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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Habsy said:
How about a big brother series with only whacks like Trump, Putin, Xi, Kim Jong


Just blur out scenes of them in their underwear.
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I do not have bleach or varsol on hand for my eyes. Fuck sakes Habsy. That’s atrocious. You should have marked it graphic content.
 
Full article is worth reading.

www.scientificamerican.com

When Can We Lift the Coronavirus Pandemic Restrictions? Not Before Taking These Steps

Johns Hopkins health security expert Tom Inglesby discusses the need for widespread testing, protective equipment and face coverings
www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com

With much of the country grinding to a halt in a desperate attempt to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, many people are wondering when the U.S. will be able to “reopen.”

The American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank, recently released a report co-written by former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb that offers a four-phase “road map to reopening.” The first phase—which the U.S. is currently in—involves slowing the spread of new infections with physical distancing measures, such as closing schools and having people work from home. In the second step, individual states can reopen when they have the capacity to identify, test and isolate most people with COVID-19 and their close contacts—but some distancing will still be required. In the third, remaining restrictions can be lifted when an effective therapy or vaccine becomes available or when data show widespread immunity. The final stage, after the current pandemic is over, will be to invest heavily in research and health care to prepare for the next one.
 
Could it be a reduced demand for tests? We're coming out of cold and flu season, so fewer people experiencing symptoms that could be mistaken for COVID?
 
Regardless, they should still be testing more, not less. Especially since our testing numbers have never compared well at all to the rest of Canada. It's a problem.
 
Yeah, I mean less test sounds bad, but since it is voluntary and based on symptoms/risk its not necessarily a bad sign. hopefully more people are just home, safe, and not fucking leaving the house to go to a hospital for a test. A significantly greater number of people were likely at home over the last 10 days compared to the previous 10.
 
The thing with testing more is they have to get to the point of being able to test presumptively healthy people.

Sick people who aren't leaving the house/in the hospital are less risk of being spreaders.
 
379 new cases announced in Ontario today

But yeah, with the testing backlog and then not a backlog, and then testing well under capacity, I don't know what we can draw from these numbers.
 
If it’s done on a standard platform (Roche, Abbott etc) it will be a blood test. Shouldn’t be that difficult to roll out once validated.
 
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