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An Italian biologist said that in southern China the population has a high prevalence (over 60%) of a HLA B27 variant that increases susceptibility to the coronavirus. In Europe this variant is uncommon (about 1%).

Note the information in the picture. What is confusing however is that fatigue did not improve. Is it not very likely that fatigue is closely related to metabolism? At least I think of it that way.

This morning they reported four deaths. Now there are six. The last one had cancer which was presumably a large factor. They were all relatively old too.

The effect of seeing hospital staff with face masks was that of making me very aware of a risk of infection. So I kept a distance to other people and washed my hands. In that sense face masks work. They might also work by making people not touch their face. Limit droplet spread is probably...

Did they just invent a new psych questionnaire? :D

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TV news from Italy this morning: some smaller towns are in lockdown. 4 deaths so far. The authorities are trying to limit the spread by canceling sports, religious and other social events. Schools and universities are closed. They showed a tent set up for examining infecteded cases, prepared in...

132 cases in Italy now.

Presumably the idea is that the vibrations that to the body create the impression of turbulent airflow trigger some reaction while sufficiently different vibrations do not. But they don't explain this part well.

Isn't it amazing how they are able to figure all this out? :rolleyes: But somehow we can't find these microbes.

One of the study authors said otherwise.

That part needs more information.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.958249v1

Out of curiosity: sometimes I felt like my respiratory volume was abnormally low, but without causing any apparent problems. Is it possible that I'm adapted to a state of reduced oxygen consumption? Some of the research suggests there is reduced oxygen consumption but I don't know if that...

I did eventually benefit from psychotherapy in a certain sense because years later, a different therapist said something to my family (I don't know what exactly) and they treated me better from there on. I don't think I actually benefitted from the therapy itself. In my view a problem is that...

Funny personal story: I went to therapy early on in my illness when I accepted the idea proposed by family members that it was a psychological problem (I was young and naive). I now recognize that the psychiatrist had a psychoanalytical orientation and the therapy sessions involved her waiting...

Health psychologists acquire false and dysfunctional beliefs about reality during training and then wreck other people's lives with them and are also quite immune to disconfirmatory information. It's also amusing to see them struggle to find new ways to say it's all the mind and imaginary while...

This looks interesting and the kind of work that is needed and I hope it will be properly funded and well executed.

I see a correlation between feeling poorly, low and irritable mood and diarrhea. Many people would see that as confirmation that the root problem is depression, and that the other symptoms are somatic expression of depression. I also see that these symptoms are often triggered by certain foods...

Can you explain how you can be sure that your symptoms are mediated by anxiety?