Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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LinekersLegs said:
www.businessinsider.com

For a growing number of COVID-19 patients, symptoms last more than a month. Four young patients who've been sick 30-plus days say they're 'terrified.'

Several coronavirus patients whose symptoms won't go away say their families and colleagues are skeptical of their lingering illness.
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"We're definitely seeing people whose symptoms last longer than two weeks," Dr. Nate Favini, the medical lead at Forward, a primary-care practice that's collecting data on coronavirus patients around the country, told Business Insider. Favini treats coronavirus patients in San Francisco.

He said the CDC has been "very slow to update their guidance on symptoms."

"It's hard to say what percent of people have symptoms that last beyond two weeks, but we're definitely observing that as a not-uncommon phenomenon," he said. "The virus causes all kinds of inflammation and dysregulation in your body and it can take even longer, after you've cleared the virus, for all of those things to go back to normal."
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Interesting that. As you know I had abit of a sore throat which progressed into being a bit chesty with a dry cough here and there. Nothing major but it lasted around 7 weeks, still lingering slightly but no where near as noticable. In the end due to the length of time I had it, I had actually put it down to maybe a flare up in asthma (that maybe I didn't know I had. As my brother has it) or bad hay-fever with the pollution levels being quite low all of a sudden. If these guys are right it couldve been the Rona afterall, makes more sense than undiagnosed asthma suddenly turning up as an adult.
 
LinekersLegs said:
Found this an interesting study on transmission from Taiwan who appear to have handled their outbreak well, their quarantine period is 14 days too.
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Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan

This study delineates the transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and evaluates the transmission risk at different exposure window periods before and after symptom onset.
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Our analysis of close contacts to confirmed COVID-19 cases revealed a relatively short infectious period of COVID-19 and a higher transmission risk around the time of symptom onset of the index case, followed by a lower transmission risk at the later stage of disease. The observed decreasing transmission risk over time for COVID-19 was in striking contrast to the transmission pattern of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), in which the transmission risk remained low until after day 5 of symptom onset in the index cases.20 Our study and the study by Nishiura et al4 revealed a short serial interval of COVID-19, with a median of 4 to 5 days. In contrast, the mean serial interval of SARS was estimated to be 8.4 days in Singapore.20 The present contact tracing analysis suggested that the shorter serial interval of COVID-19 was due to the combination of early-stage transmission and a short period of infectiousness.

The observed pattern of the secondary clinical attack rate over time was also consistent with the quantitative data of the SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding in upper respiratory specimens, which has been found in China to be a high viral load around the time of symptom onset, followed by a gradual decrease in viral shedding to a low level after 10 days.5 The viral load was similar among asymptomatic, minimally symptomatic, and symptomatic patients. Another virological study in patients with COVID-19 in Germany also found no viable isolates of the virus after the first week of symptoms.21 Our findings agree with the virological data on high transmissibility of COVID-19 in the first week after the onset of symptoms and decreased risk afterwards.21 We also documented and quantified the transmission potential of COVID-19 in a subgroup of contacts whose exposure occurred exclusively during the presymptomatic period of the index case. Our analysis revealed a similar clinical attack rate between the contacts who only had presymptomatic exposure and those who had postsymptomatic exposure.
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The more that is learned about this virus the scarier it becomes.
 
BrendanGOT said:
Interesting that. As you know I had abit of a sore throat which progressed into being a bit chesty with a dry cough here and there. Nothing major but it lasted around 7 weeks, still lingering slightly but no where near as noticable. In the end due to the length of time I had it, I had actually put it down to maybe a flare up in asthma (that maybe I didn't know I had. As my brother has it) or bad hay-fever with the pollution levels being quite low all of a sudden. If these guys are right it couldve been the Rona afterall, makes more sense than undiagnosed asthma suddenly turning up as an adult.
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Still probably wise to assume it was something else though just in case, at least until antibody tests become widespread and you can know!
 
LinekersLegs said:
Still probably wise to assume it was something else though just in case, at least until antibody tests become widespread and you can know!
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I'm locked down anyways, LL lol

Edit: speaking of which I'm eager to get the antibody test. Lots of other people I know too who reckon they had it but can't be sure til those tests are available. I'm sure there's even some more people on here in the same boat
 
Moomin said:
Landlord is superb.
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It's not in the same league as directors...

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