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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 Coronavirus / COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (Science / Informational) – Wednesday/Thursday, April 1/2

COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (Science / Informational) – Wednesday/Thursday, April 1/2

by Anne Laurie|  April 2, 20206:09 am| 14 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Science & Technology

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Here are the results from the first organized trials of drugs to treat the coronavirus. So far, there’s no cure. https://t.co/19zj2UJ22H

— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) April 2, 2020

The latest edition of our 'Disinformation Watch' newsletter is out now – covering the misinfo and disinfo circulating about #Covid19.
Read it here: https://t.co/lLVEVs90DQ pic.twitter.com/gcG13X0Y2T

— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) April 1, 2020

Blood donation centers across the U.S. are ramping up efforts to collect plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 in hopes it could be used to save the lives of others infected with the pandemic disease. https://t.co/uyhMmoBcNL

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 2, 2020

Iceland is employing detective work, testing and quarantining in its fight against coronavirus.

“We are using science and the best evidence there is,” Iceland’s health director, Dr. Alma Moeller, says. (1/7) #NBCNewsThread https://t.co/VfRfPEI9K7

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 2, 2020

The country’s health director, Dr. Moeller says the epidemic will likely peak in mid-April.

“I’m not going to be proud until this is over. There is no best way to do this. But we are using science and the best evidence there is — every moment.” (7/7) https://t.co/VfRfPEI9K7

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 2, 2020

Coronavirus: Australian scientists begin tests of potential vaccines https://t.co/KnWH37r9Br

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 2, 2020

This is the first great crisis of the post-American world. The UN Security Council is nowhere to be seen, G20 is in the hands of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the White House has trumpeted America First and Everyone Alone for years. Only the virus is globalized.

— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) April 1, 2020

More on this:

The key info needed to assess the high risk of COVID was made available via @WHO by 23 January:
– Novel respiratory coronavirus
– Efficient human-to-human transmission
– R0 of ~2+
– Fatality rate of >1%
– Severe cases ~25%https://t.co/QYM5om8rRt

— Jeremy INVEST IN PUBLIC HEALTH Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) April 1, 2020

A new study examines data from individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 in 38 countries and found that risk of death from the disease rose with each decade of age. https://t.co/zNG6HwMAOW

— ABC News (@ABC) April 1, 2020

Scientists have persuaded Britons and Israelis to fill out questionnaires about their health, to get ahead of the coronavirus by getting resources to the right place. The U.S. is next. https://t.co/MIr7Im9TIP

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 2, 2020

Understanding the #COVID-19 pandemic through #data. Our new dashboard provides real-time data and relevant statistical indicators to help countries manage the epidemic https://t.co/pfpUytTtBe #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/S5JTiHja8x

— World Bank (@WorldBank) April 2, 2020

Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and different domestic animals to SARS-coronavirus-2
-damn. Look after your cats and protect them from *your*infection https://t.co/qkpdmbJbfC

— ??? ? ??????, ??? ?????????? (@MackayIM) April 1, 2020

Extremely important aspect of the biology of #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus: the long time from infection to symptomatic to (in the worst case) hospitalization to death. A consequence of this is that control measures work, but we only see their effects *weeks* after implementing them. https://t.co/zy0dNXHiNR

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) April 1, 2020

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  1. 1.

    WereBear

    April 2, 2020 at 6:22 am

    I think the 2-3 week lag in actions/reactions is messing with people’s heads. So many can’t grasp… extrapolation… very well.

  2. 2.

    Cermet

    April 2, 2020 at 6:39 am

    So, are they saying 2-5 weeks before someone who is infected is clear of the virus? Is this extended period only for servere cases, not people who have mild to no symtoms?

  3. 3.

    A Ghost to Most

    April 2, 2020 at 6:40 am

    @WereBear: So many can’t grasp … reality … Very well.

  4. 4.

    ET

    April 2, 2020 at 6:44 am

    Damn it! Ellis Marsalis! New Orleans didn’t need that. 

  5. 5.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 2, 2020 at 6:53 am

    @A Ghost to Most:  Most people have a problem with that.

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    New Deal democrat

    April 2, 2020 at 7:03 am

    The “good” news is that it is pretty clear now that the US is managing to bend the curve, with daily growth knocked down from 35% day/day to less than 15% day/day – and that’s before the full effect of State lockdowns has kicked in.

    The bad news is that progress in the number of daily tests has stopped. Until testing with results ramps up to about 250,000/day, we are flying nearly blind again. And there has been no progress made on mass manufacture of masks, ventilators, thermometers etc. – the things you need to implement a South Korea type program. The States simply *must* find a way to cooperate to get this equipment, since the federal government will not do it.

    The longer we don’t have the equipment in place, the longer everybody must stay in lockdown.

  7. 7.

    Tony Jay

    April 2, 2020 at 7:26 am

    Jeebus on a pedalo, the BBC pointing out Fake News and disinformation?

    Yesterday the Government they serve claimed that one of the reasons they haven’t even tried to get a testing campaign off the ground in Britain is because there’s a global shortage of the necessary chemicals. The Chemical Business Association was asked about it and were clear there was no shortage of necessary chemicals, the Government was lying.

    Guess which relevant fact the BBC neglected to put in their report on the Government’s excuse makIng?

    DIsinformation? They know all about it.

  8. 8.

    WereBear

    April 2, 2020 at 8:01 am

    I can only imagine what this would be like without the internet and social media. Information is not nearly as tightly controlled as they would like.

    And the older someone is, the less able to adjust to a world where the usual trusted outlets, like broadcast nightly news, IS part of the problem.

  9. 9.

    Tazj

    April 2, 2020 at 9:27 am

    @New Deal democrat: Yes, the lack of testing is still a big problem. Where I live there is still rationing like there is everywhere else in the country. At first they had no kits and lacked reagent and swabs, now they have more of those but the labs can only process a limited number of tests per day. Hospitals where I live aren’t all overwhelmed yet, but we’re 30-40 days behind NYC.

    I’m convinced any random person with average intelligence, wasn’t malicious or a RWNJ would be a better president than Trump. Wouldn’t a normal person demand to put the most experienced experts in medicine and pandemics in charge of the response and get out of the way?

    Don’t we all have some vague understanding of the need for the DPA even if we aren’t historians or business people? I remember learning that in WWII when the country needed things right away the government forced companies to produce things even though I didn’t remember what the act was called.

    The fact that just this week businesses in the country were auctioning off masks to the highest bidders all over the world is sickening. An average person would realize the desperation and put someone in charge to locate, produce and distribute what was needed.

  10. 10.

    New Deal democrat

    April 2, 2020 at 9:30 am

    @Tazj:

    The absolutely crucial point is for the State governors to realize that Trump will *NEVER* act. They must band together to circumvent him and collaborate on ordering the supplies necessary to move to a South Korea style regimen.

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    Fair Economist

    April 2, 2020 at 11:25 am

    @New Deal democrat: Test positive rates have been climbing while the number of tests per day is flat. I expect there’s been *some* bending but mostly it’s just the US testing system,  which can manage about 100,000 tests/day, is overwhelmed by the number of new cases. If you look at the number of deaths (5,000), estimate the number infected 3 weeks ago (500,000) and project forward at Washington’s doubling rate (every week) we could have 5,000,000 infected now, with about 500,000 new infections every day. Testing is currently of those already symptomatic, so say half newly infected and half asymptomatic, but there’s still more people needing testing than there are tests.

  12. 12.

    joel hanes

    April 2, 2020 at 11:33 am

    @Cermet:

    As I read it, 2 to 5 weeks between infection and showing up in the statistics as a confirmed case.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    April 2, 2020 at 11:35 am

    @WereBear: I find myself wondering whether the people who aren’t good with delayed gratification might be the same people who aren’t good at grasping that we can’t see the results of our actions NOW for 2-3 weeks.

    Seems like maybe those inabilities are cousins, at least?

  14. 14.

    Mike G

    April 2, 2020 at 4:49 pm

    “We are using science and the best evidence there is,” Iceland’s health director, Dr. Alma Moeller, says. 

    Bible-thumping, magical-thinking, infantile Republicans are why we can’t have nice things.

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