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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:

The narrative could then be: since the severity of infection predicts subsequent ME/CFS in at least one prospective study that would be consistent with the severity of the immune response being an important factor, which depends in part on genetics. It might not be about the infection per se but...

PS: it's not the entire truth as Germany is also well equipped with ventilators and intensive care units but it would be nice if people could resist trying to downplay the problem.

Is it right to say that assuming the HLA-DQB1 association is true, it would mean that the disease process in ME/CFS at least in some patients involves antigen presentation by B lymphocytes, dendritic cells, macrophages, and T cells reacting to these antigens? At least that's what Wikipedia says...

If I have DQB1*02 does it mean I can't have DQB1*03:03 or are they two different things?

Here's something interesting that could explain a few things: The mayor of Bergamo says a soccer match between the Atalanta and Valencia teams held in Milan may have spread the virus in Italy and Spain. Several members of the Valencia team later tested positive. There were 40.000 people in the...

The newspaper is reporting that in one town, the deaths of all causes between January 1st and March 19th were about 4 times that of the previous year. In Bergamo they were about twice as high in that period. Also I just returned from a walk and I was abnormally out of breath :eek:. I hope...