COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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We are all 49/50, old school friends. Yeah, he was mandatory tested upon arrival in Oz which was the day after we finished golfing, hence he must have already had it when we were together. Not sure I understand the false positive remark, he had the virus as was poorly?

Thanks, no offence meant with the false positive thing. Just read lots of reports about some of these tests not being entirely accurate so I was wondering if a likely explanation was that it was a potentially faulty test, especially given no one else got ill. I'm not doubting you at all, promise! Just thinking out loud really. Glad your friend has recovered and is well though mate.

Very generous response.

Why? I wasn't being rude. Just a genuinely sincere question. No need to imply I was being a dick!!
 
The UK's coronavirus hospital death toll rose to 28,533 after 134 more deaths were reported.

In England 122 more people died in hospitals of Covid-19, a further four people have died in Wales, bringing the total there to 1,207, two more people died in Scotland, while Northern Ireland's total climbed six to 482.
 
I see Michael O'Leary is being a jerk again.
Perhaps the £700m the British government lent to his business this morning should have had a gagging clause.
 
We seem to be getting very few backdated deaths now, I’m hoping this is a good sign that we’ve improved efficiency of reporting?
Been happening for a few weeks now. Mondays and Tuesdays especially. No backdated English hospital deaths today mind as the earliest is from the 13th May. Maybe care deaths and deaths outside England are catching up.
 
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The UK's coronavirus hospital death toll rose to 28,533 after 134 more deaths were reported.

In England 122 more people died in hospitals of Covid-19, a further four people have died in Wales, bringing the total there to 1,207, two more people died in Scotland, while Northern Ireland's total climbed six to 482.

We're getting there. Keep safe folks, but reasons for optimism are evident. Doesn't mean that anyone should become complacent mind you.
 
Why?

I think the bloke is OK and just because he has a business model that works unlike the likes of Virgin and BA he seems to be vilified.

His constant bitching and moaning throughout this whole crisis and yes his business model 'works', but that doesn't make it ethically sound.
 
Why?

I think the bloke is OK and just because he has a business model that works unlike the likes of Virgin and BA he seems to be vilified.

Maybe so. But I think it would be fair to say there may be some conscious bias at play in him being against any form of restrictions on flights.
 
Any data or reports suggesting that treatment is improving/becoming more effective in the UK?
Do a search on Heparin and Covid-19.
Standard practice to give more than required for 3 weeks or so now. A standard treatment in the UK for care of the elderly and long hospital stays.
This is regardless of what clinical guidelines have been given from on high.
 
Do a search on Heparin and Covid-19.
Standard practice to give more than required for 3 weeks or so now. A standard treatment in the UK for care of the elderly and long hospital stays.
This is regardless of what clinical guidelines have been given from on high.

Can you or anyone translate the below into council speak for my benefit please? I have a feeling it looks positive but I have no idea what much of it means.


Results: There were 449 patients with severe COVID-19 enrolled into the study, 99 of them received heparin (mainly with low molecular weight heparin) for 7 days or longer. D-dimer, prothrombin time, and age were positively, and platelet count was negatively, correlated with 28-day mortality in multivariate analysis. No difference in 28-day mortality was found between heparin users and nonusers (30.3% vs 29.7%, P = .910). But the 28-day mortality of heparin users was lower than nonusers in patients with SIC score ≥4 (40.0% vs 64.2%, P = .029), or D-dimer >6-fold of upper limit of normal (32.8% vs 52.4%, P = .017).

Conclusions: Anticoagulant therapy mainly with low molecular weight heparin appears to be associated with better prognosis in severe COVID-19 patients meeting SIC criteria or with markedly elevated D-dimer.
 
Can you or anyone translate the below into council speak for my benefit please? I have a feeling it looks positive but I have no idea what much of it means.


Results: There were 449 patients with severe COVID-19 enrolled into the study, 99 of them received heparin (mainly with low molecular weight heparin) for 7 days or longer. D-dimer, prothrombin time, and age were positively, and platelet count was negatively, correlated with 28-day mortality in multivariate analysis. No difference in 28-day mortality was found between heparin users and nonusers (30.3% vs 29.7%, P = .910). But the 28-day mortality of heparin users was lower than nonusers in patients with SIC score ≥4 (40.0% vs 64.2%, P = .029), or D-dimer >6-fold of upper limit of normal (32.8% vs 52.4%, P = .017).

Conclusions: Anticoagulant therapy mainly with low molecular weight heparin appears to be associated with better prognosis in severe COVID-19 patients meeting SIC criteria or with markedly elevated D-dimer.

Its basically saying that the dippers will be crowned as champions
 
Do a search on Heparin and Covid-19.
Standard practice to give more than required for 3 weeks or so now. A standard treatment in the UK for care of the elderly and long hospital stays.
This is regardless of what clinical guidelines have been given from on high.

Thanks for that.
 
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