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YC Companies Responding to Covid-19
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you still carry it / spread it after you’ve had it and recovered?
When you recover from a virus, antibodies are in your body. These can be detected, Once you're recovered, you can no longer spread the disease. Problem is, people with mild symptoms believe they don't have it, or have recovered. I'm one of the many, many people who has been ill for a while during the past weeks, and would like to know if I had it. If I can know for sure that I had it, and no longer have it, then I ca…
> Once you're recovered, you can no longer spread the disease.
This is a super dangerous statement and absent proof you should probably retract it. There are plenty of viruses that you still shed even after recovery, there is some evidence already that COVID-19 is still contagious after recovery with an unknown for the duration, it could be hours, days or even weeks, without a very good test regime it is very hard to put a safe boundary on this.
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#23The page seems to have vanished in the last few hours. (Whups, now it's back).
Sorry! We had a glitch :)
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Community reaction seems pretty favorable so far.
It's true that cynical comments often show up early in a thread, but that's partly because thoughtful comments simply take longer to write.
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#25Are anti-body tests available to purchase on the commercial market yet? I'd like to know if I already had it so I can get on with my life.
Can you still carry it / spread it after you’ve had it and recovered?
Probably not, but the reason to get antibody tests is to know you're past it and hopefully wont be a carrier to potentially infect others (e.g., if you live with your elderly parents)
That said, there are no hard rules
- you can still spread it physically (e.g., via clothing, on hands, surfaces)
- it isnt 100% clear you cannot be re-infected
- it isnt clear the length of time immunity is conferred
- it isnt clear if the virus might mutate drastically overstepping immunity from a previous infection
IANAD, of course get final answers from your doctor
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#26Are life sciences and healthcare familiar verticals for YC?
Good to see money and talent going to such good use.
(Edit) Here's the YC Companies list; which doesn't yet list these new investments:
Biomedical vertical: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?vertical=Biomedical
Healthcare vertical: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?vertical=Healthcare
"The Y Combinator Database" https://www.ycdb.co/
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#27Especially the logistics oriented companies are incredibly important. Flexport, Medina's, Osh. If wonder why, the German government (procurement was handled by the military procurement agency and a department of German customs) "lost" a suppliers shipment of 6 million FFP2 masks (or 3 million, numbers are not really reliable so far) in Kenia. For everyone wondering why they have been shipped througj Africa, welcome t…
That Kenya facemask story looks highly dubious and likely to be fake. The main source seems to be rt.com. Do you have a credible source?
The stories I've seen claim to be quoting der spiegel but I don't see the story on der speigel itself. For example, nothing is showing up on https://www.spiegel.de/suche/?suchbegriff=mask+kenya&seite=1
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#28Especially the logistics oriented companies are incredibly important. Flexport, Medina's, Osh. If wonder why, the German government (procurement was handled by the military procurement agency and a department of German customs) "lost" a suppliers shipment of 6 million FFP2 masks (or 3 million, numbers are not really reliable so far) in Kenia. For everyone wondering why they have been shipped througj Africa, welcome t…
That Kenya facemask story looks highly dubious and likely to be fake. The main source seems to be rt.com. Do you have a credible source? The stories I've seen claim to be quoting der spiegel but I don't see the story on der speigel itself. For example, nothing is showing up on https://www.spiegel.de/suche/?suchbegriff=mask+kenya&seite=1
Confirmed by the German defence ministry, first reported by Speigel who seems to have a copy from the internal report on it (they are citing passages from it in their German article).
But I agree, it is highly dubious. Not having been involved, my only theory right now is that the supplier sold them to someone els. if he ran delivery himself, it is easy to route it through Kenia. Then the shipment get's lost. If he was smart, he has proper insurance for it.
"The authorities are trying to find out what happened,” a German defence ministry spokeswoman said, confirming a report first published by Spiegel Online."
Surce: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
That Kenya facemask story looks highly dubious and likely to be fake. The main source seems to be rt.com. Do you have a credible source? The stories I've seen claim to be quoting der spiegel but I don't see the story on der speigel itself. For example, nothing is showing up on https://www.spiegel.de/suche/?suchbegriff=mask+kenya&seite=1
Confirmed by the German defence ministry, first reported by Speigel who seems to have a copy from the internal report on it (they are citing passages from it in their German article). But I agree, it is highly dubious. Not having been involved, my only theory right now is that the supplier sold them to someone els. if he ran delivery himself, it is easy to route it through Kenia. Then the shipment get's lost. If he w…
Yes, but the Kenyans say there was no such thing.[1]
Basically the only reason we trust the Germans over the Kenyans is because of reputation, keep in mind that there is no proof for that statement, we basically take their word for it. But in Germany even recently a stash of 100000 masks was stolen from a local hospital and everyone pretends there is no supply shortage.
So I don't know whether the Kenyans are lying, but I do know that the Germans are, because of information updates I get from local health department connections. Might just be the German government trying to talk themselves out of a bad situation. But right now, we don't know either way.
"We, therefore, wish to inform the public that we are treating this report of alleged disappearance of six million type FFP2 protective masks as fake news & that our cargo section continues with normal operations."
[1] https://twitter.com/KenyaAirports/status/1242455090952384512
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you still carry it / spread it after you’ve had it and recovered?
If you're not shedding viruses, you can't spread it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22690831
Don't assume shedding stops once you have had it and got better.