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Lesson of New Zealand
After weeks of lockdown, New Zealand has achieved its ambitious goal of eliminating the coronavirus. But the country isn't celebrating...


Can you have coronavirus antibodies yet still be contagious?
After weeks of self-isolating, with her symptoms improved, Canning Zast assumed she had recovered and decided to donate her plasma to be...


Germany has remarkably few COVID-19 deaths
Germany was one of the first countries to develop a testing systemfor COVID-19. It's early access to reliable tests for COVID-19 meant...


2 Strategies (in Pictures)
The first strategy may be called "Idiotic": this is like flu, nothing must be done, let us reopen economy as soon as possible. These are...


How Vietnam is getting it right
Vietnam, with a population of 96 million and a lengthy border with China, has 268 confirmed COVID-19 cases and zero associated deaths....


Case of Vietnam
And zero deaths - nobody died. The population is near 100 millions. They are easing the restrictions after 1 week of no new cases.


Case of Iceland
Recovered 1362, deaths 10, lethality 0.7 %. Lowest in the world, practically nothing. The main question – why? Tests 126K+/per 1M...


Sunlight destroys virus quickly
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high...


Tiger at NYC’s Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia — and six other tigers and...


Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment
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Trump was right
Medical buarecracy is very slow. Normally this is normal because new drugs must not harm health or at least must not harm health too...


The Cautious Optimism
Below are 2 histograms for Italy and Spain respectively. Both give the hope that with strong quarantine measures the pick of new cases is...


A day-by-day breakdown of coronavirus symptoms shows how COVID-19 goes (Chinese data)
It starts with a fever. That's the most common symptom among people who get the coronavirus that's sweeping the world. A February study...


"I had COVID-19 and here’s my story"
Elizabeth Schneider says she hopes her experience will educate others Elizabeth Schneider, a 37-year-old marketing manager who lives in...


Lesson of statistics
(Russian text follows) Italia. Data for 21/03 Total - 53,578 New cases - 6,557 Deaths - 4,825 Recovered - ...


Update on new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic as of 24:00 on March 19
Source: Website of the Commission for Health http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-03/20/content_5493386.htm (Translation from Chinese by Google...


Chinese Lessons-1: How this developed
This is one of the most important charts. It shows in orange bars the daily official number of cases in the Hubei province: How many...


Simplest way to win
If you do not test, you have no positive results. Thus you have no coronavirus at all. Just opposite – you have a great statistics....


How Does ECMO Work?
Special tubes called cannulas are put into the blood vessels that go directly into the heart or bloodstream. Doctor chooses the size of...


Cost of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
The article describes and analyses hospital costs of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) procedure. Between January and...
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