Sunday Reads: #CovidToe
Posted: April 26, 2020 | Author: Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because, morning reads | Tags: #covidtoe |12 Comments
Have you heard of the latest sensation striking the nation?
Covid Toe!
Nah, I didn’t say camel toe …
Seriously, this virus keeps delivering new horrifying symptoms and statistics. We got so desensitized to disastrous news the last three plus years with tRump in office. Covid has increased the monstrosity of the news day with such dire warnings and updates.
Case in point:
#Covidtoes with Purplish Lesions
Resembling frostbite
Can be,for Some, an Early Symptom
Of the Virus
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Doctors say the painful toe lesions may be a way to track COVID-19 in otherwise asymptomatic patients. https://t.co/yDBgcN22IN via @HuffPost— Vanka Pro (@vankapro) April 23, 2020
What are 'COVID toes'? Dermatologists, podiatrists share strange findings https://t.co/qcnoTEA1en
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 25, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection-induced chilblains: a case report with histopathological findings https://t.co/y09N27aWT6 pic.twitter.com/JzPDQrzw6Y
— JAAD Journals (@JAADjournals) April 23, 2020
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I would make a couple other points:We already know that there is some thrombotic process with some cases of #COVID19. Perhaps #covidtoes are related to that. This paper found #SARS_CoV2 infected patients had viral inclusions in endothelial cells:https://t.co/oyG08St7fC pic.twitter.com/7Imhixtzuc
— Steven Chen (@DrStevenTChen) April 20, 2020
#covidtoes 'COVID toes probably more rampant than we realize'
Dermatologist says symptoms are likely an inflammatory reaction possibly in response to COVID-19 https://t.co/hUIrKX6joZ— Laetitia Moreau-Gabarain (@MoreauGabarain) April 23, 2020
“The brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles — ‘ a can of spaghetti’— that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot.” This Doc saw new clots forming in real-time young #coronavirus pt who was otherwise healthy. https://t.co/UE9keAG389
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) April 26, 2020
Other tweets of interest:
And now, a message from Dr. Anthony Fauci. #SNLAtHome pic.twitter.com/LYemNAWaAT
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 26, 2020
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 26, 2020
We all know that Trump didn't really care about the testing fiasco because he was perfectly happy to have no testing. Because he didn't want to spook the markets & hurt his reelect. He told us the virus was under control himself! Azar is just a fall guy https://t.co/tLQPvqA2at
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) April 26, 2020
This is the 3rd such story I’ve seen out of Detroit alone. When this is all over one of the things I’m afraid we’ll learn is that the black death rates are so high not just because of how sick Covid-19 made us but because of how poorly we’ve been treated by the healthcare system. https://t.co/pn9zLGU8Rz
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 25, 2020
This is from one of the “open up the country” protests. You think I should wear this to the next Black Lives Matter rally?
I’m sure everything would be fine, right? pic.twitter.com/zCZquYyAfL
— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) April 26, 2020
This has to be one of the best tweets of all time now: pic.twitter.com/w8Lv8yMyBu
— Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧 (@thomaschattwill) April 25, 2020
Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis?https://t.co/Vboj4Ls5I8
— sylvaners (@Sylvaners) April 26, 2020
Today in Newport Beach. Wow.
Via @GettyImagesNews pic.twitter.com/eo0WMmQ3eg
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) April 26, 2020
The US curve is not flattening folks. We added 35,400 cases so far today, our 2nd highest -yesterday was the highest (38.9k).
The US now makes up 33% of world cases.
We are not out of the woods. We should be in national lockdown- if we had weeks ago we would be in better shape!
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 26, 2020
If a stadium full of Americans had been bombed and killed, people would understand the urgency of the need to respond to the threat, right?
Well, this is Dodger Stadium in LA on opening day in 2017.
That’s how many people have died in the US from COVID19.
So far. pic.twitter.com/vK7L7XExYU
— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) April 26, 2020
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This is an open thread. Stay safe, stay home…
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w
Fresh findings about SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes. 24 April — Spit could be the solution to testing shortages. A person’s saliva accurately reveals whether they are infected with SARS-CoV-2, a finding that could make tests for the virus safer and more widely available. The gold-standard test for coronavirus infection requires a long swab to be rubbed against the back of the throat. But such swabs are in short supply, and swabbing can prompt people to cough or sneeze, potentially launching a barrage of viral particles. Anne Wyllie at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, and her colleagues collected both saliva and throat samples from people hospitalized with COVID-19 (A. Wyllie et al. Preprint at medRxiv, http://doi.org/ggssqf, 2020). The team’s testing did not detect the virus in some patients’ throat-swab samples — but did detect it in the same patients’ saliva samples. Saliva testing also showed that two health-care workers who felt fine and had negative throat tests were actually infected.
The false negatives from throat swabs is a huge deal! If the accuracy of saliva tests is better, switch over yesterday.
The saliva test I heard about also delivered results in 20 / 45 minutes (pos / neg result), which is way faster than the throat swabs.
The next best thing to a universally available vaccine would be universal real-time testing with paid quarantine and treatment for anyone who needs it.
n of 16 but very promising. Nasopharyngeal swabs are “how it’s always been done” but if there are enough studies confirming appropriateness of saliva testing let’s jump to that.
Interesting about the “coronavirus toes” sign article in the JAAD journal:
I just saw recently that Catherine de Medici introduced deviled eggs and broccoli, among other things, to France in 16th century. Thank gawd.