Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Bruce Wayne said:
I suppose it was inevitable to an extent, but I can't recall ever having a cough last this long.
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Only time I've ever had a long cough was December 2019 when it lasted a month, and it came on just after a week in Singapore. With the potential for covid having been around in China a bit earlier than when we first heard about it in the mass media I do wonder if it could've been that, especially with Singapore's links to China. That was much worse than when I actually tested positive
 


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Doctors must be free to speak out if we are to determine the facts

Presumably the GMC would now strike off anyone, such as Dr Sam White, trying to do the best for their patients, when they should be looking at the real culprits for the pandemic response mayhem we experienced?
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For review further consideration.

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A Norwegian-British research paper doesn’t claim the virus causing Covid-19 was man-made – Full Fact

There is still no evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus was man-made.
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Spadge Vernacular said:


thinkscotland.org

Doctors must be free to speak out if we are to determine the facts

Presumably the GMC would now strike off anyone, such as Dr Sam White, trying to do the best for their patients, when they should be looking at the real culprits for the pandemic response mayhem we experienced?
thinkscotland.org

For review further consideration.

fullfact.org

A Norwegian-British research paper doesn’t claim the virus causing Covid-19 was man-made – Full Fact

There is still no evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus was man-made.
fullfact.org fullfact.org
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Interesting, as all side effects should be reported and tracked, and a cohort of cancer patients should be considered very vulnerable. Should definitely be looking at this.

There’s quite a few red flags with that professor though, was praising ivermectin in that article, when we now know it’s pretty much useless, and he also came to a pretty quick conclusion that it was a man made virus - he made that claim in May 2020!

Also, his claim that Covid has a 0.085% mortality rate seems dubious. Mortality rates are notoriously hard to work out, but given that 213k in the UK have died from Covid, in a population of c67m, that would put mortality rate at c0.3%, assuming that absolutely everyone in the UK got it.

Absent a vaccine, most studies I saw in 2020 put mortality rate on average at somewhere between 0.5% and 1%, depending on a massive range of factors.
 
Copped Covid for the second time at the moment. Seems worse this time but finally getting over it I think. Still super sluggish though.
For those that have had it more than once, has it been worse or better second time around?
 
efcfanwirral said:
Only time I've ever had a long cough was December 2019 when it lasted a month, and it came on just after a week in Singapore. With the potential for covid having been around in China a bit earlier than when we first heard about it in the mass media I do wonder if it could've been that, especially with Singapore's links to China. That was much worse than when I actually tested positive
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That will 99% likely have been Covid. I had the same in December 2019 too. Worst cough of my life. Coughed for 3 weeks straight. Then it went over night. This was after a family member had arrived from Vancouver, which has one of the largest Chinese populations outside of China!! Me and my brother (jokingly) blame her for bringing it to the UK..
 
Amw79 said:
Interesting, as all side effects should be reported and tracked, and a cohort of cancer patients should be considered very vulnerable. Should definitely be looking at this.

There’s quite a few red flags with that professor though, was praising ivermectin in that article, when we now know it’s pretty much useless, and he also came to a pretty quick conclusion that it was a man made virus - he made that claim in May 2020!

Also, his claim that Covid has a 0.085% mortality rate seems dubious. Mortality rates are notoriously hard to work out, but given that 213k in the UK have died from Covid, in a population of c67m, that would put mortality rate at c0.3%, assuming that absolutely everyone in the UK got it.

Absent a vaccine, most studies I saw in 2020 put mortality rate on average at somewhere between 0.5% and 1%, depending on a massive range of factors.
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Aye, there are some questions but as one of the UKs top doctors in his field and bound by Hippocratic Oath you'd hope that his observations could be trusted - though open to scrutiny.

I did see that his initial position questioned the origin of covid but it seems that this was not presented in the published paper.

I note that he is a shareholder Immunor AS but sincerely hope that this would not compromise his clinical integrity.

If there was an ulterior motive for him stepping under the spotlight to make that video then my faith in humanity would fall a further few rungs down the ladder of despair.
 
lesbattersby said:
The other half's cousin got covid way back at the start. He ended up in hospital and was in a bad way. He has never fully recovered, had to leave his job and can't walk for more than a few yards. She was out yesterday and meet his wife and she told her that they now think it's given him dementia. He's only about 35.
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My BIL, fit, marathon running BA captain aint quite as bad as that, (no dementia) and got tested constantly while he was flying during the whole thing. But all his meds and tests and stuff have turned up nothing to explain it. He ,and Sis, have tons of mates in the senior medical world, and their consensus is, "we dont really know".
 
lesbattersby said:
The other half's cousin got covid way back at the start. He ended up in hospital and was in a bad way. He has never fully recovered, had to leave his job and can't walk for more than a few yards. She was out yesterday and meet his wife and she told her that they now think it's given him dementia. He's only about 35.
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Awful news, I'm grateful that i only caught it after my second shot. Felt rough for a day but would have been a lot worse if i was unvacinated.
 
roydo said:
My BIL, fit, marathon running BA captain aint quite as bad as that, (no dementia) and got tested constantly while he was flying during the whole thing. But all his meds and tests and stuff have turned up nothing to explain it. He ,and Sis, have tons of mates in the senior medical world, and their consensus is, "we dont really know".
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They have done loads of test on him, his lungs are badly scared which explains his trouble breathing. His memory was bad but it's steadily got worse so doctors have him booked in now to confirm it's caused him the onstage of dementia.
 
It's mad how it's affecting memory, my mechanic was very sceptical about covid and never went for his vaccine. He then caught it and he also ended up in hospital. He said it was the worst experience of his life. He is young too, but he really struggled. After he left hospital his wife showed him videos of him sitting talking to people in his hospital bed that were dead. He was sitting having full scale conversions with them. He has cut back on his work because he's afraid to do major jobs on people's cars because his memory is so bad incase he kills someone.
 
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