Denny Swift

I think this is a great source of information (albeit perhaps not as fun as getting it from FB or friend's email! :-) )

https://www.sciencenews.org/

doug992

netflix explained documentary explains a lot of these virus come from the wet markets in china because different animal blood's are always been mixed.

personally i've always felt like this virus was man made and deployed to china to try and destroy their economy but the fact that whomever would have done that would have released a cure after it became a pandemic leads me back to he animal blood mixing theory

AKSteve

Just to post something hopeful:
https://inside.mountsinai.org/blog/m...-ill-patients/

PJ Cayenne

i had to beg my 91 year old dad to have his groceries delivered. He lives 700 miles away, is still very active, drives, plays bridge several times per week and loves to take cruises. He is shut in now. I'm afraid the boredom my do him in.

moomin

That line jumped out at me like it was written by a 20 year old doomer, not an Immunologist.

I agree with the sentiment of staying inside though. It's a pity people are so selfish. I see them around where I live, they think it's free vacation.

rangerfan94

Isn't this something they were doing for the Spanish flu 100 years ago? A doctor friend of mine posted on FB last night that they are looking for recovered people to get the antibodies.

S4to911

I hope everyone is doing well and is healthy, especially in hard hit areas. Based on the epidemic trajectory, even though this looks really bad right now, we are possibly at the peak in these areas. The epidemiology models that predicted were quite possibly wrong. It is quite a story of how this happened.

ICU beds and the medical system in the NYC area, New Orleans, and maybe Detroit will still be possibly stretched to the limit, but hopefully the peak will be sooner than we think. Let us hope.

Now time to drive my 992.

Jack F

How different the map looks today. Holy cow!

AKSteve

^It would be nice to hear more about how they're dealing with this virus in Germany. They have about 43,000 cases at the moment and only 267 deaths, which is remarkable.

rhr992c4s

From what I’ve heard it could be a combination of factors. A higher percentage of testing, an average lower age of population, a better health care system, fewer households with members from multiple generations, lower incidence of other contributing health factors such as history of smoking

ipse dixit

Germany is much more strict than Italy attributing deaths to COVID-19, which account (in large part) for the much lower death count

Manoverpdk

Seems many inbound vehicles or orders have been orphaned, including the Spyders and GT4s.

AKSteve

Did anyone else here just order some Pepcid AC?

sechsgang

Did another positive famotidine study come out? Great news if so...I've got PLENTY.

AKSteve

Yep!

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infecti.../covid19/86893

“In one case, a 44-year-old white woman with a medical history of epilepsy took famotidine 80 mg three times daily for 11 days starting 4 days after first experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. She reported that after feeling very unwell at the outset, within 1 day of the first dose of famotidine, she noticed marked improvement in her shortness of breath. This improvement was matched by an increase in her home-monitored pulse oximetry-measured oxygen saturation levels, which rose from 91-95% to 97-98%. Before starting the drug, she was febrile with a temperature of 37.8°C, but was afebrile by day 7 of treatment.”