COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 info

[Like Ra]

This stuff affects everybody. Here's a list of useful information for quick reference and to keep everything in one place.

Just in case, only official and scientific information, please. No complot and conspiracy theories.

Latest statistics (tables, graphs, etc):
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

For travellers - regulations per country from International Air Transport Association :
https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/interna...226297.htm

Restrictions per country:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/...s-in-place

COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv:
https://connect.medrxiv.org/relate/content/181

Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus:
https://nextstrain.org/ncov?fbclid=IwAR2...I&l=radial

World Health Organization advice:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases...for-public

Flatten the Curve
https://www.flattenthecurve.com/

The article to which most conspiracy theorists refer:

"A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence"
Published in "Nature Medicine" on 09 November 2015

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3985

Please stay safe and healthy!

[essanym]

President Trump stated in a press conference that malaria medication we've had for a long time works on corona

https://www.france24.com/en/20200319-us-...irus-trump

[Like Ra]

malaria medication we've had for a long time works on corona

Chloroquine? According to various interviews with researches, it's not officially confirmed yet. Just like the medicine that is supposed to prevent tuberculosis and the one that keeps HIV in the sleeping state. Still being tested.

[Like Ra]

Curfew on Canary islands. Empty beaches, empty streets. Scary...

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam...arias.html

[Like Ra]

You can help with you computer power:

https://pcmasterrace.org/foldingteam

Folding at home is a project by Stanford University that uses our computing power to help study the process of protein folding so as to aid research on various diseases, including many forms of cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's. Right now we're focusing on Covid-19/Coronavirus as well.

You can install a small program on your computer and it downloads a small amount of data that it analyses, then returning the results to the Stanford researchers. You can even choose what disease research to base the bulk of your computing power on (be it cancer or any the others mentioned above), or just let it fold them all!

Source: https://twitter.com/drGregBowman/status/...6215657472

Amazing! @foldingathome
now has over 470 petaFLOPS of compute power. To put that in perspective, that's more than 2x the peak performance of the Summit super computer!

Source: https://twitter.com/StargazerBlake/statu...9424953347


I tried to set it up, but it failed to download and execute any jobs, because the operating system is unsupported 😟

[Like Ra]

Meanwhile my vacation next month is cancelled 😟

[Zooy]

Meanwhile my vacation next month is cancelled 😟

Don't expect any vacations the coming few months. This isn't going away soon.
On the plus side: people are now coming up with ideas to keep social cohesion.
The internet may undergo quite some mutations....

[Zooy]

Does anybody know how sensitive this virus is to being put in the microwave?
Here all alcohol and cleaning gel is sold out.
Can I sterilise objects by putting them in the microwave for a few seconds?
(like face masks of which I have only very few).

[Culmor]

President Trump stated in a press conference that malaria medication we've had for a long time works on corona

President Trump stated in a press conference that “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

I doubt he is sane but I've no doubt he has Dunning-Kruger syndrome.

On a local level., it's interesting how all the amateur economists posting about Brexit on the local paper's website have all suddenly become amateur epidemiologists...

[Zooy]

On a local level., it's interesting how all the amateur economists posting about Brexit on the local paper's website have all suddenly become amateur epidemiologists...

Same with the HYS on the BBC. "simples for everything."