Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tea_drinker]

According to an expert I heard speaking on the radio there are plenty of testing facilities that are not being used by the government. This leads me to wonder what they are up to? More incompetence or is it a deliberate ploy to avoid or cover up more bad news?

 

[jamieni]

According to an expert I heard speaking on the radio there are plenty of testing facilities that are not being used by the government. This leads me to wonder what they are up to? More incompetence or is it a deliberate ploy to avoid or cover up more bad news?

There is quite a high bar to get tested if you aren’t a key worker, so I imagine maybe the demand isn’t there to some extent as people feel they can’t come forward and ask for a test.

 

[blue61]

The pubs will be open by August surely

Let's hope so, but please don't call me shirley.
awaits positive rep for classic joke response

 

[Goat]

According to an expert I heard speaking on the radio there are plenty of testing facilities that are not being used by the government. This leads me to wonder what they are up to? More incompetence or is it a deliberate ploy to avoid or cover up more bad news?

Sheer incompetence.

I read a story from a nurse that said she would have to make a 4 hour round trip, after working 12 hour shifts just to get tested.

 

[Cool_Blue]

Have you thought about walking over the road and speaking to them about it? You could explain why the father taking one of the teenagers out in a car for an hour made you feel that you and other people were put at unacceptable risk.

Pretty sure if I did that I’d get a two word reply, the second word being ‘off’ lol
I’m not that arsed tbh, if they catch anything, that’s their problem. I’m staying well clear.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Goat]

Less people working, less stressed out people, less heart attacks.

Now I know people have a different kind of stress now, like paying bills and the health of their family, but I dunno.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Read an article before that if someone tests positive for the virus at the time of their death they are included in the statistics / covid is put on the death certificate - is this true or fake news?

Depending on how widespread this thing is God knows how many folk have died with it in their system but not actually from the virus.

We are so in the dark with this thing its crazy.

 

[Catfish Blues]

I read a story from a nurse that said she would have to make a 4 hour round trip, after working 12 hour shifts just to get tested.

If someone's doing shifts then, until / unless they start testing staff without symptoms, there's surely no way they'd be tested ? Far as I know, they're still only testing staff with symptoms.

Granted, it'd still be a four hour round trip, which isn't great, but it does put it into context a bit.

 

[Goat]

Read an article before that if someone tests positive for the virus at the time of their death they are included in the statistics / covid is put on the death certificate - is this true or fake news?

Depending on how widespread this thing is God knows how many folk have died with it in their system but not actually from the virus.

We are so in the dark with this thing its crazy.

As far as im aware covid 19 is not a cause of death and probably isnt written on any death certificate.

By the same token they dont put Old age or died in a car crash on death certificates, cos they arent the cause of death.

 

[wm02]

Can definitely attest to this being the case recently here in Maryland. Our son was born about two-and-a-half weeks ago and spent five days in the NICU. The ER was empty for the whole week he was at the hospital

 

[Catfish Blues]

Read an article before that if someone tests positive for the virus at the time of their death they are included in the statistics / covid is put on the death certificate - is this true or fake news?

Depending on how widespread this thing is God knows how many folk have died with it in their system but not actually from the virus.

We are so in the dark with this thing its crazy.

6000 extra deaths above average for the last week ( 16k against an average of 10k ) that ONS published suggests the official COVID-19 figures are understating, rather than overstating it.

The number of deaths recorded that week were the most ever recorded since records started getting collected in the current way, so the highest in about 15 years, and it's nailed on that the data due to be released this week won't be any better.

Anyone that thinks this isn't as serious as the numbers suggest is deluding themselves.

As far as im aware covid 19 is not a cause of death and probably isnt written on any death certificate.

COVID is being recorded on death certificates.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Suppression of COVID-19 outbreak in the municipality of Vo’, Italy

On the 21st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo’, a small town near Padua, died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection[1][1]. This was the first COVID-19 death detected in Italy since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province[2][2]. In response...

www.medrxiv.org

On the 21st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo, a small town near Padua, died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This was the first COVID-19 death detected in Italy since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province. In response, the regional authorities imposed the lockdown of the whole municipality for 14 days. We collected information on the demography, clinical presentation, hospitalization, contact network and presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasopharyngeal swabs for 85.9% and 71.5% of the population of Vo at two consecutive time points.

On the first survey, which was conducted around the time the town lockdown started, we found a prevalence of infection of 2.6% (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.1-3.3%). On the second survey, which was conducted at the end of the lockdown, we found a prevalence of 1.2% (95% CI 0.8-1.8%).

Notably, 43.2% (95% CI 32.2-54.7%) of the confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections detected across the two surveys were asymptomatic. The mean serial interval was 6.9 days (95% CI 2.6-13.4). We found no statistically significant difference in the viral load (as measured by genome equivalents inferred from cycle threshold data) of symptomatic versus asymptomatic infections (p-values 0.6 and 0.2 for E and RdRp genes, respectively, Exact Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test).

Contact tracing of the newly infected cases and transmission chain reconstruction revealed that most new infections in the second survey were infected in the community before the lockdown or from asymptomatic infections living in the same household. This study sheds new light on the frequency of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and their infectivity (as measured by the viral load) and provides new insights into its transmission dynamics, the duration of viral load detectability and the efficacy of the implemented control measures.

 

[Goat]

Suppression of COVID-19 outbreak in the municipality of Vo’, Italy

On the 21st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo’, a small town near Padua, died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection[1][1]. This was the first COVID-19 death detected in Italy since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province[2][2]. In response...

www.medrxiv.org

On the 21st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo, a small town near Padua, died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This was the first COVID-19 death detected in Italy since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province. In response, the regional authorities imposed the lockdown of the whole municipality for 14 days. We collected information on the demography, clinical presentation, hospitalization, contact network and presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasopharyngeal swabs for 85.9% and 71.5% of the population of Vo at two consecutive time points.

On the first survey, which was conducted around the time the town lockdown started, we found a prevalence of infection of 2.6% (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.1-3.3%). On the second survey, which was conducted at the end of the lockdown, we found a prevalence of 1.2% (95% CI 0.8-1.8%).

Notably, 43.2% (95% CI 32.2-54.7%) of the confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections detected across the two surveys were asymptomatic. The mean serial interval was 6.9 days (95% CI 2.6-13.4). We found no statistically significant difference in the viral load (as measured by genome equivalents inferred from cycle threshold data) of symptomatic versus asymptomatic infections (p-values 0.6 and 0.2 for E and RdRp genes, respectively, Exact Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test).

Contact tracing of the newly infected cases and transmission chain reconstruction revealed that most new infections in the second survey were infected in the community before the lockdown or from asymptomatic infections living in the same household. This study sheds new light on the frequency of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and their infectivity (as measured by the viral load) and provides new insights into its transmission dynamics, the duration of viral load detectability and the efficacy of the implemented control measures.

Those infection numbers are insane, it really does seem like a lottery, a lottery if you get it, a lottery if you get symptoms and a lottery if you die.

I know some things improve the risks of the last thing, but everything else just seems so random.

 

[blulouie]

The pubs will be open by August surely