Thanks - to you and the others for the helpful commentsNo,you can do yourself more harm than good if you guess at what antibiotics you need,if you did get complications and it's the wrong ones you could be in trouble,they won't work on a virus anyway
Agreed, we’d be fucked. China is used to situations like this. We have a population that doesn’t think it’s an issue, “it’s only a bit of flu” etc. Too many just think it’s a China problem and not a world problem.Some sort of expert on the BBC made the point that Hubei province has a population similar to the Uk. They’ve had a couple of thousand deaths (assuming there hasn’t been a massive cover up by the authorities). Which suggests that speculation of possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths in the UK is wildly pessimistic.
although I’m not sure that the UK would be prepared to endure the sort of lock down measures that have been imposed in China. Not when you read reports of the Tenerife hotel where they’ve been told to stay in their rooms but people are on the sun loungers and in the pool.
Agreed, we’d be fucked. China is used to situations like this. We have a population that doesn’t think it’s an issue, “it’s only a bit of flu” etc. Too many just think it’s a China problem and not a world problem.
Not saying it will become a deadly outbreak...It's easy to think like that when out of a UK population of 67 million - 13 people have been diagnosed and no deaths.
Not saying it will become a deadly outbreak...
But you do realise that is how all outbreaks start, right?
There was literally a moment with the bubonic plague and the Spanish flu where a very similar phrase could have been uttered.
Again, comparing a novel virus at the beginning of it’s outbreak, with very, very limited data and research, and no vaccine, established treatment regime, or cure, to an ‘established’ virus with extensive data, vaccine, and established treatment regime, with a scaled healthcare system that is *just* able to accommodate the annual outbreaks, is comparing apples to oranges.
It’s very strange that a reputable virologist would make that assertion.
I can agree the media is sensationalising it, as they do with all things.True, but we have moved on from the 1300's
either way, we seem on high alert, the media is massively sensationalizing it - i think we're prepared if there was a serious outbreak. hard to tell though.
It is very strange indeed.How many more times will people keep trying to compare this to the common flu, completely different!
Yes, the idea that Brits will self isolate for a fortnight if they have mild symptoms is for the birds.Agreed, we’d be fucked. China is used to situations like this. We have a population that doesn’t think it’s an issue, “it’s only a bit of flu” etc. Too many just think it’s a China problem and not a world problem.
Not many. And there’ll be outrage over cancelled events/shows because that’s what’s important.Yes, the idea that Brits will self isolate for a fortnight if they have mild symptoms is for the birds.
How many City fans would stay away from a match if they develop a bit of a cough and a slightly raised temperature?
Gonna be pretty embarrassing when the loungers and swimmers don't come down with the lurgi.. its the news - if they are not scaring you they aren't doing their job......
True, but we have moved on from the 1300's
either way, we seem on high alert, the media is massively sensationalizing it - i think we're prepared if there was a serious outbreak. hard to tell though.
As most public health officials will say, being “too worried” now will hopefully help us laugh this off later.I think we’re too worried, if anything.
We’ll be laughing about it in August.
As most public health officials will say, being “too worried” now will hopefully help us laugh this off later.
I don’t think we are anywhere near acting like hysterical children. And not taking a potentially destructive pandemic seriously would destroy the economy, anyway (I’ve talked about how the outbreak has already impacted the world economy based entirely on the disruption in China).Probably but behaving like hysterical children will ruin the economy.
10:15
Recovered patients testing positive again
Celia Hatton
BBC Asia Pacific Regional Editor
Chinese health officials say that about 14% of patients in Guangdong province who had the coronavirus but recovered and were discharged from hospital have tested positive for the virus again.
Health officials admit they're still learning about the new coronavirus and how it operates within the human body.
The same phenomenon has been reported in Japan, when a woman in her 40s who had recovered and tested negative for the virus then tested positive more than three weeks later.
The authorities in both countries have pledged to continue tracking former patients, even after they've been discharged from hospital.
There are a few very big sporting events that could be called off.I’m hearing rumours of F1 races being cancelled in other countries other than China.
Makes you wonder how much effect this is going to have on football, sports and just generally large scale gatherings in the coming months.
Could be the year to cancel all those holiday plans, days out etc and start redecorating that bedroom, building that decking you’ve put off for so long...
I’m hearing rumours of F1 races being cancelled in other countries other than China.
Makes you wonder how much effect this is going to have on football, sports and just generally large scale gatherings in the coming months.
Could be the year to cancel all those holiday plans, days out etc and start redecorating that bedroom, building that decking you’ve put off for so long...