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Same in China, escalating to coincide with the mass travel for Lunar New Year.
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Yes, I'm delighted to know that 80% will only have mild symptoms (that's my children/grandchildren, hopefully) but mild or not they are still potential infection carriers to the more vulnerable age groups (me and the wife).
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Interview with Italian specialist. Coronavirus in Italia, Massimo Galli: "Uno tsunami sul sistema sanitario" - Corriere.it WWW.CORRIERE.IT L’infettivologo Galli: «Siamo in piena emergenza, sono preoccupato. Probabilmente dietro tutti i pazienti gravi ce ne sono altrettanti infetti ma meno gravi»
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I'm sure I read some of the Italian cases were also post mortem ... another reason for seeming high CFR.
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I see a leading Alzheimer therapist has died in Italy. No long stay in ICU there, maybe patients arriving in critical condition and passing quickly are changing the ratios we have been used to seeing in China. https://en24.news/u/2020/03/he-was-among-the-leading-alzheimer-experts-in-italy-he-treated-the-sick-with-doll-therapy.html
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Tornado in downtown Nashville, TN
Gael_Force replied to toggerob's topic in Weather Around The World
Looks to be some quite substantial buildings that are just rubble ... maybe stronger than EF3 on the scale? -
He would have been nowhere near confirmed cases but it is an appalling example of defective leadership. Whatever the standard of reporting, he may well have inadvertently shaken hands with someone asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. This could happen to anyone, anywhere ... telling the public not to shake hands is a pointless exercise if the PM is not going to promote and adhere to advice.
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Yes, recent paper dated the genetic sequencing back to mid October and nothing to do with the wet market. How do they work that out, fascinating science and way beyond my comprehension.
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You could wait it out and see if Ryanair cancel flight due to seats not sold or other restrictions. A lot can happen in a week with this fast moving situation.
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I think it was telling when they discovered the community infection in California. Patient transferred from hospital with droplet protection in place but immediately transferred to negative pressure facility on diagnosis.
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Well, here's a thing... In Washington state, where cases have just been discovered in the community, a couple of hospitals are completely closed, medical staff and several teams of firefighters (patient transfer) are quarantined because they have unknowingly handled infected patients with covid-19. Do you not see a wider risk of death in communities where emergency front line personnel and premises have been taken off stream. A bit more lateral thinking is required !!
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Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)
Gael_Force replied to Summer Sun's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
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It's much easier to give advice to the elderly (mostly retired) to avoid travel/crowds/hospitals etc: they are not the economically active, apart from the money they spend. It's a different kettle of fish where the workforce are concerned ... how many have underlying health issues that don't preclude a few hours work. As it is similar to flu, I would personally opt for the premise that if you fit into the category of being offered free flu vaccine then you might be in a more at risk category.
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This is interesting in terms of can the cured still shed or has community infection gone undetected for weeks.
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Absolutely ... and the decline in ability of cells to repair the damage done. There was a chart showing the differences, over time, in the CT scans for young to old... everybody had patches on the lung (even those with no visible symptoms) ...the time it took to clear, if at all, increased with age.
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.... or maybe, even a bottle of perfume... No bio-hazard suited persons witnessed in the delivery of that one though many in evidence after the event.
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I think that first paragraph is badly worded: probably misquoting stats which have that percentage for Covid-19 severe cases. A look at the Italian stats show.... 821 cases, break down as follows... 412 asymptomatic or very mild at home 345 in hospital 64 in intensive care 21 deceased. (not counted in the 821 total) Half of their cases need hospitalisation ... that's a big additional load on a stretched (at best of times) NHS!
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Italians struggling for ICU beds in epicentre of outbreak. How the hell anyone thinks the NHS can cope is beyond me. Coronavirus: England only has 15 beds for worst respiratory cases | Society | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM NHS says system will struggle if more than 28 patients need artificial lung treatment
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Where politics can play a major role in disease management. SARS-CoV-2: Could it be bad? WWW.VIROLOGY.WS What does it mean when A CDC official says about the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad.”
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Saw this on the flu forum; posted by Italian doctor. It's going to make the CFR look horrendous. Regards reinfection or dormancy, Chinese are putting some of the cured back into a 'cured quarantine' status as quite a few testing positive on follow up checks.
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It's not easy reading but the following article tries to explain why Covid-19 is more like SARS than flu in the damage wrought to the body in severe cases. Here’s what coronavirus does to the body WWW.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM From blood storms to honeycomb lungs, here’s an organ-by-organ look at how COVID-19 harms humans.
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Storm Jorge named by AEMET (spain)
Gael_Force replied to Jo Farrow's topic in Storms & Severe Weather
Thought the idea behind naming was to get the name on hashtag to increase public awareness via social media. If the UK has a protocol and list of names the public expect, introducing a name from another country list is likely to cause confusion and defeat the purpose. -
I dread to think what the Red Top brigade will use in their headlines.... Being serious, it actually agrees with the Indian study which was pulled rather quickly. That's an ugly recipe but may offer more options for therapeutics. Coronavirus more likely than Sars to bond to human cells, scientists say WWW.SCMP.COM Research by team from Nankai University shows new virus has mutated gene similar to those found in HIV and Ebola.
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If borders were to be closed, the time to do it was weeks ago !! The disease is well bedded in; just took time and serious cases to identify it from seasonal ailments.
