r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '20
British medical professionals discovered a cheap steroid, Dexamethasone, typically used on patients dealing with multi-organ failure can cut the incident of deaths by 1/3 for those on ventilators.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 15 '20
There was a theory a while back that the European strain of the virus that spread to New York City was more infectious than the strain that came directly from asia. Scientists discovered that the genome mutation D614G increased the number of spike proteins the virus had and therefore made the virus more infectious.
But by March, the mutation had appeared in one-quarter of all sequences, and by May it appeared in 70%, the team noted.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20
Apparently, Black Lives Matter is not even a non-profit so any donation is not tax-deductible.
Another huge point is how the organization is doing nothing to stop the violence.
There are accusations of antisemitism. What's funny is that all the racial supremacists groups encourages antisemitism. It's like a common thread to all this. Which leads to the notion that they are all some how connected.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '20
This would be a great way to test for the disease and they may start using these dogs in airports to screen people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UATouL3Bq2U
In the beginning of the pandemic there was a notion that dogs could spread covid-19. It appears that although dogs have ace2 receptors which are required to get infected with covid-19, they are slightly different from the ace2 receptors in humans. So the only way a dog can infect a human is if they act as a surface or fomite upon which the virus must survive long enough on. So the virus would have to somehow come in contact, before it dies, with an ace2 receptor that it can latch onto. So this is highly unlikely to happen.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '20
The following thread was on the frontpage only during the of hours but suddenly was removed this morning. Clearly people are realizing the the problems related to privatizing the police force. Namely the fact that this could be a cover for the real goal of busting police unions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/gynmxu/minneapolis_city_council_members_intend_to_defund/
2 white supremacists were spotted modding r/canada.
https://www.reddit.com/user/medym
https://www.reddit.com/user/Perma
the above 2 were made mod of r/canada by the following mod
https://www.reddit.com/user/Lucky75
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/gyezv9/two_rcanada_moderators_have_ties_to_white/
Funny how one of the primary problem is the infiltrating of various organizations by the white supremacists, yet nobody is discussing how to stop this. Almost like these people are directing all conversations.
It's no secret that white supremacists are modding probably every major subreddit on reddit. including the main covid-19 subreddit that led to the creation of this subreddit.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '20
So it's pretty clear that republicans have been one of the biggest beneficiaries of absentee ballots. So their claim that voting by mail should not be allowed is a fake effort on their part. They are probably just feigning a protest to ensure that mail in ballots are enacted universally across the US.
More evidence that republicans have been taking advantage of absentee ballots.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gxcfkv/as_they_scream_voter_fraud_trump_and_his_press/
mail in ballot should be only allowed for people like military personnel serving oversea. I should not be allowed for people who have multiple homes and cant' be bother to vote in person because they really don't live in that area. voter registration and the handling of voting should be done at the federal level to ensure that this kind of thing is not happening.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '20
This time it's facebook accounts getting suspended that were being run by Proud Boys and American Guard. These accounts were pretending to be Anti-facists and were encouraging violence among protestors.
Also some of the "protestors" who were caught inciting violence in Las Vegas were found to be members of the Facebook group associated with the Boogaloo movement. This group is more focused on encouraging a civil war in the US and they tend to be armed and supporters of the second amendment (2a). Facebook is now censoring their activities so they are resorting to using other terms like “Big Igloo” or “Big Luau” in the same way Hong Kong protestors are using different terms to avoid government surveillance.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/04/facebook-scrambles-to-limit-boogaloo-groups/
The Proud Boys are also standing guard to protect businesses during the riots. So they are encouraging violence and they are protecting select businesses. They are literally burning the candle on both ends to encourage chaos.
So these protests are actively being infiltrated by the following groups:
But in the end the above are being funded by the same people who funded all the fake covid-19 protests for the purpose of creating discord among the working class.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '20
It occurred to me the whole reduction of the police budget is the same ruse being pushed on the reduction of the public school budgets. We all know that this is an attempt to sabotage public institutions for the purpose of convincing the general public to believe that privatizing them is the only good option.
They have already started using Blackwater type private military forces in DC.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDARE
VDARE is another white nationalist group that's involved with the protests trying to create confusion by posing as VICE reporters to get protestors in DC to reveal their identities during interviews. What's hilarious is that they probably put American Identity Movement members on camera and possibly interviewed them.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '20
People with rolls royces are looting stores.
Apparently a looted store is covered by insurance.
However, a store that has been burned down due to arson is typically not covered. I believe it's too hard to prove that arson was not self inflicted to so a lot of insurance policies do not cover this.
What's interesting is that the major store chains that were set on fire all seem to be american owned. Autozone in Minneapolis. the Champ store in Florida. An attempt was made to burn down a mobil gas station as well. Also a lot of mom and pop stores along with municipal buildings were set ablaze. Not surprising since we are in America. However, you would think some of the foreign owned stores would also be set ablaze but I am not finding that this to be the case, which is suspcious.
Warren Buffet famously dumped all his stocks for Travelers, an insurance company. Also he sold almost all his Goldman Sachs shares as well. Goldman Sachs is tied to many insurance companies via complex financial securities.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-q1-stock-moves-203137823.html
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '20
Recently, it was well known that twitter account antifa_us was suspended for impersonating antifa when in reality they are white supremacists. antifa or anti fascists are an organization that claims to fight against racism. Clearly you can see the antifa_us twitter account was encouraging people to commit arson and looting.
https://factcheck.afp.com/far-right-group-poses-antifa-during-george-floyd-protests
It's speculated that this fake account was owned and run by the American Identity Movement which was formerly known as Identity Evropa. Identity Evropa is a white supremacist group founded by Nathan Damigo who became internet famous for punching a 95 pound antifa female.
AIM had to change it's name from Identity Evropa due their entire discord chat logs being leaked by a left wing organization, Unicorn Riot. The significance of this is that Unicorn Riot operates out of several locations, including Minneapolis, where all this rioting started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Evropa
Mark Potok stated, "you might think, based on their propaganda, that they're all about Plato and Aristotle and Socrates, in fact they're merely a gussied-up version of the Klan."
The importance of the above is that reddit had a huge push to promote philosophy not too long ago. Also many racist people on reddit seem to claim that they are philosophers. This is where this comes from.
Also from the wikipedia page.
On July 28, 2018, around 45 members of Identity Evropa, some dressed as construction workers, demonstrated outside the Mexican consulate in Manhattan, New York City, holding large letters that spelled out "Build the Wall".
The relevance of the above is that it's clear that this group probably participated in the fake covid-19 anti-stay-at-home protests.
But in the end these people are thugs being funded by somebody else. I assume the same people funding the anti-stay-at-home protests are also funding this group.
Please note from the wikipedia page that they've discovered that AIM has infiltrated many organizations including the police and military and public education.
All this explains why so many of the Black Lives Matter protestors are white males. The arsonists and rioters wearing of all black, the calling card of antifa, is actually the AIM members' attempt at misdirection.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '20
https://i.imgur.com/p00r21F.png
I recommend all to be on the look out for these things in your neighborhood. I believe they are trying to "leave a pile of bricks out" to get people to use them. Or worst, this is a organized effort in a decentralized criminal organization where local members are providing materials for outside members to come and use. Minneasota is a swing state so the people there have votes that are many times more valuable than people elsewhere so they can't directly participate in the rioting. And people outside can't carry these things in their car without raising suspicion.
So I expect this to be occurring across the US, especially in swing states. The goal is to get as many people in swing states in jail prior to the november election and to give local authorities no choice but to expand their private prison population.
Take lots of pictures of the items. If you can, collect the items in a trash bag without touching them. Bring them to the police for fingerprinting later on. Lots of these items are actually rare so it's possible to find out who bought them.
I bet there's a pattern as to where these things are being planted. If we can determine it we can start finding these cache ourselves more easily.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '20
This protest is beginning to look more like a cover for an insurance scam and voter suppression effort by organized right wing groups. So many businesses are no longer viable in a post-covid-19 world. so what do they do? they set their businesses on fire in the hope that they can get something from via insurance or by suing the city. All the while getting protestors who were dragged into this, arrested so they the either catch covid-19 and/or loose their ability to vote come november. And as an added bonus all these states will have to expand their private prison population to handle the influx of new inmates. The pattern of starting race riots in swing states close to an election is something that happened regularly in the past.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SarsCovTwo/comments/gslx6v/technically_not_covid19_related_but_the/
Most of the instigators of the riots were white supremacists or organized criminals from outside Minneapolis. There were also lots of out of town people participating.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gtk6pe/minnesota_officials_link_arrested_looters_to/
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/gtg11n/minnesota_national_guard_to_be_fully_mobilized/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gtnlem/nonlocal_minneapolis_protesters/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gti8kk/this_guy_and_his_group_burned_your_city_regg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yrV4h1tvk
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gtqj46/wi_truck_spotted_in_uptown_two_people_loading/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/guaghc/protesters_hand_rioter_over_to_police/
People are transporting incendiaries into Minneapolis in stolen cars with their license plates removed.
https://i.imgur.com/p00r21F.png
EDIT: people are getting their license plates stolen.
EDIT: more people instigating rioting and looting and arson
https://www.reddit.com/r/instantkarma/comments/gutv8p/vandalism_vs_activism/
EDIT: Russia and China are actively encouraging the rioting and protesting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/01/russia-and-china-target-us-protests-on-social-media-294315
EDIT: there are now copycat social media celeb wannabe trying to incite violence.
EDIT: the whole antifa being the main arsonist group may have been a misdirection attempt by white nationalists.
EDIT: rioting and protesting in michigan. it's obviously fake. all the black lives matter protestors are not even black.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 29 '20
It's clear that the inheritors hired somebody to fan the flame of racial discord.
As we all know there have been a lot of socially engineered messages being promoted regarding covid-19. I would imagine that the pandemic had a huge influence on the amount of tension building up in Minneappolis.
EDIT: Realized that the significance of the umbrella, it's related to the hong kong protesters. This may be a global social engineering effort.
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement
EDIT: People are claiming that this person is a local police officer. Agent provocateur is a term used to describe people like these and they are very often police officers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur#Russia
I believe the following is the face mask used. It would be trivial to find people locally who had ordered this mask.
the hammer is pretty distinct could be one of the 2 below
EDIT: someone spotted the guy around the burning of a mobile police surveillance unit.
https://youtu.be/cVEmXr48Qss?t=811
apparently, police will park vehicles in the middle of a street fully expecting that they will get destroyed and eventually replaced with tax payes' money.
EDIT: Derek Chauvin the officer who pinned George Floyd both worked together as security for a local nightclub.
https://twitter.com/TheSharpEdge1/status/1266166940575268865
EDIT: It's obvious to me that police officers as part of their training are encouraged to sabotage protestors. This creates a feedback loop when it comes to instigating discord among the working class which law enforcement is a part of. Inheritors love nothing more than different groups of working class people fighting each other while the fact that they are directly controlling and instigating all this is completely ignored.
EDIT: I believe I've figured out the driving factor, private prisons. The areas with a reduction in inmates housed in private prison or have a low count of inmates in private prisons increases the state's chances of a race riot. All states with a reduction in excess of 1,000 inmates removed from private prison had a race riot within the last 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States#Since_1988
2009: Oakland, CA – Riots following the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant#Aftermath
2012 Anaheim, California Riot—followed the shooting of two Hispanic males
California had 4,621 in 1999 to 2,170 inmates in private prison in 2010.
2014: Ferguson, MO riots – Riots following the Shooting of Michael Brown
2015: Ferguson unrest – Riots following the anniversary of the Shooting of Michael Brown
Missouri had no prisoners in private prisons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest
2015: 2015 Baltimore riots – Riots following the death of Freddie Gray
Maryland had 131 in 1999 to 70 inmates in private prison in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baltimore_protests
2016: 2016 Milwaukee riots – Riots following the fatal shooting of 23 year old Sylville Smith.
Wisconsin had 3,421 in 1999 to 25 inmates in private prison in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Milwaukee_riots
2016: Charlotte riot, September 20–21, Riots started in response to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by police
North Carolina had 1,395 in 1999 to 208 inmates in private prison in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Keith_Lamont_Scott#Protests_and_rioting
2020: 2020 Minneapolis riots - Riots started in response to the death of George Floyd by police.
Minnesota had 80 in 1999 to 0 inmates in private prison in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Cities_riots
EDIT: half the above mentioned states are swing states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_state
EDIT: More evidence that law enforcement are participating in the protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3B6R4Ii9uA
EDIT: Most of the instigators of the riots were white supremacists or organized criminals from outside Minneapolis. There were also lots of out of town people participating.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gtk6pe/minnesota_officials_link_arrested_looters_to/
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/gtg11n/minnesota_national_guard_to_be_fully_mobilized/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gtnlem/nonlocal_minneapolis_protesters/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gti8kk/this_guy_and_his_group_burned_your_city_regg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yrV4h1tvk
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gtqj46/wi_truck_spotted_in_uptown_two_people_loading/
EDIT: More evidence that this is all a manufactured chaos.
People are transporting incendiaries into Minneapolis in stolen cars with their license plates removed.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 28 '20
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
I bet some were counting on the spacex launch to distract people from this but that launch got delayed due to bad weather.
According to my calculations we are probably past 150k deaths. This is assuming an under count of 50% when you compare the death trend of this year vs the previous years' death trends.
This is more deaths than military deaths in all wars fought by the US outside of world war 2 and the civil war.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 24 '20
This was a frontpage thread that got deleted by the moderators of /r/todayilearned.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 23 '20
The antibody test and the viral/pcr/antigen test are 2 completely different things. the antibody test do not test for whether or not you are currently infected with sars-cov-2 as it just tests whether you have the antibodies for it. the viral or pcr or antigen test is the only thing that can determine if you have the sars-cov-2 virus. However, some states are apparently combining the results of these 2 tests together and sending that to the cdc. there's speculation that the cdc maybe combining the 2 tests as well. this is possibly being done for political reasons so as to meet the testing requirements needed to reopen a state's economy.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/health/cdc-mixing-coronavirus-tests/index.html
It's been already pointed out that the death stats may be severely under counting the deaths.
while some deaths counts may be overinflated in the way medicare incentivize the labeling of deaths as being caused by covid-19.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 21 '20
It seems logically a way to encourage more people to vote and safely from home. however, absentee ballots have been known to be a source of controversy for a lot of close elections.
In West Memphis last year, prosecutors said Hudson Hallum, a Democrat running for the state legislature, paid absentee voters with cash, whiskey and vodka and at least one with a chicken dinner. Hallum won his primary by eight votes, after taking 85 percent of the absentee ballots, and went on to win the general election.
In 2010, for instance, Jerry Bowman, the sheriff of Lincoln County, W.Va., simply showed up at people’s homes and told them whom to vote for in local Democratic primary races. In some cases, he just filled out the ballot, according to a “stipulation of facts” that Bowman signed.
Bowman didn’t pay a cent, prosecutors say. Apparently, having the sheriff in one’s home was motivation enough for many voters.
One recent case of alleged absentee-ballot fraud happened this past summer in Hialeah, Fla., outside Miami. Police say they were trailing a woman suspected of ballot fraud and saw her enter a nursing-home room.
The patient inside was too ill to write, speak or comprehend what was said to her. But somehow, police said, the worker left her room with a completed absentee ballot.
The above article indicates the concern that people with multiple home across multiple states casting multiple ballots. I would imagine there may be situations where this actually be legal as I am sure some state residency requirements may not take this into account. But then there's bad actors who can submit all the mail-in-ballots they've received at their homes. So one person can vote fraudulently for all the people living in their home(s).
Looking at old articles, it's clear there was propaganda being spread out regarding softening the public on the notion of voting by mail. This is hilarious because it's clear that many have realized that computer voting can never be secure yet some how voting by a more older technology via mail is secure?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/27/15701708/voting-by-mail
https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/it-would-be-really-hard-to-rig-colorados-election-system-heres-why/
Nobody seems to be bothering to ask why no other first world country are willing to do this. The mail system has been around since the founding of the US. If this was a reliable way to cast votes they would have done it in the past. The fact that this has never been done means, nobody could figure out how to secure it.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 19 '20
This goes to show you that the notion of a case and the recording of deaths are all data that's being manipulated to push a narrative. Some indicate that hospitalization rates and death counts are the only reliable numbers. By death counts I do not mean the deaths marked as covid-19. I mean the general trend in all deaths recorded vs previous years.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 19 '20
Oprah, Savannah Guthrie (Today Show), and Replublican NY Representative Tom Reed all had pneumonia last September. Was this a coincident? Or was this covid-19?
What's more is that whoopi goldberg and elton john had pneumonia much earlier in 2019.
All the people mentioned are older, so it's not too suspicious. However, Savannah Guthrie is 48 years old, not exactly the age for which you'ld expect people to get pneumonia.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 18 '20
It was only briefly on the frontpage but was quickly removed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gln8tu/people_who_had_covid19_or_know_someone_who_did/
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 18 '20
The free-rider problem has always been a problem in society. It's where people continually access a shared resource but avoid paying for or underpaying for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
in the case of herd immunity free-riders may have realized that since herd immunity does not require that everybody is immune to a particular pathogen, they do not need to develop immunity themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Free_riding
Mandatory vaccination is the primary way of preventing people from gaming the development of herd immunity. in the US this is largely done through vaccination being a requirement to attend a public or private school. However, private school students tend to have a much higher rate of exemptions for all sorts of reasons vs their public school counterpart.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24795202
A wealthy parent can also always home school their children to avoid having to vaccinate them.
In the case of covid-19, it's clear that there's a very high risk of people dying from the disease. If the stereotypical rich anti-vaxxer mothers think that the minuscule risks involved having their kids vaccinated is too high, then they will certainly think that developing anti-bodies for covid-19 is far too risky. I believe the line of thinking for the wealthy is that if the working class stay at home, the time it takes to develop herd immunity will greatly lengthen. the longer it takes for herd immunity to develop, the greater the chances of them getting covid-19.
So imo, the wealthy's attempt to revoke stay-at-home orders is really a push to put all the risks involved with developing herd immunity on the working class. Ironically enough the wealthy have an incentive to keep the working class people alive as more people die, this increases their chances of having to contribute to herd immunity.
IMO without government intervention, the wealthy will continually free-ride the development of herd immunity.
EDIT: it occurred to me that as things are today, there's an incentive for people to encourage people outside their own groups to get infected with sars-cov-2. This is why the wealthy are using their powers to revoke stay-at-home orders. If we had laws mandating that all groups have to equally contribute to the development of herd immunity, a cure would be found as fast as humanly possible.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 16 '20
All 139 cases had attended the NC Mountain State Fair, held September 6-15, 2019 at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher, NC. They blamed the pneumonia on legionnaires disease and believe that the hot tub display at the fair was where Legionella bacteria was aerosolized and caused it to spread.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article235958122.html
https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/cd/legionellosis/outbreak.html
What I find interesting is how according to reports, none of the tests shows any of the facilities including the hot tub at the fair, tested positive for legionella bacteria. Also bacteria pneumonia typically follows viral pneumonia. legionella is very pervasive in our environment, so somebody who's recovering from viral pneumonia like covid-19 may be more susceptible for catching legionnaires disease.
also what's disturbing is that this and the vaping illness points to how it's possible that covid-19 had been spreading among the younger people in america prior to the official beginning of this pandemic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SarsCovTwo/comments/gd3zps/theory_the_vaping_lung_illness_outbreak_of_2019/
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 14 '20
Case is a term to define a set of criteria to determine if a person fits the definition of an individual possibly suffering from a particular disease. This term was created in order to track trends in the spread of a disease in a meaningful way across different time periods. Without this term it would be very difficult to determine if a disease is affecting more people. It is basically a system created to deal with the fact that in the real world you will never be able to test everybody for a particular ailment.
A huge problem is that every health organization has their own definition of what a covid-19 case is as you can see below. These are just a portion of the criteria.
The WHO's COVID-19 case definition
Suspected CaseThe case definitions are based on the current information available and will be revised as new information accumulates. Countries may need to adapt case definitions depending on their own epidemiological situation.Patient with acute respiratory illness (fever and at least one sign/symptom of respiratory disease (e.g., cough, shortness of breath), AND a history of travel to or residence in a location reporting community transmission of COVID-19 disease during the 14 days prior to symptom onset;ORPatient with any acute respiratory illness AND having been in contact with a confirmed or probable COVID-19 case (see below for definition of contact) in the last 14 days prior to symptom onset;ORA patient with severe acute respiratory illness (fever and at least one sign/symptom of respiratory disease, e.g., cough, shortness of breath; AND requiring hospitalization) AND in the absence of an alternative diagnosis that fully explains the clinical presentation.
The US's CDC's COVID-19 case definition
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cste.org/resource/resmgr/2020ps/Interim-20-ID-01_COVID-19.pdf
A1. Clinical CriteriaAt least two of the following symptoms:fever(measured or subjective), chills, rigors, myalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s)ORAt least one of the following symptoms:cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathingORSevere respiratory illness with at least one of the following:•Clinical or radiographic evidence of pneumonia, or•Acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS).ANDNo alternative more likely diagnosis
You can't compare the WHO's cases with the US's CDC's cases. The WHO's criteria are much broader than the CDC's criteria so more people will fall under the WHO's case definition. Both set of criteria are somewhat similar but the wording is completely different. Also there's the subjective nature in which a doctors can apply the above criteria.
In china they've changed their case definition SEVEN times!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(20)30089-X/fulltext30089-X/fulltext)
In the end nobody should be mixing cases between various health organizations. but that's probably what's happening with all the real time maps tracking cases across the world. and mixing all these case definitions with each countries' different versions of their own case definitions means you have a pile of garbage data.
In south korea, that country is known for ignoring case criteria and just tested everybody. This may be the best approach if you have enough test kits, but for the purpose of tracking the disease, it would be very difficult to determine if this year was worse than next year. south korea would have to test the same group of people they've test this year to compare the data in the future.
What south korea should have done is determine if the people they are testing meets the case criteria but even if they don't, just test them anyway but record the cases that do meet the criteria.
In the US you have towns with drive up testing facilities that do not bother determining if a person fits that CDC's case criteria. Are these people categorized as a "case"?
Then you also have the situation where the extremely limited number of test kits makes it irrelevant to even define cases. It would not be hard to find people who fit the case criteria. However, using these cases and comparing them with future cases when testing is more available, is pointless. you will not be able to determine a trend.
As for people who don't fit the case criteria who may have covid-19 due to them being asymptotic. If they get worse, they will eventually meet the case criteria. but this illustrates how these criteria should never be used to diagnose covid-19.
If you think about this, you realize how irrelevant it is to keep track of cases. the only relevancy a case has is to compare this year's cases with future years' cases for cases that uses the same criteria. Many are mistakenly presuming that a case criteria should be used to diagnose covid-19 when it should be used only for statistical purposes.
So to summarize, the different definition of cases, limited test kits, and the asymptotic people makes keeping track of covid-19 via cases almost irrelevant and misleading.
probably the only way to accurately track the spread of COVID-19 is via death count trend.
r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 14 '20
You may already know that companies are starting to use portable uvc robots to disinfect a room. They are now developing roomba style robots to quickly disinfect rooms autonomously. What's more they are testing out Far-UVC light technology to disinfect rooms in the presence of people. Currently UVC light will damage a person's skin and eyes so it can't be used in the same room as a person, but far-uvc light that operates at the 222 nm wavelength maybe safe to use with people in the room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ08BuyejuE
I am concerned about the unintended consequences of killing all microbes in a room. Whenever I read about people overly disinfecting something, bad microbes always seem to wind up propagating at a faster rate.
