Whooping Crabs posted:

Thinking about buying some primers to detect covid to perform self testing in my lab if I get sick, since I have all of the other reagents (qiagen rna extraction kits, reverse-transcriptase, and qpcr stuff)

Whooping Crabs posted:

Thinking about buying some primers to detect covid to perform self testing in my lab if I get sick, since I have all of the other reagents (qiagen rna extraction kits, reverse-transcriptase, and qpcr stuff)

poverty goat posted:

ive been testing people from craigslist for $1000 a pop and I don't even have any reagents

zer0spunk posted:

permission to now call this hanks disease?

AOCs Pink Pearl posted:

They better not freakin delay animal crossing

Mister Mind posted:

Uh oh.

https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1237909897020207104?s=21

mycomancy posted:

Traxis posted:

I have bursitis so my doc gave me a cortisone shot and prescribed prednisone, I'm going to die aren't I?

Traxis posted:

I have bursitis so my doc gave me a cortisone shot and prescribed prednisone, I'm going to die aren't I?

Whooping Crabs posted:

primers: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-panel-primer-probes.html
assay: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-detection-instructions.html

I don't have a positive control but I can still confirm that my sample was good using RP primers. Going to order the oligos now, hopefully they will be here in a couple of days.

fishing with the fam posted:

125,000 infected

Fojar38 posted:

Also restricting all travel from Europe is, uh, something

Rinkles posted:

is this just a panicked attempt to make it look like he's doing something?

Rad-daddio posted:

Hanx is canx

Fojar38 posted:

Also restricting all travel from Europe is, uh, something

QuoProQuid posted:

So, I've read the order, which is here, and what the order actually does is bar travel from certain immigrants who have been in the Schengen Zone within the last 14 days, with huge exemptions carved out.

Even if you accept the premise that shutting down borders is the US's largest priority right now, there's nothing stopping an American citizen from traveling back and forth to Italy. The order also doesn't cover the UK, which has one of the largest number of confirmed cases in Europe right now.

EDIT: The president also said in his speech that insurance companies had agreed to waive all co-pays for coronavirus-related treatment, which is apparently news to the insurance companies.

zer0spunk posted:

permission to now call this hanks disease?

Disgusting Coward posted:

I have/had the roni. Got my official Yep, You A Plaguebearer talk from a doc on the phone today - drat near a month after my poo poo got hosed up. My little plague dot should be appearing in the UK tomorrow.

First symptom I noticed was fairly severe muscular and joint pain. Went to the gym, felt like someone had worked me over after s fairly light weight session. Woke up the next day, headache - mostly caused by fatigue and how stiff my neck was, super sore, feeling pretty damned cozy. Mild nose dribblin', light chesty cough. Over the next couple days got hotter and hotter and coughier and coughier and sorer, with my kidneys in particular hurting like an absolute motherfucker. Went to my bed on the Friday, woke up very confused on the Sunday, havingnhad a couple days of weird nightmare and the occasional "oh poo poo I'm drowning" panicky wake up. Fever sweats a bitch, tightness of chest a weird and unfamiliar feeling, absolutely gently caress that poo poo. Started to feel better, had a couple days of "aigt, just a cold, business resumes" and then BAM, back to fever and coughing and sissy bitch breaths. Repeat a few times, woo woo.

The roni seems to jam the door open for any old poo poo to come in and party with it, cause I also got some weird joint swelling, a bad batch of pinkeye and some kinda weird eczema looking poo poo that I am having good fun itching. Lower back feels stiff and achey, and getting weird electric shock feelings in my left leg when I cough - which is fun with a persistent cough. Assume this is a trapped nerve or some poo poo?

Eventually a friend called NHS 24 or whatever it's called now, went to see a veeeeeery well protected doc in a spacesuit who swabbed and took blood and scraped my throat. Few days later which I guess was today, got the Big Speech. Self isolate, warn every motherfucker you know, don't loving go anywhere. Had already self isolated, bored as poo poo, mostly flopping around coughing and being tired. Found out if I sit in a hot bath it eases the ol' chest. Have no idea whatcday/time suits happened on, since the days are merging and my sleeps an bit jacked. Got a buddy bringing me groceries. Feeling betterish now - less about to die, but still weak and fragile. Went for a walk (I live in a rural area, I wasn't gonna meet anyone to infect don't worry) and was aghast at the ding my staminas taken. Walked a mile, slept like some fucker had tranquilized me. Still feel warm, and the cough randomly comes back, but feeling better. Bless you Papa Nurgle.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Out of respect, we should pay tribute to some of his more famous roles.

Like the Captain in Saving Private Ryan
and Trips Baxter from Radio Flyer.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Out of respect, we should pay tribute to some of his more famous roles.

Like the Captain in Saving Private Ryan
and Trips Baxter from Radio Flyer.

mycomancy posted:

For a positive control, just order a gBlock of the same size and GC% with the appropriate primer bindind sites. That should work.

Disgusting Coward posted:

Disgusting Coward posted:

I have/had the roni. Got my official Yep, You A Plaguebearer talk from a doc on the phone today - drat near a month after my poo poo got hosed up. My little plague dot should be appearing in the UK tomorrow.

First symptom I noticed was fairly severe muscular and joint pain. Went to the gym, felt like someone had worked me over after s fairly light weight session. Woke up the next day, headache - mostly caused by fatigue and how stiff my neck was, super sore, feeling pretty damned cozy. Mild nose dribblin', light chesty cough. Over the next couple days got hotter and hotter and coughier and coughier and sorer, with my kidneys in particular hurting like an absolute motherfucker. Went to my bed on the Friday, woke up very confused on the Sunday, havingnhad a couple days of weird nightmare and the occasional "oh poo poo I'm drowning" panicky wake up. Fever sweats a bitch, tightness of chest a weird and unfamiliar feeling, absolutely gently caress that poo poo. Started to feel better, had a couple days of "aigt, just a cold, business resumes" and then BAM, back to fever and coughing and sissy bitch breaths. Repeat a few times, woo woo.

The roni seems to jam the door open for any old poo poo to come in and party with it, cause I also got some weird joint swelling, a bad batch of pinkeye and some kinda weird eczema looking poo poo that I am having good fun itching. Lower back feels stiff and achey, and getting weird electric shock feelings in my left leg when I cough - which is fun with a persistent cough. Assume this is a trapped nerve or some poo poo?

Eventually a friend called NHS 24 or whatever it's called now, went to see a veeeeeery well protected doc in a spacesuit who swabbed and took blood and scraped my throat. Few days later which I guess was today, got the Big Speech. Self isolate, warn every motherfucker you know, don't loving go anywhere. Had already self isolated, bored as poo poo, mostly flopping around coughing and being tired. Found out if I sit in a hot bath it eases the ol' chest. Have no idea whatcday/time suits happened on, since the days are merging and my sleeps an bit jacked. Got a buddy bringing me groceries. Feeling betterish now - less about to die, but still weak and fragile. Went for a walk (I live in a rural area, I wasn't gonna meet anyone to infect don't worry) and was aghast at the ding my staminas taken. Walked a mile, slept like some fucker had tranquilized me. Still feel warm, and the cough randomly comes back, but feeling better. Bless you Papa Nurgle.

Disgusting Coward posted:

I have/had the roni. Got my official Yep, You A Plaguebearer talk from a doc on the phone today - drat near a month after my poo poo got hosed up. My little plague dot should be appearing in the UK tomorrow.

First symptom I noticed was fairly severe muscular and joint pain. Went to the gym, felt like someone had worked me over after s fairly light weight session. Woke up the next day, headache - mostly caused by fatigue and how stiff my neck was, super sore, feeling pretty damned cozy. Mild nose dribblin', light chesty cough. Over the next couple days got hotter and hotter and coughier and coughier and sorer, with my kidneys in particular hurting like an absolute motherfucker. Went to my bed on the Friday, woke up very confused on the Sunday, havingnhad a couple days of weird nightmare and the occasional "oh poo poo I'm drowning" panicky wake up. Fever sweats a bitch, tightness of chest a weird and unfamiliar feeling, absolutely gently caress that poo poo. Started to feel better, had a couple days of "aigt, just a cold, business resumes" and then BAM, back to fever and coughing and sissy bitch breaths. Repeat a few times, woo woo.

The roni seems to jam the door open for any old poo poo to come in and party with it, cause I also got some weird joint swelling, a bad batch of pinkeye and some kinda weird eczema looking poo poo that I am having good fun itching. Lower back feels stiff and achey, and getting weird electric shock feelings in my left leg when I cough - which is fun with a persistent cough. Assume this is a trapped nerve or some poo poo?

Eventually a friend called NHS 24 or whatever it's called now, went to see a veeeeeery well protected doc in a spacesuit who swabbed and took blood and scraped my throat. Few days later which I guess was today, got the Big Speech. Self isolate, warn every motherfucker you know, don't loving go anywhere. Had already self isolated, bored as poo poo, mostly flopping around coughing and being tired. Found out if I sit in a hot bath it eases the ol' chest. Have no idea whatcday/time suits happened on, since the days are merging and my sleeps an bit jacked. Got a buddy bringing me groceries. Feeling betterish now - less about to die, but still weak and fragile. Went for a walk (I live in a rural area, I wasn't gonna meet anyone to infect don't worry) and was aghast at the ding my staminas taken. Walked a mile, slept like some fucker had tranquilized me. Still feel warm, and the cough randomly comes back, but feeling better. Bless you Papa Nurgle.

Picnic Princess posted:

Well this certainly has been an evening. Guess I'll just grab a hard drink and watch the world burn.

Crazyweasel posted:

Do you mind sharing age and general health prior to? My last thread to reality is that it “might not be that bad for my age range (under 30)” but wondering how true that is