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Hopefully he survives and begins to see illness and disability differently.

ACE2 variants underlie interindividual variability and susceptibility to COVID-19 in Italian population https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.03.20047977v1

Seems like the curves are flattening in multiple countries at the same time despite different starting points. Interesting. Could it have something to do with the weather?

Today the number of patients in intensive care has declined for the first time in Italy

During the recent EUROMENE meeting Scheibenbogen said these antibodies belong to a group that play a role in regulating physiology. She thinks that ME/CFS is an illness where this regulatory system is not working correctly. This is how I understood what she said at least and I might be...

Cats can infect each other with coronavirus, Chinese study finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/cats-can-infect-each-other-with-coronavirus-chinese-study-finds

Apparently cats can be infected and infect other cats.

It can apparently kill very young too.

Oh no. I was hoping that this would enable society to continue to function somewhat while the virus isn't fully controlled yet. I didn't read the Guardian article but I heard Germany is planning to give coronavirus certificates for those with antibodies.

By the looks of it in about a week the peak should be reached. After that the number of sick people should begin to shrink.

29 idiots in Italy have been found violating the quarantine despite having proven infection.

A vaccine against the spike protein made the virus more dangerous in animal tests.

The finest snake oil that works for everything. I can't wait for the day that psychological ideas are held to the same high standards as other kinds of ideas. How would people react to the claim that there is, for example, a drug that generally works regardless of the actual health problem the...

Yes that is what is happening in Italy too. And on TV they are saying that the true number of cases is much higher than what the statistics show. The Veneto province has 750.000 IgG/IgM tests available from tomorrow which will be used to also get a better epidemiological picture.

Okay, another question: There is this idea that cells in ME/CFS cells have entered a hypometabolic because they feel threatened by something (in the blood). This is maybe not yet a cast iron fact but let's assume that it's true. Is this a recognized response tied to the innate immune system...

How do gradual onsets fit into this? Assuming that they are same illness, or close enough to be indistinguishable other than the initial course of the illness. Maybe the gradual onset cases have the strongest immune responses so that they can get the illness even without much of a noticable...

The town of Ferrera Erbognone in the Lombardy province has no known cases of infection which is abnormal. For this reason the immune system of the inhabitants is being studied.

It sounds like New York is now in a similar situation as Italy. Hospitals filled with covid-19 patients and doctors having to decide to who to keep alive. And I think this pandemic is going to result in healthcare reforms in the US because of stories like this: