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[dragdeler]

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[wierd]

It is good for me to know that symptomatic people have hypoxia without experiencing autonomic reactions to it.  Lets me know that if people have a fever I need to check their SpO2.

[ChairmanPoo]

Did anybody else hear blood type A people are more heavily affected or is that just my cooky sources?

Some chinese paper claimed something of the sort. Didnt read it but IIRC in medscape they surmised it was really tentative

[TamerVirus]

One theory is, that a neurological component is present, which makes patients unable to feel how short on oxygen they are.  This is an unknown symptom in any other affliction. These patients more often than not end up on the ICU

There were a couple troubling medical studies suggesting that the Coronvirus has the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and affect the central nervous system.

”The possible neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 may also partially explain why some patients developed respiratory failure, while others not.”

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm curious if the speculation about fertility effects in men will pan out to anything - that'd really seal the deal on covid as the "Earth's response to humanity" virus.

[MrRoboto75]

I'm curious if the speculation about fertility effects in men will pan out to anything - that'd really seal the deal on covid as the "Earth's response to humanity" virus.

Joke's on you, noone wants to have kids with me anyways.

[martinuzz]

I'm assuming the krant thing is no typo? Yo I could have used that exercise

Haha no. 'krant' is the dutch word for newspaper. 'Volkskrant' translates to 'people's newspaper'.
It is somewhat like the dutch equivalent of the NYT.
It even shares columnists with it every once in a while, like Thomas L. Friedman.

EDIT: meanwhile, doctors over here are fearing that the death toll of non-corona related illness will surpass the corona death toll.

More than 40% of unrelated medical care has been cancelled to transfer various specialists to corona care. 

This comes down to half a million cancelled hospital procedures every week.
What's more, patients are massively avoiding going to the doctor with other complaints, out of fear of being infected with corona at doctor's posts. A lot of critical diagnosis are missed this way.
It's a bad time to have cancer, a stroke, heart problems, needing colostomy etc.

[Reelya]

What Dragdeler is talking about is that you misspelled it "volksrant" without the k. They were wondering if that was deliberate, but it seems it was a typo.

[martinuzz]

What Dragdeler is talking about is that you misspelled it "volksrant" without the k. They were wondering if that was deliberate, but it seems it was a typo.

Oh hahaha, I didn't see that.. Yeah that was a typo, albeit one LW has joked about before 

[scriver]

I honestly thought it was called the People's Rant right up until now. I thought it was some beautiful happy coincidence.

What does "krant" mean more directly though? As in how, for example, the Swedish word for newspaper is tidning, which more directly means time-ning.

[martinuzz]

It is derived from the french 'courant', which means 'current', 'actual', 'common', 'walking', 'ongoing'.
However the word 'krant' itself just means newspaper, it has no other meaning.

[scriver]

Ah, that makes sense. Unkrant vergeht nicht.

[martinuzz]

The dutch government recalled 600 thousand face masks from our hospitals.
Last week, the government had ordered a batch of 1.3 million from a Chinese manufacturer, to be used by medical teams working with corona patients, who have an extreme risk of being infected.
The masks do not fit properly to the face, leaving openings for the virus to pass through, and the inner membranes that are supposed to keep the virus out also didn't work.
This came to light after various hospitals did not trust the masks and had them tested by TNO.
After both TNO and our national Healthcare Inspection declared the masks unsafe for use, the government stopped distributing them and hastily recalled the 600 thousand that were already handed out.

The government reports that all masks have been secured.  However, it is yet unknown how many doctors and nurses have used the masks in the past few days, and have been put at risk.
It is unknown how much the government paid for the masks.
New masks have now been ordered from a different manufacturer.
The government spokesman says that in these times, it is pretty difficult to acquire face masks of sufficient quality as to be used by medical staff, because every counrty in the world is trying to get them.
Possibly, the Chinese manufacturer neglected the quality standards out of pursuit of profit, or perhaps quality standards suffer from increased work pressure.
In any case, every imported batch of face masks will now be double-checked before being distributed.

[ChairmanPoo]

Same thing happened in spain with 600.000 covid tests from an unofficial chinese retailer.

To be fair, the Chinese govt intervened on the Spanish case.

[TamerVirus]

If China wanted to foster international goodwill/leverage, sending bunko tests and counterfeit face masks to disease ravaged countries is not the best strategy