Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Barnfred 55]

Unless they have swapped out everything in the classroom this won't be the case. The kids use tables where there is 4/6 on one. Thinking back to my time in school I can barely remember sitting on a solo desk.

Ok mate I'm possibly wrong there. I don't have kids and haven't set foot in a classroom since 1979.

Back in the day we all had individual desks apart from in the science labs which had work benches but you were still sat at least 4 feet apart as you all needed your own work areas

 

[Barnfred 55]

Does that matter? It was transferred so that is the point .

Where it was transferred is EXACTLY the matter. The child probably caught it at home.That children can catch the virus is not in question. What is currently unknown is whether they can transmit the disease to others and in a school environment

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Unless they have swapped out everything in the classroom this won't be the case. The kids use tables where there is 4/6 on one. Thinking back to my time in school I can barely remember sitting on a solo desk.

Indeed, space has economic value, same half wit mentality that has enabled open and hot desking offices, that thinned lipped bean counters have been pursuing.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Ok mate I'm possibly wrong there. I don't have kids and haven't set foot in a classroom since 1979.

Back in the day we all had individual desks apart from in the science labs which had work benches but you were still sat at least 4 feet apart as you all needed your own work areas

Yes I can remember the science benches giving a bit more room for obvious reasons so you don't flambee or chemically burn the person next to you!

It would be interesting to know when they swapped out the individual desks, I can remember having my own lift up desk in the early 80s but like I said sometime afterwards it was just sitting on normal tables.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Why do you think they have quarantined them ? To keep them out of the sun? I don't understand the reasoning here sorry !

They have quarantined them because that's the right thing to do to contain the virus. What do you think Teace Testand Isolate is all about? It doesn't follow that those quarantined will contract the disease and if they don't it's further evidence that schools are lower risk as regards spreading. Which would be fantastic news

 

[Barnfred 55]

My god, I found myself nodding along in agreement with Michael O'Leary this morning too.

Tory

 

[Catfish Blues]

It would be interesting to know when they swapped out the individual desks

It happened gradually. In the early 80's most primary schools had individual desks, by the late 90's, most pupils were in groups.

There was some sort of report in the 60's or the 70's which recommended it, by someone called Plough, or something like that ? The idea was that, throughout the day, teachers could set group tasks to keep most kids occupied, and while they were doing that, the teacher could focus on individual pupils.

When our kids went to primary school in the late 90's it was still fairly new locally, and older teachers had been resistant, but most of the teachers who'd come through training were pushing it with headteachers

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This is how the school shutdown will affect children for many years

Looking at natural disasters can offer clues about the potential long-term academic and mental health impact of lockdown on children

www.wired.co.uk

 

[Barnfred 55]

EU may give green light to sale of Covid-19 treatment
The European Union may give an initial green light in the coming days for sale of the drug remdesivir as a Covid-19 treatment, the head of its medicines agency has said on Monday, fast-tracking the drug to market amid tight global competition for resources.

The US, which has angered the EU with aggressive tactics in a procurement race during the global pandemic, has yet to issue a similar approval for the drug, made by the US pharmaceutical company Gilead.

Demand for remdesivir has been growing as there are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
“It might be that a conditional market(ing) authorisation can be issued in the coming days,” the head of the European Union’s medicines agency, Guido Rasi, told a hearing in the EU Parliament in Brussels.

An EU conditional marketing authorisation allows a drug to be sold for a year in the 27-nation bloc before all necessary data are available on its efficacy and side effects, Reuters reports.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has already recommended the compassionate use of remdesivir, which allows a drug to be administered to patients even before its sale has been authorised.

EMA’s recommendation on compassionate use matched an emergency authorisation granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier in May, after Gilead provided data showing the drug had helped Covid-19 patients. But the EU is now moving rapidly to the next step in the authorisation procedure

Are we still governed by this during the transition period? I lose track.

If not could we not authorise it ourselves and steal a march onthe rest. It obviously works to some degree. It would be nice to be one step ahead for a change.

 

[Tipp blue]

Hardware stores back opened in Ireland, what DIY is so important to do right now today that warrants queuing up in the hundreds in the spilling rain to get into B&Q, just because it's opened doesn't mean you have to go. There's even queues to join the main que.
tps://t.co/jv7nPqwVNb

 

[RAFUH]

Pretty sure everyone is off the wagon, but just in case...

JAMA - Association of Treatment With Hydroxychloroquine or Azithromycin With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With COVID-19 in New York State

Question Among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is there an association between use of hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, and in-hospital mortality?

Findings In a retrospective cohort study of 1438 patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York, compared with treatment with neither drug, the adjusted hazard ratio for in-hospital mortality for treatment with hydroxychloroquine alone was 1.08, for azithromycin alone was 0.56, and for combined hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was 1.35. None of these hazard ratios were statistically significant.

Meaning Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both was not associated with significantly lower in-hospital mortality.

 

[tsubaki]

Pretty sure everyone is off the wagon, but just in case...

JAMA - Association of Treatment With Hydroxychloroquine or Azithromycin With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With COVID-19 in New York State

Question Among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is there an association between use of hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, and in-hospital mortality?

Findings In a retrospective cohort study of 1438 patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York, compared with treatment with neither drug, the adjusted hazard ratio for in-hospital mortality for treatment with hydroxychloroquine alone was 1.08, for azithromycin alone was 0.56, and for combined hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was 1.35. None of these hazard ratios were statistically significant.

Meaning Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both was not associated with significantly lower in-hospital mortality.

“What do you have to lose by taking it” will no doubt be the takeaway there.

 

[RomanReigns]

so what’s the plan guys

 

[AUXLEN]

I just wish we could have politicians that were actually in the same boat. 'Open the schools because its only working people and dole scroungers and credit meffs...' i exaggerate but it's likely the gist. if politician had to send their children to a state school as a matter of law then I wonder how quickly they would want them open.

 

[AUXLEN]

I just wish we could have politicians that were actually in the same boat. 'Open the schools because its only working people and dole scroungers and credit meffs...' i exaggerate but it's likely the gist. if politician had to send their children to a state school as a matter of law then I wonder how quickly they would want them open.