COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Ban-jani]

@karen7

Can you confirm if this sounds like it?

My sister is convinced my mum had this in December.

Thought it was a bad chest infection, sweating loads, bed bound, sore throat. Sneezed a little bit not a key symptom of what she had.

Doctor thought it was a chest infection as she was coughing so much but they couldn’t diagnose properly.

My mum’s young and healthy. She’s only 21 years older than me so under 50 and I’ve just been skiing with her.

At the time she said she had a bad chest infection to us lot but we’re now questioning it.

My step dad slept in another room due to how bad it was and the doctor was actually called out as he was worried.

 

[kaz7]

475 more deaths in italy

 

[PragueBlue]

475 new deaths in Italy.

 

[marco]

475 more deaths in italy

WOW

 

[SebastianBlue]

Well this is the explanation which is "on the record" from the head of the NHS.

I know, hence why I was explaining the likely primary actual reason. They are obviously not going to officially announce to everyone that we are in this sort of dilemma. The same statements were made during some of the outbreaks I saw in poorer countries during my work with MSF (which scales to larger, wealthy countries when their health systems are being threatened with relative catastrophic collapse).

 

[AlgarveBlu]

@karen7

Can you confirm if this sounds like it?

My sister is convinced my mum had this in December.

Thought it was a bad chest infection, sweating loads, bed bound, sore throat. Sneezed a little bit not a key symptom of what she had.

Doctor thought it was a chest infection as she was coughing so much but they couldn’t diagnose properly.

My mum’s young and healthy. She’s only 21 years older than me so under 50 and I’ve just been skiing with her.

At the time she said she had a bad chest infection to us lot but we’re now questioning it.

My step dad slept in another room due to how bad it was and the doctor was actually called out as he was worried.

Might be worth checking with the doctor is he developed symptoms after if your mum was coughing that much during the consultation due to this being the most recorded route of transmission in the early stages of the outbreak as they weren't wearing any PPEs

 

[Blue Maverick]

Schools shut from Friday.

 

[kaz7]

Virus spreading faster than expected

Schools closed from friday exept for key workers children and vulnerable children

Education secretary

 

[Blue Maverick]

Virus spreading faster than expected

Schools closed from friday exept for key workers children and vulnerable children

Education secretary

How does that work though, will they clump all the kids at one school

 

[Uffa]

That is *an* explanation, mate. It’s likely not the primary reason, as I have described in my post. The resistance to testing health workers will likely continue beyond increased availability of testing, even if the official word is that more testing will be available to health workers.

This has happened with previous larger scale outbreaks — unfortunately, I have seen it firsthand.

Nice interview with an anaesthetist in Turin (which is not Lombardy) from yesterday, might be mildly interesting. He speaks calmly and I'd say he's not particularly panic-inducing.

Yep, the guy in this interview said he'd heard about some of his colleagues who work full-time on covid who are refusing to get tested while asymptomatic.