We are One earth, One human race š & we are in this pandemic together!
If thereās 1 thing this pandemic has taught us is that it does not discriminate, we are one earth, one human race, and remedies/vaccines should be made available to all of humanity š We are in this together and need to collaboratively get out of this together, to eliminate the tiniest living cell that is controlling and destroying the most evolved species on the planet, us. #WarOnCovid19 #Pandemic #Covid19 #Coronavirus
Itās inevitable that we will experience future pandemics. However, could this pandemic give us a preview of what could happen when we introduce any new biological entity or species to earth from off-world expeditionsā¦š¤
The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11/3/20 spreading across 110 countries, with over 118,000 cases.
In times of pandemic, we turn to technology to facilitate collective intelligence, bringing the world together to combat the pandemic in various ways, from real-time information data monitoring, predicting and modeling outbreaks, knowledge sharing and use of social media to disseminate information faster while governments co-ordinate and plan out their communications.
A research collective at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) that works on a range of complex and interdisciplinary problems, united by the goal to better understand and improve societal, health and technological systems for everyone have developed a live Covid19 pandemic tracker.
A group is also tracking virus mutations globally as soon as data becomes available, and it appears that initially we identified 2 strains of Covid-19 roaming free across the globe.
Then 8 strains
According to Iceland thereās 40 strains of the virus
Hospitals are trying to figure out how to work around their shortages of medical equipment, such as ventilators and have spurred innovative thinking to save lives.
We can learn from history, such as the 1918 pandemic.
As we look to the past to help predict the future ..
And we had even conducted simulations
Experts agree that our best hope, while we wait for a vaccine, is to flatten the pandemic trajectory curve by early testing and practicing social distancing. Itās pure math and law of exponentials.
We can learn from the countries that have been successful at containment without needing to implement draconian measures
Scientists are on the race to develop a vaccine, but it may be still be 6 to 12 months after a breakthrough is discovered before it can be rolled out globally and undergo human trials.
Big pharma are on a race to repurpose existing drugs
With 47 old drugs identified as potentials
We are learning that some existing drugs may even help coronavirus thrive. We are hearing that there may be a linkage with ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatories because they could be āan aggravating factorā in Covid-19 infections
Putting an effective and efficient testing strategy in place appears to be the best plan to help with quarantine efforts and many are working on improved methods of testing
But how do you scale testing that focus on the user experienceā¦ drive-through testing of course. A German hospital is using this strategy, creating a better user experience compared to spending time in waiting rooms.
Drive-thru clinics had also been set up across Sth Korea to efficiently test patients.
Broader test coverage and testing rollout speed will provide more accurate reporting to help inform the most effective strategy to contain the situation.
Early indicators from recovered patients suggest that there could be ~30ā40% potential lung capacity reduction after recovery.
We have seen that young children in particular below 9 have not been affected. It could be attributed to the fact that they have extremely high melatonin levels.
Early signs of being infected by Covid-19 are similar to flu like symptoms
Researchers also found that blood type A patients showed a higher rate of infection and they tended to develop more severe symptoms, while those with type O appear more resistant.
Researchers across the world are sharing their datasets
The psychological impact on society is in progress with initial behaviors such as herd mentality and panic buying taking place.
The impacts of social distancing have yet to be measured
However, we need to keep connected to stay sane!
A Chinese healthcare internet company WeDoctor has opened up their real-time online global epidemic-prevention and control platform in a bid to integrate medical resources platform of doctors extending free advice services to the world, aiming at helping peopleāāāespecially those from places in a severe epidemic situation, such as Italy, Japan and Koreaāāātackle the current difficulties together.
A total of 48,581 doctors (all of whom were the attending and above physicians of the departments of respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, and general medicine from the countryās 3A-grade hospitals) offered consultation services an accumulative 1.61 million times, which was equivalent to the number of hospital admissions of a large tertiary hospital in nearly three months.
Initial services offered, including free online consultation, psychological consultation, convenience clinic, Chinese traditional medicine consultation and remote consultation, to the 1.4 billion Chinese people.
The Singaporean government GovTech team of about 40 engineers spent more than 10,000 man-hours developing TraceTogether and making their source code available free for other countries.
Some other natural alternatives to consider ā¦ such as intermittent fasting may help reset the immune system
Some say that Vitamin D may help
Joe Rogan on Covid19
Further Reading
Our World in Data
A live tracker
Live strain tracker
Some more live data visualizations
Global tracking of social distancing
Global tracking
Australian tracking
Forecasting