Jasmine18
Senior Member
I meant that explains why the death rate has gotten lower.
Brampton is mailing a mask to all local residents https://www.inbrampton.com/bramptons-new-campaign-to-provide-free-face-masks-to-families
Check out ear savers -- there are a variety of ways people are getting around this (including using monkeys from the Barrel of Monkeys game)My employer mailed us all cloth masks (with the company logo of course!) which is great, but the ear loop is also cloth and not very stretchy. Thus, I can't wear it for more than 10-15mins as it really starts to aggravate my ears. Another side effect is the ears getting pulled forward makes me look quite silly. It's a shame as I really like it otherwise.
My employer mailed us all cloth masks (with the company logo of course!) which is great, but the ear loop is also cloth and not very stretchy. Thus, I can't wear it for more than 10-15mins as it really starts to aggravate my ears. Another side effect is the ears getting pulled forward makes me look quite silly. It's a shame as I really like it otherwise.
Healthcare workers are likely to be in contact with many COVID-19 patients every day. Being in contact with more people with the disease means that, in theory, they will be exposed to higher doses of the coronavirus over time. Does that mean they are at greater risk of contracting the disease, as reports from some countries suggest?
We know for some diseases that the dose of virus a person is exposed to will directly correlate with how severe the disease is. A good example of this is influenza. A 2015 study from the US showed that the higher the dose of influenza virus given to healthy volunteers, the worse their symptoms. Viruses are tiny particles that must get into our cells in order to replicate, so the logic is that the more starting virus particles there are, the more cells will be infected.
However, viruses replicate exponentially. A single infected cell can produce hundreds, if not thousands, of copies of the particle. This means that for some viruses, even a tiny dose of virus is enough to cause an infection. For example, for half the population, it takes just 18 particles of norovirus to cause an infection. This can lead to the classic clinical signs of vomiting and diarrhoea. In such infections, the virus replicates so fast that the starting dose can become much less relevant....
Brain problems linked to even mild coronavirus infections: study
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Potentially fatal COVID-19 complications in the brain including delirium, nerve damage and stroke may be more common than initially thought, a team of British-based doctors warned Wednesday.
Severe COVID-19 infections are known to put patients at risk of neurological complications, but research led by University College London suggests serious problems can occur even in individuals with mild cases of the virus.
The team looked at the neurological symptoms of 43 patients hospitalised with either confirmed or suspected COVID-19.
They found 10 cases of temporary brain dysfunction, 12 cases of brain inflammation, eight strokes and eight cases of nerve damage.
Most of those patients with inflammation were diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) -- a rare condition typically seen in children after viral infections.
"We identified a higher than expected number of people with neurological conditions such as brain inflammation, which did not always correlate with the severity of respiratory symptoms," said Michael Zandi, of UCL's Queen Square Institute of Neurology and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Brain problems linked to even mild coronavirus infections: study
Potentially fatal COVID-19 complications in the brain including delirium, nerve damage and stroke may be more common than initially thought, a team of British-based doctors warned Wednesday.www.ctvnews.ca
Don't forget that Brampton has over 600,000 residents and is among the fastest-growing municipalities in the country.They should offer washable cloth masks instead. 3 non-reusable masks will be gone in a second.
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