The most common reason for COVID-19 patient admission to the ICU is severe hypoxic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. A recent AHA estimate for COVID-19 projected that 4.8 million patients would be hospitalized, 1.9 million of these would be admitted to the ICU, and 960,000 would require ventilatory support. This would be fifteen times beyond …
JapanesecChemical product maker Kurabo Industries will import and sell in Japan COVID-19 test kits developed by a Chinese firm that can detect new coronavirus in 15 minutes. This is much faster than other tests which take many or even days when they are sent to labs with large equipment. Kurabo plans to sell the kits …
Are You Safe 14 Days Without Symptoms After a COVID-19 Exposure?
Dr Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins estimates that the US had 50,000 to 500,000 coronavirus cases on March 13, 2020. The cases tend to double over 5-10 day periods. Khan Academy walks you through the undetected case math and the 20-day delay between infection and death. SOURCES – Marty Markey, Khan Academy Written By Brian …
Passive antibody therapy is where the blood of patients who have just survived and are recovering from coronavirus is taken and given to the most at-risk people (old but healthy enough to take the treatment). Can they also use the blood of people with mild cases? If we can do the proper tracing can we …
San Francisco has ordered everyone to shelter in place starting at Midnight. This will spread as we follow what Wuhan did. This is good in that it is our best shot at mitigating COVID-19 but bad in that activity (business- everything) is frozen. There are some better numbers on COVID-19 projections. Databrew.cc has projections that …
I missed Ethanol production in the supply chain for yesterdays article. It is the way to get alcohol for sanitizer. There are fewer supply chain issues for the wide-scale adoption of WHO local production plans for developing countries and scaling sanitizer production in the developed world. If Ethanol is denatured it is good as the …
Problem: Hand sanitizer supply is critical for reducing the spread of coronavirus but we are massively short on supply. Hourly hand sanitizer usage would reduce disease spread by 70% reduction (Extrapolating MIT Simulation Study). In 2019, the industry made about 200,000 tons per year of sanitizer. We really need that amount for a day. The …
President Trump suspended travel Europe for 30 days. American citizens can return will need more screening and temperature checks. The Europe ban includes shipping goods. Tom Hanks and his wife have coronavirus. There have been about 8000 coronavirus tests performed in the USA. There have been hundreds of thousands for coronavirus tests in South Korea …
The problem in US is not that the Coronavirus is out of control, It is that we have no idea because of lack of tests. The US is rolling out new test kits and will be doing 10,000 tests per week at the end of this and then 20,000 per week at the end of …
There were critical elements for the speed of China’s coronavirus response. 1. Everyone needed to know the first symptoms. These are a fever and a dry cough. 2. China had a giant network of fever hospitals. A team can go to a possible case, swab and provide a positive or negative diagnosis in four to …