Covid 19 Sci/med discussions only

[Arik]

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-1...rt-11606782449

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[TehLlama]

It is kinda funny because I had friends come back from an event in China late November, and all had this suspicious awful nagging cough. The running joke later on is that they already had the WuFlu... except that the serological testing would actually back it up.

I'm still more convinced that this is part of a family of SARS viruses that jump species between reservoirs, and that constant mutations are a part of it, so a close relative may have already been actively circulating, but large scale asymptomatic transfer isn't necessarily a single point mutation type of thing that is likely to emerge overnight.

[CrashAxe]

I saw this video back in February, purportedly a news interview of an African International PhD student in Wuhan. If accurate, COVID-19 was likely circulating a few months prior to January, or December, or November, or even October 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uIVf_o9aXM

The timeline information starts at about 3.44.

[CrashAxe]

Also, I ran across this older article this week talking about the CES Convention and SHOT Show in January.

CES Show and SHOT Show crud was CES and Shot Show flu this year. Everyone from my company and a lot of other SHOT Show attendees were sick for 2-4 weeks instead of the normal 1 week, and hit hard. I heard about Wuhan being locked down while there, and ran to the bathroom to wash my hands after any contact with Chinese Nationals from the Mainland that I couldn't avoid without being rude, did my best to E&E as many of the rest of them as I could, nonetheless got sick the day before flying home, and was sicker than I have ever been from my two times having documented cases of the flu with extremely atypical symptoms, nothing life-threatening, however. I stayed at home for 20 days to keep from spreading what I was sure was likely COVID-19.

I was the only person that my doctors and MD friends took seriously when I later on reported that I thought I had had COVID, based on my medical background. I'm not an MD, but I will do curbside consults for them, and I am usually mistaken for a physician by doctors who do not know me when I see them in their practice. My other employees and everyone else I spoke with all got scoffed at when they brought it up, because of course, COVID-19 couldn't have been here yet.

Doctors, like all people who have learned a lot, sometimes forget that the amount they ACTUALLY TRULY know compared to the amount that they do not know is a thimbleful compared to the universe.

I saw Foreigner at their premier show while at SHOT, and they cancelled their next 3 weeks of shows due to illness.

https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates...uper-spreaders

[AndyLate]

Is it true that people of color are more seriously affected by Covid in the US? What drivers other than access to medical care are involved?

Andy

[chuckman]

Is it true that people of color are more seriously affected by Covid in the US? What drivers other than access to medical care are involved?

Andy

RE: non-Caucasians, yes: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ethnicity.html

Economic status, population density, and diet/nutritional status are all drivers.

[WillBrink]

Is it true that people of color are more seriously affected by Covid in the US? What drivers other than access to medical care are involved?

Andy

Yes. I discuss that here as well as one possible factor for it:

https://brinkzone.com/african-americ...-missing-link/

[1168]

RE: non-Caucasians, yes: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ethnicity.html

Economic status, population density, and diet/nutritional status are all drivers.

Some of the co-morbidities associated with poor outcomes are also more common in some groups.

[WillBrink]

Some of the co-morbidities associated with poor outcomes are also more common in some groups.

I think vite D status should be listed among the co-morbidities personally. UK will be sending free D supps to high risk populations. It's a start:

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/...tamin-d-supply

[CrashAxe]

G6PD deficiency is also common among people of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean descent. 1 in 10 African American males have 66PD deficiency. Discussed here in more detail, https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/1001/p1277.html, it is believed to be a major contributor to poor outcomes from COVID-19.

Also, Sickle Cell Disease patients tend to have worse outcomes when they contract COVID-19.

Sickle Cell Disease is most common among people of African, Middle Eastern, Indian, Hispanic-American from Central and South America, Asian, and Mediterranean descent. 1 in 12 African American males in the US have Sickle Cell Disease.

Sickle Cell Trait is when people carry only 1 defective cell that leads to Sickle Cell Disease, not 2, and usually live normal lives. Approximately 10 percent of African Americans have Sickle Cell Trait. There are concerns that people with Sickle Cell Trait might be at risk for severe COVID-19, however. https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/03/...evere-covid19/