SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Sassy Colin

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@Sassy Colin will get the virus in a month and he'll have very mild symptoms. He will then post on here about now there's nothing to worry about and the seasonal flu is 100 times worse, obviously. All this whilst I'm in a makeshift tent on life support with my lungs riddled by corona with no one by my bedside because everyone I know is already dead. The fecker.
This is a very believable scenario. RIP for next month :(
 

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Bloody hell, the markets have started falling :(. Thats my liquidity killed for the next 6 months. Its even worse than when the H1N1 virus hit.
Why would you put money that you need within 6 months in stocks?
 

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Apparently if you don't have insurance, the cost of testing in the US is $3000. Take into account that the vast majority of uninsured are in low paying service jobs where they will be in contact with the public and Americas tradition of guilting employees to come into work... They are fecked.
Then you factor in the high obesity rates in the US and the correlation with diabetes and hypertension.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-so...na-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

Mortality increases with age, with the highest mortality among people over 80 years of age(CFR 21.9%). The CFRis higher among males compared to females (4.7% vs. 2.8%). By occupation, patients who reported being retirees had the highest CFRat 8.9%. While patients who reported no comorbid conditions had a CFRof 1.4%, patients with comorbid conditions had much higher rates: 13.2% for those with cardiovascular disease, 9.2% for diabetes, 8.4% for hypertension, 8.0% for chronic respiratory disease, and 7.6% for cancer.
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I find that bizarre (obviously coming from the UK I have no experience of your situation) because surely it's a Societal issue. Surely it's in the best interests of government and community to test suspect cases?
I think this thread best explains the unique situation in the US....

 

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Apparently if you don't have insurance, the cost of testing in the US is $3000. Take into account that the vast majority of uninsured are in low paying service jobs where they will be in contact with the public and Americas tradition of guilting employees to come into work... They are fecked.
This is why Covid 19 potentially blowing up in the US is somewhat of a interest to me,horrible as it is.:nervous:
 

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I think this thread best explains the unique situation in the US....

One or two items jumped out to me. Someone stated it cost them $1400 to get tested. Then that Hospital tests were ineffective and the USA would have no idea of true numbers of infections in any case for your money.
 

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I really timed my trip to Milan well, left on the 14th. NHS are confident I haven't got it as they say it's only after the 19th but I'm playing safe and staying in for a few days (as don't start my new job till week after next).
 

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Could they also suspend all the flights from Korea please? I'm leaving Manchester for good on Sunday to return to my home in London which just so happens to have the highest density of Koreans outside of Korea.
 

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Meanwhile Italy has been finding that immediately tested cases proving positive have then been found to be negatives when tested at Govt. Labs.

The politicians are going hopping mad because we may not have been the worst Banana Republic in Europe after all!
 

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Could they also suspend all the flights from Korea please? I'm leaving Manchester for good on Sunday to return to my home in London which just so happens to have the highest density of Koreans outside of Korea.
Good news for Manchester, bad news for London, even worse news for Koreans.
 

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Meanwhile Italy has been finding that immediately tested cases proving positive have then been found to be negatives when tested at Govt. Labs.

The politicians are going hopping mad because we may not have been the worst Banana Republic in Europe after all!
Of the last batch that have been confirmed only a handful were wrong.

Some of the confusion in Italy has been down to provinces all releasing conflicting data, then retracting some of it, then republishing etc. In the last couple of days the government has put a stop to all that and is now releasing countrywide figures at 6pm each day.
 

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Of the last batch that have been confirmed only a handful were wrong.

Some of the confusion in Italy has been down to provinces all releasing conflicting data, then retracting some of it, then republishing etc. In the last couple of days the government has put a stop to all that and is now releasing countrywide figures at 6pm each day.
The issue is that they could count the triplicate forms twice or three times too!
 

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This is why Covid 19 potentially blowing up in the US is somewhat of a interest to me,horrible as it is.:nervous:
Tests will be free because would be of public interest to minimize an epidemic. The issue here and in Europe would be if they are prepared to test so many people... hint: Don't buy the Chinese test kits :nono:
 

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Why are people getting so hysterical about this?

The flu kills thousands every year and we never get this fuss.

For the vast majority of people, you feel a bit shit for a few days, you move on.
Seasonal flu has 0.1% morality rate. If it was 3-4% you'd see a real mass hysteria
 

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I really timed my trip to Milan well, left on the 14th. NHS are confident I haven't got it as they say it's only after the 19th but I'm playing safe and staying in for a few days (as don't start my new job till week after next).
I had a similar experience - flew back from Turin on the 16th. I took one day off work in self isolation while I was waiting for a callback from the NHS to give me the green light. Better safe than sorry.
 

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Girlfriend of a patient zero in Croatia showed positive only after third test (first two were negative and they almost let her go from hospital). A bit strange.

Italy is definitely a worry atm. The number of people infected is growing fast. I found relief in learning it generally avoids children. However, concern is definitely with those who are older or having some immune problems already. Hoping warm wheather that is coming will reduce it.
 

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Colin looks like a man who enjoys a corona or two. I bet even buys limes and cuts them into wedges so he can put them in his bottle.
He's probably got measuring equipment with him to cut a 16th of the lime to perfectly fit into the bottle. That meticulous bastard.
 

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Girlfriend of a patient zero in Croatia showed positive only after third test (first two were negative and they almost let her go from hospital). A bit strange.

Italy is definitely a worry atm. The number of people infected is growing fast. I found relief in learning it generally avoids children. However, concern is definitely with those who are older or having some immune problems already. Hoping warm wheather that is coming will reduce it.
821 in total as of today in Italy, an increase of 171 which is actually better than yesterday. 21 dead although still to be determined how many of them died because of the virus as all were old and/or already ill.

A couple of the worst affected hospitals are starting to struggle with space now.
 

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I wish there was a ”positive corona news” thread or site somewhere.
Not a site saying ”its nothing, its the flu, ect” but a place you could go if you was down or worried who gathered the ”positive” news.
I would like that.
 

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I wish there was a ”positive corona news” thread or site somewhere.
Not a site saying ”its nothing, its the flu, ect” but a place you could go if you was down or worried who gathered the ”positive” news.
I would like that.
I’m glad there isn’t.