COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[ohfk]

If you create a nm sized pore in a synthetic material like graphene and then put a voltage across it in an electrolyte solution ions will flow unimpeded through the pore to create a current but if at the same time you put through a viral RNA molecule such as Sars-cov-2 then each base interferes with the current in a known manner and you can sequence the bases. This is the technology behind some rapid testing technology.

See https://nanoporetech.com/covid-19/overview if you are interested.

I had to read this several times just get a basic grasp of its point. There's some incredibly smart people on this planet. It's hard to imagine what the basis would be to even discover this as an option, let alone be able to think far enough ahead to think it's viable too. Amazing.

 

[RandomJ]

It's out. It's from the stage one human trials and the scientists are very excited!

I’ve seen enough zombie films to see where this is going.

 

[Ban-jani]

This one has been known for ages though. they have been adding adding back dated deaths since this started due to delayed reporting / weekends etc.

daily updates with the info here. tells you where the dates were from etc.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T...twitter_b45d0baf75a8af2c2a0b7100ad462235.jpeg

the problem is the likes of the Mail are too lazy to report it properly and just do todays figure - yesterdays figure.

Fair enough mate.

I don’t think most people know this though and it shows that we’re hopefully further on than we thought.

Of course, dead people are sad no matter when they die but it hopefully means less will die in the future.

 

[twosips]

Death rates in ICU patients fell from 60% at the end of March to 42% at the end of May. The pattern occurred in several countries.

That's wonderful news! Wonder what changed? Lower viral loads? More one on one treatment time? Therapeutics? Also, what's the source of that stat please?

 

[Healdplace]

Did it to me on Edge so I switched to Chrome which has sorted it.

Thank you, fingers crossed.

Edge was updated today when I logged on. So that makes sense.

My software says it is some ad company called refounge-peator they have blocked access to. If that is the one used on here it might be causing deeper issues for the site.

 

[kaz7]

Russian cyber spies are trying to steal research into coronavirus vaccines and treatments from Britain, the US and Canada, the three countries claimed on Thursday.

The attack is ongoing, with British cyber experts working to defend research institutes, laboratories and other targets in the UK, according to a branch of the spy agency GCHQ.

Organisations in other countries involved in the fight against COVID-19 are also allegedly being targeted

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...-research-from-britain-us-and-canada-12029697

 

[grunge]

Fair enough mate.

I don’t think most people know this though and it shows that we’re hopefully further on than we thought.

Of course, dead people are sad no matter when they die but it hopefully means less will die in the future.

Agreed, the media reporting on this has been shocking

 

[Healdplace]

Its certainly the ads via refounge whatsit. Every time I try to access without keeping a message part written open malwarebytes kicks me out saying that company is a risk. I could set to allow but I am not going to do that even though it makes access to this site very difficult, I cannot read other threads or back through this without exiting the message box and the site being blocked as unsafe.

Will give it a day or so to see if this resolves. But if I vanish that will be why.

 

[Healdplace]

Todays 19 English hospital deaths were aged between 52 and 91 and all had underlying conditions.

 

[Healdplace]

All settings deaths 66. It was 85 last Thursday.

That means only 2 over 100 totals in the past week and none over 150.

We just might get an all under 100 total from this weekend on.