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Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets
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#12I'm honestly of the opinion that all of the ethical questions that arose during this search are fairly minuscule compared to the potential findings that could help us end this never-ending outbreak altogether. (At least by developing better targets for drugs like Paxlovid, if their hypothesis about GI tract replication turns out to be correct.)
Of them all the potential to reveal that the patient X is hiding their HIV status is probably the biggest tragedy that can happen, since it will compromise their social and work standing due to stigma. If, however, this person does NOT know they have HIV or something similarly immunocompromising, it's in fact their moral prerogative to find this person and inform them of their disease, instead of beating around the bush trying to go easy on their feelings instead of potentially saving their life.
Either way, at some point it becomes a question of common-good vs individual good and these options aren't so bad to even have this debate.
Re: Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets
#13Freakanomics recently did an episode on this: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/water-water-everywhere-but-...
And the preprint
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.28.22281553v...
Edit: this pre print is from more than a year ago! It was just published in Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
Re: Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets
#14> could it mean that the massive covid infection in the gut didn’t show up on a nasal swab? Shouldn’t they have known that beforehand? Isn’t that a big red flag in this entire endeavor?
Covid is supposedly a respiratory tract infection, so who'd be expecting it to only show up in the gut? It seems they still don't know whether that is in fact the explanation.
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#18> could it mean that the massive covid infection in the gut didn’t show up on a nasal swab? Shouldn’t they have known that beforehand? Isn’t that a big red flag in this entire endeavor?
Covid is supposedly a respiratory tract infection, so who'd be expecting it to only show up in the gut? It seems they still don't know whether that is in fact the explanation.
It's been published since roughly May 2020 that COVID infects gut epithelium. It's not much of a stretch that it's transmissible that way as well.
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Chlorine destroys viruses. That's why they put it in water.