Some, definitely.
Interesting way to triangulate. The appearances of different strands of the virus are consistent with its evolutionary path.
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This long New Yorker piece isn’t specifically about Covid-19, but rather about the search for broad-spectrum antivirus drugs, analogous to antibiotics for bacteria. Interesting science here about how viruses work. (There are only about 200 viruses known to affect humans?!) It’s one of those good science pieces where everything makes sense as you read it, and you feel like you’ve learned a lot, and then ten minutes later you can’t quite recall what you’ve just read.
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Uh oh. Evidence of re-infection from South Korea.
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You could be right. I hope Keoni is just trying to scare us.
Someone said this before, but man, these coronavirus threads are growing exponentially.
Maybe we should do research on it.
Each thread is a mutated strain of the original thread topic… 
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An interesting study about the spread of the virus in a restaurant in China: it looks like air conditioners blew the virus across one section of the restaurant, infecting people at two other tables “in line” with the air conditioner, but didn’t infect people at equally near tables that weren’t in the same direction of wind.
Which, for a more selfish take on it, certainly bodes ill for using air conditioners when the temperature heats up.
Yellow A1 circle = original asymptomatic source; circles are others who came down with it. A2-A5 don’t really “count” because they were family members who spent much more time with the source, whereas it looks like Bs and Cs were only nearby during this hour or so in the restaurant.
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Covid-19 is also causing Endotheliitis. Younger patients can handle it better.
People at risk are vulnerable patients with pre-existing endothelial dysfunction, which is associated with male sex, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and established cardiovascular disease.
This hypothesis provides a rationale for therapies to stabilise the endothelium while tackling viral replication, particularly with anti-inflammatory anti-cytokine drugs, ACE inhibitors, and statins.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30937-5/fulltext
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So much for those SARS-COV-2 aerosol transmission deniers.
Not really. Confusingly, aerosol (i.e. airborne) isn’t quite the same as droplet-borne. Droplets can float around for a while, and I don’t think this study gives evidence one way or the other if the virus is mainly spread via aerosol (floating around for a long time) vs droplet-borne (floating around for a shorter time).
But anyway, not the main point of the study.
The claim was that droplets will fall to the ground within 1 to 2 meters, that’s where you get the 1 meter social distancing regulation implemented by countries everywhere.
If they were saying that droplets can travel up to 7 or 8 meters, then who cares if it is in aerosol form, you should take the same protective measures as you would dealing with an airborne virus. Keep 10 meters away, wear a mask at all times in the public.
You did, which is why I brought in a “Well, actually…”
As the link I posted discusses, the difference between the two isn’t that important anyway.
Tell that to the WHO
Droplet transmission occurs when a person is in in close contact (within 1 m) with someone who has respiratory symptoms (e.g., coughing or sneezing)
Pass this along to relatives overseas.
Instead, seniors may seem “off” — not acting like themselves ― early on after being infected by the coronavirus. They may sleep more than usual or stop eating. They may seem unusually apathetic or confused, losing orientation to their surroundings. They may become dizzy and fall. Sometimes, seniors stop speaking or simply collapse.
“With a lot of conditions, older adults don’t present in a typical way, and we’re seeing that with Covid-19 as well,” said Dr. Camille Vaughan, section chief of geriatrics and gerontology at Emory University.
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