Interesting Links for 16-05-2020

[andrewducker]

'Weird as hell': the Covid-19 patients who have symptoms for months

(tags:Pandemic virus )

Everyone Charged By Police Under New Coronavirus Laws Was Wrongly Accused - Black and Asian People Disproportionately Fined

(tags:UK law pandemic OhForFucksSake police racism )

Did "straight white men" invent the computer?

(tags:computers history LGBT women race )

One Billion People Will Suffer From Unliveable Heat Within 50 years

(tags:globalwarming Doom )

Comments

Dengue fever

[anna_wing]

Dengue fever is indeed very nasty, especially what they call severe dengue these days, and dengue haemorrhagic fever when I was young and had it. According to the Internet the fatality rate for the severe form is around 3-5% with treatment and 20% without. Dengue is mosquito-borne, so get your patient under a mosquito net or in an air-conditioned room (and supply them or their carers with an electric mosquito bat for emergencies) and that's that for transmission.

So if COVID-19 is ultimately something like severe dengue but with the transmissibility of influenza, that's really not good.