So the number of deaths in the UK has gone up by 43% over the last 2 days. That's both depressing and frightening.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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What I mean is that the pubs aren't going to be opened if we are still in a situation where the health service would be overwhelmed by the remaining people in the country being infected.
They'll be one of the last to open. It would have to be closely managed but they could relax the restrictions in less populated areas first say.
If it takes a year then yes I think the pubs will stay closed for that long. The govt's priority is to save as many lives as possible and ensure the health services can cope. I don't think they'll just drop the restrictions if it means all hell will break lose as far as the health services are concerned regardless of how long it takes.
Rich people mainly.
I know you're taking a swipe, but Is there some truth in this? Ie are all the pro sport players that will have been tested be included in the stats, all the ones who pay Harley street type clinics be included? I might be naive, but I just find the positive numbers low when the 'average Joe' test must be been restricted to those most likely to have it.
Will, possibly.
Just had three ambulances up my street in Andalucia. And posts deleted by a 'scout'. Super.
France take the death numbers past 30k.
Wtf is going on with just three people recovered in Netherlands? Especially compared to Belgium who have similar number of confirmed cases.
I think she’s being quoted out of context. When I watched yesterday, she was responding to an implication that all of the WHO’s comments are directed specifically at the UK. The point she was making is that their guidance is very general and cannot possibly be tailored to the current situation in every country.
I wasn't being.
You're in SA yeah? Joburg as well? Be safe man. Remember confirmed does not equate to infected.
Ive absolutely no problem whatsoever with foreign workers and welcome them if we need them, however you’ve got to ask how we can’t fill 90k jobs at a time when businesses are shutting left right and centre.
It wouldn’t work like that with antibody testing - your body develops antibodies 7-10 days at best after contracting most common viruses, so it would effectively be testing if you’re immune or not.
Testing positive would basically mean you’re unlikely to contract the illness, since you’ve already had it. Testing negative (whilst asymptomatic), would just mean you’ve not caught it yet.
Testing negative (whilst symptomatic) would likely warrant another test, as you might just have not developed the antibodies yet.
Once again, this is all assuming we develop a high sensitivity and specificity test.
You've drawn the short straw getting this thread Grinner, I hope you money's gone up.
A lot of people wouldn't want to pick fruit, because it's minimum wage (if you're lucky) and hard outside work. Things may change.
We are only testing possible cases who are being admitted to hospital.
If I think a patient could manage at home, we’re not swabbing them, even if it’s a barn-door clinical diagnosis. This seems to solely be because we don’t have the facilities to run a large amount of tests, and would result in further delays in confirming admitted patients.
This is from an Egyptian:
May be applicable for much of the region, although Turkey, Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf states appear to be relatively transparent (Turkey after reporting nothing for ages) while the likes of Syria, Iraq and Yemen may be a little too chaotic right now for any kind of accurate surveying.
This is from an Egyptian:
May be applicable for much of the region, although Turkey, Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf states appear to be relatively transparent (Turkey after reporting nothing for ages) while the likes of Syria, Iraq and Yemen may be a little too chaotic right now for any kind of accurate surveying.
Some of these places almost certainly don't have the levels of testing required for semi-accurate numbers.
I think Bolsonaro is becoming politically isolated. Most governors are ignoring him and now a Federal Court forbade him from applying measures against social isolation.
This is from an Egyptian:
May be applicable for much of the region, although Turkey, Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf states appear to be relatively transparent (Turkey after reporting nothing for ages) while the likes of Syria, Iraq and Yemen may be a little too chaotic right now for any kind of accurate surveying.
We’ve been extremely transparent (Kuwait) and have been dealing with it excellently. I can categorically say that public opinion of the government at the moment is by far the highest it’s been since I was born (I’m almost 30).
They’ve set up a website that gets updated daily:
https://corona.e.gov.kw/En/
https://covid19-survey.org/results.html
Interesting survey on how people think they and their governments have responded to the crisis.
Interesting survey on how people think they and their governments have responded to the crisis.
He is ridiculous, he makes Trump look like Einstein. Very upset for Brazil.
Interesting that this is a NI thing rather than a UK thing.
I was playing around with the data earlier and you can see it here as a graph or table, and switch between total cases, active cases and deaths. It's those 4 European countries + USA, Iran and South Korea for balance.
SA, yes... Langebaan, WC.
Pretty nervous times. Hang in there! In the next day or two we'll see the effects of the Wed/Thu mass gatherings in shops.
Is there going to be a public announcement?
Sure Boris said that was the plan didnt he.
The UK acted too late.
It's so sad but many will die
At the risk of sounding an idiot, if you are turning away 'barn-door' cases from testing, and only testing those who are been admitted in to hospital becasue they are suspected of having it, and deemed so serious they need hospital care, then why are 80 % plus testing negative, what are they actually suffering from instead?
https://www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/news/executive-approves-new-powers-protect-public
Details on Northern Ireland
Details on Northern Ireland
For a large part it's people with complications due to the flu.
A 50 year old with no past medical history presenting with the symptoms, a classic CXR and the expected blood results is 99% COVID-19.
An 80 year old with several comorbidities including severe COPD is more complex - for example, it’s difficult to tell from the scans and bloods whether it’s only a bacterial pneumonia that’s causing the increased O2 requirement, or whether there’s a super-added viral infection that’s kicked it off.