gonna significantly help with any other diseases already out in the wild. Would be nice if we ended up also clearing out some of the regular flu s…

I seem to recall that during the svine flu, kindergardens and schools emphasized better hygiene (wash hands, hand sanitizer, cough in elbow) - with a (at least anecdotal) dramatic reduction in sick leave. As kids didn't get sick at the same rate, did not infect parents who did not spread it in the work place at the usual rate.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

FYI everyone, you're going to get a huge selection bias here. The kind of infected person who's going to see and answer this question will likely have symptoms on the milder side. Answers here should not be expected to be remotely representative.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by trappist »

maxerickson wrote: post #56
mekster wrote: post #33

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> they have declined to test me because I don't meet the critical criteria: age > 60 What kind of nonsense rule is that? They're intentionally breaking the statistics. Which country is this, if you don't mind saying?

The testing capacity simply doesn't exist. It's a huge failure, but it's not a nonsense rule, it's a result of poor planning and mistakes made weeks ago.

The testing capacity exists, if you count devices that have (still) not been approved for use. That is the primary nature of of the failure here.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by e12e »

klodolph wrote: post #92
e12e wrote: post #81

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One could argue that science is about falsifying hypothesis - and terby narrowing in on not just if something works, but how. But an important part of that process is trying to determine if something works or not. I'd say doing that well is difficult without at least some theory and hypothesis of how - because of the need to determine significant factors. To take a silly example, you could take a group of diarrhea pa…

What you've described with green tee and water is science, it's just that your conclusions aren't well supported by the evidence. > One could argue that science is about falsifying hypothesis - and terby narrowing in on not just if something works, but how. To clarify, are YOU arguing that? Because if you're not arguing that, if you're just playing devil's advocate, then I'm unhappy with the way the conversation is g…

Your quote literally includes the phrase "testable explanations"?

My point about tea vs water is exactly that having: "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge" helps with controlling for other factors when setting up and evaluating experiments?

Ed: hm, we may be talking past each other here:

> Testing "how" is not a requirement for science

Indeed, 'testing "how"' isn't really possible, only testing "if". But testing "if" with no idea of "how" is very difficult? (because without an idea of "how" it's hard to even define the "what")

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by mrfusion »

aufav36 wrote: post #91
RalfWausE wrote: post #62

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My best wishes for your family, i hope they don't experience any worse symptoms! Just out of curiosity, how long is it since they have been tested positive?

They were tested on Wednesday and Thursday, results came back the next morning.

Could it still be the incubation period?

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

kjakm wrote: post #35

It might be worth taking a look on Twitter. This doctor is 'live' tweeting his experience with the disease including lung scans [1]. Based on some other first hand experiences I've read on the Twitter/News people's experience varies wildly. Some people say it's not much worse than the flu. On the otherhand I saw a tweet from one doctor who had it claim it was worse than child birth so seems like the variation in expe…

Doctors' reports seem more trustworthy than patient social media because patient social media is likely to have a stronger selection bias. If you're in excruciating pain (or just part of an older demographic) you're less likely to be tweeting about it than if you have a mild cough, so expect harsher symptoms to be underrepresented.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by maxerickson »

trappist wrote: post #105
maxerickson wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The testing capacity simply doesn't exist. It's a huge failure, but it's not a nonsense rule, it's a result of poor planning and mistakes made weeks ago.

The testing capacity exists, if you count devices that have (still) not been approved for use. That is the primary nature of of the failure here.

This is a state Senator saying that there isn't enough reagent that is needed to prepare the samples for testing:

https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC/status/1238811865481990144

So if that is true, the testing capacity isn't going to be limited just by device approvals. Also need to establish the protocols for other reagents and so on.

Re: Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

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Post by bfieidhbrjr »

rhexs wrote: post #79
bfieidhbrjr wrote: post #71

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3023118/

"An open label, noncomparative clinical study" from the Indian Journal of Pharmacology isn't doing much to disprove my point.

That seems a little racist, but in any case:

There aren't very good studies for basically anything in medicine (let alone outside of medicine). Triple/Double-blind large studies are expensive in the extreme. We don't have strong evidence for the majority of things we do.

Recent examples might be mamograms causing more cancer than it detects and stents, it turns out, are no better than a placebo.

Therefore, the lack of a decent studies isn't in itself that interesting. Neither is it illogical for people to turn to old wives tales for knowledge because the filter of history on the knowledge is more powerful than retail medicine in terms of anecdata.

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