I got into that stuff pretty deep last night but decided not to post anything because it’s unclear to me if it’s fakenews or not. I mean it seems obvious that CV-19 subjects would of course be taking NSAIDS, so it seems like kind of dumb conspiracy theory type stuff. But at the same time, there are links to research that I’m not smart enough to evaluate but seem to be from mostly legit sources.
Would love if @MrWookie or some of our other scientists would look at the info and post their opinion.
Reports from the front on the remote learning is that it is more like remote “learning”, but it’ll be fine. There will be glitches. But then there are plenty of glitches in in-person school as well.
Yes, on Samsung galaxy devices with a heart rate monitor you can find it under “measure stress”. I just tested it against a $15 pulsox I got off Amazon and it matched at 98%.
Ugh not liking this NSAIDs news. I normally cannot take NSAIDs, but have been on 1000mg/day of Naproxen for the last month prescribed post surgery to prevent removed bone from regrowing. I finish the script on Thursday. Maybe I should call the surgeon and ask if it’s ok to stop early but that’s probably an overreaction.
NH announcing they will provide unemployment payments to parents who need to stay home due to school closures. Not clear to me how they plan to do this yet. Setting up mobile testing sites which are supposed to be ready this week.
I don’t really know jack shit about NSAIDs and how they might interact with this. It seems to just be an estimate based on a correlation, and it’s pretty ordinary for any 20-something who’s got this bad to reach for Advil rather than this having been OK, and then they took some and then it got bad. That said, it’s not implausible that an anti-inflammatory could monkey things up, and we just don’t know much about how this works. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to avoid taking medication of unknown impact when the upside is only modest pain relief.
Update from the Netherlands: we are near a lock down. Schools and day cares will only be open for children’s whose parent work in vital sectors and closed for everyone else. All bars, restaurants, sports clubs, wellness centers, coffeeshops, etc are closed. Measures are in effect at least for the next three weeks (until April 7th).
People are advised to keep at least 6 foot distance to each other.
Numbers: 1135 cases so far, with 160 hospitalizations and 20 deaths, mostly elderly people with serious health conditions, the youngest was 59. Since a couple of days testing is less extensive: people with mild symptoms are no longer tested.