https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-1918-Spanish-flu-debacle-A-15191518.ph
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That’s actually a big deal and I’m tellin’ ya, we need to get the planet open again. If we open 100% tomorrow, we’ve already suffered colossal damage to the economy that will take years to rebuild. There’s got to be way to strike some sort of balance, and fast.
The coronavirus outbreak has bought the U.S. economy to a virtual standstill in just weeks. Most economists — and bank CEOs — expect the U.S. to go through a depression. The only question is how severe: Second-quarter gross domestic product is expected to drop from 30% to 40% and the unemployment rate is seen rising as high as 25%.
IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY:
- – Commerce locks up and retail sales plunge unprecedented 8.7%
- – Factory shutdowns near WWII demobilization levels in US
- – Stocks sink on Wall Street as grim economic news pours in
On Tuesday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank was preparing for a “severe recession.” Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said, “We all know we haven’t seen anything like this before.”
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This is one reason why I shop for groceries 30 minutes before the store closes. 
Fair enough…
I would say at this stage of the game, the long term effects for recovered Covid-19 patients whether physiological or psychological are purely hypothetical .
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Lol, I’ve already lost enough as it is.
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ETA: I realized not all articles were available. My apologies. I’ll have to copy from my own newsletters for you. It’s a free subscription if interested.
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From what I can see (linking to your various referenced MIT Technology Review articles), once the relevant cookie(s) count-up 3 “articles” opened in the browser, it wants a subscription for any further article views (blocking view of web-pages) - but clearing the relevant cookie(s) seems to reset things.
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(The Guardian, April 15, 2020):
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(Popular Mechanics, April 16, 2020):
As the majority of the U.S. population embraces N95 respirators and cloth masks, people with pre-existing respiratory issues are at a crossroads. Do they don the masks to protect themselves and others from COVID-19, or do they risk possibly permanently damaging their lungs due to oxygen restriction while wearing the protective covering? …
… For a majority of the U.S. population, cloth masks and N95 respirators are foreign accessories. Strapping them on for the very first time amid the COVID-19 pandemic can be an uncomfortable experience. In some cases, wearing the masks can even be downright dangerous. A November 2015 study suggests pregnant health care workers should think twice about wearing an N95 mask. …
… “Through the COVID-19 crisis, many have become familiar with N95 masks, which filter out 95 percent or more of small particulate matter from the air-including the virus,” Xu said in a press statement. “But in filtering those particles, the mask also makes it harder to breathe. N95 masks are estimated to reduce oxygen intake by anywhere from 5 to 20 percent. That’s significant, even for a healthy person.” Not only can the masks cause dizziness and lightheadedness, Xu said, but they can also damage the lungs. For patients who already have respiratory complications, wearing a mask could be life-threatening. Then again, without a mask, heading out in public to stock up on groceries could also be a death sentence.
Our analysis suggests that viral shedding may begin 2 to 3 days before the appearance of the first symptoms. After symptom onset, viral loads decreased monotonically, consistent with two recent studies. Another study from Wuhan reported that virus was detected for a median of 20 days (up to 37 days among survivors) after symptom onset, but infectiousness may decline significantly 8 days after symptom onset, as live virus could no longer be cultured … Together, these results support our findings that the infectiousness profile may more closely resemble that of influenza than of SARS, although we did not have data on viral shedding before symptom onset. Our results are also supported by reports of asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission.
“Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19”; Nature; April 15, 2020
Asymptomatic spread, This suggests to me the virus is being spread by breathing & talking?
#N95forall
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(Josh Bloom, ACSH, April 15, 2020):
“Remdesivir Should Inhibit Coronavirus Despite Failing Against Ebola”
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(STAT, April 16, 2020):
“Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment”
(TIME, April 10, 2020):
“‘We Carry That Burden.’ Medical Workers Fighting COVID-19 Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis”
The UW-IMHE Model(s) used - found here - are under some criticism for “significant” errors.
(Univ of Sydney, April 14, 2020): “US COVID-19 deaths “poorly predicted” by IHME model”
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(The Atlantic, April 2, 2020):
“Don’t Believe the COVID-19 Models - That’s not what they’re for”
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(The Atlantic, April 14, 2020):
For anybody over 50 yrs who is a current/ex-smoker, diabetic, and/or has cardio, liver, kidney disease:
(National Geographic, February 18, 2020):
"Here’s what coronavirus does to the body -
From blood storms to honeycomb lungs,
here’s an organ-by-organ look at how COVID-19 harms humans*
(Harvard Gazette, April 14, 2020):
“Coronavirus and the Heart”
(Kidney International Journal - In Press):
“The Novel Coronavirus 2019 epidemic and Kidneys”
(MedRxiv - In Press):
“ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage
After 2019-nCoV Infection”
It took 5 minutes of down scrolling to get to this point there should be a better system in place to access relevant information. Just my 2 cents worth I hope some posts can actually have categories included so that viewers can cut to the chase without all the hassle.
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Indeed, I spend a lot of time searching back for previous posts (in an attempt to make appropriate and interesting sub-threads within threads). The on-site search-widget can (sometimes, when search terms are short and simple) be helpful. Google Site Search is (often) better than any on-site search-widgets.
Example (Google Search): site:forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/[ thread number ] [ search term(s) ]
(STAT, April 8, 2020):
“With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19”
LOL, but dammit @Kanamit , you tagged me and I’m about a hundred post behind on this thread, now I gotta go back and play catchup,
Hmmm, first a little mixing session! 
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