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I believe it's still a bit early to see the full effect of the nationwide lockdown but it doesn't look promising. The only effect so far appears to be that the virus is not increasing as fast as it could. Which means that things are going to get worse and worse and what is happening now is still...

A doctor describes what the illness does to people https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients An Italian doctor said that dying from covid-19 is like slowly drowning. This was on TV I think, not sure where I...

Post moved from Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control Some more information on the air pollution and coronavirus connection: Some Italian researchers published a position paper where they say that there is a correlation between concentration of atmospheric particles and the spread of the...

A company in Lombardy (Copan Diagnostics) made half a million tests and sold them to the US.

If they were interested in clarifying whether ME or any other condition is a disease or not, they would present the two different points of view. My impression is that "high profile" journals have no interest in such scientific debate but side with the majority view of their subscribers. A...

On the radio, some scientists were quoted as saying that air pollution makes the virus more dangerous. That could be an important factor in why things got so bad in Wuhan and Lombardy. Authorities in Italy now also want to tighten the lockdown rules further. Re. behavioural science, I think...

That has been done in Austria and the data is probably already out of date but showed 1% had the virus.

Yes there seemed to be some hope a few days ago but now the trends are again not looking good, although at least less bad than before. It's still early to see the effects of the nationwide lockdown on nationwide statistics. I was curious and looked at official data and noticed that the Veneto...

A police car was driving around the area with loudspeakers telling people that this is an emergency and that they must not leave the home unless absolutely necessary and that not doing so endangers their own health and that of others. I think this means there are concerns about the lockdown...

The abstract is not very clear but there doesn't seem to be a control group that could tell us whether this patient population is more "consumed" by their illness than what would be normal in the circumstances. I also find the BPS model highly stigmatizing. They are creating stigma where they...

I've been told that in my town (in Lombardy, Italy) there are now 9 known cases, out of 2500 inhabitants. Some time ago there was only 1. Some aggressive testing would be very appreciated.

More confirmation that social distancing will be insufficient. In a town in Italy, they managed to contain the virus by testing asymptomatic people that had contact with symptomatic ones. Click on the tweet to read the entire thread. Without a positive test, people will also not adhere to...

Yes, it's very annoying. The author wants to explain POTS as being caused by lack of activity. That might explain some cases but the onset of my POTS was so abnormal that it cannot be due to deconditioning. Besides the usually described symptoms, I had widespread nerve pain, nearly constant...

The high death rates in northern Italy could also be in part due to high air pollution levels. It's a densely populated and industrialized area.

Interesting read. The same thing is also happening in research, with ME/CFS deliberately being neglected or even ignored completely (varying by country).

Very hard math is involved in this. Like multiplying 66 million (UK population) by 0.8% (South Korea's death rate). That's about half a million people and might be an optimistic minimum estimate. With an overburdened healthcare system it could be much worse. You don't need any more sophisticated...

Not living in the UK but from the outside, having followed PACE and through that also some UK politics it seems to be how power structures in the UK work. People are getting into positions of influence despite being seriously incompetent or at best mediocre and are not being questioned because...