COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[kaz7]

That's fair enough but it still gives a fatality rate of 2-4%, so for most healthy people it isn't the 'killer virus' as being driven by the newspaper headlines and a few posters here.

We have a very big elderly population in this country also we are not a very healthy population,lots of middle age people are not healthy,it is ok for young fit people to say it's not a problem but to millions it will be

 

[SWP's back]

That's fair enough but it still gives a fatality rate of 2-4%, so for most healthy people it isn't the 'killer virus' as being driven by the newspaper headlines and a few posters here.

Spanish Flu had a fatality rate of 1%.

It killed between 50-100m people worldwide.

This is 2 to 4 times worse, and before anyone says “that’s was 100 years ago”, unlike with bacteria, we haven’t come a very long way with fighting viruses in that century.

This IS a killer virus and there’s a reason that world’s governments are taking it so seriously.

 

[grunge]

The problem is the high R0 and the fact that it seems you’re likely to pass it on to people for a day or two before symptoms appear.

That and wankers thinking it’s nothing more than cold and ignoring the advice and thus creating a bigger problem.

day or 2 before symptoms? do you have links for that one please.

not that I dont beleive you, just trying to keep up to date.

Dr Campbell said late last week that it was infectious 12/24h after infection, on top of other videos where the inclubation period is 1-14 days with 10 on average.

 

[kaz7]

Index patient Kaz. ;-)

and i am not to far away from the brighton cases either! I am doomed i tell thee lol

 

[SWP's back]

day or 2 before symptoms? do you have links for that one please.

not that I dont beleive you, just trying to keep up to date.

Dr Campbell said late last week that it was infectious 12/24h after infection, on top of other videos where the inclubation period is 1-14 days with 10 on average.

“Meyers guessed that a typical infected person is probably contagious without showing symptoms for five or more days. ”

https://www.sciencealert.com/latest...eals-the-pattern-of-symptoms-to-watch-for/amp

 

[mexico1970]

We have a very big elderly population in this country also we are not a very healthy population,lots of middle age people are not healthy,it is ok for young fit people to say it's not a problem but to millions it will be

If you look around there are a lot of very unhealthy young people too, they are not as fit as people born say 30/40/50 years ago, XBOX backsides and junk food may mean they aren't as immune or indestructible as we think, I sincerely hope they are though.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

A major mystery is the low number of cases in Africa. Are they just not noticing the infection because it is being lost against all the other problems? Lots of questions. Not many answers at the moment, just lots of speculation.

Not a huge surprise really. How many people are flying between China and Africa compared to the other flight routes? It seems like for the most part it's the more developed countries that are taking the brunt of it and I think that's just because there's going to be more travel between China and these countries.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Not entirely sure how to link tweets on here so can't, but someone posted a graphic which was from the 2018 citizen science experiment - BBC's pandemic documentary. They carried out research in the event of an outbreak and they show a simulation of the difference between washing and not washing your hands. It may sound repetitive when gov. officials roll out the line, but you can certainly see why they do it.

 

[RightTurnClyde]

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