COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[mccity]

First time I’ve heard about pregnancy being potentially on a watch list. - that will stress a lot of mothers and fathers to be; but he is stressing that there is no definitive data to back this up from other Coronaviruses on pregnant women and they are being ultra cautious.

The real kicker is that in the treatment of COVID related pneumonia there's a belief that the drug of choice could be thalidomide.

 

[alexmcity]

I’ve recently just started watching — did they actually say “you won't get it again”?

There is evidence for and against reinfection and there is absolutely no possibility of us knowing which is true with any real certainty at this time, so I would be very surprised by the certainty implied by that statement. It would be unfortunate at best and negligent at worst.

One of the biggest unknowns is how long the immunity lasts: 2-3 months or say 20-30 months or even more.

 

[Whymewhynot]

They ask first and if people don't listen, they'll enforce I should think.

I don’t think we are in a position to keep delaying things. If places are open people will still go. Don’t give them the choice. As someone put above, we should cut social contact, not go pubs or restaurants but go work and kids go school. Backwards.

 

[Indaparkside]

My daughters school 3 teachers are self isolating they’ll be no one to teach them soon

 

[paulchapo]

We are all doomed, I remember the guys walking around Maine road with signs on them saying the end is nigh, maybe it’s finally here.

I remember those placard blokes. I guess if you stick at it long enough it eventually comes true. Judging by the ages of those blokes though I guess their end was a long time ago now.

Funny they didn't move with us to the new stadium, if they did I haven't seen them.

 

[paulchapo]

My daughters school 3 teachers are self isolating they’ll be no one to teach them soon

Supply teachers? I guess they are all off soon for Easter anyway.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Yes i still don't understand not closing school,the answer wasn't clear other than kids don't seem to be getting ill

Cos the little buggers can run around as carriers and not be affected themselves and the thinking is if they are off school it will spread quicker as it would be a nightmare for parents to keep their kids in at home

 

[TonyM]

Pornhub eh!!! :)

Christ almighty. Imagine if that went down?

 

[fulabeer]

A video of what i was trying to explain to some on here a few days ago.
People taking things into their own hands and recommending everybody self isolate to early, can actually cause more harm than good.
We had some numpties calling people technical murderers for not following their advice FFS.

I'm emergency action and first response trained. I've seen people run headlong into a situation thinking they are helping.
A lack of apparent action, doesn't mean nothing is actually happening.
I've had to save a few "Chicken Littles" from themselves on many an occasion.

 

[SebastianBlue]

There are always cases of people getting an infection twice, like they have said going off the data this is a rare occurrence. Let us hope it stays that way.

It is very, very early days when it comes to proper data collection and making any confident inferences from data available, so I sincerely hope they did not make a sweeping statement implying people cannot be reinfected (for various reasons). I did not hear it so I am hoping someone can confirm it was more a passing comment qualified with something like “it seems based on current data it is unlikely a person will become reinfected after recovery but we will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as we have more confidence in those assessments”.