Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Britons will suffer health problems from Covid-19 for years, warn doctors
Survivors face post-traumatic stress and organ damage while even those not infected risk psychological side-effects
Underlines the huge challenges the NHS will face for some time to come. We have a responsibility to not unduly burden it in the coming years and take care of ourselves.
peteblue
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Britons will suffer health problems from Covid-19 for years, warn doctors
Survivors face post-traumatic stress and organ damage while even those not infected risk psychological side-effectswww.theguardian.com
Underlines the huge challenges the NHS will face for some time to come. We have a responsibility to not unduly burden it in the coming years and take care of ourselves.
I‘ve stopped drinking pints of pedigree and now only drink 500ml bottles of pedigree, every little helps.....
He’s still got loads of hardcore support. Similar to Trump in many ways. What could possibly change your mind about someone if you’ve backed them this far? Should he be forced out, his deputy is military and lots of people are scared of him getting in. Absolute shitshow there. I think it might end up worst hit globally.
That’s an excellent beer to be fair. That and Landlord are my favourites.
ForeverBlue92
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Dont know if the govt could still say help the businesses out with a percentage grant or something but surely anything is better than them being completely shut for months on end causing economic disaster?
OnlyBlueWillDo
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Lightweight...Pint glass, ice, 4 shots of vodka top up with cranberry juice, no hangover in the morning.
For a growing number of COVID-19 patients, symptoms last more than a month. Four young patients who've been sick 30-plus days say they're 'terrified.'
Several coronavirus patients whose symptoms won't go away say their families and colleagues are skeptical of their lingering illness.
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He said the CDC has been "very slow to update their guidance on symptoms."
"It's hard to say what percent of people have symptoms that last beyond two weeks, but we're definitely observing that as a not-uncommon phenomenon," he said. "The virus causes all kinds of inflammation and dysregulation in your body and it can take even longer, after you've cleared the virus, for all of those things to go back to normal."
I did drink about 8 beers and half a bottle of amaretto last night for some reason. I can confirm that I do have a hangover today.
Sorry. Coronavirus.
OnlyBlueWillDo
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Vodka and cranberry if you want the buzz with no fuss the next morning, all the big players know that.
All the gain, with no pain.
peteblue
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Yeah, but you forgot the umbrella......
ForeverBlue92
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Found this an interesting study on transmission from Taiwan who appear to have handled their outbreak well, their quarantine period is 14 days too.
Our analysis of close contacts to confirmed COVID-19 cases revealed a relatively short infectious period of COVID-19 and a higher transmission risk around the time of symptom onset of the index case, followed by a lower transmission risk at the later stage of disease. The observed decreasing transmission risk over time for COVID-19 was in striking contrast to the transmission pattern of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), in which the transmission risk remained low until after day 5 of symptom onset in the index cases.20 Our study and the study by Nishiura et al4 revealed a short serial interval of COVID-19, with a median of 4 to 5 days. In contrast, the mean serial interval of SARS was estimated to be 8.4 days in Singapore.20 The present contact tracing analysis suggested that the shorter serial interval of COVID-19 was due to the combination of early-stage transmission and a short period of infectiousness.
Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan
This study delineates the transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and evaluates the transmission risk at different exposure window periods before and after symptom onset.jamanetwork.com
The observed pattern of the secondary clinical attack rate over time was also consistent with the quantitative data of the SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding in upper respiratory specimens, which has been found in China to be a high viral load around the time of symptom onset, followed by a gradual decrease in viral shedding to a low level after 10 days.5 The viral load was similar among asymptomatic, minimally symptomatic, and symptomatic patients. Another virological study in patients with COVID-19 in Germany also found no viable isolates of the virus after the first week of symptoms.21 Our findings agree with the virological data on high transmissibility of COVID-19 in the first week after the onset of symptoms and decreased risk afterwards.21 We also documented and quantified the transmission potential of COVID-19 in a subgroup of contacts whose exposure occurred exclusively during the presymptomatic period of the index case. Our analysis revealed a similar clinical attack rate between the contacts who only had presymptomatic exposure and those who had postsymptomatic exposure.
Cheers Legs
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Well, there's also the possibility that wearing a mask gives a false sense of security and it compromises social distancing. But isn't it the task of government to take a message to the public and ram it home...as per the 'stay home. protect the NHS. save lives' message? Hugely effective (too effective it could be argued)
If social distancing is breaking down a bit then that's due to conflicting messages given by the government: they advise us to remain at a 2 metre distance when out for essential tasks; but it's all too vague in terms of what is essential and how long we should be out for. If there's clarity of message and its reasonably enforced most people will accept it. Masks + social distancing + testing gets us some wriggle room to establish (horrendous terminology) "The New Normal".
Especially when you've broken the seal!
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