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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease has since spread worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic.Symptoms of COVID-19 are variable, but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, and loss of smell and taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those people who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classed as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% suffer critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some people continue to experience a range of effects (long COVID) for months after recovery, and damage to organs has been observed. Multi-year studies are underway to further investigate the long-term effects of the disease.COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and small airborne particles. The risk of breathing these in is highest when people are in close proximity, but they can be inhaled over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can also occur if splashed or sprayed with contaminated fluids, in the eyes, nose or mouth, and, rarely, via contaminated surfaces. People remain contagious for up to 20 days, and can spread the virus even if they do not develop any symptoms.Several testing methods have been developed to diagnose the disease. The standard diagnostic method is by detection of the virus' nucleic acid by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR), transcription-mediated amplification (TMA), or by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) from a nasopharyngeal swab.
Preventive measures include physical or social distancing, quarantining, ventilation of indoor spaces, covering coughs and sneezes, hand washing, and keeping unwashed hands away from the face. The use of face masks or coverings has been recommended in public settings to minimize the risk of transmissions.
While work is underway to develop drugs that inhibit the virus (and several vaccines for it have been approved and distributed in various countries, which have since initiated mass vaccination campaigns), the primary treatment is symptomatic. Management involves the treatment of symptoms, supportive care, isolation, and experimental measures.
For the guys in NOT-WASHINGTON.
I bought this mid covid. Put a dead air xeno FH on it and put it on a lower. Never fired it. It has a few marks from lightly bumping into other items in my safe.
I would prefer to keep the xeno and ship it with the factory flash hider, pictured with it. I have...
Yes it did. For me, the Covid event began in Feb. 2020. We were going on a trip and having just heard about Covid in China, I suggested to Mrs. Merkt that we wear masks through the airports. She said, "Oh, those look so weird. I'm not wearing a mask." So I caved and didn't either. By the...
What a F’ing season this has turned out to be.
114 lingering in the background, what a cluster F!
Kids got a double ear infection and pneumonia.
I’ve got one ear infection and likely the flu or Covid.
Wife’s got the flu or Covid, has not confirmed ear infection.
Kid and I had pink eye...
My brother and his wife live in South Florida, she works for an international shipping company out of Boca Raton
her and my brother had all their shots for Covid and the strains of Flu know in the US
THEN, she's sent to Dubai for a month - came back and gave my brother the DUBAI FLU
then she...
I’m on day six of Covid. I got a couple of jabs after my wife’s son died of Covid in December.
I’m 75 and in good health but considered high risk because of my age. I decided to seek treatment since I had a fever and other symptoms. My primary concern was fear of the virus attacking my lungs...
Where is this at right now?
Ive seen some conflicting information and, of course, Google results wont return anything perceived as anti-jab
SO, for a recent HS grad enlisting... is it mandatory?
Pelosi is scheduled to visit Japan this weekend. There was also talk of her visiting Taiwan after Japan. But China gave a stern warning on Thursday that it would take strong measures if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan and said such a visit would severely impact...
As has been noted since the beginning of Covid, available empirical literature did not support the slew of behavioral mandates imposed by governors and CDC on the American people. Further, oppositional voices calling for a reasonable discussion about the efficacy of mandates were repeatedly...
Saw this on another board, please email and forward.
ACTION REQUIRED
The Washington State Board of Health (WSBOH) will be taking comments regarding proposals being considered at their January 12th meeting.
The WSBOH will consider making Covid-19 shots mandatory for school admission and...
Working-Age Deaths Up Whopping 40% and NOT Just From COVID, Says Life Insurance CEO
“What we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” Davison said in a virtual news conference just before the New...
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/30/1069062738/more-than-a-million-americans-have-died-from-overdoses-during-the-opioid-epidemi
Maybe we should make drugs illegal.
This question is for those who have been clearly exposed to somebody with covid but did not get other typical covid symptoms:
After you were exposed to the person(s) with covid did you have any kind of problems with your toes or fingers? Look up "covid toe" to see types of toe problems that are...