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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is the most common cause of death in both influenza and coronavirus. The underlying mechanism involves diffuse injury to cells which form the barrier of the microscopic air sacs of the lungs (alveoli),surfactant dysfunction, activation of the immune...

A Detroit Pistons player tested positive about a week after a game against the Utah Jazz who had two players we now know were infected.

Just take some time off.

If the hospital system is overwhelmed with this pandemic, many more people will die of flu also!!!!! The cause of death in flu is acute respiratory distress syndrome, same as SARS-Cov-2. The ICU protocol to save these people is the same. The pathophysiology that leads to pneumonia is very...

I teresting thing is to compare death rates in Hubei (4% or maybe more) compared to other Chinese provinces (much less). Italy now is like Hubei. Their hospitals cant cope so people die. It is a disaster. I pretty much despise Xi Jinping and his neo-Maoism. They made bad things worse in...

In the US people are being far too complacent. Nearly everybody.

The actual name of the virus is SARS-CoV-2. Severe acute respirstory syndrome coronavirus 2. This nomenclature was developed by virologists. Covid-19 refers to the respiratory disease it produces. A name like "Wuhan virus" is popular among people in the US who (a) are responsible for failing...

Third BBA player, this one on Pistons, had tested positive. They played the Jazz the other night.

I dont think I am downplaying it at all. I think this is the most serious public health crisis I can remember and it is just starting here. You in particular are in the most susceptible category. So my advice would be don't even play TT at home with your friends because you are not able to...

The case fatality rate is the number who eventually die/total infected. The only place we can get a remotely accurate estimate is Korea because that is the only place that does enough testing to give an estimate of number infected that is likely to be accurate. There it is 0.6% last time I...

Sorry Bb. Case fatality rate is the key number you need to watch at this point. Not deaths/recovered. Korea case fatality rate is posted at Johns Hopkins Univ website. For sure cases spread out of China before anyone knew what was happening. Wuhan is a huge city, 20 million in the metro area.

Sorry Taku, I dont know the answer immediately. I will do some reading. Bb, the better stat is case fatality rate, which is deaths/total infected. The only good number on that comes from Korea because they tested so many people. It is 0.6% there. A scary number but not 7%. But you are in a...

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It is a coronavirus. So was MERS. MERS thrived in a hot environment. It is unknown how this one will behave. Maybe we get lucky. The only way to control it is to stop congregating. It is not easy and requires draconian measures, like canceling the Olympics. Gobert felt good. Maybe the...

1. We dont know how seasonal this virus will be because it is new. Dr. Peter Hotez, a colleague of mine in Houston and a world authority on infectious disease epidemiology, has emphasized this point. We simply cant make any assumptions about that. We cant even say it is more or less likely...

That is f#$king nonsense perhaps explained by the Russian source of the comment. His administration is the reason our country is so unprepared for this. The level of incompetence shown is almost impossible to put into words. (I work with people who are actual experts in public health and hear...

Agreed. The Olympics MUST be canceled.

I have a colleague here in Houston named Peter Hotez, who is one of the world's authorities on infectious disease epidemiology. He has emphasized exactly what you wrote. This is an entirely new virus (for humans anyway) so we don't know how it is going to behave. We don't know if it will be...

My university just canceled in person classes. We are going to deliver content on line. I have been busy recording lectures.

Yes, quite a few molecules have been found this way, three or four different announcements about molecules targeting Covid19 in the last few days. Different companies are targeting different parts of the virus. These days this initial phase of drug discovery can go surprisingly fast. The key...