Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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RAFUH said:
And I am a health professional that has read the original article in The Lancet and subsequent articles in JAMA that have been popping up in my email daily including one this morning on preparations for it becoming endemic.
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One of the most disconcerting things I read from JAMA was the amount of people needing acute medical assistance. It was something like a third of all cases resulted in the patient needing critical care. If the numbers do scale, that's the concern. How on earth would any health care system in the world cope with that?
 
Adam-GOTTV said:
One of the most disconcerting things I read from JAMA was the amount of people needing acute medical assistance. It was something like a third of all cases resulted in the patient needing critical care. If the numbers do scale, that's the concern. How on earth would any health care system in the world cope with that?
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Yes, this is why stopping the spread is so important.

I will say....A third of known cases. I still think the actual number of infected is much higher than is known or reported. We might never know since there have been asymptomatic infected patients. Which would mean that the severely ill aren't really a third of all infected.

I'm not trying to diminish the seriousness or the potential impact. Quite the opposite. Unlike SARS, I think there's a real chance it becomes endemic.
 
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Paris said:
I'm sorry but people who are in a relatively healthy age bracket just don't drop dead for no reason. We've seen doctors in their 30s drop dead.

Undermine this virus at your free will, I guess it's easy to do when you're many thousands of miles away, so I don't blame you there.
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Because of Coronavirus?
 
RAFUH said:
I will say....A third of known cases. I still think the actual number of infected is much higher than is known or reported. We might never know since there have been asymptomatic infected patients. Which would mean that the severely ill aren't really a third of all infected.
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It's a pretty safe bet that the number of infected is substantially higher, as you point out. The Chinese moved the goalposts today a bit on calculating cases, which is why the number of new cases and the death toll jumped up in headline-grabbing ways today.

A cynic with substantial political science knowledge and familiarity with how the Chinese government operates might argue that the best evidence we have suggests that the Chinese have probably been lowballing us on the numbers all along. If it spreads that fast on a cruise ship and in a Hong Kong apartment block, just imagine what it does loose in a hospital...

That thesis would seem to match up with the replacement of the local party chief, which would happen if the Chinese government is changing tack from cover-up to coming clean.
 
Corbyn visiting the Chinese community in Manchester today.

Respect to him, but then he spoils it by claiming all white working class people are racist.

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