Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m...
by zaroth on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:39PM
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Testing may reduce the number of cases, how does it reduce the severity of cases? This is an illness with no treatment, only symptoms are treated.
Germany apparently has 10 people in serious condition. Availability of resources obviously isn’t a factor...
Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m...
by Joker_vD on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:10AM
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What do you mean, "no treatment"? Chinese used lopinavir+ ritonavir combination to a great effect, it's just that those drugs have quite a number of possible side effects, plus they're not officially blessed as COVID-19 treatment.
The WHO disagrees: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...
> "Test everyone!" To what end? You don't need to test people in order to know if they need an ICU. The ICUs are not full - and you don't need more testing to tell you that. The main benefit to more testing would be that people who are self-quarantining due to potential exposure could maybe stop self-quarantining earlier. That's a fairly marginal benefit.
Germany was ahead of the curve testing people and as a result (so far) they are weathering the virus much better than most other countries (including the US):
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-10/german...
It's not all about the testing for them but in the article they do count it as a key reason why they are doing well so far.