Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers

Post by konamicode » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 2:52 PM UTC

mcsb4 wrote: post #29

msamwald wrote: post #24

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I recently co-authored a scientific commentary on this, ask me anything! "Promoting simple do-it-yourself masks: an urgent intervention for COVID-19 mitigation" (Svara et al. 2020) Pre-print available at https://link.medium.com/LY7RRNr2X4 Summary: "We demonstrate that widespread use of masks by the general population could be an effective strategy for slowing down the spread of COVID-19. Since surgical masks might no…

The biggest challenge is to overcome the mental block of decades of onetime use masks that have to be disposed in incinerators and be produced by ISO 9001 certified medical factories. During world war 2 it was normal to use reusable cotton masks. They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%. You should try to get into touch with C. Drosten from Charité hospital Berlin. He r…

Post by wbl » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

bamboozled wrote: post #13

zaroth wrote: post #3

There is a lot of conflicting data. China went full hazmat with the influx of new healthcare workers they sent into Hubei, but Singapore and Honk Kong took significantly more measured approaches which ultimately have also been successful in limiting exposure. The US policy of 14 day quarantine for healthcare workers who had even limited exposure to a COVID patient was never sustainable and threatened to shut entire E…

You do realise it’s not eradicated in HK or Singapore ? I’m not sure why people keep talking like this is all in the past for these countries ?

Post by chmod775 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

konamicode wrote: post #42

mcsb4 wrote: post #29

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The biggest challenge is to overcome the mental block of decades of onetime use masks that have to be disposed in incinerators and be produced by ISO 9001 certified medical factories. During world war 2 it was normal to use reusable cotton masks. They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%. You should try to get into touch with C. Drosten from Charité hospital Berlin. He r…

> They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%. I was looking for information on (high) heat killing viruses such as sars-cov-2. Are you able to point to a reliable source on this?

Post by nradov » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

phreeza wrote: post #28

jtdev wrote: post #4

Can we all agree that outsourcing the production of critical medical supplies to China over recent decades was a bad idea? I understand the “golden arches” theory, and the intent if globalism, but I feel that COVID19 has revealed what a short sighted, deeply flawed view the globalists have.

I would argue the opposite is the case. The disease affects basically all countries, so what matters is the global supply of these goods. So we are better off if countries can specialize on their respective competitive advantages. In the scenario you propose, every country would have their own very inefficient mask industry which would now be just as or even more overwhelmed.

Post by hatenberg » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

gnusty_gnurc wrote: post #40

ZhuanXia wrote: post #15

China has half the world’s manufacturing ability, a civil service selected strongly for cognitive ability, a much more diligent and capable people, and a large population. Not to mention experience in pandemics of this type. China will become zeroth world shortly. We will have to get used to them surpassing us.

As long as they’re operating concentration camps, it’s the duty of the rest of the free world to oppose them. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-concentrationca...