Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Disgruntledgoat]

What a name, D1ck Pound!

Was head of WADA for about 15 years and the first IOC commissioner to give up one of his own athletes for doping.

Good egg.

 

[Walken]

The headline is the usual panic inducing eye catcher, but found the actual article here very interesting. At least it wasto someone who knows as little as I do

You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus

Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[RAFUH]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Snap AV: CoronavirUS
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/02/25/1582644389000/Snap-AV--CoronavirUS/

Jefferies have been on top of the COVID-19 threat these past few days, and have another note out today on what would happen if if the virus began to take hold Stateside.

The investment bank thinks Trump would not choose to stem an urban outbreak via a quarantine zone, given it may both spook markets and that a strong economy is bound to be one of his main talking points in the coming election.

Yet that wasn’t the most interesting part, this snippet caught our eye:

Out of sight, out of mind is not a bad rule-of-thumb if you’re dealing with a difficult break-up. But when it comes to a potential pandemic, we’re not quite so sure it’s the right answer.

A quick thought on the economic consequences: we know that American healthcare deductibles are ludicrously expensive for both the uninsured and the insured so, if we do see a breakout Stateside, what happens to the mighty US consumer?

In such circumstances, it’s not crazy to venture that Medicare-For-All might suddenly seem a bit more appealing to the free-market, huddled masses.

Perhaps if can pick up a burger at same time Trump might be keener for the CDC to test more people.

 

[LinekersLegs]

That Brazil case, from a man who had been in Northern Italy, will be an interesting case to follow to see if summer conditions/humidity have any effect.

 

[RAFUH]

That Brazil case, from a man who had been in Northern Italy, will be an interesting case to follow to see if summer conditions/humidity have any effect.

I hadn't realized there where some cases in South America. For me that might have been a reason to hold back on an "official" pandemic. It hadn't reached all continents (I'm excluding Antarctica given limited access and population), but it has now.

 

[Adam-GOTTV]

Cheers dr wool

No problem, virologist No 1 Scouser.

 

[RAFUH]

This is a nice summation of why epidemiologists and health care professionals are a bit freaked and why COVID19 is not just the flu or a cold. I am still hoping that mild cases are under reported meaning the mortality rate would be lower, but that would also mean a huge reservoir of disease out there of which we know nothing.

 

[RAFUH]

Perhaps if can pick up a burger at same time Trump might be keener for the CDC to test more people.

US has done drive through flu vaccine so would be reasonable...if the US had testing kits and was actually testing.

 

[LinekersLegs]

This is a nice summation of why epidemiologists and health care professionals are a bit freaked and why COVID19 is not just the flu or a cold. I am still hoping that mild cases are under reported meaning the mortality rate would be lower, but that would also mean a huge reservoir of disease out there of which we know nothing.

And it is isn’t like the normal flu or cold cases just go away either - healthcare system have to deal with this on top of those seasonal loads.

They still have to do some more testing of samples but so far the China data (if reported accurately) isn’t encouraging about the under reporting theory.

 

[RAFUH]

And it is isn’t like the normal flu or cold cases just go away either - healthcare system have to deal with this on top of those seasonal loads.

They still have to do some more testing of samples but so far the China data (if reported accurately) isn’t encouraging about the under reporting theory.

shhhh...don't ruin my hope with facts

 

[LinekersLegs]

shhhh...don't ruin my hope with facts

Sorry!

I’m pinning my hopes on the S Korea figures to give us better news personally, their lab workers are doing a superb job running so many tests in such short timeframes.

KCDC

KCDC

www.cdc.go.kr

 

[LinekersLegs]

Err, does he not know that it is no longer just in China? More new cases were in rest of world today (427) than in China (411) according to the WHO Edit just double checked on WHO and that info was wrong China 518 ROW 390 but point still valid.

 

[Goat]

"It's just the flu bro"

It wishes it was the flu.

The CDC estimates that as many as 56,000 people die from the flu or flu-like illness each year.

Come back to me when it hits those numbers.

 

[roydo]

It wishes it was the flu.

The CDC estimates that as many as 56,000 people die from the flu or flu-like illness each year.

Come back to me when it hits those numbers.

Everyone dies from sommet. Most folk who jog off with "flu or flu like illness" have probably already swerved the nasty cancer ones, and going by the recent statistics, have a slow and steady decline into dementia to look forward to. Then they die from that.

But this Cornetto virus has me a bit baffled. The tweets from Merica that @LinekersLegs and @RAFUH post sound terrifying, but over here, its being said its not serious, unless you are ill anyrate, dead young, or dead old.