Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on
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Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on
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#2> COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start...then drop steeply."
Eek. Eight days is longer than I expected.
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#3I'm surprised this is news after 3+ years. I would've figured this would've been one of the first things to figure out. I'm sure many would've volunteered to be infected and closely studied early on to collect this information.
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#4I'm surprised this is news after 3+ years. I would've figured this would've been one of the first things to figure out. I'm sure many would've volunteered to be infected and closely studied early on to collect this information.
Intentionally infecting people for study isn't something that really fits with our medical ethics, at least as I understand them.
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#5I'm surprised this is news after 3+ years. I would've figured this would've been one of the first things to figure out. I'm sure many would've volunteered to be infected and closely studied early on to collect this information.
Intentionally infecting people for study isn't something that really fits with our medical ethics, at least as I understand them.
IIRC it can be done when there is little risk of serious adverse effects, or there is a known treatment that works well and mitigates risk of adverse effects.
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#6I'm surprised this is news after 3+ years. I would've figured this would've been one of the first things to figure out. I'm sure many would've volunteered to be infected and closely studied early on to collect this information.
Intentionally infecting people for study isn't something that really fits with our medical ethics, at least as I understand them.
It’s common practice for diseases where healthy people are unlikely to have severe issues, even if they may be deadly for some segment of the population.
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#7I know a guy who still wears a half-face respirator every time he's in public even for just a second. I think at this rate he'll be wearing it for the rest of his life, unable to accept a new level of risk and move on with his life. I'd like to help him but I see no possible way, he's convinced that I and 99% of the rest of the public are suicidally insane like people who play literal russian roulette.
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#8"People coming out of a pool drip a lot of water early on. While that may seem obvious, did you know that the water is wet?"
Infected people shed viruses. Someone with the common cold can be contagious for up to two weeks.
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#9> COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start...then drop steeply." Eek. Eight days is longer than I expected.
Here in Switzerland you’re considered infectious 10 days after symptoms start (for mild cases)
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#10I know a guy who still wears a half-face respirator every time he's in public even for just a second. I think at this rate he'll be wearing it for the rest of his life, unable to accept a new level of risk and move on with his life. I'd like to help him but I see no possible way, he's convinced that I and 99% of the rest of the public are suicidally insane like people who play literal russian roulette.
This is an odd hot-take for an active globally invasive and life altering virus.
That person has assessed their risk level and determined that their community's disregard for their personal risk, negatively impacts their personal model. Therefore they have to use a different device to mitigate their risk.
Seems pretty logical, matches with known science, with a minor exception that the half face respirator may not offer greater protection vs a well fitting* N95/KN95
* well-fitting being the crucial note there.