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Covid 19 virus
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Leo Bodnar on March 24, 2020, 11:56:48 am ---Is anybody else actually wearing a mask? Or just talking about wearing a mask?
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Over here nobody wears a mask but most people do keep a distance. Keeping hands clean is also important. The virus can stay alive for many hours (assume up to a day) on many surfaces so if you go in a shop then it is very easy the get the virus from the trolley, baskets, doors, cashier's desk, etc. One infected person can easely infect multiple people that way over the course of many hours. All it takes is rubbing your eyes to transfer the virus from/to your hands. Yesterday I went shopping and sanitized my hands before entering the shops and after leaving the shops.
thinkfat:
--- Quote from: dietert1 on March 23, 2020, 09:10:45 pm ---Dr. Drosten also mentioned that there may be a very simple explanation why some infected persons almost don't notice and other suffocate.
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I found the episode now, it was in episode 15 already. But actually he said, "this is just an idea, not an explanation"
--- Quote ---Ich sage jetzt ganz bewusst nicht Erklärung, sondern ich sage eine Hypothese. Eine Idee, die erklären könnte, warum einige Patienten, obwohl sie sehr jung sind, trotzdem einen schnellen, schweren Verlauf kriegen
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Source: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/15-Coronavirus-Update-Infizierte-werden-offenbar-immun,podcastcoronavirus136.html
So, it's just one of many plausible hypotheses, that are worth testing through the scientific method.
iMo:
I've just returned from shopping. A supermarket 30x60m. Around 50 people there. All wearing face masks. About 20% wearing gloves as well. I spent 14 minutes there. Every half of a minute I heard somebody sneezing or coughing.
Leo Bodnar:
Here is a ballpark calculation for you.
Leo
--- Quote from: imo on March 24, 2020, 01:44:18 pm ---I've just returned from shopping. A supermarket 30x60m. Around 50 people there. All wearing face masks. About 20% wearing gloves as well. I spent 14 minutes there. Every half of a minute I heard somebody sneezing or coughing.
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Zero999:
--- Quote from: Leo Bodnar on March 24, 2020, 02:30:16 pm ---Here is a ballpark calculation for you.
Leo
--- Quote from: imo on March 24, 2020, 01:44:18 pm ---I've just returned from shopping. A supermarket 30x60m. Around 50 people there. All wearing face masks. About 20% wearing gloves as well. I spent 14 minutes there. Every half of a minute I heard somebody sneezing or coughing.
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That's only part of the story. The question is the probability of you catching it from one of them?
If we can get the R0 down to below 1, then the number of cases will fall and it will die out eventually.
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