Antibody tests are here but are not being used to reopen (worries that people will variolate to go back to work, if that’s the case wtf is wrong with your economy).
Prophylaxis and symptomatic relief appears to be ‘Vitamin D to mitigate the bradykinin storm’: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z “As per the flexible approach in the current COVID-19 pandemic authors recommend mass administration of vitamin D supplements to population at risk for COVID-19.” Sure ok, one weird trick that actually works, nice.
Rapid PCR and in New Zealand, full genome sequencing for contact tracing is a thing, awesome. Rapid antigen tests are a thing too, but not helping the economy.
Idk about what works in hospitals, but ventilators and fentanyl scare me more than ‘happy hypoxemia’ so if I’m conscious enough to say don’t take me to a hospital, that’s what I’m saying. Remdesivir is not widely available enough for me to bother thinking about.
The DIY corona vaccine appears from what research has been done to be safe (no biologists who took it died) and according to animal model studies, effective. I have the wherewithal to construct it if I want, I haven’t bothered, therefore I probably won’t screw with the official one when it hits.
Based on present death rates and the state of the economy, quarantine wasn’t worth it.
Edit: my best guess about ‘long hauler’ symptoms is that they’re consistent with permanent damage to the lungs and long term low-moderate hypoxia, lung transplants and oxygen bottles are really the only treatments for that (if you can cure scarring and regenerate lung tissue, let the asbestosis and silicosis communities know), so long-haulers are probably screwed. Vitamin D should limit or halt this process.
Antibody tests are here but are not being used to reopen (worries that people will variolate to go back to work, if that’s the case wtf is wrong with your economy).
Prophylaxis and symptomatic relief appears to be ‘Vitamin D to mitigate the bradykinin storm’: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z “As per the flexible approach in the current COVID-19 pandemic authors recommend mass administration of vitamin D supplements to population at risk for COVID-19.” Sure ok, one weird trick that actually works, nice.
Rapid PCR and in New Zealand, full genome sequencing for contact tracing is a thing, awesome. Rapid antigen tests are a thing too, but not helping the economy.
Idk about what works in hospitals, but ventilators and fentanyl scare me more than ‘happy hypoxemia’ so if I’m conscious enough to say don’t take me to a hospital, that’s what I’m saying. Remdesivir is not widely available enough for me to bother thinking about.
The DIY corona vaccine appears from what research has been done to be safe (no biologists who took it died) and according to animal model studies, effective. I have the wherewithal to construct it if I want, I haven’t bothered, therefore I probably won’t screw with the official one when it hits.
Based on present death rates and the state of the economy, quarantine wasn’t worth it.
Edit: my best guess about ‘long hauler’ symptoms is that they’re consistent with permanent damage to the lungs and long term low-moderate hypoxia, lung transplants and oxygen bottles are really the only treatments for that (if you can cure scarring and regenerate lung tissue, let the asbestosis and silicosis communities know), so long-haulers are probably screwed. Vitamin D should limit or halt this process.
This supercomputer model seems trustworthy so far: https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63