Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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For first time in Italy number of intensive care cases have decreased :) Lets hope that number rapidly drops as people recover.

Via the Ministry of Health: Covid-19, the cases in Italy at 6 pm on April 4th. Intensive care patients decrease. Excerpt from the Google translation:

As regards health monitoring relating to the spread of the new Coronavirus on the national territory, there are 124632 total cases in our country, at the moment 88274 people are positive for the virus.
20996 are healed.
There are 29010 patients hospitalized with symptoms, for the first time decreasing patients admitted to intensive care 3994 (74 units less than yesterday), while 88274 are in home isolation.
 
Twins born during pandemic named 'Corona and Covid' :D

A couple in India have named their twins born amid the global coronavirus pandemic Corona and Covid.

The siblings - a girl and a boy - were born to Preeti and Vinay Verma in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on 27 March during the ongoing nationwide lockdown, according to NDTV.

"The delivery happened after facing several difficulties and therefore, my husband and I wanted to make the day memorable," the twins' 27-year-old mother told news agency Press Trust of India.

She said the coronavirus was "dangerous and life-threatening", but the COVID-19 outbreak had also made people focus on sanitation, hygiene and instil other good habits.

"When the hospital staff also started calling the babies Corona and Covid, we finally decided to name them after the pandemic," she added.
The twins were born at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital in the state capital, Raipur.
 
Wonder if this thing has mutated?

Seems weird how at first it was only the elderly and those with underlying problems were dying now it seems everyone is fair game for this thing including kids/teenagers.
 
Wonder if this thing has mutated?

Seems weird how at first it was only the elderly and those with underlying problems were dying now it seems everyone is fair game for this thing including kids/teenagers.
Kids and teenagers can have underlying conditions too. The media seem very quick to say 19 year old dies of corona with no underlying conditions, they forget the word known, it should read 19 year old dies of corona with no known underlying conditions.
 
More and more medical institutes are coming out and speculating that the true infection rate of covid-19 could be much, much higher than teh confirmed cases.


"Italy: the real number of COVID-19 cases in the country could be 5,000,0000 (compared to the 119,827 confirmed ones) according to a study which polled people with symptoms who have not been tested, and up to 10,000,000 or even 20,0000,000 after taking into account asymptomatic cases, according to Carlo La Vecchia, a Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Statale di Milano University. "

Purely on an N=1 basis there was an episode of the BBC's Coronavirus Newscast last weekend where one of the hosts got their hands on an antibody test kit which came back with a positive reading, despite him being asymptomatic.

I suspect that I am not alone in thinking that some of these speculative assessments will ultimately prove closer to the truth than the number of confirmed cases.
 
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