Almost 4000 new cases today worldwide and 103 deaths. Mortality is lower thean 3.4% which is good news.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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The majority of kids at the schools in my area get picked up by grandparents and it just looks scary as hell.
Further clinical trials are required over the next several days before you can come to any reasonable conclusion.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-51777049
Largest jump in deaths in Italy, approximately 4.25% of those affected. Seems like they're still maintaining that the avg age is 81. Seems like Italy might have just got a bit unlucky with the demographic that was infected by it.
Largest jump in deaths in Italy, approximately 4.25% of those affected. Seems like they're still maintaining that the avg age is 81. Seems like Italy might have just got a bit unlucky with the demographic that was infected by it.
That's because we are only a few weeks in to it. We have not come across a virus in our lifetimes that spreads AND kills as effectively as this does. That's why everybody is taking it so seriously.
Ebola has a huge death rate, but it's too deadly. It doesn't spread well because everybody who has it gets very ill very quickly.
SARS had a high death rate but again didn't spread too well because people showed symptoms very quickly.
MERS the same.
The flu spreads incredibly well through all its different strains, but its not very deadly.
A common cold spreads to pretty much everybody, but almost nobody dies from it.
Swine flu in 2009 infected an estimated 1 billion people and killed 2-300,000. This coronavirus is both more deadly and more easily transmitted than that was.
Just had the wee baby running up to me, climb on to my knee to babble at me, and then sneeze right in my face. So, yeah, 100% confirmed that everyone in this house will be getting it at some point if he gets it. Still having to remind the other kids to stop touching his fecking face every three seconds in case they transmit it to him. I might just put him in a bubble until he turns 21.
I said elsewhere in the thread but the people infected (not just killed) in my town are all over 60. I don't know if it's not getting to younger people, they're not getting symptoms, or what, but the older demographics are definitely getting hit harder.
It doesn't have to do something as drastic as kill you to be a problem. I don't think anyone wants to spend two weeks being sick because of something that could be better controlled if it was taken seriously and cautiously.
The reality is that this will continue to spread like wildfire because nobody is willing to let the economy get hurt. The Great and Powerful Economy, Lord and God above to us all. That which should not be harmed. But feck those who would have otherwise been uninfected.
Sorry, don't know why I'm ranting on a Saturday morning.
fecking boomers, keeping everything to themselves.
But it’s not a flu is it? By saying it as such you are contributing to a lax society. Governments don’t shut down their countries for the flu, the fact that they do for this should speak volumes for how serious it should be taken.
No, it won’t take out the entire world but there will likely be tens of thousands of unlucky people dead by the time it’s run it’s course.
Think of this, some countries seem to have a wait and see policy — think how quickly it will spread based on these responses if it was a ‘global killer’. Scary thought, or it should be.
Ahhh we’re all grand then, you should tell Italy to open up its borders again and we can all go there for a hand-shaking party. You first
Unless you live under a rock, someone like this doctor should be taken for negligence if he’s passed it in despite knowing the risks
Your son goes to UCSB (my alma mater) iirc, doesn’t he? I believe all students are eligle to receive care at the student health center, regardless if they’re on an athletic scholarship or what insurance they may or may not have. At least that was the case when I was there many years ago.
they are getting it rough. I guess that speaks for the quality of the hospital system there
I assumed there'd be checks and balances to follow protocol in the case of outlier events like this, regardless of who is the president in charge.
The US government plans to take the Grand Princess to a “non-commercial port” where all the passengers and crew would be tested, however, President Donald Trump said on Friday he would prefer not to allow the passengers onto American soil.
“I like the numbers being where they are,” said Trump, who appeared to be explicitly acknowledging his political concerns about the outbreak: “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
This is a really stupid comment.
He's the guy who saw someone bleeding out and his only thought was "they've ruined that floor" isn't he? Compassion will not come into his thinking at all when it comes to any outbreak.
We just had a GP who returned from the US and felt sick but then went to work and treated 70 patients before getting tested. Guess what he had?
Yeah, this one appears to be in the Goldilocks zone, balancing infection rate and death rate to be the most dangerous.
Yes. Although everyone needs insurance of some sort. Just who pays the $3800 annual insurance varies, unless you get a waiver if your parent's insurance covers you.
How long since you were there?
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The UK is becoming like Mad Max as coronavirus takes hold.
Coronavirus: Hand sanitiser stolen from 80-year-old Age UK volunteer in Maidstone
"I'm a bit scared - I've got a bull'seye on my chest because of my age - if I get the illness I'm probably not going to survive."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidst...8eCHbrikugdFgq1A2FJYUg_JwwTnFDp0hXzO9XPrXucd4
Coronavirus: Hand sanitiser stolen from 80-year-old Age UK volunteer in Maidstone
"I'm a bit scared - I've got a bull'seye on my chest because of my age - if I get the illness I'm probably not going to survive."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidst...8eCHbrikugdFgq1A2FJYUg_JwwTnFDp0hXzO9XPrXucd4
Because you do this type of sh1t.
1200 workers were not evacuated. One company simply told its staff to work from home.
It was a completely different company that ALLEGEDLY told his small staff in Knightsbridge to take Cabs instead of the Tube.
I don’t know if you do it deliberately. But you often misrepresent things. Why?
Rather oddly it turns out that this was Missy Higgins's dad.
This is becoming quite a common story. We had one in my town where the doctor had a fever and a bad cough so went to the local A&E to spread it around a bit before he was diagnosed. If medical professionals aren't following advice the rest of us have no hope. There are multiple reports here in Italy of people escaping quarantine zones and running away from hospital isolation.
City of Austin canceled SXSW. E3 is probably next.
Shit’s getting real stateside.
Shit’s getting real stateside.
I wonder if we are too stupid to survive as a species?
There's been a couple major conferences cancelled. Experimental Biology (est 15000).
No idea how I'm misrepresenting anything? I'm taking facts as I see them and sharing them. Far too many of you are too quick to bury your head in the sand and brush this aside as nothing.
Diarrhea?
And for those that have beds nearby. Huge disparity from area to area. The hospitals tend to be clustered.
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Diabetes.
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The first kits were flawed and low in number. They couldn't be used. As new kits were developed they had to go through the fda approval process. I believe it took a while for emergency status and expedited approval to kick in. Without that, approval can take many months, even if submissions are perfect. Some locations likely set up "Homebrew" tests, but those will be low throughput and can't be used outside of the location that developed them.
Close but no cigar
I refer The Right Honorable Gentleman to my previous answer.
I refer The Right Honorable Gentleman to my previous answer.
In certain states but not all. For many, emergency room will be the only option.
For those who are near the poverty line and can barely afford a thing. $25k poverty line for a family of 4? For those in the wrong states, or those above the poverty line, they are screwed. Insurance could be as bad as half their income, depending on many factors.
I refer The Right Honorable Gentleman to my previous answer.