The next frontier in coronavirus testing
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Started by metmike - March 28, 2020, 1:26 p.m.

The next frontier in coronavirus testing: Identifying the full scope of the pandemic, not just individual infections


https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/27/serological-tests-reveal-immune-coronavirus/

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By metmike - March 28, 2020, 1:27 p.m.
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What we’ve learned about the coronavirus — and what we still need to know

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/26/what-weve-learned-about-the-coronavirus-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/


By metmike - March 28, 2020, 1:29 p.m.
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When can we let up? Health experts craft strategies to safely relax coronavirus lockdowns


https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-experts-craft-strategies-to-relax-lockdowns/


With countries from Italy to the U.S. having waited too long to combat the coronavirus, many experts in public health and epidemiology are pleading with government officials not to compound the mistake by lifting stay-at-home and other social distancing measures too soon — and, in fact, to impose strict ones in U.S. states and cities that haven’t.

But from the World Health Organization to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to epidemiology modelers across the globe, there is growing recognition that the time will and must come to tiptoe back toward normalcy.


That recognition is driving the next life-and-death questions in the coronavirus pandemic: What is the exit strategy? How will we know when it’s safe to implement it? If this first wave of outbreak eventually crests and dissipates, as it has in China, what’s the plan if the virus returns with a vengeance in a few months? Can that plan be less disruptive to livelihoods and ordinary existence than the panicked responses in many western countries over the last month, and more like the surgical strikes that seem to have succeeded in Singapore and South Korea?

By metmike - March 28, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
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Social distancing, politicized: Trump allies are urging an end to isolation, worrying public health experts


https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/24/social-distancing-politicized-experts-worried/


By metmike - March 28, 2020, 1:45 p.m.
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Based on data I've seen thus far, I conclude the following: 1. COVID direct mortality rate (0.8%-1.4%) is ~5.2 times HIGHER than influenza's (0.21%) 2. COVID infection rate (~0.02%) is 250-500 times LOWER than influenza's (5%-10%) 3. So, influenza kills FAR MORE people than COVID

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