Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy

Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by Someone on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:27PM (#22528128)

Also, what would the mechanism be? Coughing is the ‘normal’ mechanism to move viruses out of your lungs.

If it spreads before the coughing starts, i.e. during normal breathing, doesn’t it get out of your body too easily?

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by Blahah on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:21PM (#22529327)

The virus accumulates in digestive organs and sheds in fecal matter. Gastrointestinal (fecal-oral) infection route seems likely.

See:

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939v...

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025601v...

> Compared with SARS, COVID-19 was transmitted in a more diverse way, from person to person, asymptomatic infected people and possible fecal-oral transmission, created the conditions for a large-scale spread.

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023721v...

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by allovernow on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:24PM (#22529361)

I've grown tired of pulling up sources on mobile but publications claim the virus accumulates in nasal passaged during incubation. Also thought to play a role in the high false negative rates for testing.

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by Blahah on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:32PM (#22529438)

This is also true - digestive and respiratory organs appear to accumulate the virus most. Also heart and liver, which explains the high co-morbidity for people with damage to those organs.

See http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00082

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by allovernow on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:43PM (#22529553)

Looks like any organ with ACE2 receptors.

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