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239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

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Re: 239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

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Post by mhkool »

Prof Dr Cicero Coimbra showed in an interview a graph that makes you think: with 18 ng/ml vitamin D levels 100% of patients with covid-19 die and with 34 ng/ml 100% survive with a line in between: so the less vitamin D, the higher the risk to die. He has a protocol to give a single high dose of vitamin D and all patients survive. The interview is in Portuguese and the graph has English labels: https://youtu.be/l_nKoLY60lY?t=911

Re: 239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

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Post by kencausey »

biolurker1 wrote: post #7
biolurker1 wrote: post #5

10 points for this comment and 157 for the Bible api. This is not unfolding well even in the tech world.

Downvote me religious fanatics.

I suggest you read (multiple times) the 'In Comments' section of the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: 239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

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Post by Gibbon1 »

nabla9 wrote: post #2

At the beginning there was 4 different routes were considered: fecal-oral route, touch-hand-face, droplets in the air, airborne viruses. Fecal-oral route seems to either nonexistent or incredibly small. Airborne (aerosol) risk has been considered very small. Two main routes are touch-hand-face and droplets in the air. It seems that droplets are the main route (60-70% of infections) rest come from touching things. Soc…

I don't know how you square discounting aerosol transmission with super spreading events where one person infects dozens of people in less than an hour.

Sounds like cover your ass nitpicking to me.

Re: 239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

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Post by biolurker1 »

kencausey wrote: post #12
biolurker1 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downvote me religious fanatics.

I suggest you read (multiple times) the 'In Comments' section of the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is a world emergency, sometimes rules need to be bent..

Re: 239 Experts with 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

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Post by nabla9 »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #13
nabla9 wrote: post #2

At the beginning there was 4 different routes were considered: fecal-oral route, touch-hand-face, droplets in the air, airborne viruses. Fecal-oral route seems to either nonexistent or incredibly small. Airborne (aerosol) risk has been considered very small. Two main routes are touch-hand-face and droplets in the air. It seems that droplets are the main route (60-70% of infections) rest come from touching things. Soc…

I don't know how you square discounting aerosol transmission with super spreading events where one person infects dozens of people in less than an hour. Sounds like cover your ass nitpicking to me.

Infecting dozens in a hour sounds like droplet transmission. Especially when the events usually happened when people were signing etc. People shed droplets when they exhale and speak. Singing is much worse.

Aerosol transmission could infect several hundreds if it was significant transmission route.

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