D&D and the rising pandemic
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Baron Opal II
Hero
Excellent! That's been a prevailing theory but it is great to see she may have found some proof.Some insight into the possible causative mechanisms of long COVID: resistant microclots.
South African scientist thinks she may have solved the mystery of long COVID-19, which afflicts 100M people
A recent study by Resia Pretorius and her team at Stellenbosch University in South Africa suggests that long COVID-19 may be triggered by microclots.thehill.com
Ryujin
Legend
More than a dozen have already managed to come back on other flights, most likely while Covid positive. It was a bunch of reality TV "stars", social media influencers, and late teens/early 20s. Pretty much guaranteed to be a crap show, and it was. The whole bunch might well end up on the no-fly list.
You mean, how do they count someone who has broken their leg badly, but is covid-positive and asymptomatic? I don't think they count that as a hospitalization due to covid in these numbers.
Not a Hobbit
Explorer
People, Governments, Hospitals, Businesses, NGOs, etc. have been manipulating "hospitalized because of covid" vs. "hospitalized with covid" numbers since the pandemic began.
That's what I'm hoping. The names used in the various graphs, tables, etc... aren't all that helpful (and the easily findable graphs don't always go to easily findable definitions). The "New admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19" from the CDC, for example, sounds like it might count the broken leg who was positive, but not someone admitted who was later discovered to have COVID or someone whose COVID went away but not the horrible pneumonia that came from it. (Some of it is picky, but giving having the official sources give doubters more ammunition at this late stage is bleh.)
Thomas Shey
Legend
Well, part of the issue is that sometimes the separation isn't as clean as one might like. This comes up in the context of death and what are called "co-morbidities" pretty frequently. When one has three conditions that mutually reinforce, one of which is COVID, how do you count it? Some people want to only do so if COVID is clearly and unequivocally the primary cause, but if you follow that logic far enough, HIV never killed anybody.
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I guess the silver lining is that Omicron isn't as deadly and vaccinations are much higher than last winter. From the links you provided earlier, the number of Covid cases there is nearly triple what it was last year, but hospitalizations, though a bit higher, are not anywhere near triple. That's something.
Stay safe.
Fandabidozi
Explorer
I for one welcome our NZ overlords.
F.Y.I. Viagra may be added to the list of drugs used for therapeutic (not preventative) treatment of COVID.
nypost.com
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
UK nurse reportedly recovers from COVID-19 coma after receiving Viagra
Monica Almeida spent 28 days in a coma after contracting COVID-19 and was just 72 hours from her ventilator being turned off when she was saved by a “large dose of Viagra.”
nypost.com
Sildenafil for treating patients with COVID-19 and perfusion mismatch: a pilot randomized trial - PubMed
Sildenafil for treating patients with COVID-19 and perfusion mismatch: a pilot randomized trial, NCT04489446, Registered 28 July 2020, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04489446 .
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Well, the stuff was originally developed to treat pulmonary hypertension, so it helping in perfusion mismatch in the lungs is understandable. It's ED effect was noticed as a side effect because the overlap of ED and pulmonary hypertension in older men is large.
Zardnaar
Legend
Lol sweet summer child.
“Erectile Disfunction”
My apologies - I figured that in a discussion of Viagra, folks would know the acronym for Erectile Dysfunction, the problem Viagra is most famous for treating.
Hussar
Legend
/hangs head in sheepishness.
To be fair, I've been living in Japan so long that I never see these ads. I remember one of the last times I was in Canada, few years back, and saw all these Ciallis (sp) ads. I hadn't the first freaking clue what they were advertising. I had to actually ask someone what the heck these things were.
I can honestly say that I've never seen any sort of Viagra or anything like that ad on Japanese TV. Then again, the Japanese are WAYYYYY behind when it comes to stuff like that. I mean, good grief, I remember when they made the pill available in this country. :wow:
To be fair, I've been living in Japan so long that I never see these ads. I remember one of the last times I was in Canada, few years back, and saw all these Ciallis (sp) ads. I hadn't the first freaking clue what they were advertising. I had to actually ask someone what the heck these things were.
I can honestly say that I've never seen any sort of Viagra or anything like that ad on Japanese TV. Then again, the Japanese are WAYYYYY behind when it comes to stuff like that. I mean, good grief, I remember when they made the pill available in this country. :wow:
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