Novel Coronavirus COVID-19

[elaine567]

DNA Linked to Covid-19 Was Inherited From Neanderthals, Study Finds
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

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Abstract
A recent genetic association study (Ellinghaus et al. 2020) identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for respiratory failure in SARS-CoV-2. Recent data comprising 3,199 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and controls reproduce this and find that it is the major genetic risk factor for severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization (COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative). Here, we show that the risk is conferred by a genomic segment of ~50 kb that is inherited from Neandertals and occurs at a frequency of ~30% in south Asia and ~8% in Europe. 
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.03.186296v1

 

 

Edited July 6, 2020 by elaine567

[Tamfana]

@HappyLemming: I'm actually drafting an e-mail this morning to my state senator.  I emailed her in the past and she (or one of her staff) wrote me back.  She is actually a senator that tries to get things done and if she gets an issue "stuck in her craw" she doesn't let it go until it is resolved.  I'm hoping she can push to make it happen.  And again, I could be wasting my time.

Well, good luck with that.  Are you talking justice court or superior court?  If it's superior, keep in mind the June rotation just took place which always adds that chaotic irrational spice to the Maricopa County Court system.    

Edited July 6, 2020 by Tamfana

[Piddy]

Just saw where Tony nominated Broadway actor Nick Cordero died at the age of 41 from Covid-19.  He had no underlying conditions and fought it for 90 days.  He even had a leg amputated.  I remember seeing where initially he looked like he was going to recover, but had a relapse and took a turn for the worse.

[Happy Lemming]

4 hours ago, Tamfana said:

Are you talking justice court or superior court?  If it's superior, keep in mind the June rotation just took place which always adds that chaotic irrational spice to the Maricopa County Court system.    

Superior Court...  We'll see how it shakes out.  I emailed my State Senator and the Governor.  I just asked them to find out why the software isn't working and to get it fixed, then everyone can serve jury duty from their home

[elaine567]

On 7/6/2020 at 12:06 PM, Piddy said:

Just saw where Tony nominated Broadway actor Nick Cordero died at the age of 41 from Covid-19.  He had no underlying conditions and fought it for 90 days.  He even had a leg amputated.  I remember seeing where initially he looked like he was going to recover, but had a relapse and took a turn for the worse.

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Cordero entered the emergency room on 30 March and had a succession of health setbacks including mini-strokes, blood clots, sepsis infections, a tracheostomy and a temporary pacemaker implant. He had been on a ventilator and unconscious and had his right leg amputated. A double lung transplant was being explored.

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For some severely ill COVID-19 patients, the struggle to take in enough air is not only due to having fluid-clogged lungs. The quest for oxygen also is stymied by a plethora of blood clots.
...Striking the right balance between clotting and bleeding is something the body itself does regularly, and not just after an injury. Infections spur clotting too. That’s because the immune system, inflammation and clotting are linked.

If the regulation of these systems gets out of whack, the scales can tilt toward thromboinflammation, in which severe inflammation leads to excessive clotting. For COVID-19 patients, that’s happening to an alarming degree.

Preventing dangerous blood clots from COVID-19 is proving tricky

Edited July 7, 2020 by a LoveShack.org Moderator
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[Piddy]

My wife and I went and got tested this morning.  One of my golf buddies wife has tested positive.  She has symptoms and now he has developed mild symptoms.  So we're self quarantining until we get the test results which takes 5 days.

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Piddy

[Ellener]

4 hours ago, Piddy said:

My wife and I went and got tested this morning.  One of my golf buddies wife has tested positive.  She has symptoms and now he has developed mild symptoms.  So we're self quarantining until we get the test results which takes 5 days.

 

Be well Piddy!

[Piddy]

38 minutes ago, Ellener said:

Be well Piddy!

Thank you Ellener.  Right now all we have is a dry throat from the swab they stick up your nose and into your throat.  

[amaysngrace]

Please keep us posted @Piddy since you’re now in our thoughts.

I wish all of you well also x

[Ellener]

10 hours ago, Piddy said:

Thank you Ellener.  Right now all we have is a dry throat from the swab they stick up your nose and into your throat.  

Hang in there! 

[schlumpy]

On 7/6/2020 at 9:57 AM, elaine567 said:

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

I did find that very interesting. I'll be looking to follow up on that in the future.

Edited July 8, 2020 by schlumpy

[Piddy]

We got our test results back and we both tested negative.  Great news.  The guy I play golf with who's wife has the virus is getting tested today.

The only thing I wonder about is if you can get tested too soon before the virus can get detected? The reason I say that is the last time I was in contact with my golf buddy was last Friday and although I didn't play in his group, I did win that day and he handed me money.  But we weren't really close to each other, but for a few seconds.  

So I guess my question is this.  Let's say hypothetically you knew you were infected by a person and you got tested that day, or the next day etc..  Is the virus detectable as soon as you were infected?  Or is there an incubation period before it can be detected?

  In my case I got tested 4 days after being in contact with him (even though he hasn't been tested yet, but his wife has it).  The only reason we got tested so quick is although my wife works at home she goes into her office 2 days a week and could not go back unless she tested negative. 

Everything I read says you can develop symptoms 2-14 days, but we know asymptomatic people can spread the virus.  So, the question is if you have the virus when are you contagious?  Immediately or does it take some time to become contagious.  Anyone read anything on this?

 

 

Edited July 10, 2020 by Piddy

[amaysngrace]

That’s great news @Piddy 

From what I understand from my daughter, an active covid RN, it spreads most rapidly when the infected person has a fever.  

When she was self-quarantining because she contracted it, her hospital asked that she record any symptoms and track her temperature once in the morning, once in the evening.  You might want to do that as well.

 

[Piddy]

11 minutes ago, amaysngrace said:

That’s great news @Piddy 

From what I understand from my daughter, an active covid RN, it spreads most rapidly when the infected person has a fever.  

When she was self-quarantining because she contracted it, her hospital asked that she record any symptoms and track her temperature once in the morning, once in the evening.  You might want to do that as well.

 

Thanks @amaysngrace for the info and we have been taking our Temperature twice a day as you mentioned and we're always fine.  However, they're seeing some Covid infected people who never develop a fever, but are still very sick.  And then there's the asymptomatic people.

Edited July 10, 2020 by Piddy

[QuietRiot]

11 minutes ago, Piddy said:

We got our test results back and we both tested negative.  Great news.  The guy I play golf with who's wife has the virus is getting tested today.

The only thing I wonder about is if you can get tested too soon before the virus can get detected? The reason I say that is the last time I was in contact with my golf buddy was last Friday and although I didn't play in his group, I did win that day and he handed me money.  But we weren't really close to each other, but for a few seconds.  

So I guess my question is this.  Let's say hypothetically you knew you were infected by a person and you got tested that day, or the next day etc..  Is the virus detectable as soon as you were infected?  Or is there an incubation period before it can be detected?

  In my case I got tested 4 days after being in contact with him (even though he hasn't been tested yet, but his wife has it).  The only reason we got tested so quick is although my wife works at home she goes into her office 2 days a week and could not go back unless she tested negative. 

Everything I read says you can develop symptoms 2-14 days, but we know asymptomatic people can spread the virus.  So, the question is if you have the virus when are you contagious?  Immediately or does it take some time to become contagious.  Anyone read anything on this?

 

 

 

1. He handed you money. If you didn't touch your face before getting to washing your hands, you should be find. Be a hand nazi

2. Golfing, you're outside...the virus is diluted and the CDC guidelines minute limit is 15 minutes and indoors. You are outdoors. So...very low risk. 

I am hearing golf courses are making people take seperate carts.

[QuietRiot]

7 minutes ago, amaysngrace said:

That’s great news @Piddy 

From what I understand from my daughter, an active covid RN, it spreads most rapidly when the infected person has a fever.  

When she was self-quarantining because she contracted it, her hospital asked that she record any symptoms and track her temperature once in the morning, once in the evening.  You might want to do that as well.

 

Sadly, some symptoms don't have a fever whatsoever. That's why I"m kind of concerned about these temperature checks at entrances to places. Apparently, SOME people with Covid don't have fevers.

[Redhead14]

2 minutes ago, QuietRiot said:

Sadly, some symptoms don't have a fever whatsoever. That's why I"m kind of concerned about these temperature checks at entrances to places. Apparently, SOME people with Covid don't have fevers.

Yes, because lots of people are asymptomatic.  Taking temperatures is not a bad idea, but it's not a catchall either.  People are walking around with Covid but don't have any symptoms at all.  That's bad.  They are carriers and can spread it but don't get sick. They are our Typhoid Marys. 

[amaysngrace]

 

Not to make this too controversial, the misinformation is immense.  The way they’ve been told to report case positives in Texas has me doubting much of what we’re being told.  

Firsthand I know my daughter has requested tests be performed on patients who presented for other reasons based on fever alone.  Their conditions wouldn’t ordinarily produce fever so she spoke to the physicians and the patients were tested.  Their tests came back positive.

 

[Piddy]

4 minutes ago, QuietRiot said:

Sadly, some symptoms don't have a fever whatsoever. That's why I"m kind of concerned about these temperature checks at entrances to places. Apparently, SOME people with Covid don't have fevers.

Yes.  I saw Neera Tanden who is the President of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C..  She had the virus, but never had a fever.  She said some days she slept for 20 hours and was very sick.

[sothereiwas]

12 minutes ago, Piddy said:

She said some days she slept for 20 hours and was very sick.

I did that dance starting the last weekend in March. Basically slept all weekend, 102+ fever, literally worst headache of my life, sick for almost a week. But with essentially no cases in the county at the time I'm not sure if it could possibly been COVID.

[Piddy]

31 minutes ago, sothereiwas said:

I did that dance starting the last weekend in March. Basically slept all weekend, 102+ fever, literally worst headache of my life, sick for almost a week. But with essentially no cases in the county at the time I'm not sure if it could possibly been COVID.

You could go and see if you have any anti bodies.  

[sothereiwas]

5 minutes ago, Piddy said:

You could go and see if you have any anti bodies.  

Meh, not that curious and I have work to attend to. Next routine Dr visit I'll mention it, they are like vampires anyway. 

[Angelle]

4 hours ago, Piddy said:

Yes.  I saw Neera Tanden who is the President of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C..  She had the virus, but never had a fever.  She said some days she slept for 20 hours and was very sick.

A friend of mine had the fevers and everything else - she ended up in the hospital for a while - but she also said she was sleeping almost all the time. She's only 90% recovered, after getting sick at the beginning of March.

I've gone through periods of fatigue, headaches, stomach problems, dizziness, but with me, they happen every year, so I won't know if I have symptoms unless I have the trouble breathing. I have a light-ish chesty cough, but that isn't new either, it comes and goes. 

[Piddy]

11 minutes ago, Angelle said:

A friend of mine had the fevers and everything else - she ended up in the hospital for a while - but she also said she was sleeping almost all the time. She's only 90% recovered, after getting sick at the beginning of March.

I've gone through periods of fatigue, headaches, stomach problems, dizziness, but with me, they happen every year, so I won't know if I have symptoms unless I have the trouble breathing. I have a light-ish chesty cough, but that isn't new either, it comes and goes. 

Yeah, the sleeping thing is a common symptom it seems for many.  That's a shame you have all those health issues.  Yeah, unless you knowingly come into contact with someone who has the virus then you're probably fine (virus wise).  

Edited July 10, 2020 by Piddy

[sothereiwas]

4 minutes ago, Piddy said:

Yeah, the sleeping thing is a common symptom it seems for many.

The time period for me coincided with the onset of hay fever season, so I can't honestly say if the mild respiratory stuff was a virus or "just pollen", but the rest of it was not normal. 

Edited July 10, 2020 by sothereiwas