Coronavirus thread

[Herman]

Get paid to be quarantined?

I'm going to be sooo rich! (Winning...)

[mc ukrneal]

I really do not have the time to read every post so I do not know how others are doing.

My wife and I are in our early 70's .  We have hunkered down and only go out if we have to.

Just learned that a friend just succumbed to the virus.  He was about our age and in good health.  Apparently not good enough.

Very sorry to hear that. Stay strong!

[André]

Very sorry to hear that. Stay strong!

+1

[ritter]

Very sorry to hear that. Stay strong!

+2.

[pjme]

3)  We're all really stressed out here and going through tough times (some, more so than others I suspect).  Please, please no name calling and snarky comments!  Let's try our best to be supportive of one another.  I know, not easy, but let's try. This place should feel like a nice safe refuge and outlet and way to get through this together--not like a war zone!  I hope that I'm not alone in feeling this way here?

Thanks!

Peter

[drogulus]

This place should feel like a nice safe refuge and outlet and way to get through this together--not like a war zone! 

     "Oh hi, could you help me out, please? I appear to be lost. Could you tell me how to get to the war zone?"

[JBS]

One thing not slowed down by the virus: internet scams

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-11/coronavirus-seiu-masks-fraud-fbi

[SimonNZ]

Coronavirus conspiracy theories targeting Muslims spread in India
Attacks and boycotts escalate amid false claims that Muslim group to blame for epidemic


Austria reopens some shops as lockdown eased

[SimonNZ]

Small chloroquine study stopped after irregular heart beats detected in subjects

"A small Brazilian study on the effects of the anti-malaria drug chloroquine, which is similar to the drug that  President Trump has touted as a possible "game changer" in treating the coronavirus, was abruptly halted because some patients taking high doses developed irregular heart rates generating "safety hazards."

The findings were revealed in a study funded by the Brazilian state of Amazonas and published on Saturday in medRxiv, an online server for medical articles, The New York Times first reported.

Chloroquine is similar to hydroxychloroquine, the drug Trump has repeatedly touted. Health experts have insisted that not enough is known about either drug to determine its efficacy in combating COVID-19.

The Brazilian study included 81 hospitalized patients, with about half being given a dose of 50 milligrams of chloroquine twice daily for five days. The other participants were prescribed a dose of 600 milligrams for 10 days.

Patients taking higher doses experienced heart arrhythmias, or improper beating of the heart, within three days, according to the study. Eleven patients died by the sixth day of treatment and caused the research on high-dosages to end.

"Preliminary findings suggest that the higher CQ dosage (10-day regimen) should not be recommended for COVID-19 treatment because of its potential safety hazards," the study's abstract said. "Such results forced us to prematurely halt patient recruitment to this arm."

The lower-dosage portion of the study did not include enough patients to gauge whether it is effective in treating severely ill patients, the Times noted. The researchers said that more studies assessing the efficacy of chloroquine are "urgently needed."[...]

[SimonNZ]

Time magazine's cover story:

'Without Empathy, Nothing Works.' Chef José Andrés Wants to Feed the World Through the Pandemic

[vandermolen]

Loved him in At Last the 1948 Show.

Great to find another fan of the '1948' show. I even have a DVD of it.

[vandermolen]

So very sorry to hear that.  Condolences to both of you.

Best wishes,

PD

+ 3 sad to hear that news.

[Florestan]

+ 3 sad to hear that news.

+ 4.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Coronavirus conspiracy theories targeting Muslims spread in India
Attacks and boycotts escalate amid false claims that Muslim group to blame for epidemic


Austria reopens some shops as lockdown eased

I heard about Austria this morning over the radio.  Will be quite interesting to see how that goes; fingers crossed for them!

Very sad to hear about India though.

PD

[Que]

Coronavirus conspiracy theories targeting Muslims spread in India
Attacks and boycotts escalate amid false claims that Muslim group to blame for epidemic

Hindu populists have been targetting India's Muslim minority for years now.

It is at times like these that the seeds of discord germinate all over the world: nationalism, populism, bigotry - the nasty stufff...

Q

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Some people are thinking forward:  https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/new-york-gov-cuomo-unveils-multistate-coalition-to-reopen-economy-after-coronavirus/ar-BB12AJMQ

[Herman]

Funny how the states on the East and West Coast almost seem to be peeling off.

[drogulus]

     

     All of these hard hit countries are now in the low single digits for new confirmed cases, 5% or less from the day before to yesterday.

[Ratliff]

There is some evidence that the novel coronavirus infects T-cells, similar to HIV, thwarting the immune response.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/more-bad-news-on-the-long-term-effects-of-the-coronavirus.html

[Rinaldo]

Relevant to the discussion other users have brought up:

What the Racial Data Show