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This article has a list of FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approved disinfectants that kill coronavirus. The article also links to a pdf of products that "have been pre-approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use against emerging enveloped viral pathogens and can be...

The value of ethanol in the practice of medicine has long been appreciated, as in this scene in which Lee Marvin has just been shot.

This article, written by Dr. Anthony Fauci et al. and published just seven days ago (2/28/20) in the New England Journal of Medicine says: So if you develop pneumonia the fatality rate is 2%. The authors go on to say: I don't know exactly how current this info is. It was published in the...

It's interesting that they say... [bolding mine.] Before school age, I remember consuming antibiotic "wafers" like they were candy [well, not that much, really]. I think they were flavored to make them more palatable. I was given these wafers for the severe ear infections I got back then...

Is it extracellular? In one of his tweets, when asked if the factor is a viral particle, Prusty says "No, it's a cellular component." That sounds more like Dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1). [As mentioned by @Snow Leopard above.] I don't know if it's relevant, but I found this paper on...

That may be correct, but it's possible that's because the data out of China doesn't include statistics on smoking. This article in New Scientist yesterday (2/27) says: It is true that there is a wide discrepancy between men and women when it comes smoking in China. Somewhere around 50% of men...

Based on that chart, I think it's hard to make the case that essential hypertension in conjunction with the virus increases mortality. More likely, hypertension is indirectly connected to poorer outcomes via conditions like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Hypertension could also be an...

The American Heart Association estimates that nearly half of US adults have hypertension, though other sources say it's more like a 1/3. The difference seems to be due to stricter guidelines published in 2017. Anyway, that's a lot of people, though I wonder if hypertension alone is much of a...

In some previous outbreak, probably H1N1, I started pushing open shop doors using only my foot, elbow or the outside of my forearm. Sometimes the door has to be pulled open, in which case I'll pull my sleeve over my fingers - or I'll just use the tip of my little finger to open the door. In rest...

I'm no expert on mitochondria, but I have been reading a "popular" book on mitochondria that was recommended by my nephew, who is an evolutionary biologist working on his PhD. The book is certainly interesting, but, despite the author's best intentions, it's a little overwhelming for someone...

It sounds like the initial findings were that the mitochondria were producing normal amounts of resting energy, but it turned out they were employing all sorts of compensatory mechanisms to achieve that. They couldn't produce anymore energy beyond that, which would seem like a plausible...

Yes. I'm not sure if there is such a thread here, but on PR there is an old thread called "sick but never sick" in which some people talk about how they haven't had the flu/cold since the onset of ME. This could be due to the isolation from others, but some talk about never getting the flu even...

They use the term "symptomatic" infection, but I don't imagine there was any attempt to quantify the symptom severity. It's probably unlikely that anyone one was tested for "asymptomatic" infection, either. It would be very interesting if the severity of the influenza symptoms were linked to...

On the other hand, "Molecular Brain" currently has an "impact factor 4.051 (2018-2019), which, according to this chart by the "Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) puts "Molecular Brain" in the top 11.4% of 12,298 journals evaluated, in terms of citations. It's highest impact factor was 4.902 in...

An AP article on home quarantine for travelers returning from China features a few quotes from Dr. Ian Lipkin, who, after 14 days, will leave the confines of his home's basement on Tuesday. https://apnews.com/24f0467ead5541ccb228ff70c698eb91

No. I'm pretty sure that right at this moment it's this article.

So far as I know, they don't generally test for influenza - but what if there's an outbreak of influenza during this period of "COVID-19" concern? I'd be surprised if there were resources available to test everyone who develops upper-respiratory symptoms in that situation, so how will they...

About six months after onset, an otologist suggested that my dizziness might be caused by constriction of the tiny capillaries of the inner ear. It was recommended that I take niacin in an attempt to dilate these tiny blood vessels, but it didn't help (and, in my case, the side effects of niacin...

Article from Columbia University|Mailman School of Public Health on response to Wuhan Coronavirus. Ian Lipkin has recently returned from China, but was not allowed to go to Wuhan himself due to U.S. travel restrictions...

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