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hdjrorkdkon Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize (2019)

I have an oxygen concentrator, a CPAP/APAP machine and a finger oxymeter. Do you maybe have any links to a crash course into how to use them as an improvised non invasive ventilator, more specifically on how to decide what pressure to use, or maybe can suggest some relevant keywords?

hdjrorkdkon Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country

Don't jinx it. Bird flu (H5N1) is like that, 50% mortality, luckily it failed to gain human to human transmission.

hdjrorkdkon Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country

Way too soon for that, but it will be investigated in the future.

hdjrorkdkon Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?

Not all flus are alike. Some, like H5N1 or Swine Flu were investigated and tracked in great detail, to the point of individual transmission chains.