quote [ Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies ]

quote [ Spanish Flu hit Japan hard. Hundreds of thousands died. The government issued books and these posters to help people recognise and beat the virus ]

quote [ The exposure to virus x time formula is the basis of contact tracing. Anyone you spend greater than 10 minutes with in a face-to-face situation is potentially infected. Anyone who shares a space with you (say an office) for an extended period is potentially infected.
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Symptomatic people are not the only way the virus is shed. We know that at least 44% of all infections--and the majority of community-acquired transmissions--occur from people without any symptoms (asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people). ]

quote [ South Korean officials say that more than 116 people have tested positive for COVID-19 ?after having been cleared of it previously, Reuters reports.

There are plenty of caveats to South Korea?s plans, though. According to Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), the virus may have reactivated itself rather than the patients being re-infected. There?s also the possibility that early COVID-19 tests showed false positives. ]

quote [ If people are infectious before they fall sick, then everyone should wear face masks ?when going out in public, in one additional societal effort to slow the spread of the virus down,? says Thomas Inglesby of the John Hopkins Center for Health Security. ]

quote [ The prime minister, 55, was admitted to hospital in London with "persistent symptoms" on Sunday evening.

The Queen has been kept informed about Mr Johnson's health by No 10, according to Buckingham Palace.

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the prime minister was given oxygen late on Monday afternoon, before being taken to intensive care. ]

quote [ They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours. ]

quote [ The history of handwashing involves far more than a change in personal habits over time, but a shift in the understanding of the state?s role in public health. ]

quote [ You should perceive your entire family to function as a single individual unit; if one person puts themselves at risk, everyone in the unit is at risk. [?] If your son visits his girlfriend, and you later sneak over for coffee with a neighbor, your neighbor is now connected to the infected office worker that your son?s girlfriend?s mother shook hands with. [?] This is not a joke or a hypothetical. ]

quote [ Doctor groups are recommending testing and isolation for people who lose their ability to smell and taste, even if they have no other symptoms. ]