Pestilence of the day
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- Continuity7
+1 for the use of the word 'pestilence'.
- Nairn2
On the plus side - 'Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria'.
- Nairn0
Virology Podcast, with a lot of focus on COVID-19, should you wish to science the shit out of all this..
- Nairn0
P is for
- utopian0
Chinatown in Philly is a ghost town.
- utopian0
I have noticed more people wearing face masks in public in the past couple of days.
- Nairn1
Covid-19 Symptom schedule:
- Day 1: Patients run a fever. They may also experience fatigue, muscle pain, and a dry cough. A small minority of them may have had diarrhea or nausea one to two days before.
- Day 5: Patients may have difficulty breathing — especially if they are older or have a preexisting health condition.
- Day 7: This is how long it takes, on average, before patients are admitted to a hospital, according to the Wuhan University study.
- Day 8: At this point, patients with severe cases (15%, according to the Chinese CDC) develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), an illness that occurs when fluid builds up the lungs. ARDS is often fatal.
- Day 10: If patients have worsening symptoms, this is the time in the disease's progression when they're most likely to be admitted to the ICU. These patients probably have more abdominal pain and appetite loss than patients with milder cases. Only a small fraction die: The current fatality rate hovers around 2%.
- Day 17: On average, people who recover from the virus are discharged from the hospital after two-and-a-half weeks.
- CyBrainX0
I'm out sick today. Should I stay off all threads?