Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[RAFUH]

It is the underlying conditions that is causing most deaths but it's being called death from covid 19.. for example if someone has flu and has a heart attack the cause of death is heart attack, but if someone has Covid 19 and has a heart attack the cause of death is Covid 19. There was a man in Germany who had a heart attack and died he was later found to be positive for covid 19 and that went down as his cause of death. I have no idea why anyone who dies with covid 19 is classed as dying from covid 19 when this method is not used with any other disease.

A Swiss Doctor on Covid-19 (14 March 2020)

A Swiss medical doctor provided the following information on the current situation in order to enable our readers to make a realistic risk assessment.

swprs.org

You’ve posted this theory many times. It minimizes the severity of the disease and tries to put it on par with the flu.

Doctors are not changing how they classify a death.
COVID can cause a heart attack, thus COVID would be the cause of death. The doctor will know the full clinical picture to determine the cause.

Lets be real, we all ultimately die from a ”heart attack”. What differs is the clinical picture leading up to it - that is the cause of death.

Technically the official cause of death would be Complication of COVID just like flu deaths are listed.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

 

[Barnfred 55]

They cannot remember.

I've literally just spat out my toasted teacakelol

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Almost 900 casualties in Italy today, no signs of slowing down...

Time to ask indeed, how many lives has the Atalanta - Valencia CL game costed?

 

[navidson]

Almost 900 casualties in Italy today, no signs of slowing down...

Time to ask indeed, how many lives has the Atalanta - Valencia CL game costed?

I'm not sure - but I get the feeling we're going to find out very soon how many lives the Cheltenham Festival has cost us

 

[The binman chronicles]

Not a patch on something like the Spanish Flu though (at least 17 MILLION deaths!)

How the hell did humankind come back from that?!

Everyone had 16 kids back then and expected to lose 14 before early adulthood.

 

[roydo]

For a bit of light relief, put Talksport on. They have a quiz, and seemingly a hot line to Thick Ville.

Q. How many goals did *random striker* score last season? 1,2, or 3?

A. 5.

lol

Presenter. "Ian, can you hear me?"

Ian. "No"

 

[PITA]

Ulverston.

Are they local to that area?

 

[Deleted member 38674]

It's a start though.

Even if it's just multimillionaire recruitment stewards who opt in.

@Keiran take off your florescent vest and donate to the nation please.

Hung up my high-viz long ago, bud.

Too many other recruiters stewarding that it became a conflict of interests......

 

[PITA]

They are after you @Nymzee leg it !!

I was up there last year and Lancaster is the best place for pubs that I've ever been to.

 

[Tipp blue]

Indeed. This virus is obviously dangerous to some, unpleasant for more, and insignificant (medically) for loads. But to my untrained eye, and this sounds horrible, so far it has seemed to hasten the deaths of a lot of already pretty poorly folk as opposed to being THE SOLE cause of death.

Hope that makes sense.

It doesn't sound horrible, it's a fact. If we want a health care system that allows people to live well into their 80s, 90s and beyond while allowing them to live on with chronic illness that would otherwise have killed them then we have to accept the fact that mother nature will be working on ways to thin the herd.

 

[Joey66]

Everyone had 16 kids back then and expected to lose 14 before early adulthood.

My gratitude grandfather had 11 kids 4 died but that was TB- I was told but you are correct big families in the days of no NHS , and poor living standards in the then working class death in children was normal at any age .....

 

[Nymzee]

Are they local to that area?

The people in the queue? I didn’t stop to check their ID unfortunately but I presume so.

 

[Kenshin]

The article is gone so can’t comment specifically.
However, the coronavirus can cause multi organ failure which includes a heart attack. In such a case the cause of death would be complications of COVID-19. They do the same thing for flu.

Basically the girl had gone into hospital due to having a heart attack and sadly didn't recover. The medical staff ruled it was a heart attack at time of death. The coroner changed the decision on the basis that she had a cough.

So it was never proven she had covid-19 , the coroner changed it based on one thing afterwards. Which is where the story came from , minus the heart attack information first time around.

It's actually a little odd because that story mentioned she was the UK's youngest recorded death. However I am sure this week I saw a headline mentioning a 16 year old? Admittedly I didn't read that story so cannot recall it other than the headline

 

[Kenshin]

Has there been much of that happening?

I seen it on social media Thursday night after the 8pm thing. People who work for the NHS thanking people for the appreciation despite them not being involved in that part of it.

Just irked me at the time.