COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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inchy14 said:
You need a ESTA to travel into, now i'm not sure what we had to declare on those but they check everything on arrival so guess you'd be questioned before being allowed entry.
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Sure, but returning Americans don't need and ESTA. And anyway, I already have an ESTA. If I go to Germany next week and then back home to the UK, what on earth is stopping me from flying to the US? Nothing.
 
The number of coronavirus cases in the UK has reached 590 - up 134 in the last 24 hours.

X-ray images and CT scans of coronavirus patients reveal how their lungs are being ravaged by the virus and filled with a sticky mucus that prevents them from inhaling because there is no space for air.

Medical professionals around the world, from front-line staff to research scientists, are beginning to develop a solid understanding of how the novel coronavirus spreads and affects the body.


There have now been more than 4,600 deaths from the COVID-19 disease worldwide as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, with 126,000 confirmed cases globally.

An international effort to share X-ray and CT scans has helped produce a growing body of evidence which doctors can use to diagnose those most seriously affected

The CT scans of COVID-19 patients have revealed white patches in the lungs - which radiologists have called ground-glass opacities - so-called because they show up on the scans similar to ground-glass windows

Post-mortem examinations in China of individuals who have died after contracting COVID-19 have revealed that these areas are being filled with a sticky mucus that literally prevents the patient from inhaling as there is no space for the air to enter.

That is what it feels like

A new way to test for it perhaps
 


According to an article published in the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) journal Radiology, there is no specific treatment available for laboratory confirmed cases.

It said when scans reveal coronavirus-induced pneumonia, care for patients has to be "primarily supportive with appropriate precautions to stop person-to-person transmission" - in other words, hoping the body manages to beat the virus itself.

In some cases this can happen, although for many people with symptoms there is simply no access to a simple test during the early days of a fever and a cough.

It is the most severe cases which are likely to be diagnosed with these scans, and these cases are the most likely to lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome and potentially death

This could prove to be a significant issue as people who have contracted coronavirus are at their most contagious early after becoming infected and potentially before even displaying symptoms and self-isolating, according to a new study.
 
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SWP's back said:
It’s weird how on one side there’s WHO, CDC and the world’s foremost experts and on the other there’s you, Rush Limbaugh and Trump (though he’s now taken it seriously).

At what point will you start to realise that maybe it’s you that’s out of kilter, rather the those experts who’s jobs and careers have been solely to study and war game these scenarios?

I’m all for confidence but I think you’re over doing it.

Out of interest, how many additional deaths would be fine with you personally, so that you could be flying and going sailing?
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It really is amazing to think nearly every major global/regional heath organisation are sounding the alarm about the need to take significant action to contain/slow transmission of COVID-19 without first looking to see if overall mortality rates will be impacted by the virus itself and related conditions.

It is incompetence of a scale not seen by humanity since ABBA won Eurovision.

I can’t believe our government is listening to so called “experts” over the father of one of our best ever players.
 
Does this mean we can start developing a treatment to at least offset the accumulation of this mucus? Not a cure but target the lethal symptom as an intermediary measure?
 
BJL_City said:
Does this mean we can start developing a treatment to at least offset the accumulation of this mucus? Not a cure but target the lethal symptom as an intermediary measure?
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Any treatment has to go through safety trials but something like early physio to try and dislodge it might be worth a go but that means more people being in hospital which they don't want
 
BJL_City said:
Does this mean we can start developing a treatment to at least offset the accumulation of this mucus? Not a cure but target the lethal symptom as an intermediary measure?
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It's definitely going to be a step on the way.

I'm not sure there will be a 'cure' for it - many viruses don't lend themselves easily to cures, but instead are vaccinated against - but definitely knowing what they have to relieve will help.
 
karen7 said:
Any treatment has to go through safety trials but something like early physio to try and dislodge it might be worth a go but that means more people being in hospital which they don't want
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Well could they map what's producing it and pair it with the most effective current say inhaler or something like that so we have a short-term symptom reducer?
 
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