News and notes from around the interweb:
- Not travel, but if you come down with Covid-19 here are the treatments to be asking about (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- Taiwan’s new virus spread originates with an EVA Air pilot The New Zealander, who was coughing on duty and did not wear a mask in the cockpit, may have spread the virus to two other pilots. He then hid his close contacts from authorities. A close contact of the pilot’s is the country’s first local transmission since April. The pilot tested positive after a U.S. trip.
- Maker of the bomb that blew up Pan Am 103 is charged 32 years later
- What the hotel food is like in Australia’s mandatory quarantine
- Singapore Hawker stalls get UNESCO World Heritage status
- Another hotel shooting
- Surviving Covid-19 hotel quarantine.. with kids
I’d probably be arrested but I wouldn’t eat that food for 2 weeks ugh
I guess I’m an ugly American but to me that food is 5 star prison dining or 1 cut above what you get on American Airlines in or out of flagship dining
If you learn at you are COVID positive, please speak with your doctor instead of listening to a shopping list from a “High tech serial entrepreneur”.
His widely touted wonder drug fluvoxamine? Let’s listen to the science:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33180097/
“Conclusions and relevance: In this preliminary study of adult outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19, patients treated with fluvoxamine, compared with placebo, had a lower likelihood of clinical deterioration over 15 days. However, the study is limited by a small sample size and short follow-up duration, and determination of clinical efficacy would require larger randomized trials with more definitive outcome measures.”
If you get hospitalized with COVID, do not ask about any of the suggested treatments beyond #1 (which is in very short supply so good luck with that). All other treatments he lists are highly experimental and just likely to get you strange looks from your physician. Also he leaves out the standard treatment in the US which is dexamethasone and remdesivir.
Quora, where all the best sciencing happens.
NY Times is reporting that monoclonal antibody treatments are simply sitting in hospital refrigeration units unused because medical staff and patients are unaware of their utility. Lots of waste of very effective and valuable drugs. Along the same lines, a lot of states have barely started their Group 1a vaccination series even though the clock is ticking on the vaccines’ deterioration timeline. “Holiday staffing issues.” Very frustrating.
Wait. Whaat?
fluvoxamine Is used for treating low mood / depression.
I know.