coronavirus resources
- Completely out-of-date. Left here for archival purposes
- Mostly last-updated March 6th, 2020 ish. Things may be out of date. Everybody stay home if you can now, & encourage things to be cancelled.
- Also this list of resources is probably much more up to date:
- dashboards
- this very excellent chart contrasts the slops of different countries' growth rates
- plague.com
- pathogen evolution nextstrain.org/ncov
- if someone hella-rich (or friends with someone hella-rich) is reading this, here are potential high-leverage moves I'm aware of:
- If you're like multibillionaire rich, pledge $100M as funds that will go towards people or organizations who make key investments or innovations themselves. This creates an incentive for people to spend time and money on other ideas!
- Michel Chrétien started working on a quercetin-based drug after SARS, and it shows a lot of promise and needs $5M to do the trials. This may be funded yet but I haven't seen evidence that it has been.
- Twitter thread soliciting suggestions for this:
- thread soliciting app ideas etc:
- ---- below stuff is out of date ----
- useful tweets
- re how COVID19 can fuck up various organs (including )
- re asymptomatic transmission
- lists of articles, only started March 13th, 2020
- list of things I've read
- links I haven't read
- "Approaching the pandemic with a systems-thinking lens"
- you do not want to get this, deaths aside: 25-40% of respondents to a SARS survivor study in HK had chronic fatigue syndrome
- COVID-19 is different from SARS, but SARS is the closest referent we have for it, so it's a good baseline in the absence of further data
- link paste 2020-03-14
- to reduce your chances of getting sick, & slow the local & global curves
- stuff to definitely do now
- (unless you live very far from anyone travelling to infected areas (including the entire USA—Canada confirmed a case contracted in Colorado before any local confirmations))
- get a flu shot
- this reduces the chance of combined infection and also means that if you do get sick, there's less uncertainty about what it is
- cover doorknobs &+ with copper tape
- viruses can't live on copper surfaces
- this is one of the best interventions you can do because you don't need to remember
- get a bunch of vitamins & other supplements
- I have a spreadsheet of which ones my house is taking
- wash your hands more often
- try to avoid touching your face with unwashed hands while out in public
- this is nearly impossible to achieve, but a friend and I have been designing pandemic pants that make it easy
- do whatever you can to stay relaxed and have fun while doing these things—stress weakens the immune system
- tweets about this
- how to tell if you have covid19?
- source
- stuff to do if there are lots of people infected in your city
- work from home
- to care for someone who is sick
- twitter convo on this:
- weirder things you might do
- make your own DIY ventilator(s), to help someone breathe if they need it and hospitals are overloaded
- ideas to explore
- (if you research any of these further, lmk if they seem promising, useless, or hard-to-tell!)
- awareness
- shoot a highres and/or VR video of an italian hospital, to give people a sense of what's happening
- health
- device that might allow people to better clear out their lungs or something
- useful twitter threads I'm keeping track of
- notes to self
- sources I imagine wanting to cite later
- medical acronyms:
- Rx stands for the Latin Recipe. (prescription)
- Pt is Patient.
- "I think only Rx and Pt are standard abbreviations. You can usually figure out the rest by context, but usage varies person to person. I use fx for fracture and sometimes I use sx for surgery."
- Dx is Diagnosis.
- Tx is Treatment.
- Hx is History.
- Sx is Symptoms.
- Fx is Family.
- Abx is Antibiotics.
1 linked reference
March 8th, 2020
- Figured I'd start a place to collect coronavirus resources