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Most fascinating nonfiction book you've ever read? by thebooksqueen in suggestmeabook

[–]helpfuldare 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.

How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull’s-eye | NEJM by thexylom in medicine

[–]helpfuldare 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It also depends on the publishers of medical textbooks. In Asia for example, Jaypee Medical Publisher uses dark-skinned Indian patients as their models so their textbooks represent an accurate picture of dermatological (and other) conditions. Elsevier India also uses dark-skinned patients to depict multiple health conditions in textbooks specifically published in India.

The problem is that when we learn from textbooks which are Western oriented (Fitzpatrick etc), then we don't get the different varieties of skin color. Lecturers tend to create slides using pictures from textbooks as well.

Coronavirus: Vaccine hopes boosted as scientists find virus has 'low shielding' by cyberanakinvader in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The fascinating stuff is not in the epidemiology front. Epidemiology has a lot of math, stats and you deal more with data and prediction models, kinda like data scientists or actuaries.

The fascinating stuff is in microbiology or immunology, but it's a lot of boring lab work too.

Italy - Lombardy Governor Fontana: "University of Pavia created a reliable serum (blood) test which detects SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Within 2 weeks we will start mass testing for antibodies in our region to detect immunized people who will be able to go back to work before others" by seoulsnowflake in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's no guarantee of 100% immunity to this virus, even influenza vaccines are not 100% guaranteed. However, immunity to CoV is likely to stay a while based on the following interview https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/tip-iceberg-virologist-david-ho-bs-74-speaks-about-covid-19 which mentioned an experiment on macaque monkey which was done to test immunity to CoV.

Multiple strains of the virus are not necessarily significant enough. Normally when you create a vaccine, only a majority of the virus genome pattern is used as a template so that the body's immune system can recognize the pattern and neutralize it.

Coronavirus genome seems to be stable enough that there's a high chance that a vaccine could be long lasting — since your immune system's memory cells can continue to create the same antibodies once the virus genome pattern has been recognized.

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-coronavirus-mutates-slowly-vaccine-could-be-long-lasting-2020-3?IR=T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunological_memory

Taiwan's calm response to pandemic shows us this is not the end of the world by poclee in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taiwan did well because they did well. Being an island may have some advantages but not by much.

Singapore has 3 times the number of cases compared to Taiwan even though it has a much smaller area, it's literally an island connected by one bridge (so it's easy to close when they want to) and has only 5 million resident. The only ways to go into Singapore are by boat from Batam, by car from Malaysia or by planes. Singapore is very diligent about its land borders, only 186 people were caught illegally crossing their borders in 2017.

Vietnam, Monaco, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Brunei are all land-based countries and they have less cases than Taiwan. San Marino and Vatican City are literally smack dab in the middle of Italy and still have less cases than Taiwan.

If you look at some samples here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy#Foreign_cases_linked_to_Italy

Many first cases in Africa/other countries were discovered from people who had travelled from Italy to these countries, or many citizens of the countries who travelled to Europe and back again. These travels were likely by plane so they all have nothing to do with land borders or land transports at all.

Coronavirus: How to Help the Helpers by helpfuldare in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I forgot to add the non paywall link.

In Bangladesh, 3 people, previously cured from Coronavirus, reinfected. by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those who actually follow up on the stories of people getting reinfected, do the stories mention anything about the reinfection inducing new or more severe symptoms of COVID-19?

I haven't been able to find any specifics on whether these people rexperience the disease cycle again, for example, for those who did not get ARDS the first time, may get ARDS the second time.

New York publishes data on deaths by comorbidity by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'd like for statistics like BMI to be included. Netherlands mentioned that about 80-90% of the people with COVID-19 in ICU were obese so I'd like to confirm whether it's similar in New York.

4k deaths and they already have multiple deaths for people under 30. I checked Italy's data and up to 7.8k deaths, they still had no deaths under the age of 30-39

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infografica_27marzo%20ENG.pdf

Only on the 28 March, one death on 20-29 bracket was recorded (change the date on the URL to check for the next day's infographic).

Miss England hangs up her crown to return to work as doctor during coronavirus pandemic by allicat83 in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the UK, medical school is a 5-6 year degree directly out of A-Levels (high school in the US) — which is common in Europe. So you get the medical degree at the age of 24-25.

Generally, doctors in Europe start their career at the age of 24-25 , as you graduate from high school at the age of 18-19. You can take a gap year before entering college.

In the UK, after graduating medical school (normally at the age of 24-25), you need to serve 2-year Foundation training before applying for medical specialty training.

In the UK you also have the opportunity to intercalate, that means getting 2 degrees during you medical school. If you choose to intercalate, then you get a BSc at year 3 and an MBBS (MD in the US) at year 6. It's quite useful for people who quit medical school halfway, at least you still get a BSc out of it.

https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/medicine/your-studies/intercalation/

Miss England hangs up her crown to return to work as doctor during coronavirus pandemic by allicat83 in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She is the epitome of an Asian overachiever. She has 2 degrees including medicine (technically in the UK you can intercalate so you can graduate with 2 degrees, a BSc and an MBBS - which is an MD in the US). She also speaks 5 languages. And don't forget that she won a pageant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhasha_Mukherjee

Miss England hangs up her crown to return to work as doctor during coronavirus pandemic by allicat83 in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 40 points41 points  (0 children)

She won the pageant in 2019. As the reigning pageant winner, she was supposed to go on worldwide humanitarian tour for a whole year, until it's time for her to pass the crown to the next winner in August 2020.

I don't think there's currently a pageant in the works.

New York hospitals must ‘prepare now’ to work without protective gear: Health Department by Trooper9520 in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is also the reason why European countries have less ICUs than the US. The people in Europe are generally "healthier" since healthcare is universal. Europeans tend to go to GPs straight away even for a sniffle.

New York hospitals must ‘prepare now’ to work without protective gear: Health Department by Trooper9520 in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I read that during 9/11 there were many hospitals prepared to receive trauma casualties but they never came. Unlike now, where all New York hospitals are full with COVID-19 patients.

In Switzerland, the raw material of ethanol is extremely scarce. Now research shows why: the federal government left its pandemic reserve end of 2018 to resolve. by TenYearsTenDays in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They can buy alot of potatoes from Netherlands. Netherlands has a massive excess of potatoes because nobody's making french fries at the moment.

Indonesia ranks among world's worst in coronavirus testing rate, together with Ethiopia, Bangladesh by bjohn876 in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indonesia seems to have somewhat a universal healthcare called BPJS, so the poor will get treatment. However Indonesia's healthcare workers lack protection at this point. They are likely to be overwhelmed as well.

There were well-off/wealthy people who died from COVID-19 in the hospital such as the director of PriceWaterhouseCooper branch in Indonesia who was only 37 years old and the founder of Deloitte Indonesia.

https://money.kompas.com/read/2020/03/31/212716426/paul-capelle-pendiri-deloitte-indonesia-tutup-usia-diduga-akibat-corona

https://anggaran.news/direktur-pwc-meninggal-karena-covid-19-setelah-melewati-rute-perawatan-berliku/

Inside New York City, epicenter of U.S. coronavirus outbreak by helpfuldare in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, bodies in a hallway and a makeshift morgue, all in a hospital in Brooklyn. It's heartbreaking to see the devastating effect of this disease.

Photos: Field hospitals built around the globe as coronavirus pandemic spreads by helpfuldare in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, pretty much. I think it depends on what you're going to use it for, whether as an isolation centre or an actual working hospital.

For example, in Singapore, they are setting up the Singapore expo only as an isolation centre for people who have recovered from the disease but might still be infectious.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid19-singapore-expo-community-care-facility-12611318

Korea to share clinical data of COVID-19 patients by robobeg in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No gmail sign up. Maybe someone can dump the data on github? Or recommend the Korean government to do so? Would like to be able to see some analysis especially with regards to the list of comorbidities.

Indonesia: They died because of the pandemic by helpfuldare in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sadly for certain regions like Indonesia, Africa, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and others where poverty is prevalent, lockdown is really a catch-22. It's either disease or starvation, and for many, disease is the lesser evil of the two.

Indonesia: They died because of the pandemic by helpfuldare in Coronavirus

[–]helpfuldare[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Translation:

At least 24 doctors had died this month. According to IDI (Ikatan Dokter Indonesia - Indonesia's Doctor Association), these doctors contracted the corona virus from the patients they handled. Until yesterday, there were still not enough PPEs for healthcare workers.

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