Thanks for that. Good news for our business.
It is still flu season and people can get seriously ill and die from that.
On that topic, I have been wondering about how we are going to deal with the flu in the future. Until recently when the flu was suspected you were not tested or isolated unless if you end up at the hospital but with Covid19 having the same symptoms are we going to systematically test anyone that has flu symptoms? That would susbstantially increase labs workload.
No, restaurants were ordered to close. Takeaway was specifically allowed - if not the majority would go under within a fortnight. In fact a lot of restaurants that’d never normally do takeaway are now being forced to do so.
If you are going to worry about that, then you may as well worry about every single item of food you are getting from the shops too.
In the winter, flu is the obvious one. But pneumonia can have other origins - bacterial and viral - particularly for people with weakened immune systems or chronic conditions like COPD. Sometimes it's a complication (often the final complication) of a condition like MND.
I think the inability to breathe would be a dead giveaway
It certainly would. I don't know where we go from here without 10,000's of people dying in every major country in the world which will be a major catastrophe.
Same. My mother has serious health issues, so is classed 'extremely vulnerable', but doesn't buy anything online and near her the supermarket queues are massive.I'm fine myself, thanks, but having an absolute nightmare of a time with my mum who just won't behave. She's not taking this serious at all which is frustrating.
Any condition that brings on pneumonia will cause difficulty with breathing. So do conditions like asthma and many other respiratory conditions.
It's not. It happens with the flu too in particular among the older part of the population. Covid19 has nothing special in terms of symptoms, the only way to know if you have it is by testing.
That is what I thought when I saw this, too. The usual graphs or tables that take the numbers only nominal starting with x days did not really satisfy me.
Yea that's how i understood it and my employer understood it. Its what we were advising clients before we closed.
Probably needs to.
I think every lockdown will need to be ended in stages, can't just have everyone mingling together. It will probably end up being 3 months but with gradual relaxation from 4-6 weeks.
We’re operating but the offices have been closed to staff since Monday and everyone is WFH, how about you?
Maybe (given we're unlikely to have a safety tested vaccine for Covid19 within the year) we'll head down the opposite track - and look at mass vaccination with the best flu virus mix for next winter as an essential. That might reduce the routine burden of flu on hospitals and offer more breathing space.
More or less the same. Calls diverted to deal with clients.
You are probably onto something, I forgot about Flu vaccines. I also imagine that we are going to see improvements in the tests techniques with the goal of increasing volumes, the faster and easier it is to test people the easier it is to contain a pandemic. The good thing about this pandemic is that a lot of people now realize how much we need to improve in terms of logistics, we need to be better at collaborating and more efficient when it comes to get and share information(I include testing in information).
Thanks for posting.When it regards graphs about the development of the different countries I like the following:
The x-axis shows the confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabits, the y-axis the deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. The little numbers near the flags tell the number of days the cases have doubled recently.
I don't think you really get a second attempt at an Italian style lockdown. Obviously a lot of restrictions will remain and some could be brought back but trying to shut things down completely a second time would likely see social unrest and less compliance, in the same way that trying to maintain the first beyond a certain point would.
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That's how science works. You test things first, and then if the tests work you go "nice! Let's do it!" You say the tweet says it best, and you're right, but for the wrong reasons. This is how it's supposed to work:
Don't mean to be an ass but do you know how clinical trials work? Did you read the French study regarding the treatments?
Some Norwegian doctors have been prescribing it to themselves and their families and friends, which is a big no-no, particularly after the authorities made it a more restricted prescription to safeguard the supplies in case the trials turn out well (and obviously for people who actually already need it for other conditions). Some of them will hopefully be in a little bit of trouble.
This is what worries me. My sister said that if you wear gloves and then take the items out of the packaging and then wash your hands you should be ok.
I think it would be around now that we start to see results? 3 weeks after lockdown?
