I might visit Bologna in a few weeks. Keep it all bottled up in Venice please.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Planning on going to Spain in July. You reckon it'd be wise to book tickets now or around July?
If this peaks in summer there will be no Euros or will they simply be played behind closed doors?
I don't know but imagine Liverpool winning the title and lifting the trophy in an empty stadium.
I thought warm weather killed off viruses like this.
It's all pretty horrible right now but I can't imagine they will win the Euros.
Best to wait... You might be dead by june
As far as I’m aware they travel through the air easier in cold weather but are still apparent in warmer weather. Some predictions claim the peak will be some time soon but others say May - August.
All the schools in Vietnam are closed. Much of villages that border China have been quarantined. Take care and stay safe.
There are strong rumours that the disease is more virulent in Iran.
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The mortality figures seem out if kilter but I would caveat
There may be differences in what's classified as an infection
People may not be reporting with mild cases
It's still low numbers so high margin or error
Not sure what the medical system is like there (sanctions etc)
I've heard it in this video and also it was mentioned on CNBC yesterday that the virus possibly mutated.
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Wow, that's incredible. We're not dealing with a virus anymore... We're dealing with a monster.
I'm afraid it will be here soon. How can I protect myself and my family from it
You can't... Beyond the normal practical steps of wash hands don't touch face and don't go out more than necessary
It's a virus that people can carry and transmit for up to 2 weeks without symptoms... Think of every door handle or hand rail you have touched in the last 2 weeks and who else might have... Think of every time you have been in a room at close proximity to somebody who coughed - think about your kids at school.
I've been through 6 major international airports in the last 2 weeks - honestly there is no way of keeping track of everything / everybody who might have come into contact with somebody who might have come into contact with somebody who might have it
Basically practice good hygiene as much as is practicably possible make sure if you get ill remember it's probably just a cold anyway and even if not it's a low mortality rate and follow medical advice
This is okay for me but I'm more worried about my baby. She will have to remain in a single room, I guess.
Children have lowest mortality rates out of all age groups so don't worry too much. Something like 0.2% so it's an extremely low fatality rate.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
Again, I'd suggest watching all his videos relating to Covid19, he explains the precautionary measures one can take amongst a lot of other good information.
So far kids have been relatively unaffected I think
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/11...s-to-be-sparing-one-group-of-people-kids.html
And given its probably a year to a workable vaccine then keeping them in a room probably isn't practical
My son goes back to school next week and he has a cough... He's half Chinese so yeah I suspect everybody is gonna be bricking it (even though he hasn't been to China for over a year)
But he ways comes back with whatever the latest illness is from school so I'm kinda resigned to the fact that in the balance of probability hee likley to catch it at some point
My city has just been declared the center for treatment for all diagnosed cases in Lombardy (highest incidence of the virus in Italy/Europe). They've shut down the hospital and all university structures, and they're sending all existing patients to hospitals nearby, in preparation of all incoming covid-19 cases. Milan had their first case recently, won't be long before a bunch more there and in my city become symptomatic and are brought over for treatment. I was supposed to graduate in two weeks but nobody knows what to expect anymore.
Yeah read that Milan just had its second case. Stay safe man.
Absolute nightmare... it's fecking horrible feeling, really depresses me if I'm honest.
I just wish we had governments who had acted with this and properly shut it down when the opportunity was there.
I wonder how this will affect the psyche of the Western world? In Britain we're already going mad with Brexit etc. People are gonna be going nuts with this as well...
I wanna start wearing facemask as soon as it's even vaguely acceptable to do so... just don't wanna look like a nutter while everyone else is walking 'round without one.
Where is that?
Italy
Pavia, 30ish Kms south of Milan.
me too, think i will start soon.
My family lives in Veneto. feck!
I read that there's been one death in Padova, an elderly man who was already in hospital with other illnesses. I think he's the only death so far.
Ah ok, I'm north of Milan. They brought one here from Lodi.
Keep Oates locked up in his room just in case.
You evil ageist Boomer, you.
A 76 year old lady passed away today, if I remember correctly. The risk of mortality in those below 50 years of age is basically negligible. Older people are at higher risk due to weaker immune systems and comorbidities.
Let's hope it doesn't get into North Korea, where the leadership will either deny its existence entirely (allowing everybody to get it) or claim triumphantly that they've bravely eradicated the virus by formulating their own vaccine within a day of it arriving.
North Korea is extremely isolated so I doubt it becomes a huge problem there if any. Would be ironic if the whole world gets fecked and NK becomes the safe country. Imagine that
Having just had a kidney transplant and taking very strong immunosuppressants, I sure feel ecstatic about all this news. Thankfully no cases in Colorado* and Florida.
*here in Colorado until the end of March for follow ups and one more operation
*here in Colorado until the end of March for follow ups and one more operation
76 infected in Italy, 2 deaths. the situation now out of control, with an exponential increase rate
But I think Italy are making more controls now than other countries for this reason there are so many who results infected
10 cities isolated now, postponed inter and Atalanta matches
But I think Italy are making more controls now than other countries for this reason there are so many who results infected
10 cities isolated now, postponed inter and Atalanta matches
Wonder whether they can provide testing kits for the public? Really poor from the men and women in charge. They've let it spread like a wild fire. Anyone coming out of China should have been tested ages ago.
For the population in Lombardy, if anyone feels like they've got any kind of symptoms, they've been informed not to go to their GP or into A&E, but to call a hotline and an emergency team is supposed to show up at their home within minutes to perform a quick diagnostic test that confirms/denies the infection within 4 hours.
And something like this should have been stated a while ago. We haven't taken this seriously, in my opinion. Being reaction rather than proactive.
The whole diamond princess debacle sums it up for me.