The Coronavirus Thread

[NineBerry]

Studies use laboratories, not "rapid tests" you can buy in a pharmacy.

[JimC]

All the various tests have their own degrees of uncertainty, and they also have specific uses. Antibody tests are not the gold standard for contact tracing, but they do give useful statistical information on how the virus is travelling through populations. As long as the people doing the testing and analysing the data are fully aware of the uncertainties involved, the information is useful.

[laklak]

I was at the quack's today for the annual heart shit. I asked him about an antibody test, he said they're utterly useless. Well at least the ones here, they have about a 50% false reading rate. Might as well flip a coin.

[NineBerry]

They are generally useless for you as an individual. They are used for studies to see levels of immunity in the population

[Scot Dutchy]

But that lak is true of the whole crisis. Yea pays yea money...

[BarnettNewman]

Living next to the USains ...bound to get infected with idiocy....

How right-wing extremists, libertarians and evangelicals built Quebec's movement against COVID-19 restrictions

They may appear to make strange bedfellows, but experts say they share some fundamental values
Jonathan Montpetit · CBC News · Posted: Sep 25, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal ... -1.5737040

Smells like Maxime Bernier supporters.

[rainbow]

Studies use laboratories, not "rapid tests" you can buy in a pharmacy.

Yes.

[rainbow]

All the various tests have their own degrees of uncertainty, and they also have specific uses. Antibody tests are not the gold standard for contact tracing, but they do give useful statistical information on how the virus is travelling through populations. As long as the people doing the testing and analysing the data are fully aware of the uncertainties involved, the information is useful.

That would be rather standard error analysis. Tedious, but necessary.

[Tero]

Interferon related issues:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/ ... ce.abd4570

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/ ... ce.abd4585

[Brian Peacock]

It worked wonders for my early nineties dalliance with Hepatitis B.

[Scot Dutchy]

Germans embrace fresh air to ward off coronavirus

Angela Merkel says ventilation may be one of cheapest and most effective ways of containing virus

Ventilating rooms has been added to the German government’s formula for tackling coronavirus, in refreshing news for the country’s air hygiene experts who have been calling for it to become official for months.

The custom is something of a national obsession, with many Germans habitually opening windows twice a day, even in winter. Often the requirement is included as a legally binding clause in rental agreements, mainly to protect against mould and bad smells.

But while some people may dismiss the method as primitive, “it may be one of the cheapest and most effective ways” of containing the spread of the virus, Angela Merkel insisted on Tuesday.

The German chancellor explained that the government’s guidelines to tackle the virus, encapsulated in the acronym AHA, which stands for distancing, hygiene and face coverings, will be extended to become AHACL. The “C” stands for the government’s coronavirus warning app, and “L” for Lüften or airing a room.

“Regular impact ventilation in all private and public rooms can considerably reduce the danger of infection,” the government’s recommendation explains.

We have been saying this for months.

[Brian Peacock]

And you've been objecting to it for months.

[pErvinalia]

Germans embrace fresh air to ward off coronavirus

Angela Merkel says ventilation may be one of cheapest and most effective ways of containing virus

Ventilating rooms has been added to the German government’s formula for tackling coronavirus, in refreshing news for the country’s air hygiene experts who have been calling for it to become official for months.

The custom is something of a national obsession, with many Germans habitually opening windows twice a day, even in winter. Often the requirement is included as a legally binding clause in rental agreements, mainly to protect against mould and bad smells.

But while some people may dismiss the method as primitive, “it may be one of the cheapest and most effective ways” of containing the spread of the virus, Angela Merkel insisted on Tuesday.

The German chancellor explained that the government’s guidelines to tackle the virus, encapsulated in the acronym AHA, which stands for distancing, hygiene and face coverings, will be extended to become AHACL. The “C” stands for the government’s coronavirus warning app, and “L” for Lüften or airing a room.

“Regular impact ventilation in all private and public rooms can considerably reduce the danger of infection,” the government’s recommendation explains.

We have been saying this for months.

Where's the evidence.

[Scot Dutchy]

And you've been objecting to it for months.

Nevermind. I have always been for ventilation so wtf are you on about.

[JimC]

Kilts certainly help with personal ventilation...