Coronavirus outbreak

[Dave7]

No doubt the brexiteers will seize on that excuse with alacrity

Well you have to admit......its only since we left the eu that the uk has had cases of coronavirus. Maybe if we had stayed in........

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Brexit + Coronavirus

We're doomed - doomed

 

[PeteXXX]

I've just received this text

 

[flake99please]

My nephew studies at a university in Edinburgh, where someone is currently being tested for Coronavirus. Concerning times for the family at the moment.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Riots,planes grounded, striking, but enough about France

 

[Magpies]

Virologists here have noticed that people can be infectious before showing any symptoms. The mortality rate is 2-3% whereas seasonal ‘flu is less than 1%.

People with most kinds of respiratory viral infections (or even chickenpox) can be infectious before showing any symptoms.

It is surprisingly hard to estimate the true case-fatality ratio of rapidly spreading respiratory infections like influenza or the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. A substantial number who get the infection have mild or no symptoms, are never diagnosed, and are therefore not counted in the denominator of the ratio.

Also, for seasonal influenza, the majority of deaths are in older individuals with pre-existing health conditions. It is not yet clear whether this is true for the new coronavirus. At least, there is no firm evidence yet that the coronavirus is mutating rapidly (unlike for example, the H5N1 avian 'flu virus), which seemed to quickly become increasingly severe after making its first "jump" from birds to humans.

Sensible precautions are fine, of course, but I wouldn't be too worried (at least yet).

 

[pawl]

Brexit + Coronavirus

We're doomed - doomed

Don’t panic,Don’t panic Mr Manering

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Mod note: merging with Coronavirus thread in news.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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I've just received this text

I’ve had two already basically saying stay away...

 

[Blue Hills]

Maybe a flippant idea but I can't help wondering if this advice to self isolate for two weeks might be, for some, a skivers' charter.

 

[Blue Hills]

On a maybe more serious note, I read the other day (quoting some medical bod I seem to remember) that the london tube wasn't a great problem.

But how can this be if the uber car someone went to hospital in is being deep cleaned?

And I gather similarly occupied ambulances are going to be?

 

[kingrollo]

Mod note: merging with Coronavirus thread in news.

Merging or mutating ?

 

[MontyVeda]

Brexit + Coronavirus

We're doomed - doomed

= We're ?

Maths was never my strong point

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

= We're ?

Maths was never my strong point

We're = We are. The apostrophe denotes the missing "a".

Here endeth the lesson

 

[MontyVeda]

We're = We are. The apostrophe denotes the missing "a".

Here endeth the lesson

not quite... I couldn't work out the answer to the first sum at all