Pneumonia can be deadly. Many numbers of people afflicted with Novel Coronavirus will find themselves needing help to breathe. Unfortunately, there will be a period of time in which those services are in short supply. Normally, respiratory distress is a call to the hospital, but if...
"Viral load" is the measure of how many viruses are in and on a given bodily tissue. The "infectious dose" is the minimum required to create an infection, which could be as few as 10-100 viral particles, if it's like many other viruses. Sometimes, when it comes to ini...
"One slide in a leaked presentation for US hospitals reveals that they're preparing for millions of hospitalizations as the outbreak unfolds" (business insider)
Novel Coronavirus, aka SARS-nCoV2, is upon us. There is no mistake about it, the time to be prepared is now. I have been following this story since the first few accounts came out of China in late December.
Until now I have been careful about disclosing this, but by now you deserve...