Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[orchard]

That's precisely the point. The trial is using a
special formulation of ibuprofen rather than the regular tablets that are different from what you can get over the counter.

So we have a trial in a controlled environment using a formula of a drug that isn't publicly available distilled into 'ibuprofen used to treat Covid patients'.

I expect people reading it will be flocking to shops (increasing their risk) to buy in large quantities (risking those who actually rely on/need it) a drug (subject to supply and demand) which is unlikely to help them (may cause them greater risk).

Shocking. Cheers for posting!

 

[Jebus_lives]

No it hasn't. Neither has anyone said that it's all down to genetics, it's likely to be a contributing factor alongside a whole host of other issues.

Again,
Where are BAME employees more likely to work? Cities where they have a high viral load or rural areas where there haven’t been many outbreaks?

Why did more BAME employees put the increased mortality rate of the virus down to health conditions as opposed to the racism which you claim is the major driver?

I think you need to be more explicit in what the genetic differences are.

Ethnicity, culture, race and genetics are not the same thing.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Shocking. Cheers for posting!

Just misleading and lazy I'd say.

 

[peteblue]

I wondered that myself , there was a report the other day in here I think where doctors in Italy reckoned the cases they were
Now seeing were not as potent as previously seen.

I quoted some professor or whatever a while back who suggested that the virus had a distinct lifespan, I think he said about 75days but I may be wrong. The lack of a second round of this may well prove his point. I only hope he was right......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You are in the difficult position here of suggesting that the NHS is - as no other major organisation in the country is - unencumbered by discrimination. It employs a million people in one function or another and it's stratified along the lines of salary and status...and here you are telling me that social class / status wont feature in it!!

Think about that.

As for ethnic groups within the NHS; they get played on. There have been many reports conduced into BAME workers suffering bullying and intimidation from those running the trusts they work in. Many are passive because of their residential situation and its played on. That's a class issue ultimatey: a group of workers facing exploitation by a huge employer. They will be more willing to keep their mouths shut and do the jobs that place them in unsafe environments. That;s been the explanation of Covid19 and high BAME casualties, not genetics. The genetic line was a smokescreen to obscure the prejudice occuring in the NHS against a particular group of its workers.

I wouldn't ever suggest, and don't believe I have suggested, that there is no discrimination in the NHS. Of course there is. It's a huge institution. What I believe is frankly absurd, is that bame staff are being deliberately sacrificed for some bizarre reason. That's ridiculous and quite frankly, a disgraceful accusation to make of the NHS.

 

[peteblue]

Funny how he's now only going to take full control when deaths etc are down and there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. It's almost like he's saying "when things were really bad and there were people dying all over the gaff that wasn't down to me, but now it looks like we're turning a corner that is all deffo down to me"

I think he should deliver his addresses to the people while riding a White stallion. Show everyone who is the boss......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think he should deliver his addresses to the people while riding a White stallion. Show everyone who is the boss......

Be careful what you wish for

 

[Tea_drinker]

Johnson sitting slack jawed in befuddlement at pmqs. Hes completely rubbish. They are actually laughing at him openly in there.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Rapid coronavirus test speeds up access to urgent care and will free up beds ahead of winter

Researchers say faster tests helped expedite access to life-saving treatments such as organ transplants – and might make all the difference later this year.

www.cam.ac.uk

 

[Barnfred 55]

I'd take Baldrick as advisor before the oafs they currently wheel out

The quality of our incumbent MPs is sadly very poor.

 

[marnie]

Johnson still talking a load of old tosh I see.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Be careful what you wish for

I just had this sudden mental image of Dave having to wipe down his laptop screen lol

Not nice.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I think he should deliver his addresses to the people while riding a White stallion. Show everyone who is the boss......

Revelations 6:8?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Be careful what you wish for

*Zipwiring from No.10 to the podium*

Stand back everyone...Boris is ready to lead the charge!

 

[Catfish Blues]

Coronavirus: Ibuprofen tested as a treatment

Hospital patients sick with the virus will be given the drug to see if it can help with their breathing.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is a poor misleading headline and article.

To be fair, the article does say

The trial will use a special formulation of ibuprofen rather than the regular tablets that people might usually buy. Some people already take this lipid capsule form of the drug for conditions like arthritis.