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If you’ve been wondering about your risks of exposure when you step out here’s something to read. With Oliver Sacks dead, and well Paul Kalanithi also dead, my favorite medical writer Siddhartha Mukherjee sets about exploring some of this question https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/how-does-the-coronavirus-behave-inside-a-patient
Those of us with the luxury, have been in social isolation for three weeks, so it’s unlikely that exposure before the shut down will still manifest. So what are the risks of going grocery shopping, exercising, dog walking? How effective are even basic face and hand coverings?
In the Deborah Copaken Atlantic piece her husband and her were biking in Central Park three weeks ago. Her doctor says “the viral load in New York is too high” https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/03/my-whole-household-has-covid-19/608902/
Siddharth Mukherjeesets about examining those question of what is viral load.
Tl/dr - does the extent of initial exposure effect the severity of COVID-19 in an individual?
Tl/dr - does the extent of initial exposure effect the severity of COVID-19 in an individual?
Dr Mukherjee was also on the Brian Lehrer show this morning with more practica advice on how to detect viral severity. Fascinating to hear too different countries with different approaches to keep load of hospitals, make predictive medicine better. https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
I’ve been wondering since reading the New Yorker piece @DrSidMukherjee the relation between immunity from different viral diseases. If premise of tika or inoculation or vaccination is introducing minuscule doses of the virus, does the body have similar responses to some of these
We don’t know test how vastly COVID-19 will manifest in India yet. Just by sheer numbers by magnitude of population will likely be staggering. No amount of gau mutra, or diya lighting or even praying to shetala ma will disguise that.
Still, is there any clinical relation between populations that have had measles or chicken pox quite abundantly, might have some built up immunity to new strains of the Corona virus? Like kids who thankfully seem immune from it right now?
