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Based on the graph posted earlier, it appears the UK and Spain are on a worse trajectory than Italy. The US is doing better than expected but that could also be an illusion due to low availability of test kits.

I feel less of man due to not being able to contribute meaningfully and having no role in society. I'm also judged by others for the same reason. It's not keeping me up at night but it's probably the biggest psychosocial problem I have. I'm however not that concerned about how much of a man I...

I also went outside today. I live in a small town so there are no empty streets that had previously been filled. It is unusually quiet however, aside from some children playing and someone gardening. Very little car traffic by the sounds of it, even an normally fairly busy street. I avoided the...

Sounds like the UK government is doing an U-turn, or was this what they intended all along but just communicated poorly? https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-14/elderly-to-be-quarantined-for-four-months-in-wartime-style-mobilisation-to-combat-coronavirus/ But only quarantining the elderly might...

According to TV 157 died from covid-19 in the province of Bergamo in one day. Some say this is because there was a cluster of cases and lockdown was delayed for too long. There are also some good news. In the first area that was locked down, Codogno, there are no new cases. In some other areas...

How the situation is in Bergamo, Italy. On the 9th of February, the local newspaper had a little more than one page dedicated to the recently deceased. Yesterday it had 10 pages.

This post has been moved from this thread. Diasorin, an Italian company says they will have a rapid diagnostic test ready by the end of this month. It will give a result in 60 minutes. It seems to be based on diect PCR amplification. Meanwhile the British Society for Immunology on the topic of...

They tried to make a vaccine against bat coronaviruses but it made the infection worse. https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

@Jonathan Edwards Gerada also mentioned that she feels a strange fatigue even after the infection. I wonder if she is going to develop ME/CFS.

She thinks doctors are so bad at recognizing ME/CFS that self diagnosed patients meeting IOM or CCC criteria might be a better group to recruit from (for studies).

Interesting that Nina Muirhead thinks that the perception of ME/CFS as highly exclusionary diagnosis is problematic. I would agree. She also thinks the IOM criteria are the best to teach doctors about the illness.

Two problems with the viral infection are that trials of antiviral medication showed no benefit and that it's difficult to demonstrate an infection. Prusty said a few interesting things that make hypotheses of viral infection more credible and sort of fit with the evidence. First is the idea...

That could also be because they have access to testing. I would like to be tested but there is currently no way that I know of to do so. I think the virus might be far more widespread than currently believed and the people who have easy access to tests will appear to be getting infected at...

I suspect the people in the UK government that are advocating for such an approach are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Things will not turn out the way they're hoping. A purely economical analysis is flawed because it ignores important aspects. Values such as solidarity, being able to...

Caroline Kingdon, the nurse of the UK ME/CFS Biobank seems like a wonderful caring person.

My guess is that there probably isn't good or even any evidence that shows mass gatherings helps spread the virus, but that's not the same as knowing that mass gatherings are safe. They might be confusing the two.

An Italian scientist explained why the mortality in Italy is higher than in other countries. He says that Italians just count the dead while in other countries they will try to find reasons other than coronavirus infection as cause of death. In Italy they also only count cases that meet the WHO...