What questions do you have about covid19 that seem important but aren't being asked/answered in public forums?
(I'll post my own below)
Ask HN: What's Missing from Covid19 Reporting?
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#2I've heard that high blood pressure is a risk factor for the severity of a covid19 infection. But does that mean...
(a) People who have actual, uncontrolled high BP?
(b) People who would have high BP, but don't because it's controlled by medication?
(c) People who are taking specific BP-controlling meds?
(d) Some combo of (a), (b), (c)?
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#3We hear stories about production ramps for personal protective equipment, for healthcare providers and regular citizens. But what are the actual projections for the need-curve vs. the availability-curve of those commodities in various places?
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#4Some anecdotes of covid19 infection talk about people being in severe pain. What's the relationship between that symptom and final disease outcome?
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#5In early public reporting on covid19 in the U.S., when the patient died it was common to hear that he/she had "underlying health issues".
Why be so vague? It seems like more detail would help people identify their personal risk level.
(Edited for tone.)
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#6What are the current projections of test-kit availability vs. need for different regions? E.g., when do we expect that doctors can test everyone that suspect of having covid19?
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#7Which medical centers are overwhelmed and which ones are operating normally.
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#8The origin of the virus. The mainstream media assumes the virus was created in a natural process of mutation and jumping species, while there's this little paper [1] in Nature Medicine from 2015 where authors (virologists) confirm that they created a novel, human-transmisible coronavirus, based on a new virus they discovered among bats. Some of the authors of the paper are from Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology...
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#9A detailed break down by age.
Then bonus points would be a column showing the mortality rate of a person in that country.
For instance an 80 yo in the US has a 6% mortality.
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#10Numbers related to the outbreak that are meaningful without denominators (since we don't have any and won't until long after things get back to some semblance of normalcy). Seems like this would be hospitalizations (due to covid) and deaths (due to covid). Those are numbers where the volume (as opposed to the rate) are the signal.