[HN Gopher] A Doctor's Dark Year
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A Doctor's Dark Year
Author : wglb
Score : 41 points
Date : 2021-04-21 19:44 UTC (1 days ago)
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| mrlagmer wrote:
| It is interesting to read stuff like this. We never had it bad in
| Australia so when you read something like this it makes you
| thankful for how we have handled it. Amazing that we will have
| 80,000 people at a football game on Sunday.
| decafninja wrote:
| The Asian countries that fared relatively well -
| Taiwan/Japan/Korea/etc.etc. - I guess you could chalk it up to
| cultural differences, but what and how did Australia, a
| "Western" country that I reckon is culturally more similar to
| the USA and Europe than to say, Japan or Korea, do so well and
| differently vs. the USA? Correct me if wrong, but Aussie
| culture has an individualistic streak like the USA too, doesn't
| it?
| vmception wrote:
| Geography, topology, authoritative control, non-porous border
| which was closed, mandatory two week quarantine for any
| exception
| rvn1045 wrote:
| + a small population of 25 million
| taxicabjesus wrote:
| One speculation I've read is that Australian/Japan/New
| Zealand's very-bad 2019 flu season was SARS-CoV-2 before it
| could be diagnosed. My understanding was that most cases of
| "flu" are suspected, not laboratory-confirmed.
|
| Just found this October 4, 2019 NY Times story: _Australia Just
| Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S.,_
| https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/health/flu-australia-amer...
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| From this NY times article: "This year's Australian outbreak
| began in April [2019], two months earlier than usual, and
| persisted into October."
|
| COVID-19 Cases in the US probably started November-ish.
| COVID-19 was found in US blood samples from December 2019.
|
| I had a day with an odd headache sometime around December 2019
| or January 2020. I suspect I had a case of #EarlyCovid. Lots of
| other people in North America were super-sick in
| November/December 2019 and January 2020. Others have been using
| the hashtag for longer than I:
| https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EarlyCovid
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| Edit: At least 4 downvotes in 16 minutes. This indicates many
| of you do not believe could SARS-CoV-2 could have been
| spreading before it was isolated in Wuhan China in December
| 2019, or that I and many others might have had a case of non-
| diagnosed SARS-CoV-2 before tests became available in the US in
| March 2020.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...
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| "A September 2020 review noted "The possibility that the
| COVID-19 infection had already spread to Europe at the end of
| last year is now indicated by abundant, even if partially
| circumstantial, evidence", including pneumonia case numbers and
| radiology in France and Italy in November and December.[8]" -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...
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| What does it mean if the COVID-19 timeline is wrong?
| projectileboy wrote:
| I'm not totally sure why you're being downvoted, it's an
| interesting question. My niece in Seattle had a very bad
| "flu" for about three weeks early last year, well before the
| initial wave in the Pacific Northwest. I hope we will
| eventually learn a bit more about how and where this started
| and how and where it spread, so that we can do a better job
| next time. (Putting aside the obvious ways the US and other
| parts of the world chose to deny reality, there still is much
| to learn.)
| bengale wrote:
| I tend to find the overuse of the word hero bothers me, but I
| don't know what other word would describe people like this.
| pmiller2 wrote:
| This would be a correct usage, not a performative usage like
| corporations calling grocery store workers "heroes" because
| they have to go to work or lose jobs they depend on.
| raunak wrote:
| https://archive.is/hEoUL
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Doctors always see people at their sickest and most fragile. I'm
| not sure I could do it, but it's what they sign up for.
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