COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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karen7 said:
80 more deaths in hospitals in Scotland, total now 779 - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Says lockdown must be in place for "at least another three weeks
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The death rate for men with coronavirus was twice as high as that of women in England and Wales in March, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The mortality rate for men was 97.5 deaths per 100,000 population, while for women it was 46.6 deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...unce-another-three-weeks-of-lockdown-11973956

So men and black or ethnic minority are two things we are learning about this virus
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For some reason, men have a much higher rate of lung and heart diseases than women. Also the darker your skin at the higher the latitude you live, the greater the Vitamin D deficiency.

Something we should take from this is that more men in this country need to stop smoking and eating so many dead carbohydrates, and the darker your skin you need to eat more foods with VitD in or supplement.
 
karen7 said:
80 more deaths in hospitals in Scotland, total now 779 - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Says lockdown must be in place for "at least another three weeks
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The death rate for men with coronavirus was twice as high as that of women in England and Wales in March, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The mortality rate for men was 97.5 deaths per 100,000 population, while for women it was 46.6 deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...unce-another-three-weeks-of-lockdown-11973956

So men and black or ethnic minority are two things we are learning about this virus
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That mortality rate is high isn't it? That figure would be even higher if the mortality rate was calculated using people that were infected, the herd immunity would be a bloodbath on the face of it.

The figure for men dying is 71% in Italy for example.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...h-more-likely-to-die-from-coronavirus-but-why
 
karen7 said:
The move follows calls for the government to investigate the number of deaths of people from the BAME community and those working for the NHS, during the coronavirus pandemic

Sky News analysis found that out of the 54 frontline health and social care workers in England and Wales that have died because of COVID-19, 70% of them were black or from an ethnic minority

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...nic-minorities-worst-hit-by-covid-19-11974116

The americans are finding the same
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Easy...
High population density - spreads the virus easily.
Public transport - spreads the virus easily.
The densley populated UK cities have a higher proportion of BAME people (30% to 40%) than in less densely populated areas.
Men are more overweight than women.
More men have high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes than women.
The Asian community has twice the number of diabetics than other communities due to genetic reasons.
 
More than nine in 10 people dying with coronavirus have an underlying health condition, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

The ONS looked at nearly 4,000 deaths during March in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.

In 91% of cases the individuals had other health problems.

The most common was heart disease, followed by dementia and respiratory illness.

On average, people dying also had roughly three other health conditions.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52308783

Not sure why dementia should be the second most contributing factor. On the other hand heart disease being the main factor does seem to tally with this report
https://www.ibtimes.sg/new-fact-rea...t-problem-not-lungs-says-italian-doctor-42838
 
BlueAnorak said:
Easy...
High population density - spreads the virus easily.
Public transport - spreads the virus easily.
The densley populated UK cities have a higher proportion of BAME people (30% to 40%) than in less densely populated areas.
Men are more overweight than women.
More men have high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes than women.
The Asian community has twice the number of diabetics than other communities due to genetic reasons.
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Well...diet not matching their genetics.
 
karen7 said:
80 more deaths in hospitals in Scotland, total now 779 - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Says lockdown must be in place for "at least another three weeks
—------------------------

The death rate for men with coronavirus was twice as high as that of women in England and Wales in March, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The mortality rate for men was 97.5 deaths per 100,000 population, while for women it was 46.6 deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...unce-another-three-weeks-of-lockdown-11973956

So men and black or ethnic minority are two things we are learning about this virus

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Spain's death toll rises 551 - from 18,579 to 19,130.
Wednesday's death figure was 523, and 567 on Tuesday. Thst's well below a peak of 950 reached on 2 April

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"In the past 10 days, the number of cases reported in Europe has nearly doubled to close to 1 million," Hans Kluge told reporters in an online briefing.
It means about 50% of the global burden of COVID-19 is in Europe, Mr Kluge said, adding that 84,000 people in Europe had died.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...unce-another-three-weeks-of-lockdown-11973956
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Do you not think it is more due to health and lifestyle, rather than being a man or Bame.

Smoking, obesity, ale, etc ,
 
We touched base on this I think in early March but think it's worth dropping this link on vaccines from a very good article specifically on the topic as a lot of people still continue to post about a September target date this year. I have also extrapolated a small section on this which may explain why there is a misconception of what is possible in time lines. Also a section on the SARS vaccine which I had understood to have been shelved after the intial virus ran itself out in 2004. Has commentary from Fauci in this as well.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

Over the past month, stock prices of a small pharmaceutical company named Inovio have more than doubled. In mid-January, it reportedly discovered a vaccine for the new coronavirus. This claim has been repeated in many news reports, even though it is technically inaccurate. Like other drugs, vaccines require a long testing process to see whether they indeed protect people from disease, and do so safely. What this company—and others—has done is copy a bit of the virus’s RNA that one day could prove to work as a vaccine. It’s a promising first step, but to call it a discovery is like announcing a new surgery after sharpening a scalpel.

Though genetic sequencing is now extremely fast, making vaccines is as much art as science. It involves finding a viral sequence that will reliably cause a protective immune-system memory but not trigger an acute inflammatory response that would itself cause symptoms. (While the influenza vaccine cannot cause the flu, the CDC warns that it can cause “flu-like symptoms.”) Hitting this sweet spot requires testing, first in lab models and animals, and eventually in people. One does not simply ship a billion viral gene fragments around the world to be injected into everyone at the moment of discovery.

Sars section on vaccine

“If we’re putting all our hopes in a vaccine as being the answer, we’re in trouble,” Jason Schwartz, an assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health who studies vaccine policy, told me. The best-case scenario, as Schwartz sees it, is the one in which this vaccine development happens far too late to make a difference for the current outbreak. The real problem is that preparedness for this outbreak should have been happening for the past decade, ever since SARS. “Had we not set the SARS-vaccine-research program aside, we would have had a lot more of this foundational work that we could apply to this new, closely related virus,” he said. But, as with Ebola, government funding and pharmaceutical-industry development evaporated once the sense of emergency lifted. “Some very early research ended up sitting on a shelf because that outbreak ended before a vaccine needed to be aggressively developed.”
 
asahartford1 said:
Do you not think it is more due to health and lifestyle, rather than being a man or Bame.

Smoking, obesity, ale, etc ,
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there are going to be multiple reasons for this, but it certainly won’t be because the virus has eyes and can identify people’s gender or colour and it is a racist man hater.
 
blueparrot said:
More than nine in 10 people dying with coronavirus have an underlying health condition, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

The ONS looked at nearly 4,000 deaths during March in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.

In 91% of cases the individuals had other health problems.

The most common was heart disease, followed by dementia and respiratory illness.

On average, people dying also had roughly three other health conditions.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52308783

Not sure why dementia should be the second most contributing factor. On the other hand heart disease being the main factor does seem to tally with this report
https://www.ibtimes.sg/new-fact-rea...t-problem-not-lungs-says-italian-doctor-42838
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interesting that most have three underlying health issues. I wonder if these are health issues that were already known pre death or only found post mortem, if they are doing these currently which I would guess they aren’t due to number of deaths.
 
asahartford1 said:
Do you not think it is more due to health and lifestyle, rather than being a man or Bame.

Smoking, obesity, ale, etc ,
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Coronary diseases, osteoporosis, lupus, depression and flu can look different in men and women. With regards to flu the female hormone estradiol aids them to recover from flu more quickly than men.

Lighter skin absorbs UV rays from the Sun to produce VitD from the cholesterol in skin cells much more efficiently than darker skin.
 
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